Book Bingo will return at some point in the future.
In 2019, I crossed off squares as I read the books, bingo-style!
Pretty much all my reading is fiction, hardly anything to do with finance or investing, but I’ve listed them below anyway (note – no affiliate links on this page, just links to the books on Goodreads)
- a book by an author you’ve never read + a book with a female main character + a book with a one word title: ‘Artemis‘ – Andy Weir
- a book with a blue cover + a ‘classic’ book you never read in school + a book more than 10 years old + a book with a number in the title + a book that was turned into a movie: ‘Slaughterhouse Five‘ – Kurt Vonnegut
- a book with a white cover: ‘J‘ – Howard Jacobson
- a book with a red cover: ‘Magpie Murders‘ – Anthony Horowitz
- a book a friend told you about –‘The Bees’ – Laline Paull
- a book that will make you smarter – ‘The Logic of Life’ – Tim Harford
Here’s how I did in 2018 and the books I read:
- a book with a one-word title: ‘Victorious‘ – Jack Campbell
- a book I heard about online + a book set on a different continent: ‘Dark Matter‘ – Blake Crouch
- a book with a number in the title + a book with more than 500 pages + a bestselling book –‘Seveneves’ – Neal Stephenson
- a book that is more than 10 years old + a book at the bottom of my to read pile – ‘Acacia: The War with the Mein‘ – David Anthony Durham
- a book by a female author – ‘Someone Else’s Skin‘ – Sarah Hilary
- a book with Non-Human Characters – ‘Embassytown’– China Miéville
- the second book in a series – ‘No Other Darkness’– Sarah Hilary
- the first book by a favourite author –‘Altered Carbon’ – Richard K Morgan
- a book of non fiction – ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ – Daniel Kahneman
- a book with a mystery – ‘The City & the City’ – China Miéville
- a Funny Book + a Book with a Blue Cover + a Book Based on a True Story – ‘This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ – Adam Kay
- a book that scares you – NOS4R2 – Joe Hill
- a book published this year –Â Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy – David Sawyer