The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here, behold, my 2026 Book Bingo Card. This was generated with my randomized Book Bingo Generator, which every year I fire up so it’s always a surprise what I’ll have to do. I’ve already shown off the design, but now here it is with the challenges all filled in:

Rules
All challenges on the card should be interpreted in whichever way makes the challenge most fun for the person doing it. In order to make these cards accessible, I have tried to avoid challenges that specify a format. There will be no ‘read a comic book’, or ‘listen to an audiobook’ squares.

Some challenges may imply a format. For example, last year I rolled a square that said “Has Been Sitting on the Shelf for a Year”. This implies you should read a physical book, but if ebooks or audiobooks are more your thing, feel free to to interpret ‘on the shelf’ as referring to a Goodreads shelf, or as a metaphor for a ‘to be read’ pile. This year, one of the squares is “Isekai”, which implies a manga, but Isekai stories are told in other mediums, and the interpretation of that word can be quite broad. Since it is the Japanese term for portal fantasies though, I will be looking to read a Japanese book that sticks to the contemporary anime version of Isekai.

Always interpret the challenge in a way that best gives you the most options to read works in the way you are comfortable with, whilst also encouraging you to explore new genres and ideas.

Rules regarding book length or time limit are completely up to the player. For me, I give myself a year to complete the card, with December 31st being the deadline. For length, I make novellas the shortest length for books, and collections with 1-5 chapters as opposed to single issues the minimum for comic books. I also make a rule for myself that each book can only fill one square.

For your own challenges, feel free to add whatever rules and restriction you think will make the challenge most fun.

I’m going to have a lot of fun working on this card. If you’d like to play with this one too, feel free to message me over at Bluesky. More information can be found about my Bingo Cards by clicking HERE.

~ Jayde