Introducing Scribd’s 2022 Bingo Reading Challenge

Outside of book clubs, we consider reading challenges one of the best ways to ensure you’re getting the full benefits of reading, from learning new things to reducing stress. A reading challenge is a fun way to make reading more — and more diversely — feel less daunting. To help you reach your yearly reading goals, we’re introducing Scribd’s 2022 Bingo Reading Challenge, which provides 25 prompts to help you pick your next great read.

Here are the various prompts on the bingo card:

• Read of listen to a book by an indigenous author
• Read or listen to an award-winning book
• Read or listen to a memoir
• Listen to a podcast or audiobook
• Read or listen to a book blowing up on #BookTok
• Read or listen to a book published in 2022
• Read or listen to a banned book
• Read or listen to a book by a Black author
• Read for 1 hour
• Read or listen to a book by a Latinx author
• Read or listen to a book by an LGBTQ+ author
• Read or listen to a fantasy
• Read or listen to a book picked by a celebrity book club
• Read or listen to a book about climate change
• Read or listen to a mystery
• Read or listen to a self-help book
• Read or listen to a book by a disabled author
• Read or listen to a book adapted for the screen
• Read or listen to a microhistory
• Read or listen to an upbeat book
• Read or listen to a book by an Asian author
• Read or listen to a book with a wordy title
• Read or listen to a book by an entrepreneur
• Read or listen to a dystopian novel
• Read or listen to any book you want!

Scribd’s Bingo Reading Challenge is designed to motivate you to try different genres, read diverse voices, and learn new things. Getting a single bingo by completing five prompts (no free space pass here) will put you on-pace with the median American reader, who reads five books a year, according to Pew Research Center. But we encourage going above and beyond by making a shape (an X or a Z, perhaps?) or covering the whole board by the end of the year.

Download the bingo card here and share your progress with friends on social media. Encourage them to play Scribd Reading Bingo, too. Tag us @Scribd on Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter when you make bingo so we can share your success story.

We’ll be sharing updates about our own attempts at covering the board and which books we’ve loved. We hope you enjoy playing Scribd Reading Bingo. Now let’s pick a prompt and begin a great book.

April 2022 Update: See what our Scribd employees are reading, who is getting close to bingo, and the staff picks they recommend.