I’ve really enjoyed doing Reading Bingo over the last couple of years so couldn’t resist the chance to see whether I’d successfully filled in my bingo card for 2019. As ever, I don’t look at the bingo card during the year I just read what I want to read and then at the end of the year look through my reading to see if I’ve managed a full house.
So without further ado…
A Book With More Than 500 Pages
A Question of Trust by Penny Vincenzi
A Forgotten Classic
Middlemarch by George Eliot!
This obviously isn’t a forgotten classic so I’m cheating a bit here but I’m counting it because it kind of was a forgotten book on my TBR as I’ve owned it ever since I was a teenager but had never read it before 2019, which is shameful especially as when I finally read it I loved it!
A Book That Became a Movie
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Book Published This Year
Dead Inside by Noelle Holten (Click here for my review!)
A Book With a Number in the Title
55 by James Delargy (Click here for my review!)
A Book Written By Someone Under 30
The Last by Hanna Jameson (Click here for my review!)
A Book With Non Human Characters
Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff (Click here for my review!)
A Funny Book
Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
A Book By A Female Author
The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby(Click here for my review!)
A Book With a Mystery
Alice Teale is Missing by H. A. Linskey (Click here for my review!)
A Book With A One Word Title
Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard (Click here for my review!)
A Book of Short Stories
When Stars Will Shine by Emma Mitchell (Click here for my review!)
Free Square
Ideal Angels by Robert Welbourn (Click here for my review!)
A Book Set on a Different Continent
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (Click here for my review!)
A Book of Non Fiction
After the Eclipse by Sarah Perry
The First Book By A Favourite Author
Amazing Grace by Kim Nash (Click here for my review!)
A Book You Heard About Online
How To Say Goodbye by Katy Colins (Click here for my review!)
A Best-Selling Book
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
A Book Based on a True Story
The Closer I Get by Paul Burston(Click here for my review!)
A Book At The Bottom of Your TBR Pile
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Book Your Friend Loves
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid(Click here for my review!)
A Book that Scares You
The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason(Click here for my review!)
A Book That Is More Than Ten Years Old
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Second Book In A Series
The Ringmaster by Vanda Symon (Click here for my review!)
A Book With a Blue Cover
Not Having It All by Jennie Ensor (Click here for my review!)
So if I can get away with my cheat on Middlemarch then I’ve achieved a full house! Woo Hoo! I do love doing this every year, it’s so nice to look back over my reading and pick books for categories different to just which are my favourite reads. If you do Reading Bingo please link to your post below as I love reading these posts. 🙂
RatherTooFondofBooks 
Oooh I like book bingo. Congratulations on your full house! I think the classic one might be a tricky one for me too. I wasn’t going to do any more posts this year but if I have time later, I’ll do this one. 😊
Thank you! It was a bit of a cheat counting Middlemarch but it was forgotten in the depths of my bookcase! I’m glad you decided to do a post too, I do love reading the Book Bingo posts each year. 🙂
I think it was perfectly acceptable to include Middlemarch. Otherwise, what counts? Is it even a classic if it’s forgotten?
I love that you don’t look at the card during the year! Forgotten classic is sort of weird though, because I can’t think of a book that actually fits that description, but I think middlemarch works because I don’t know how many kids have that as required reading anymore….
I always find it fun to just play book bingo at the end of the year and see how I did. I find forgotten classic a weird one too, I’m never sure what really counts for that. I didn’t have to read Middlemarch at school so it took me about 25 years of owning it to finally pick it up!
I think that’s a perfect way of looking at it. I mean, really,if it’s a classic is it ever forgotten?
That’s so true, it is a strange category really.
Well done, Hayley. You’ve had some great reads this year. And you’ve reminded me that I want to read The Conviction of Cora Burns. I promised myself I would read it when it first came out, and still haven’t (yet). I will.
Thank you 🙂 It was a fabulous reading year. I highly recommend The Conviction of Cora Burns, it’s such a brilliant novel and one that has really stayed with me. I hope you get to read it this year and that you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Thanks for sharing your ‘full house’, Hayley. I really enjoy seeing how people complete Reading Bingo.
Thank you, I love looking at the bingo card at the end of the year and seeing how I did. It’s a fun post to put together.
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