The Least Competitive Game of Bookish Bingo

Bookish Bingo lands on The Spicy Librarian Podcast this week — and it turns out Dee and Katie are not even a little bit competitive. From sports romance to special editions, historical romance to books that made us ugly cry, we're covering every square on the card.

This week join Dee and Katie for a game of Bookish Bingo — who we found aren't at all competitive. We're working through the full card, from books read in one sitting to series we're still in the middle of, plots that floored us, characters who share our names, and the very specific joy of a book you found because you spotted a stranger reading it.

Every square is a recommendation, a confession, or a chaotic tangent — sometimes all three. If your own TBR survives this episode intact we genuinely respect it.

Timestamps:

00:00 — Sulking Over Bingo Dabbers01:49 — Katie's Reading Week02:35 — Dee's Reading Week10:14 — Bingo Rules11:55 — A Book Read in One Sitting13:49 — A Book Set on an Island15:24 — A Book That Was Borrowed18:35 — A Special Edition20:18 — Historical Romance Picks21:48 — A Non Fiction Book25:03 — A Plot Twist That Got Us26:19 — A Book on Your TBR Right Now32:30 — Sports Romance Recommendations34:41 — A Book That Made Us Cry36:52 — A Book We Reviewed42:06 — Book to Screen Adaptations43:10 — A Book You Read Because You Saw Someone Else Reading It45:42 — A Character With the Same Name as Yours47:24 — A Title With a Number in It48:13 — A Book That's Been Annotated49:38 — A Book You've Won50:27 — A Series You're in the Middle Of51:18 — A Title With a Colour in It54:14 — Bingo Victory

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Books Discussed in This Episode:

Tourist Season — Bryn WeaverThe Butcher and the Blackbird — Bryn WeaverLight Wielder — Rachel SchneiderWild Card — Karina HalleDirebound — Sable SorensonCrown Me Dead / Crown Me Yours — Liv ZanderDaughter of No Worlds — Carissa BroadbentArcher's Voice — Mia SheridanMost of All You — Mia SheridanThree Nights in Stockholm — Elizabeth HardyThe Dorians — Nick CutterGrave Matter — Karina HalleYesteryear — Caro Claire BurkeStarfallen — Fern ColeHollow — M.L. BurnsInnamorata — Ava ReidThe Games Gods Play — Abigail OwenThe Tattooist of Auschwitz — Heather MorrisThe Secret — Rhonda ByrneAtomic Habits — James ClearFeathers So Vicious — Liv ZanderPoison Daughter — Sheila MastersonHere One Moment — Liane MoriartyFlawless — Elsie SilverPerfect Deke — Ruth StirlingHeated Rivalry — Rachel ReidWhat We Need — Lizzie StanleyThe Long Game — Rachel ReidDeath Valley — Karina HalleThe Trap — Catherine Ryan HowardRemarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van PeltTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow — Gabrielle ZevinA Little Life — Hanya YanagiharaOne Dark Window — Rachel GilligTwo Twisted Crowns — Rachel GilligOf Mice and Men — John SteinbeckSleuths — Samantha MoodyThrone of Glass — Sarah J. MaasEdge of Darkness — Leigh RiversRed Rising — Pierce BrownRed Queen — Victoria Aveyard