Ready to build a beautiful, meaningful reading life—one month at a time? Join our 2026 Bingo Reading Challenge, designed to help you read widely, think deeply, and fall in love with living books all over again for 2026!
The Challenge:
Each month for 2026, choose one book that fits a theme from the LBP Bingo guide. Read at your own pace and tell us what you’re reading by posting / sharing to your social media accounts and tagging LBP.
Scroll down to see an example of the LBP Bingo template complete!
Why join the 2026 Bingo Challange?
• Encourages consistent reading habits
• Introduces new genres & timeless stories
• Perfect for families, book clubs, teens & adults
• Easy to adapt to your current TBR pile. While we encourage you to fill in your template with LBP books, you can use anything you’re reading for 2026
How to participate:
1/ Follow @livingbookpress on Facebook or Instagram
2/ Download the Bingo template for free.
3/ Read one book per month and fill in your Bingo template
4/ Share your reads using #livingbookpresschallenge & Tag us so we can cheer you on!
Keep an eye out for special quarterly giveaways for Bingo participants!
Slow reading. Rich stories. A year well read. Who’s joining us?
Books Listed in the Example Bingo Template:
LBP New Release
Fairytale or Mythology: Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Biography: Netta by Gibbon Monk
Family Saga: The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat
Fantasy: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
History: Kings and Things by Henrietta E. Marshall
Nature Study: A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long
Education OR Homeschool: A Liberal Education for All by Carroll Smith, John Thorley
Picture Book: The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Animal Characters: Lad a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Poetry: Poems by a Little Girl by Hilda Conkling
Christmas: The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens