As @omk3 said, it takes a bit of legwork (clickwork?). I had a few guesses for stuff that I remembered had a temporary level. I might have misremembered some, but quite quickly I got one that fit.
It helps that I read a lot of random stuff no one cares about.
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I filled mine out with my 2023 books so far and
not bad. tbh I could probably get a second bingo with a qualifier, but I should sleep
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Non-human protag is what you need right now.
(Or one more bingo by reading some random garbage free to read on Amazon/Bookwalker/Booklive)
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Hmm, Mushishi is my longest on tbr pile (I think it might be the first book I bought with the intention of reading it in Japanese 
) which could also hit non-human protag, but I want to save it for next year as like a sort of a 5 years in Japan milestone. I could try to find something on the Jump app since I already have it. Amazon will probably give me more weird emails in the future lol
edit: Hetalia’s currently free so I’m tempted to read that lmao
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Hi all, just some housekeeping stuff:
- The second post on this thread is now a wiki and contains a table for you to add your username and bingo card to keep track of it throughout the year
- I have tidied up the home post and added instructions for making a bingo card, rules, and a frequently asked questions section
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Okay, so this is now my official card for 2024:
Qualifiers
- Read the book you bought the earliest
- Read the latest book you bought
- Read the book published most recently
- Read the book published earliest
- Read the book with the shortest title
- Read the book with the longest title
- Read the book with the most colourful cover
- Read the book with the simplest cover
- Read a book with warm colours on the cover
- Read a book with cool colours on the cover
- Read the book with the darkest cover
- Read the book with the lightest cover
- Read a book by a male author
- Read a book by a female author
- Read the next book in a series you have started (if applicable)
- Read a book that you don’t remember why you bought/what it’s about
- Read the longest book in your pile
- Read the shortest book in your pile
- Read the easiest book in your pile
- Read the hardest book in your pile
- Start the book you hesitate to read the most
Tracker (9/16)
Read something with no reviews/gradings/ratings on Natively:
https://learnnatively.com/book/af8a8ab63b/
サクラダリセット 上 | L24- Read a book that you added to Natively:
- Read the book that has been in your 積読/TBR pile the longest:
- Read a book chosen with a qualifier from the qualifier list:
- Read a debut:
ハサミ男 | L35 - Read an author you’ve never read before:
チュベローズで待ってる AGE22 | L32
その日のまえに | L28
永遠の昨日 | L27 - Read something that has won an award:
ハンチバック | L32 - Finish a series:
少女マンガじゃない! 1 下駄箱からラブレター...じゃなくて果たし状!? | L23 - Join/Participate in a Book Club:
今日からマ王! 魔王誕生編 | L33 - Read something non-fiction:
世界一やさしい「やりたいこと」の見つけ方 人生のモヤモヤから解放される自己理解メソッド | L24 - Read 1 vol. or story in a single day:
少女マンガじゃない! 1 下駄箱からラブレター...じゃなくて果たし状!? | L23 - Read a book with a non human protagonist:
- Read something at a higher Natively level than what you’ve read so far:
痴人の愛 | L42 - Read something from the free samples/something you can read for free:
私の夫は冷凍庫に眠っている | L28 - Read something where the setting is a workplace:
- Read a book with a bad cover / read a book you bought or wanted to read despite the cover:
エゴイスト | L29
Higher level will be tricky… my highest is currently 42, but it’s an outlier. 
this might become my “FREE” joker or I might just “cheat” a bit and say “higher than last year” 
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Mmm, I’m not likely to be able to get that one either – after I read 吾輩は猫である | L48 last year that’s left me with only 5 books on Natively that would count once you take out the textbooks and the ?? temporary gradings and the later volumes in the 三国志 series…
@brandon – forum URL expansion is still flaky 
– failed to expand on first two edits, succeeded on third.
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Just gotta stretch out that 痴人の愛 into next year. 
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but then I have to find another book for ‘bad cover’ 
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I figure a bad cover is easier to find than a high-level book, right? At least if your level search starts in the top half of the 30s/the 40s, at least.
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Alrighty; I’m making a fresh home post for 2024.
Modifiers
- I’m going to try to only use books from my backlog for this challenge (backlog = bought before 2024)
- I also, if possible, only want to count books that are LNs or novels, since I want to increase my novel-reading endurance. If this becomes impractical, however, I’ll allow manga.
2023 Bingos (same card as 2024)
Read for free: 待つ | L29
Join/participate in a book club: many choices, but here I’ll pick 七回死んだ男 | L34
No reviews/ratings/gradings: レバダン・希望の花 1
Finish a series: ファイアパンチ | L25
An author you’ve never read before: 変な音 | L32
1 vol in a single day: ババンババンバンバンパイア 4 | L26 (my goal next year is to do this w/ a novel)
Setting is a workplace: おいしいごはんが食べられますように
Non-human protagonist: 猫と竜 | L26
A book you added to Natively: FLESH & BLOOD 7 | L35
(A higher level than before): (My highest is L38 薬屋のひとりごと; I’ll have to actively beat that…)
(Nonfiction): (I apparently haven’t read any nonfiction ;_; )
Won an award: 告白 | L33
2024 Bingos
Read for free:
Join/participate in a book club: 美しい彼 | L31
No reviews/ratings/gradings: ブライト・プリズン 学園の美しき生け贄 | L32
Finish a series:
An author you’ve never read before:
A book chosen randomly:
1 vol in a single day:
Setting is a workplace:
Non-human protagonist:
A book you added to Natively: 冥府の王の神隠し | L29
A higher level than before:
Nonfiction:
Won an award: 神去なあなあ日常 | L34
A book that’s been in my 積読 pile the longest:
A book with a bad cover:
A debut work:
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I mean, that’s a matter of perspective. I think it has a great cover!
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I guess “bad” is a subjective thing. I didn’t mark it in 2023, because while I had books I didn’t like the cover of, they weren’t necessarily bad covers. 
hm… maybe I’ll go with “ugly” (to me) as a definition. Or mabye “doesn’t suit the contents” or something like that…
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Haha that’s what I struggled with the most when I tried to retrofit my 2023 reading 
I assigned it to リング for now as I think that’s the cover that fits the book’s contents the least… but it’s not really bad. 
My retrofitting efforts so far
You can see all the books I read and which of them I assigned to which field. This covers 10 out of 16 fields, which is more than what I had expected 
With the free field on “no reviews” I get 3 bingos (could have been 4 with a better distribution of the fields) so that’s cool as well.
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For those who look for books with non human protagonist:
honto.jp/booktree/detail_00004794.html
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I decided to port the thing to a spreadsheet to track the titles:
https://megumin.net/bingo2024/
ID: #f40059
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Wow, that looks really nice!
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I hate CSS so it’s just a Spreadsheet exported to html
Looking at the bingo itself, selecting what’s been longest on my TBR is going to be a bit hard to judge, as I’ve been having a TBR pile long before natively.
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I’m not 100% certain what the one that’s been in my 積読 the longest is either, since I bought a few books before I actually started learning (telling myself I would, ofc, but it didn’t end up happening for another few years). I don’t think I got any of the 海王社文庫 volumes until afterwards, so it was probably one of the BSD LNs. Or BSD Wan. I’m just gonna go with the first novel, make it easy on myself
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I have books that have been on my TBR list since 2014 or earlier, and I haven’t been keeping track of when I bought them, so… I’m just going to use that “oldest” square as a generic “any book that’s been on your TBR list for at least 8 years” one. (I may have a couple of manga volumes floating around that I’ve had since before I moved to New York, which would’ve been 2008, but… I’m not going to get too nitpicky about it.)
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