Book bingo 2027: two free printable cards

A book bingo is the most forgiving reading challenge there is: 25 squares, a prompt in each, and you read them in any order you like. Here are two cards for 2027, free to print, to share and to play with your book club. The first is full of tropes, for romance and fantasy readers. The second works for any kind of reader.

Card 1: Romance and fantasy

Tropes, dragons and the books that made you cry. Its 24 prompts come from the same list that Random fill deals from in Storyfeel's Book Bingo.

1. Enemies to lovers
2. Dragons
3. New release this year
4. Grumpy x sunshine
5. Set in winter
6. First in a series
7. Fake dating
8. Fae court
9. Made you cry
10. Forced proximity
11. Fated mates
12. Over 500 pages
13. Free square: anything you like
14. Retelling
15. Slow burn
16. Unique magic system
17. Only one bed
18. On your TBR 1+ year
19. Found family
20. Indie author
21. Villain you love
22. Friends to lovers
23. Academy setting
24. Touch her and you die
25. Spicy (4+ chili)

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Card 2: Read widely

For a year of variety: a debut, a classic, a translated book, some poetry. These are the 25 prompts from our reading challenge ideas, laid out as a card.

1. Set somewhere you have never been
2. Translated from another language
3. A debut
4. Over 500 pages
5. Under 200 pages
6. Recommended by a friend
7. On your TBR for more than a year
8. A classic you have always meant to read
9. Published the year you were born
10. An audiobook
11. A map at the front
12. A one-word title
13. Free square: anything you like
14. First in a series
15. A standalone
16. A reread
17. Non-fiction about something you know nothing about
18. Two points of view
19. Set in winter
20. A retelling of a myth or a fairy tale
21. By an independent author
22. Published this year
23. Recommended by a bookseller or a librarian
24. Poetry or short stories
25. A book you expect to make you cry

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How to play

• One book for each square. Read a book that fits the prompt and write its title in the square. The centre is free: any book you like.
• Five in a row is a bingo: across, down or corner to corner. A card has 12 lines. Fill all 25 squares and it is a blackout.
• Can one book fill two squares? Decide before you start. One book per square makes it a real challenge; letting a book count twice makes it a gentler one. Either is fine, as long as you keep to it.
• The card runs from 1 January to 31 December 2027. A book started in December 2026 counts if you finish it in January.

Make it yours

If a square only fits books you dread, write a prompt of your own over it. For more trope squares, pick from our list of 76 book tropes. Playing with friends? Everyone prints the same card, and the first to complete a line chooses the next book club read.

Sharing the card

Print as many copies as you like, for yourself, your book club, your class or your library. You are welcome to share the image on social media or put it on your blog. All we ask is a link back to this page, so others can find the printable too.

Playing it in Storyfeel

• Games → Book Bingo has a card for every year. Tap a square, write its Category and link the book that fills it. The square completes itself when that book is Completed, so the card fills in as you read.
• The lines light up. Finish a row, a column or a diagonal and the card says Bingo!; fill all 25 squares for Blackout!
• To play card 1, type its prompts into the squares, or tap Random fill for a card dealt from the same list.
• Every square keeps its book, so in December the card shows not only what you read but which book filled which square. Note in your reading journal how each one felt and you will remember the whole year.

Book Bingo is in the free plan. Start your 2027 card in Storyfeel, or see more reading challenge ideas for an A–Z, a yearly goal and a reading streak.