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This Challenge Starts January 1, 2026, but the folder & discussion thread are open so that you can begin to plan your year. Bingo can be planned ahead, or you can just collect squares as you read throughout the year.

This challenge can be used with your other challenges. Books and authors selected here can be used to fill other challenge needs.

B1: 20th Century : Nine Coaches Waiting
B2: Your Native Language : പാത്തുമ്മായുടെ ആട് Pathummayude Aadu
B3: New Country : The Bridge on the Drina
B4: Chosen by the Cover :
B5: Ancient/Old or Future Beowulf

I1: Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2026 :
I2: Prize Winning Author :
I3: Science : The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment The Metaphysics of The Healing
I4: From Your TRB Shelf : The Brothers Karamazov
I5: Book From the Group's Favorite 2025 Reads :

N1: The Americas or Oceania : Ficciones and The Whale Rider
N2: Action & Adventure : The Vicomte de Bragelonne
N3: Free Choice — Classic or Not :
N4: Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller : Murder on the Orient Express
N5: Africa, Asia, or Europe : Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings

G1: Group Poll that Did Not Win :
G2: Missing From the Group’s Shelf :
G3: History : Orientalism
G4: Recommended to You :
G5: Group’s 2026 Bookshelf :

O1: Birth Year : Mort and Assata: An Autobiography
O2: New-to-You or Favorite Author : Rebecca or East of Eden
O3: Somewhere Else :
O4: Translation : Death and the Dervish
O5: 19th Century : Barchester Towers

And the PLUS*

You can earn up to ten (10) extra points (or Kudos) by choosing classic reads that fit into any of the categories below. The reads must be from those that you use to fill in a Bingo Square for 2026.

Each read and extra point category can be used only once for extra points.

Audio Book
Children’s Book : Little Lord Fauntleroy
Epistolary : So Long a Letter or Letters to a Young Poet
Essay : Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Graphic or Comic Book : Palestine
Nonfiction : Life on Earth
Novel
Play : Macbeth
Poetry : Idylls of the King
Short Story : Interpreter of Maladies

Classic Bingo (PLUS) 2026

The goal is to focus your reading on what you define as a classic.

Read a classic that fits the description of each square. You may NOT count the same book twice for different categories in this challenge. Each book can be applied to only one square, even if it fulfills the requirements of multiple squares. All books read to mark off squares must be finished in 2026.

Challenge Levels

Level One Bingo
Four Corners: Mark off the four outside corners of the Bingo board.
Five-in-a-Row: Mark off five squares in a row. This can be done horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Level Two Bingo
Small Box: Mark off all the 9 inner squares of the board (including the free square), leaving blank the 16 outside border squares.

Level Three Bingo
Outside Box: Mark off all 16 of the outer squares, leaving blank the 9 inner squares.

Level Four Bingo
Blackout! Mark off all the squares of the board.

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Thanks Katy for the work you do !

You are welcome. Enjoy your challenges.
I added your name to your challenge title - as moderators we ask that you identify yourself somehow in your title.

Happy reading.

Oh ok ... I didn't know adding our name was important..

So great to see you back in the challenges! Some great choices--I loved Letters to a Young Poet.

Enjoy your Bingo challenge! I haven't read Nine Coaches Waiting, but I've enjoyed the other Mary Stewarts I've read so far. :)

Nice to see you again! Happy reading.

Thanks Kathleen ,Sara and Wobbley ... hope you all have an Awesome Reading year 📚📖 .

Wobbley wrote: "Enjoy your Bingo challenge! I haven't read Nine Coaches Waiting, but I've enjoyed the other Mary Stewarts I've read so far. :)"

I read one book of hers a few years back and enjoyed the feel of it..