Bingo Dog planning

First things first - we'll start with all those ideas for squares for the Bingo card. so get your thinking caps on.

From there we'll start to rationalise similar ideas, maybe discount repeats from past years and then I'll randomly pick a perfect 25.
I'd expect to start whittling the list after the CATs have been agreed - it might be some ideas that don't get picked as a CAT would work as a Bingo Square.

I will keep a list of suggestions in this thread, please feel free to suggest, amend and discuss the various ideas.

THE list:
1: Features music or a musician
2: Features or is set in an Inn or Hotel
3: Features a member of the cat family (as big a cat as you like)
4: The next book in a series you've started
5: A book by an author that shares your sign of the zodiac
6: A memoir
7: A bestselling book from 20 years ago
8: Book with a plant in the title or on the cover
9: A book with switched or stolen identities
10: A book that taught you something
11: A book with a book on the cover
12: Features something art or craft related
13: Read a CAT
14: A book with a small town or rural setting
15: A book on a SETM topic (Science Technology, Engineering or Maths)
16: A book with an LT rating of 4 or more
17: A book by a local or regional author
18: A book involving an accident
19: A book featuring a journalist or about journalism
20: A popular author's first book
21: A book on a topic you don't usually read
22: A book with a number or quantity in the title
23: A book by an author under 30
24: A book set on a plane, train or ship
25: A book in >1000 libraries on LT

Suggestions list:

Read a CAT
A really short book (we would have to define that further)
Geometric pattern on cover--stripes, polka dots, triangles, arrows, etc
With a book on the cover
With a plant in the title or on the cover
Wearable item in title
Title contains a number or quantity
There's at least 1 set of double letters in the title words
Involves an accident
Costume or fancy dress event
Journalist or journalism
In remembrance of/related to Queen Elizabeth II / Read a book concerning royalty (fiction or NF)
STEM topic
About art or an artist
Music or musician
Art or Craft related
Switched or stolen identities
Features children or young adults
Features a cat (cats) or member of the cat family (leopard, lion, tiger, etc.)
Involves toys or dolls
A book about dinosaurs (note that birds count as dinosaurs!)
Small town or rural setting
Inn or Hotel.
Set in space
Set at sea (or on water)
Jazz Age setting (1920s - 1930s) about Jazz-the music or the people or the era
An island setting
Book is set on a plane, train or ship
Author from Australia/New Zealand or set in those countries
book by a local/regional author where you live/have lived
Written by an author under 30
A popular author’s first book
Author with flora or fauna in their name
Author who shares your zodiac sign
A celebrity memoir
A classic (first published more than 50 years ago).
A bestseller from 20 years ago
A book bullet.
A book rated above 4 on LT
More than 1000 (or some other number) copies on LT.
From the bottom of your tbr pile (a book that's been there a long time)
A book that taught you something
A book about a topic you don’t usually read
A book with pictures in it
The next book in a series you started

We have tried to not repeat squares from the last 2 years, so these are posted for information. Try and avoid direct repeats of these squares. Feel free to use them as inspiration, however.

2022 Bingo squares
1. An Award Winning book
2. Published in a year ending 2
3. A modern retelling of an older story
4. A book you'd love to see as a movie (maybe starring your favourite actor)
5. A book that features a dog
6. The title contains the letter Z
7. Published the year you joined LT
8. A book by a favourite author
9. A long book (long for you)
10. A book you received as a gift
11. The title contains a month
12. A weather word in the title
13. Read a CAT
14. Contains travel or a journey
15. A book about sisters or brothers
16. A book club read (real or online)
17. A book with flowers on the cover
18. A book in translation
19. A work of non-fiction
20. A book where a character shares a name of a friend
21. A book set in a capital city
22. A children's or YA book
23. A book set in a country other than the one you live
24. A book by an LGBTQ+ author
25. A book with silver or gold on the cover

2021 Bingo Squares
1. One-word title
2. By or about a marginalized group
3. Dark or light in title
4. Book with a character you think you'd like to have as a friend
5. Arts and recreation
6. Book with a title that describes you
7. Book you heartily recommend
8. A book about nature or the environment
9. Classical element in title (Western: earth, air, wind, fire, aether/void. Chinese: wood, fire, earth, metal, water)
10. Book by two or more authors
11. Impulse read!
12. Book with a love story in it
13. Read a CAT
14. Set in or author from the Southern Hemisphere
15. A book that made you laugh
16. Suggested by a person from another generation
17. Author you haven’t read before
18. Set somewhere you’d like to visit
19. Book about history or alternate history
20. Book you share with 20 or fewer members on LT
21. Book less than 200 pages
22. Senior citizen as the protagonist
23. Book with the name of a building in the title
24. Time word in title or time is the subject
25. Book with or about magic

Here are a couple ideas for a starter.
A really short book (we would have to define that further)
Involves toys or dolls
A book about a topic you don’t usually read
Has the color pink on the cover
Features children or young adults
STEM topic
Wearable item in title
In remembrance of/related to Queen Elizabeth II

How about:

- Book is set on a plane, train or ship
- There's at least 1 set of double letters in the title words

Thank you both for kicking us off.

I'll add all suggestions, we can weed out those that are similar to recent squares once we have a longer list.

Suggestions:

Read a book by an author from Australia/New Zealand or set in those countries

Read a book concerning royalty (fiction or NF)

Read a book with a geometric pattern on cover--stripes, polka dots, triangles, arrows, etc

Read a book about Jazz-the music or the people or the era

Several of us talked about this last year...is there a way we can create our own bingo card?

>7 Tess_W: The "official" Bingo cards have a somewhat complicated process. Someone has to create the designs and manually add each square's topic, using a program like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop to create image files. Then those image files get sent to LShelby, who hosts the Bingo cards online and adds the ability to mark the squares. (I have no idea how she does it; either some kind of coding algorithm or literal magic.)

So, the short answer is no, it wouldn't be feasible to make individualized cards using the official process. But if you find a different method that enables you to create your own personal card, that's of course totally fine! And please share it here, so that others can do so too!

Some suggestions:

An island setting
Jazz Age setting (1920s - 1930s)
Involves an accident
Journalist or journalism
Art or Craft related
Costume or fancy dress event
Samall town or rural setting

Captured to here.

>8 christina_reads: I'm pretty sure it is actual magic. >;-)

Thank you for setting this up, Helen.

A classic (first published more than 50 years ago).
A book bullet.
From the bottom of your tbr pile (a book that's been there a long time)

Whoops, I left one off of my list above...Inn or Hotel.

A celebrity memoir
A book that taught you something

Features a cat (cats) or member of the cat family (leopard, lion, tiger, etc.)
Written by an author under 30

Not sure I have anything new to suggest, but I'm liking many of the other suggestions already!

Yes, some great ideas here!

Captured to here. >:-)

Some ideas:

- A book about dinosaurs (note that birds count as dinosaurs!)
- A book with pictures in it
- Set in space

>18 susanna.fraser: What’s the reasoning behind counting birds as dinosaurs?

>19 pamelad: Scientifically speaking, birds ARE dinosaurs:

https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosa...

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-are-birds-the-only-surviving-dinosaurs.html

This is one of my favorite facts about the world around me, and I love referring to the chickadees and finches in my backyard as my little dinosaurs.

Have we ever done "Switched or stolen identities"?

>1 Helenliz: Thank you Helen for taking this on! Some suggestions, but I'll be happy to go along with whatever you come up with.

- A bestseller from 20 years ago
- Set at sea (or on water)
- A popular author’s first book
- With a book on the cover
- Author with flora or fauna in their name
- Author who shares your zodiac sign
- With a plant in the title or on the cover
- About art or an artist
- lThe next book in a series you started

Captured to here.

>21 MissWatson: Not that I know of. I've looked through my list of Bingodog categories since 2018 (which is when I joined the group) and that doesn't feature as a prompt. Added to the list.

I've started grouping themes that have commonality, so all the things featured on the cover are together, all the book is about are together. It's to help whittling down to a perfect 25. They are all there (I think!), just not necessarily in the order they were posted.

>7 Tess_W: I think I'm going to just create a Word table. I created a 5 x 5 table with row heights set at 1.3 inches. (I'm still filling in squares.) I will just shade the square as I read it. To post it, I will just snag the grid as an image. I'm probably going to approach it by using 2 called numbers per month and use whatever the ones for the Cross Stitch WIPGO are. I'm going to put specific books in squares, and if I read a book before it gets called, I will replace it with something else I want to read. (You could also do this in Excel.)

>24 thornton37814: Great idea. I like the idea of Bingodog, but when 50% of the prompts are something I don't/won't read, it's not fun! I'm all for expanding my reading niche, but life is too short! I think I will just use a random generator for BINGO and numbers 1-5 for my monthly read.

>25 Tess_W: Maybe suggest what you do want to see on the card?

>26 Helenliz: Done that and they are usually included, but there are always 3-4 to far out there (for me) that I will never read them. And there are probably some squares that I would have that nobody else would want to read either! I think you guys do a great job--I'm just odd like that!

>25 Tess_W: You could make your own rules and allow a few exchanges. I'm pleased that we did children's/YA this year, so it won't be on again! Also pleased to find some good dog books this year.

I'd like to stick to categories that we can work out from the title, reviews or blurbs, so am concerned about topics like costume or fancy dress event; involves toys or dolls. Can we have a maximum of one animal topic? And not too many topics about covers, the things you can't judge books by.

More suggestions: published in a year ending in 3; rated above 4 on LT; an author you haven't read before.

>28 pamelad: Some good suggestions. However, want to point out that "an author you haven't read before" appeared on the 2021 BingoDOG card.

>28 pamelad: I think it is good to include some challenges on the card but also make it doable and not too narrow so many readers can participate.

Added to here.
I have not added published in a year ending in 3; and an author you haven't read before because they are duplicates of squares we have had in 2022 and 2021.

I am to get a good mixture if title, covers contents etc.

>30 LadyoftheLodge: doable for one person can be impossible for someone else...

>31 Helenliz: In 2022 the year ended in 2, not 3! So, same idea but different books.

More suggestions: Title contains a number or quantity; More than 1000 (or some other number) copies on LT.

>31 Helenliz: Okay, I guess that will always be a question or issue, so how do we get around that?

>32 pamelad: There's been a trend to avoid duplicate ideas, hence not including it. Have added your suggestions.

>33 LadyoftheLodge: Discussion. Example, last year there was a suggestion to read a book of 500 pages or more. some people reported that would be too difficult, so the category was altered to read a long book (for you). The LGBTQ author square prompted debate about how you'd find that information, people posted links & locations for information to make finding a book for that square easier.

If there are any that are particularly difficult, for some reason, then it can be discussed; what exactly makes it difficult, can that be modified by wording or sources of information. But I don't know what's difficult to someone else unless that it raised & discussed. I've noted the reservations in >28 pamelad: round certain topics. I will bear it in mind, along with any other opinions.

>34 Helenliz: Thanks so much for your thoughtful answer. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss.

I'd like to suggest a Wild Card option. One square, and one only, can be changed to reader's choice if it's not possible to fill it in the normal way. For example, one year we had "fairy story" that I found almost impossible to fill. I ended up with a lot of fairy DNFs that year and just wasted reading time. I would have appreciated the chance of being able to fill that square with something else.

The idea was sparked by majkia's WildcardCAT suggestion.

>36 VivienneR: I like your suggestion of a wild card option to be used for one square only which is particularly difficult for a participant.

>36 VivienneR: I like that too!

Possible square: book by a local/regional author where you live/have lived

>37 sallylou61: I think that is a great idea. More flexibility for participants.

>36 VivienneR: Well that's a thought. In the past we have used "Read a CAT" as the central square. Maybe that's the wildcard square, you can substitute a square you're finding particularly difficult with "Read a CAT".

added to here.

>41 Helenliz:. I suggest that we have "normal" BingoDOG cards made with "Read a Cat" in the center as usual. The instructions will describe the wildcard square in case anyone wants to use it. The wildcard square will be optional; many people (probably most) will decide to use the normal BingoDOG card. If they decide to use the wildcard square, they probably will not use it for the same topic.

You could make the wildcard square also be "read a cat/kit" that someone could use for a square they don't read.

>42 sallylou61: That's what I was thinking, too!

Keep "Read a CAT" in the middle and make up the Bingo card as usual. And anyone who wants to can swap out one of the squares for the wild card.

I think I understand the idea now. Will bear that in mind.

CAT voting is now open at https://www.librarything.com/topic/345396

I'll leave the list open until after the CATs are decided. Allows any ideas for CATs that don't make it to be proposed as a Bingo square.

Now CATs are decided I will leave this thread open until next weekend (sometime 12th/13th November) before making a list for the Bingo cards. Time to make any additional suggestions, random thoughts, refinements to existing suggestions etc. get them in now. >:-)

>25 Tess_W: Yes. I knew I wouldn't complete several of last year's squares because I could not read those with a clear conscience. I chose not to participate. I do like the idea of putting things I want to read but which might get neglected if I don't have an incentive to read them. Placing them on my own BINGO card might give me that extra push.

How about a book featuring music or a musician?

>50 markon: added. It could be a subset of featuring art or an artist.

Still time for any additions, or discussion about ideas people love/hate.

>51 Helenliz: Listing some of the suggestions that are iffy for me.

Because my eyesight is terrible, I read only ebooks, which makes some categories difficult e.g a book with pictures in it; geometric pattern on cover; with a book on the cover (anything to do with covers, really, because they're tiny black and white things in an ebook, and you have to search for them elsewhere.)

A really short book (we would have to define that further) - similar to 2021's less than 200 pages.

Involves toys or dolls - hard to find.

A classic - duplicates a CAT.

A book about dinosaurs (note that birds count as dinosaurs!) - hard to find. Any animal that's not a mammal?

A celebrity memoir - we don't want to encourage them.

>52 pamelad: LOL @ not to encourage them--you got that right!

>52 pamelad: A celebrity memoir - we don't want to encourage them

Seriously!

>52 pamelad: Agree - celebrities don't need any more encouragement or feeding of their egos!

Children’s books are okay, too, and there are lots of kid books about toys or dolls. The Velveteen Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh come to mind.

>56 LadyoftheLodge: Some of us don't read children's fiction. There's a whole KiddyCAT, and there are children's threads in some of the other CATs. One children's classic is a stretch for me. Dorothy Parker's Review of Winnie the Pooh

You could just have memoir and let the readers decide celebrity or not!

There will be a few cover related squares, it helps mix up the BingoCard.

I agree that Classic does duplicate the CAT this year. I'll take that one off.

Toys doesn't mean it has to be a children's book. Brideshead Revisited anyone? You could even go down the route of toys for adult entertainment, if that floats your boat (ahem). >;-)

Many scary dolls in the horror genre as well.

>59 Helenliz: There is even a Goodreads list for these certain types of toys - maybe there is a whole genre that I know nothing about!

>60 JayneCM: maybe we could both learn something - or be shocked by it, I'm not sure!

>58 Tess_W: Yes, that opens things up.

>59 Helenliz: There could also be a toy or doll in the title, such as Valley of the Dolls or The Dollhouse, or others.

Then again, if it is a real problem for participants, scrap it. We probably have enough topics for the Bingo card, right?

>63 LadyoftheLodge: It must quite a surprise to see that what started off as a cute and innocent suggestion has the potential to turn into the first R-rated bingo square. I'd prefer the children's book!

>64 pamelad: Yes, I was surprised, since I suggested it! LOL!

>63 LadyoftheLodge: We do have plenty to choose from.

>64 pamelad: LOL!

Last chance to comment on a square you want included or modified before I cull the list this afternoon...

>68 Helenliz: I'm excited to see the final results!

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>68 Helenliz: Cannot wait!!

What happened?

You'll all need to hold on a bit. It takes time to prepare the cards and get the technical wizardry done.

LOL. Too eager, just like puppies.

Hey y'all, I have the list of squares and will make the Bingo cards this weekend. Then I have to send them to LShelby so she can do her coding magic, so I expect we'll have the completed cards by the end of November/beginning of December.

>73 Helenliz:, >75 christina_reads: Thanks Helen and Christina.

I think that in the past the list of squares was published before the card came out, so that's what we were waiting for.

>76 pamelad: Good point!

The Official List of Squares:
A bestseller from 20 years ago
A book about a topic you don’t usually read
A book rated above 4 on LT
A book that taught you something
A memoir
A popular author’s first book
Art or craft related
Author who shares your zodiac sign
Book by a local/regional author where you live/have lived
Book is set on a plane, train or ship
Features a cat (cats) or member of the cat family (leopard, lion, tiger, etc.)
Inn or hotel
Involves an accident
Journalist or journalism
More than 1000 copies on LT
Music or musician
Read a CAT
Small town or rural setting
STEM topic
Switched or stolen identities
The next book in a series you started
Title contains a number or quantity
With a book on the cover
With a plant in the title or on the cover
Written by an author under 30

YEAH!!

>77 christina_reads: Thank you!

>77 christina_reads: Thanks for the list.
>76 pamelad: Thanks for asking for the list.

>77 christina_reads: Thank you for organising this. Great topics again.

>77 christina_reads: I am so eager now to get going!

Credit to Helenliz for organizing the thread and finalizing the list of squares! The making of the actual cards is in progress now. :)

Thank you!Looking forward to an interesting reading experience.

So - I'll be the first to ask for an interpretation of a couple of blocks:

For the "written by an author under 30", did the person who suggested it mean under 30 in 2023 or under 30 when they wrote it?

And how we defining "popular author", ie. "a popular author's first book"? I know the author page has a popularity number. Should that figure into it?

>85 dudes22: Good questions. How would we find out the age of the author when the book was written? Same with the zodiac sign--how do I find that information? Thanks for the help--inquiring minds want to know!

>85 dudes22:. >86 LadyoftheLodge: Author under 30: when book was written.
To find items search google. Several sites feature recently published authors.

For well-known authors who are not recent, "25 best novels written by writers under 30. https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/01/25-best-novels-written-by-writers-un...
gives the age at which the author wrote it.
Some of the works were published in other languages, but that does not matter. I did not mean first translated; first published in any language is fine.

There is a much longer list under Good Reads https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/75580.Authors_Under_30.
Includes nonfiction such as Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (written, not sure when published) and I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai.

>85 dudes22: & >86 LadyoftheLodge: "Popular author" and "zodiac sign" were both on the list I submitted. Both were on a list of prompts from another site. I would suggest a loose interpretation of popular. As for the zodiac sign, a google search for authors born in any specific month provides a long list. I believe Goodreads has a list too.

Google is our friend! I love prompts like these as I love to research.

>89 JayneCM: - I do too!

Thanks! I’m already searching for appropriate reads. It’s like a scavenger hunt.

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-calendar/

For the star sign square. Lists writers by birth date. No! Not L. Ron Hubbard!

>Thanks!

>92 pamelad: Thanks, that is very helpful!

>92 pamelad: Thank you! I may even go with an author on my actual birthday as her books have been on my to read list for ages.

Here are the Bingo cards for 2023. :)
I am running slow this year, but I did get them done before December. The card images (that's where the real work is) were provided by christina_reads -- Thank you!

The magic codes are:

<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=CAT2023-A&color=black&markers=9-13-20-5-24-6">


<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=CAT2023-B&color=fuchsia&markers=2-13-19-7-22-15">


<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=CAT2023-C&color=orange&markers=5-8-17-15-21-1">


Don't forget that you can change the color of the markers to any of the following:
aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, orange, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow

If you haven't used my cards before, instructions on how they work can be found at:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/180134#4971850

If there's any technical problems, drop me a note on my profile.

And, as always, have fun playing BINGO! :)

Brilliant - they look great!
Thank you again to both LShelby and christina_reads for their hard work producing these.

>96 LShelby: Oh, these are so pretty! Thank you so much, LShelby and Christina!!

They are beautiful! Thank you to everyone who is involved in making BingoDOG happen!

>96 LShelby: Thanks so much for working your code magic!

>96 LShelby: Fabulous! Thanks so much.

Thanks so much! I was so eager to begin I was jumping over to my thread to place one when I remembered I don't have a thread! Guess I better get to that.

The cards look lovely, and there are so many squares I could have filled with my reading this year! Oh, well, let's hope I get that same kind of synchronicity next year.

I noticed the switched/stolen identities square, which was actually one of our ScaredyKIT topics this year, so there may be a few ideas for that on the wiki.

>96 LShelby: Many thanks to you, LShelby for the beautiful cards and to christina_reads for all of her work. It is a treat to have the cards by the American Thanksgiving Day -- well before December.

My thanks as well for turning these around so quickly! My thread won't go up until the 1st of the year, but I'm embedding code in the drat, and drooling over some things I want to read.

Thanks for these lovely cards!

Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you LShelby, Christina and Helen.

Thank you LShelby, Christina, and Helen for your work. Now I really want to get my 2023 thread going!

Thanks to all who put in the work to produce these fantastic Bingo Cards!

Thank you to LShelby, Christina, and Helen for the work you have put into this. The cards are lovely.

Thank you for once more creating some beautiful BINGO cards and prompts for us!

Thank you so much! You are very talented!

I am not seeing any cards? Any idea why?

The card has also disappeared from my challenge thread. Have others had this experience?

I have also discovered that my two 2022 BingoDOG cards have disappeared. Perhaps the connection to LShelby's site is broken.

>115 sallylou61: yeah, mine's gone as well.,

They all seem to be visible again, hopefully just a temporary blip.

I see them. Thanks

Earlier this month in posts in the >36 VivienneR: to >45 Helenliz: range we discussed letting participants who wanted it to have a wild card square for which the person would substitute a topic of her/his choosing for one (and only one) of the bingo squares. I don't think we made any decision about this. Will this be allowed?

>119 sallylou61: If people want to use "Read a CAT" as a wildcard square for any that they are finding too difficult they can do. It's not on the Bingo cards as that would be too difficult to accommodate within the display constraints.

Just want to say thanks to everyone who planned this new BingoDOG challenge and got it going. It's always so much fun matching books with topics. And these cards are gorgeous!

Also have a couple of questions. I'm not sure if they were covered somewhere in this thread, but I didn't notice anything when I read through it.

STEM topics? Science, technology, engineering, math, right? But that could be fiction or nonfiction?

And a bestseller from 20 years ago - I'm assuming (or hoping) that means something 20 years or older, not just from 2003?

>121 jlshall: Yes, fiction or nonfiction, whatever piques your interest.

The bestseller question - don't know, but I may tweak my interpretation.

>121 jlshall: STEM, I agree with >122 markon:, dies not need to be non-fiction.

Bestseller form 20 years ago. Well that's a very good question. I had read it as a bestseller published in 2003, but bestsellers sometimes take a little while to reach the top of the charts, so maybe that's reading it more tightly than needed.
It was suggested by https://www.librarything.com/profile/VivienneR in >22 VivienneR:, maybe she'll have a clarifying opinion.

>122 markon: Thanks! I shouldn't be such a rule-follower, but I'm too old to change!

Yes, the bestseller topic is interesting. If it's limited to that one year, the choices are pretty slim. The ones I haven't already read are books I wouldn't want to read.

>123 Helenliz: That's very true about books taking a while to reach the top of the charts. Could make a difference. Also, there are a lot of different bestseller lists, in many different fields. So actually, a lot to choose from even in just one year.

>121 jlshall: STEM topic was my suggestion, so fiction or nonfiction, as has been said, whatever interests you.

>126 LadyoftheLodge: Thanks! That means a huge list of possibilities.

Is there a wiki set up, or does one need to be set up?

>128 sturlington: no, there's no wiki set up yet.

I can set up the wiki for us.

Okay, wiki is set up here: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2023_BingoDog

>130 sturlington: Thanks!

>130 sturlington: Thank you.

>130 sturlington: Thanks!

This will be my first Bingo. Is there a rule about whether one book can cover multiple squares, or is it up to each reader to decide that for themself? Cause y'know, I'll bet there's a memoir out there somewhere about a guitarist who had a terrible accident at a small-town inn.

>134 KeithChaffee: Everyone makes their own rules on that score. If you can find said book, then you could choose to use it for as many squares as it covers. Or you could decide to make it fit into just one square (and maybe move it around when you find a book that covers one of the many squares your title would fit).
Have fun with it.

>134 KeithChaffee: If you found that book, I think it would be totally worth a bingo on its own. Let the rest of us know what it is when you discover it!

I think a lot of us play with one book equals one square but there are no hard-and-fast rules in this group, as >135 Helenliz: says. Enjoy, and welcome!

>134 KeithChaffee: Hi there! Welcome to BingoDog! We are a friendly group and very helpful with titles.

>121 jlshall: & >123 Helenliz: Sorry I did not respond sooner, I haven't been able to spend much time on LT recently.

With our usual flexibility, I suggest that you may feel free to interpret the "bestseller of twenty years ago" any way you wish. A book might have published in 2003 but didn't get bestseller recognition until much later, or published years earlier but didn't reach bestseller status until 2003.

Also, there are many awards that indicate popularity without actually including the word "bestseller". I suggest using your own judgement to interpret the prompt, it was not intended to make things difficult, but just for the fun of looking back.