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HOB's 2025 BINGO: Quarter 1
Individual, Self-Paced Challenge
January 1 - March 31, 2025


We're taking a laid-back approach to BINGO this year! No weekly calls. No complicated rules. Just fun and books you're likely already reading!


Here is your individual thread. Your Quarter 1 BINGO card will be posted on December 31, 2024. Books must be completed between the dates of this quarterly challenge. Start date doesn't matter.


You may track your books in any manner that works for you. It can be as simple as something like this:


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Or, it can be as detailed as a spreadsheet...and anything in between.


When you get a BINGO, create a post that I will be able to clearly understand and follow along with, and link to it in the Completion Thread. You can do vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, or go all-in with a blackout BINGO!


Have a question about a task or a specific book? Ask them in the Q&A Thread.


Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘 I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘 Your first BINGO Card will be posted on December 31, 2024.
📘 Books must be completed after the card officially begins. For example, if your card begins on 1-1, you can't use a book you completed on 12-31.

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B
✅1. With a romantic plot message 9
✅2. More than 500 pages message 12
✅3. The cover is your favourite cover message 20
✅4. Five word title message 18
✅5. A genre you don't usually read message 11

I
✅1. Set in the past message 14
✅2. With a female MC message 8
✅3. Set somewhere you've never been message 10
✅4. In one sitting message 5
✅5. An author you love message 13

N
✅1. An international best-seller message 15
✅2. Published in the decade you were born message 28
✅3. FREE message 21
✅4. A debut novel message 19
✅5. A non-fiction book message 16

G
✅1. Less than 300 pages message 17
✅2. Over the course of a weekend nessage 22
✅3. With a male MC message 23
✅4. Listen to an audiobook message 27
✅5. In your PJs message 7

O
✅1. Set near where you live message 29
✅2. One word title message 6
✅3. A new-to-you author message 24
✅4. Set in the future message 26
✅5. A book about books message 25

I4. In one sitting
Mermaid in Troubled Water by Nikki Haverstock
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 01/01/2025
How it fits: Read in one sitting

O2. One word title
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 01/01/2025
How it fits: One word title

G5 5. In your PJs
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 02/01/2024
How it fits: A comfort read for me

I2. With a female MC
Everett by Jenifer Ruff
Rating: 3 stars
Date read 03/01/2025
How it fits: Brooke Walton is the female MC

B1. With a romantic plot
Say Goodbye by Karen Rose
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 04/01/2025
How it fits: MPG Romantic suspence

I3. Set somewhere you've never been
Dead Pirates of Cawsand by Steve Higgs
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 05/01/2025
How it fits. I have never been to the U.K. or to Cawsand

5. A genre you don't usually read
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: 06/01/2025
How it fits: MPG Art, a genre I don't usually read

B2. More than 500 pages
Without Fail by Lee Child
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 07/01/2024
How it fits: 560 pages

I5. An author you love
Guilty Mothers by Angela Marsons
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 10/01/2025
How it fits: One of my favourite authors

I1. Set in the past
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 11/01/2025
How it fits: Set in 19th century

N1. An international best-seller
UNSUB by Meg Gardiner
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 12/01/2025
How it fits: Award winning and translated into many languages

N5. A non-fiction book
Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living by Jacob Israel Liberman
Rating: 1 star
Date read: 12/01/2025
How it fits: MPG Non-fiction

G1. Less than 300 pages
Back to School Murder by Leslie Meier
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 14/01/2025
How it fits: 272 pages

B4. Five word title
A Catered New Year's Eve by Isis Crawford
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: 14/01/2025
How it fits: 5 word title

N4. A debut novel
Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
Rating: 3 stars
Date Read: 15/01/2025
How it fits: Debut novel for Barbara Neely

B3. The cover is your favourite cover
Journey Through The Solar System: Explore Everything That Orbits Our Sun and What We Know About Outer Space by Pantheon Space Academy
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 17/01/2025
How it fits: Black is one of my favourite colours

N3. FREE
Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 17/01/2025
How it fits: Book of choice

G2. Over the course of a weekend
Swamp Spies by Jana Deleon
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 18/01/2025
How it fits: Read over weekend

G3. With a male MC
Paper Girls by Alex Smith
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 19/01/2025
How it fits: MC DCI Robert Kett is male

O3. A new-to-you author
I've Got Time: A Zen monk's guide to a calm, focused and meaningful life by Paul Loomans
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 19/01/2025
How it fits: Paul Loomans is new to me

O5. A book about books
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by Mike Ashley
Date read: 20/01/2025
How it fits: About crime fiction books

O4. Set in the future
Festive in Death by J.D. Robb
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 21/01/2025
How it fits: Set in the future

G4. Listen to an audiobook
Hook, Line and Blinker by Jana Deleon
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 22/01/2025
How it fits: Listened to the audiobook

N2. Published in the decade you were born
Cover Her Face by P.D. James
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: 27/01/2025
How it fits: published January 1, 1962 I was born in 1961

O1. Set near where you live
Spiteful Spectres: Blue Moon Australia Book 1 by S.C. Stokes
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 30/01/2025
How it fits: Set in Australia

HOB's 2025 BINGO: Quarter 2
Individual, Self-Paced Challenge
April 1 - June 30, 2025

HOB's 2025 BINGO: Quarter 2
Individual, Self-Paced Challenge
April 1 - June 30, 2025

B
✅1. With a translator listed on Goodreads message 38
✅2. A bibliography/autobiography message 54
✅3. Set in the decade you graduated high school message 56
✅4. In your favourite chair/ reading spot message 33
✅5. Featuring time travel message 52

I
✅1. Between 300-500 pages message 41
✅2. A retelling message 51
✅3. That will stick with you for a while message 47
✅4. A male author message 35
✅5. Recommended by a friend message 44

N
✅1. No pictures on the cover message 37
✅2. More than one author message 55
✅3. FREE message 36
✅4. Published in 2024 message 46
✅5. You thought was a dud message 34

G
✅1. Set in New York City message 53
✅2. Tagged animals message 39
✅3. MPG Mystery message 32
✅4. Nominated for or won a Goodreads award message 42
✅5. The first book in a series message 45

O
✅1. That you read with the lights on message 48
✅2. More than one font on the cover message 49
✅3. A female author message 50
✅4. You think would be good for a book club message 43
✅5. That you would read again message 40

G 3. MPG Mystery
Whip Crack by Alex Smith
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 01/04/2025
How it fits: MPG Mystery

B 4. In your favourite chair/ reading spot
The Rocky Road to Ruin by Meri Allen
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 02/04/2025
How it fits: read in my favourite reading spot, a cozy mystery

N 5. You thought was a dud
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Rating: 2 stars
Date read: 03/04/2025
How it fits: Found it a bit boring

I 4. A male author
Lady Justice and the Candidate by Robert Thornhill
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 03/04/2025
How it fits: Robert Thornhill is a male author

N 3. FREE
Planet Simpson: How a cartoon masterpiece documented an era and defined a generation by Chris Turner
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 04/04/2025
How it fits: Free choice

N 1. No pictures on the cover
Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 05/04/2025
How it fits: No pictures on cover

B 1. With a translator listed on Goodreads
Victim Without a Face by Stefan Ahnhem
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 06/04/2025
How it fits: Rachel Willson-Broyles listed on Goodreads as translator

G 2. Tagged animals
Nest Egg by Josi Avari
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: 07/04/2025
How it fits: MPG Animals

O 5. That you would read again
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 08/04/2025
How it fits: On of my favourites that I reread over and over. A comfort read

I 1. Between 300-500 pages
Mocha, She Wrote by Ellie Alexander
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 09/04/2025
How it fits: 320 pages

G 4. Nominated for or won a Goodreads award
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: 09/04/2025
How it fits: Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy (2020)

O 4. You think would be good for a book club
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Rating: 3 stars
Date read: 10/04/2025
How it fits: plenty of discussion points

I 5. Recommended by a friend
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 14/04/2025
How it fits: Recommended by friend long time ago

G 5. The first book in a series
The Great Witches Baking Show by Nancy Warren
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 14/04/2025
How it fits: #1 in The Great Witches Baking Show series

N 4. Published in 2024
Baskets and Beignets by Jana Deleon
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 15/04/2025
How it fits: published May 19, 2024

I 3. That will stick with you for a while
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 17/04/2025
How it fits: Tells of harm of pesticides to people and environment

O 1. That you read with the lights on
Trapped by J.A. Konrath
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 18/04/2025
How it fits: Insanely scary

O 2. More than one font on the cover
Lavender Blue Murder by Laura Childs
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 21/04/2025
How it fits: Author and title in different fonts

O 3. A female author
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 21/04/2025
How it fits: Elizabeth Peters is a female author