2025 Teen Book Bingo Reading Suggestions

Get reading suggestions for each category of 2025 Teen Book Bingo. Browse booklists created by our librarians and other sources for recommendations.

See reading suggestions from our librarians for 2025 Teen Book Bingo categories.

Graphic Novel Memoir: Learn about an author’s life through their own illustrations.
Banned Book: These books have faced censorship challenges. Check out SPL’s Books Unbanned program.
Gender Bender: Because gender is fluid! Explore these trans, nonbinary and genderbent stories.
Found Family: Books about choosing your own families.
Grey Lit: Literature produced outside of traditional publishing (i.e., self-published, a zine, a blog post, etc.).
Revolution!: Stories of revolutionaries resisting oppression.
Not Prose: Poetry collections or books written in verse.
Dark Academia: Typically set on school campuses, questionable characters are up to no good in these stories with fantastical, supernatural or spooky undertones.
Non-romantic Love: Love is bigger than partnership! Check out these stories about friendship, aromantic identities and all kinds of non-romantic love.
Includes a Map: These books include a map to accompany the narrative.
Remix of Adaptation: A fairytale, myth, or fable that has been reinterpreted in a new context.
Multiple Perspectives: Stories told from the perspective of multiple narrators.
Books Set in PNW: The title says it all!