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What We're Reading: JCPL's Winter Reading Bingo 2026

Need help filling out your Winter Reading Bingo card? JCPL staff is playing too; here are the titles they've used to fill a few spots. Don't forget to grab your Winter Reading Bingo card today and carve out some time to curl up with your TBR pile. Starting Jan. 15, explore books and complete activities that match the 16 bingo space descriptions to collect badges and fill out your card. Read your way to BINGO by Feb. 28 to win your finisher prize!

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  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Colorado Author, Blue Cover, Number in the Title and Diverse. Olivia Becente, a medium who investigates a cursed Denver hotel room where women, including her sister, have died by suicide every five years. Olivia…
    Book, 2025New York : Flatiron Books, 2025. — FICTION WURTH
  • Winter Reading Bingo category: Nonfiction. A deeply researched book about the various policies and resources available to Americans, how they shaped our past and are setting us up for our future. Managed wisely, there is abundance for all.
    Book, 2025New York : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2025. — 330.973 KLEIN
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Award Winner, Warm Setting and Diverse. In the face of the threat of starvation and desperation, how will people react? This beautifully-written book explores the choices a mother makes for herself and her child —…
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — FICTION MAJUMDAR
  • Winter Reading Bingo category: Winter Setting. In the near future, climate change threatens to drown an island in the far south Indian Ocean, home to a research station, an enormous seed bank holding hope for the planet, a family charged with…
    Book, 2025New York : Flatiron Books, 2025. — FICTION MCCONAGHY
  • The Sum of Us

    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    McGhee, Heather C.,
    Winter Reading Bingo categories: Blue Cover and Nonfiction. McGhee explores the economic and social costs of racism for all Americans, arguing it is the "common denominator" for many of the country's public problems.
    Book, 2021New York : One World, [2021] — 305.8 MCGHEE
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Food-themed Book and Nonfiction. Following her mother's death, Zauner processes her loss by cooking traditional Korean dishes and navigating her complex relationship with her late mother and her cultural heritage.
    Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — B ZAUNER M ZAUNER
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Food-themed Book and Blue Cover. At the age of 9, Rose Edelstein discovers she can taste the emotions of the person who cooked her food, revealing hidden family secrets and the emotional turmoil of her mother, father…
    Book, 2011New York : Anchor Books, 2011. — FICTION BENDER
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Graphic Novel and Award Winner. Set in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, this historical novel follows 12-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who has been rendered mute by years of abuse from a drifter known…
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — FICTION PHILLIPS
  • Between Two Sounds

    Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language

    Sildre, Joonas,
    Winter Reading Bingo categories: Number in the Title, Graphic Novel, Nonfiction. A beautifully realized biography that chronicles the life of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt from 1935 to 1980, depicting his evolution from a young avant-garde…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Walden, New York : Plough Publishing House, 2024. — 780.92 SILDRE
  • Winter Reading Bingo category: Colorado Author. An epic coming-of-age novel about Victoria Nash, a young woman in 1948 Colorado whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a drifter.
    Book, 2023New York : Spiegel and Grau, [2023] — FICTION READ
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Colorado Author and Award Winner. After rescuing a horse from a brutal beating, Stegner is forced back into a life of violence and on the run from retribution, struggling with his dark impulses, grief and the need to…
    Book, 2015New York : Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC, 2015. — FICTION HELLER
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Feel Good and Number in the Title. Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a…
    Book, 2012New York : Hyperion, c2012. — FICTION JONASSON
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Feel Good, Number in the Title, Winter Setting, Blue(ish) Cover. A collection of 10 intimate short stories from the author of "Heart the Lover," exploring the complexities of love, desire and loss through a diverse…
    Book, 2021New York : Grove Press, 2021. — FICTION KING
  • Winter Reading Bingo categories: Feel Good, Adaptation and (mostly) Warm Setting. Best friends show up every year for each other to take their annual, almost rule-free vacation adventure, even as their personal lives drift apart and then come back…
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021. — FICTION HENRY
  • The Princess Bride

    An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure : the "good Parts" Version

    Goldman, William, 1931-2018,
    Winter Reading Bingo categories: Feel Good, Adaptation and Graphic Novel. A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing and a frightening assortment of wild beasts.
    Book, 2013Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, [2013] — FICTION GOLDMAN
  • Winter Reading Bingo category: Number in the Title. Framboise Simon returns to her rural French childhood village under an alias, using her deceased mother's secret-filled recipe journal to run a crêperie.
    Book, 2007New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2007. — FICTION HARRIS