December 2024 Bookish Bingo 🎀

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Challenge your TBR with the December Bookish Bingo Board!

If you share a completed bingo in the comments below before January 1, you’ll receive 20 bonus points!

Click here to read the rules and download your Bookish bingo card below. Make sure you share your progress with us by using #BookishBingo on social media. Let us know what books you’re reading for each prompt below! When you get a bingo, shout it out here.

December Bookish Bingo Prompts: Set during a winter holiday, Snow on cover, Under 200 pages, On a friend’s Best of 2024 list, Title begins with D, Winter sport, Published in December, Last book in a series, New-to-you BIPOC author, Blue or white cover, Indie author, Character is a baker, free space, Title includes a temperature description, Set in a remote location, Red or green cover, Five star read, Audiobook, Last book you read in 2024, Snowed in, Last or end in the title, Your favorite genre, Debut published in 2024, Grumpy protagonist, Author you want to read more of in 2025

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[cary]

Anyone have an Indie Author to recommend?

[motthepaladin]

What do you like to read?

Here are some indie books I liked:

Ace of Hearts by Lucy Mason (contemporary/fake marriage)
Kill Your Darlings by LE Harper (dark fantasy)
Cursed Cocktails by SL Rowland (cozy fantasy; like Legends & Lattes but M/M and with cocktails)

[crystal_dark]

@cary

Anyone have an Indie Author to recommend?

Would an Indie Author just be an author who doesn’t have a publisher listed for their books?

If so and you like romances you might check out Honey Phillips. They have books for paranormal romances and science fiction romance.

Sue Mercury is also good if you like alien science fiction and she just released a new holiday book called Claus recently that was good.

If you like fairy tale retellings you might like Sarah Beran or Abigail Manning.

Good luck finding something.

[bookisht]

My eyes are feeling more tired than usual (too many bright, flickering lights!) but fortunately a bunch of print ARCs arrived in the mail this past week and filled out most of that last row–I’m also grateful to my local library which provided a convenient e-audio download when I didn’t think I could finish the ebook.

Title begins with D - Double Cup Love by Eddie Huang
Last book in a series - Hessians & Hellhounds by Tilly Wallace
New-to-you BIPOC author - Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts
Blue or white cover - Paint with Ploof! by Ben Clanton (of Narwhal & Jelly)
Set in a remote location - Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
Snowed in - I am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant
Author you want to read more of in 2025 - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi