Welcome to the 2025 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge!

This reading challenge focuses on mysteries. The idea is to create a bingo card with a variety of mystery subgenres and make as many “bingos” as you want. You can set a goal to get one bingo, completely fill in the bingo card, or something in between.

The 2025 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge has 25 prompts. This is a fun challenge for readers who enjoy reading a variety of mysteries.

My goal is to fill in a bingo card! Comment below with your challenge goals. Good luck and happy reading!

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To make a bingo card, visit the Bingo Card Generator. Enter the following information:

• Card Title: 2025 Mystery Genre Bingo
• Word List: Amateur Sleuth, Caper, Cold Case, Cozy Mystery, Crime Fiction, Detective, Domestic Suspense, Financial Thriller, Golden Age Mystery, Historical Mystery, Hard Boiled, Legal Thriller, Locked Room Mystery, Medical Thriller, Middle Grade Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Noir, Paranormal Mystery, Police Procedural, Political Thriller, Private Investigator, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Spy Thriller, Suspense, Techno Thriller, True Crime, Young Adult Mystery, Whodunit
• Free Space: Yes
• Free Space Text: Any Mystery
• Free Space Description: “leave blank”
• Free Space Placement: Center
• Card Size: 5 x 5
• Number of cards to create: 1
• Click “Generate Bingo Cards”

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My Bingo Card

Books Read in 2025 for the Mystery Genre Bingo Challenge:

• Crime Fiction – The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• Young Adult Mystery – That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally
• Middle Grade Mystery – The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton
• True Crime – Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Caper – ‘Til Heist Do Us Part by Sara Desai
• Whodunit – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• Police Procedural – The Killing Plains by Sherry Rankin
• Amateur Sleuth – All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
• Hard Boiled – Clete by James Lee Burke
• Psychological Thriller – The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
• Political Thriller – The Days to Come by Tom Rosenstiel
• Historical Mystery – All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
• Any Mystery – Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
• Murder Mystery – Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
• Suspense – The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
• Locked Room Mystery – They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Noir – Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
• Financial Thriller – The Domino Effect by Davis Bunn
• Spy Thriller – Shadow of Doubt by Brad Thor
• Cold Case – The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
• Golden Age Mystery – The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• Techno Thriller – The Family Experiment by John Marrs
• Private Investigator – We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Medical Thriller – Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell
• Paranormal Mystery – Ghosts, Alibis, and Apple Pies by J.A. Holder

Welcome to the 2023 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge!

This reading challenge focuses on mysteries and thrillers. The idea is to create a bingo card with a variety of mystery subgenres and make as many “bingos” as you want. You can set a goal to get one bingo, completely fill in the bingo card, or something in between.

The 2023 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge has 25 prompts. This is a great challenge for readers who enjoy reading a variety of mysteries.

I love to read mysteries, so my goal is to fill in a bingo card. Please comment below with your challenge goals. Good luck and happy reading!

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To make a bingo card, visit the Bingo Card Generator. Enter the following information:

• Card Title: 2023 Mystery Genre Bingo
• Word List: Amateur Sleuth, Caper, Cold Case, Cozy Mystery, Crime Fiction, Detective, Domestic Suspense, Financial Thriller, Golden Age Mystery, Historical Mystery, Hard Boiled, Legal Thriller, Locked Room Mystery, Medical Thriller, Middle Grade Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Noir, Paranormal Mystery, Police Procedural, Political Thriller, Private Investigator, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Spy Thriller, Suspense, Techno Thriller, True Crime, Young Adult Mystery, Whodunit
• Free Space: Yes
• Free Space Text: Any Mystery
• Free Space Description: “leave blank”
• Free Space Placement: Center
• Card Size: 5 x 5
• Number of cards to create: 1
• Click “Generate Bingo Cards”

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My Bingo Card

Books Read in 2023:

• Political Thriller – Absolute Power by David Baldacci
• Murder Mystery – The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
• Financial Thriller – The Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich
• Cold Case – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
• Paranormal Mystery – The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
• Golden Age Mystery – The Perfect Crime by Ellery Queen
• Middle Grade Mystery – What We Saw by Mary Downing Hahn
• Mystery Thriller – Fear No Evil James Patterson
• Techno Thriller – Deep Fathom by James Rollins
• Spy Thriller – Blowback by James Patterson
• Young Adult Mystery – There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
• Legal Thriller – A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
• Any Mystery – Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich
• Psychological Thriller – The Blame Game by Sandie Jones
• Locked Room Mystery – The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
• Private Investigator – Whiskey Lullaby by Liliana Hart
• Whodunit – A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
• Domestic Suspense – Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown
• Romantic Suspense – Forbidden Fruit by Erica Spindler
• Detective – City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
• Amateur Sleuth – Playing Dead by Peggy Rothschild
• Historical Mystery – The Girl in the Painting by Steve Robinson
• Crime Fiction – All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
• Caper – The Paper Caper by Kate Carlisle
• Cozy Mystery – Murder Outside the Lines by Krista Davis

The 2021 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge is new! In the past, I participated in a Genre Bingo reading challenge in a group on Goodreads. The idea was to create a bingo card with a variety of genres and make as many “bingos” as you wanted for the challenge.

I love mysteries, so I thought I would make a bingo card that focused on mysteries and thrillers. While I have enjoyed the variety of genres in the past, this year I want to focus on reading mysteries. By altering the challenge a little, I get the fun of bingo and read lots of mysteries.

The 2021 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge has 25 prompts.

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To make a bingo card, visit the Bingo Card Generator. Enter the following information:

• Card Title: 2021 Mystery Genre Bingo
• Word List: Amateur Sleuth, Caper, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Domestic Suspense, Golden Age Mystery, Historical Mystery, Hardboiled, Legal Thriller, Locked Room Mystery, Medical Thriller, Middle Grade Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Noir, Paranormal Mystery, Police Procedural, Political Thriller, Private Investigator, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Spy Thriller, Techno Thriller, True Crime, Young Adult Mystery, Whodunit
• Free Space: Yes
• Free Space Text: Any Mystery
• Free Space Description: “leave blank”
• Free Space Placement: Center
• Card Size: 5 x 5
• Number of cards to create: 1
• Click “Generate Bingo Cards”

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MY BINGO CARD

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UPDATE: September 4, 2021

I like a challenge, so I wanted to read a book for each prompt. It took me several months, but I was able to read 25 books to complete the bingo card. This was definitely a fun one for me! I plan to do it again, though I may alter some of the genres list.

Books Read in 2021:

1. Mystery Thriller – Not One of Us by Debbie Hebert
2. Caper – Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
3. Murder Mystery – The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
4. Golden Age Mystery – The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
5. Whodunit – Deadly Editions by Paige Shelton
6. Amateur Sleuth – Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon
7. Political Thriller – The Armageddon File by Stephen Coonts
8. Domestic Suspense – The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice
9. Historical Mystery – After Alice Fell by Kim Taylor Blakemore
10. Young Adult Mystery – Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
11. Medical Thriller – The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs
12. Private Investigator – The High Window by Raymond Chandler
13. Any Mystery – The Other Mothers by M.M. Chouinard
14. Police Procedural – Last Witness by Chris Merritt
15. Detective – NYPD6 by James Patterson
16. Middle Grade Mystery – When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
17. Legal Thriller – Muzzled by David Rosenfelt
18. Techno Thriller – Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
19. Noir – Strangers on the Train by Patricia Highsmith
20. Locked Room mystery – One by One by Ruth Ware
21. True Crime – Murder of Innocence by James Patterson
22. Romantic Suspense – Under Currents by Nora Roberts
23. Psychological Thriller – The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
24. Paranormal Mystery – The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor
25. Cozy Mystery – Christmas Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke