Backlist Bingo 2024

2020 was the year we did Armed with A Bingo. Four years later, we are giving the bingo another try with a twist. Every month I (Kriti) easily add 20-30 books to my TBR. Every month, thousands of new books are released and some already published books make a buzz in the book community. How do we find time to read what we think we will enjoy? In 2024, we are encouraging ourselves (and you, if you would like to join us) to read the TBR books that were published before 2024 through the Backlist Bingo challenge.

Here are prompts to help us choose the books on our TBR that were published pre-2024. 

1. Second book in a series
2. Third book in a series
3. A physical book
4. A digital book (audio/ebook)
5. A debut novel
6. A non-debut novel
7. SciFi
8. Fantasy
9. Historical Fiction
10. Non-Fiction
11. Mystery
12. Short stories/Anthology
13. First book in a series
14. A prequel
15. A new/re-release at time of adding to your TBR
16. An award nominated book
17. Poetry
18. Horror
19. A novella
20. More than 400 pages
21. Graphic novel
22. On the TBR more than 2 years
23. Added to the TBR within a year
24. Friend’s choice

Feel free to adapt the prompts as per your reading tastes. If you need clarification on any prompt, let us know in the comments.

We love reading with you and are excited to see what you will pick up during Backlist Bingo. You can tag us on X, BlueSky, Facebook and Instagram (Ariel, Kriti) with your updates. Download a printable copy of the bingo, Instagram story templates and post here. Add your name to the list of participants here. In the same spreadsheet, you can add your books through the year so please bookmark it. At the end of the year, we will compile some stats around the year of publication of books that we read.

We will be featuring one prompt each month on the blog, highlighting what we picked up like we had with our Horror a Month challenge back in 2021. In January, we are looking at Fantasy and Graphic novel.