| A book recommended in the pisscord | A book with appealing descriptions of food | A book you've read at least 10 years ago | A red book | A book about a job you’ve wanted: Wild Dark Shore: a novel by Charlotte McConaghy |
| A book about a historical time period you aren’t familiar with: Strata: Stories from Deep Time by Laura Poppick | A book borrowed from the library | A book with poop or pee in it: The devils by Joe Abercrombie | A book from an astonishingly long sci-fi or fantasy series | A book about a strange woman: The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore |
| A book with a nonhuman protagonist | A book with an old wooden ship | Any book!: Dreamsongs Vol. 1 by George R R Martin | A book your pet would like: Ten Birds That Changed The World by Stephen Moss | A book you heard about on a podcast |
| A book that you want to tell people you read to impress them: Kilter: 55 Fictions by John Gould | A good book with a bad cover | A book of poetry: Love is a Dog that Bites when it’s Scared by Courtney Marie Andrews | A book set in Indiana or by an author from Indiana | A book from the middle of a series you haven’t read the beginning of |
| A book you’ve given as a gift | A book with an average score below 3.0 on Goodreads or Storygraph | A book from the pisscord list of literary postmodernism recs for if you liked house of leaves as a teen | A book by someone with a podcast, Twitch stream, or YouTube channel: The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World 1490 - 1530 by Patrick Wyman | A book that is in some way conservative |