May 2024 Bookish Bingo 📝

[bookishfirst_team]

Challenge your TBR with the May Bookish Bingo Board!

If you share a completed bingo in the comments below before June 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.

Have an idea for a future board? Share it here.

May Bookish Bingo prompts: Set in space, Published in May, Read outside, Flowers on cover, Fifth in a series, New-to-you author, Animal on cover, Set in North Dakota, Alliteration in title, Asian protagonist, Title begins with M, Pacific Islander author, Free space, Protagonist is a writer, Explores mental health, Audiobook under 5 hours, Pirate protagonist, Science fiction, Set on an island, Author’s name begins with M, Brown cover, Battle for the throne, Theme of motherhood, Follow BookishFirst on Instagram, Five word title

[mommy_reads]

I love the looks of this board! I am so excited to work on it.

[jonadog]

Shouldn’t that be June 1 not April 1

[seast]

Can you post the square version, please? Thanks!

[bookishfirst_team]

Here’s a square version and an Instagram Story size

[rsloss95]

Can authors last name start with m or does it have to be the first name?

[bookisht]

Bingo (squares 5-10-15-20-25)

5. Fifth in a series - SIXPENCE AND SELKIES / Tilly Wallace
6. New-to-you author - WHAT BEAUTY THERE IS / Cory Anderson
7. Animal on cover - DOGLAND / Tommy Tomlinson
8. Asian protagonist THE NHIA NORMAL / Sheelue Yang ( Hmong representation!)
9. Explores mental health - POLAR VORTEX / Denise Dorrance
10. Author’s name begins with M - LOST IN TAIWAN / Mark Crilley
11. Five word title - THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEVLINS / Lisa Scottoline

also working through 12. Pacific Islander author - THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE / Heidi Heilig; still in the early chapters, but liking this time-travel adventure so far!

[ciaraxyerra]

Bingo!

new-to-me author: Diavola - Jennifer Marie Thorne
animal on cover: Piercing - Ryu Murakami
set in North Dakota: Outlawed - Anna North
alliteration in title: Wish You Were Here - Rita Mae Brown
Asian protagonist: China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan

[whitneymouse]

[cyireadbooks]

Bingo!

[jonadog]

[kristiew]

[lanie27]

[kozo89]

Flowers on cover- A Twinkle of Trouble by Daryl Wood Gerber
Alliteration in title- Hollyberry Homicide by Sharon Farrow
Writer protagonist- Sniffing Out Murder by Kallie E. Benjamin
Set on island- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Follow on Instagram-

[venice23]

[lashyashy84]

I really loved the prompts this month.

[redreviews4you]

Set in Space - Escape Pod Anthology
Published in May - Lovers and Liars
Book with Flowers h Atlas by DJ Krimmer
Fifth in a series - More than Write

[motthepaladin]

[vvena]

[claudiu]

No bingo in May, unfortunately. The closest I got is second row, missing the Set In North Dakota read.

New-to-you author: The Dysasters: The Graphic Novel by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
Animal on cover: The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson
Alliteration in title: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Asian protagonist: Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo