Book Bingo is back for 2025! Our reading challenge for adults it a great way to read outside your comfort zone, with new categories and great prizes from St Pierre Park Hotel, the OGH and local kiosk Mylk.
Read one book in each category, making a note as you go. Stuck for ideas on what to read? Hannah from the Library team has put together some helpful recommendations to get you started. Click on the links to borrow, or get in touch if you need a few more!
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Audiobooks
- Down & out in Paris & London – George Orwell (audio CD)
- Becoming – Michelle Obama (audiobook on the BorrowBox app)
- Outlander – Diana Gabaldon (audio CD)
- The Sanitorium – Sarah Pearse (audiobook on the BorrowBox app)
- Life Impossible – Matt Haig (audiobook on the BorrowBox app)
- The Ipcress File – Len Deighton (audio CD)
Number in the title
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradubury
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
- Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- 11.22.63 – Stephen King
- Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
- Fourteen Days – various authors, edited by Margret Atwood
Spy novels
- The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
- The Quiet American – Graham Greene
- Moscow X – David McCloskey
- The Little Drummer Girl – John Le Carre
- The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
- The Eagle Has Landed – Jack Higgins
Country You’d Like to Visit
- Hope this Finds You Well – Natalie Sue (Canada)
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (India)
- Three Wishes – Liane Moriarty (Australia)
- Catch 22 – Jospeh Heller (Italy)
- The Matchmaker – Catherine Walsh (Ireland)
- The Sultan’s Wife – Jane Johnson (Morocco)
Set on an Island
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Small Island – Andrea Levy
- The Castaways – Lucy Clarke
- Coastliners – Joanne Harris
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
Won An Award
- Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
- James – Percival Everett
- Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Orbital – Samantha Harvey
- Brotherless Night – V.V.Ganeshananthan
Collection of Short Stories
- Don’t Look Now – Daphne Du Maurier
- Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories – Audrey Niffenegger
- The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Dear Life – Alice Munro
- Tenth of December – George Saunders
- Chance Developments – Alexander McCall Smith
Orange Cover
- The Midnight Feast – Lucy Foley
- Joe Hustle – Richard Lange
- Circe – Madeline Miller
- Black Thorn – Sarah Hilary
- Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers
- The Frequency of Us – Keith Stuart
Need more recommendations? Get in touch and we'll do our best to help! Email us [email protected] or drop us a message on Facebook.
