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.
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:
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.)
@bungakushoujo would it be unreasonable to add two more columns to the 2nd post table? One for modifications, one for qualifiers? I figure people don’t need to list how they’re modifying in that column specifically, but can just list a or emoji in the column if they’re doing that.
My bad cover for 2023 is Tuberose, in that I read it despite the cover. Next year’s might be Medium (not sure what percentage we’ll have read this year, so maybe not), because again I would never pick it up based on the cover. Others may love it, but it’s my bingo.
Modifiers 
hm… maybe I’ll go with “ugly” (to me) as a definition. Or mabye “doesn’t suit the contents” or something like that… 
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. 
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.
emoji in the column if they’re doing that.
to mean vanilla, no modifiers.
but then I realized I needed the book for „series completed“ 
so I had to come up with the second-worst one 
