I usually try not to be This Person but there's a line about Anna singing along to a Michael Bublé Christmas album in the year 2000 which didn't feel right to me so I spent four seconds googling his discography and sure enough, he didn't have any albums out until 2001 and no Christmas album until a decade later...

It's not that I care this much about Michael Bublé, it just doesn't bode well for how much the authors care about the specific 2000 setting other than the triple holiday coincidence - time will tell!

Hey everyone!

As we (rapidly) approach the end of the year, a few friends and I have planned and designed a Reading Challenge Bingo Board for 2026, and thought it would be cool to share it with you all.

The main board has most of its prompts aimed at people on Pagebound (eg. Gain a new Main Quest badge, read a book from J&L’s favourite shelves) and is designed to be easily used by anyone, no matter the speed or type of books you usually read. We have intentionally made the prompts general, so that they can fit in with any other reading plans and goals you might have next year.

There aren’t really any rules, but I’ll list a few things you should be aware of.

⭐️ The prompts in the cross section of the board are the easiest, and bingo can be achieved with very few books (+ your reading goal, which is the centre square). ⭐️ Feel free to use one book to tick off multiple squares (or not). I think it would be fun to have an unofficial competition to see who can tick the most boxes with a single book. ⭐️ Some of the prompts are very difficult in that they require you to read a lot of books (get all Special Event badges, get gold in a Main Quest), but it’s obviously completely up to you which squares you aim for. It is designed to be used for the entirety of the year, so I tried to put some tricky ones in there. ⭐️ Two of the prompts involve a ‘Mini Board’. These are genre or topic specific bingo boards (with only 9 squares) that we have also designed. There are 10 at the moment but if the interest is there we do have plans to make more as we go. These two prompts are marked with an asterisk (*). ⭐️ In the Mini Boards there are a few prompts that are indicated with a plus sign (+), these have corresponding quests in Pagebound even if the name of the prompt is slightly different. Feel free to reach out if you’re confused which one we are referring to, and also feel free to read a book outside the quest that fits.

You are very welcome to use this in your own groups, by yourself, or reach out if you want buddy to share your progress with. Some of us are using discord to facilitate our bingo chats, let me know if you’d be interested in that - but otherwise I’m looking forward to seeing your reading around on PB. Excited to see what the wonderful world of books and Pagebound have in store for us in 2026!

Thank you to the amazing people that contributed to this in various ways, big and small x

Happy reading all!

Loving honks, Goosie 🪿

Links: Main Bingo Board Mini Boards: Fantasy, Romance, Classics, Litfic, Sci-fi, Horror, Retellings, Non-fic, Mystery, Smut.

I usually try not to be This Person but there's a line about Anna singing along to a Michael Bublé Christmas album in the year 2000 which didn't feel right to me so I spent four seconds googling his discography and sure enough, he didn't have any albums out until 2001 and no Christmas album until a decade later...

It's not that I care this much about Michael Bublé, it just doesn't bode well for how much the authors care about the specific 2000 setting other than the triple holiday coincidence - time will tell!