Read even more this year with the Winter-Spring Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge!
Reading challenges are a great way to set reading goals for yourself, discover new authors and genres, and have fun while doing it.
How Do I Play?
From now through June, 30, 2025, keep track of books you read or listen to by writing the title and author in the matching square on the Winter-Spring Books & Bites Bingo card.
Complete all 25 squares for a chance to win a $100 Joseph-Beth gift card! You’ll also earn an enamel pin (while supplies last).
During the month of June, turn in your completed card at the Ask a Librarian, Customer Service, or Teen Desks.
What’s Up with All the Asterisks (*)?
In addition to one free square in the center of the card, you can double up on certain prompts. You may pair any prompt with an asterisk with a prompt without an asterisk. However, you can’t use a title more than twice.
Plus, you can earn another free square if you decide to read Rednecks by Taylor Brown and 1) attend our Book Club discussion of it or 2) listen to the March episode of the Books & Bites podcast.
The in-person book club discussion of Rednecks will be held on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:30 pm. Registration will open on February 18.
Can’t make it? Listen to the March episode of the Books & Bites podcast anytime after it airs.
What Are the Prompts?
Check out the list of reading prompts below or download the Winter-Spring Books & Bites Bingo Card (PDF, 440 KB).
To find suggestions for your squares, listen to the Books & Bites podcast, visit the Books & Bites webpage, join the Books & Bites Facebook group , attend the Books & Bites Book Club, or sign up for the Books & Bites newsletter.
- A wintry book
- A book set in the 1990s
- Read Rednecks by Taylor Brown or another book set in Appalachia**
- A book of poetry or a novel-in-verse
- A book in translation
- A science fiction novel
- Read an eBook or listen to an audiobook*
- A classic
- A book with a color in the title
- Enjoy a book while drinking a hot beverage*
- Listen to an episode of the Books & Bites podcast
- Check out something from our Library of Things
- A book you own*
- A book with an animal on the cover
- A book from the library’s New & Popular section
- A fantasy by a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color) author
- A book that has a character with one of your names
- Share a book that fits one of the prompts to the Books & Bites Facebook group or email it to [email protected]*
- Try Book Match Bundles or a Teen BookVenture*
- A book by an author who’s been on the Prompt to Page podcast
- The book that’s been on your to-be-read list the longest*
- A comfort read
- Read outside*
- A book from the Books & Bites newsletter, display, or website*
*You may pair any prompt with an asterisk with a prompt without an asterisk. You can’t use a title more than twice.
**Read Rednecks and 1) attend our Book Club discussion of it or 2) listen to the March episode of the Books & Bites podcast for a free square of your choice!