The other day I shared a book bingo card created by
batmanisagatewaydrug. I finalized my list of fills and created a document where I can write down my reviews. Here's that list:
- Literary Fiction: Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Short story collection: After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
- Sequel: The Girl in the Spider's Web – David Lagercrantz
- Childhood Favorite: Saturday, the Twelfth of October – Norma Fox Mazer
- 20th century speculative fiction: How Few Remain – Harry Turtledove
- Fantasy: Beowulf: A New Translation – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Published before 1950: The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- Independent publisher: Bury Your Gays – Chuck Tingle
- Graphic novel: Brave New World: A Graphic Novel – Aldous Huxley with Fred Fordham
- Animal on the cover: The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
- Set in a country you have never visited: The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Science fiction: The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
- 2025 Debut Author: Greenteeth – Molly O’Neill
- Memoir: Escape – Carolyn Jessop
- Read a zine, make a zine: helping your friends who sometimes wanna die maybe not die – Carly Boyce
- Essay collection: All About Love – bell hooks
- 2024 Award winner: I Am The Law – Michael Molcher
- Nonfiction: The Poisoner's Handbook – Deborah Blum
- Social justice and activism: Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? – Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Romance novel: Trade Me – Courtney Milan
- Read and make a recipe: something from Baking Yesteryear – B. Dylan Hollis
- Horror: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Published in the aughts: Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Historical fiction: The White Company – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Bookseller or librarian recommendation: To Build A Fire – Jack London
I have a question for those of you who write reviews for books: what do you keep in mind when you're writing them, and how do you gauge what your rating should be? I want to start leaving reviews on Storygraph and Likewise for the books I read.