It’s Reading Bingo time again! Every year I join in with this I don’t look at the board until the very end of the year and I fill in the squares based on what I’ve read so I don’t plan my reading in order to complete it. This year has been a very up and down year of reading so I didn’t have much hope of getting a full house on my bingo board. Read on to find out how I did…
A book with more than 500 pages
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman (with a whopping 1032 pages)!
A forgotten classic
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (which I know is a total cheat as it’s not a forgotten book but this is one of only two classics that I read this year and this one is the less well-known of the two).
A book that became a movie
Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M. C. Beaton. It became a TV series, which is the best I can do!
A book that was published this year
The Life We almost Had by Amelia Henley
A book with a number in the title
Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
A book written by someone under 30
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
A book with non-human characters
A funny book
Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch by Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse
A book by a female author
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
A book with a mystery
A book with a one-word title
A book of short stories
Christmas with Dull People by Saki
Free square
The Mating Habits of Stags by Ray Robinson
A book set on a different continent
Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa
A book of non-fiction
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
The first book by a favourite author
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
A book you heard about online
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
A best-selling book
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
A book based on a true story
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (it’s very loosely based on the author’s own experience when she was a teenager)
A book at the bottom of your to be read pile
You and Me, Always by Jill Mansell (it was on my TBR for five years!)
A book your friend loves
How To Disappear by Gillian McAllister
A book that scares you
The Murders at White House Farm by Carol Ann Lee
A book that is more than 10 years old
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The second book in a series
A book with a blue cover
Well, if you’ll allow me the couple of cheats then I got a full house but really I know I cheated a bit so I think I probably failed this year but that’s okay! This has been such a strange year and my reading has been affected all the way through so I’m just happy to have read some really enjoyable books throughout the year!
RatherTooFondofBooks 
Fab – must do this later. I always struggle with the classics or older books. Wonder if I’ve done any better this year? 😊
I struggled to fit books to all the challenges for 2020 but it’s always fun to look back on the books I’ve read over a year. I’ll go look for your Reading Bingo post shortly 🙂 x
No failure! Just lots of great books! xx
Aw thank you! I’ll claim it as a victory then. 🙂 xx
It has been a strange year, hasn’t it, Hayley? I give you so much credit for getting all of this done, despite the year we’ve had. I don’t call it cheating at all… Happy New Year!
It has been a really strange year. Thank you so much. Happy new year to you too. x
I love this! I’ve read a lot of these. Need to figure out if I had Bingo though!!
Thank you! Did you look to see if you had Bingo? I struggled to fit books to all the challenges but I just about got there with a little bit of cheating! 😉
After reading your post I got inspired, so I found a bingo card online. I’m going to do a book wrap up at the end of the month and I’m going to go over the card on a monthly basis
That’s a really good idea, I’ll look out for your end of the month bingo posts.
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Ooh I love this post and congratulations for filling it all out! I must remember to fill mine out too! xx
Thank you 🙂 I always enjoy filling in Reading Bingo at the end of every year. Did you get a chance to do yours? I’d love to read the post if you did. xx
Not yet probably next week. xx
Well done – you did it! Cheating is part of the fun! 😉
Thank you! I’m pleased you approve of the cheating, it means I can definitely claim victory over the bingo board for 2020! 😉
What a fabulous selection of books, Hayley – as ever I’m always so impressed with the wide range of books you read! And nearly fell off my chair when about halfway down the list, I saw that dear old Casta had made an appearance:)). A very Happy New Year to you!
Thank you! I had to put Picky Eaters in my Bingo challenge as I like to feature it whenever I get chance, it’s such a lovely read. 🙂 Happy new year to you too. x
I really appreciate you championing P.E. – right now I’m having a blast writing Trouble with Dwarves, which is the second book in the trilogy that I’m writing!
I loved Picky Eaters so am always happy to shout about it any chance I get. I’ll look forward to reading the second one when you publish it. 🙂
Thank you, Hayley:)). I’m currently working on the second book in the trilogy – I’m hoping to have the first draft of all 3 books completed before the summer.
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Congratulations! And it’s not cheating…it’s merely using creative definitions.
Thank you 🙂 I like that you frame it as creative definitions, I shall try and remember that for next time. 🙂
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