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  • New Fiction in August
  • New Nonfiction in August
  • New Movies & TV in August
  • Genre Mashup
  • Out of This World
  • Movies Set in a College or School
  • Coming of Age Films

New Fiction in August

Katabasis
Smuggler's Cove
Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
We Are All Guilty Here
For Duck's Sake
For Richer For Poorer
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
People Like Us
The Book of Lost Hours
Forget Me Not
Something to Look Forward To
The Surrogate Mother
The Violet Hour
My Other Heart
Five Found Dead
The Magician of Tiger Castle
The Locked Ward
The Break-In
The Lost Baker of Vienna

New Nonfiction in August

The art spy : the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland
Little bosses everywhere : how the pyramid scheme shaped America
Science of yoga : understand the anatomy and physiology to perfect your practice
Warhol's muses : the artists, misfits, and superstars destroyed by the Factory fame machine
Bad friend : how women revolutionized modern friendship
Second life : having a child in the digital age
George Grosz in Berlin : the relentless eye
The great Mughals : art, architecture and opulence
Shamanism : the timeless religion
Whack job : a history of axe murder
Melting point : family, memory, and the search for a promised land
The optimist : Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the race to invent the future
The blue kitchen : 100+ recipes from the happiest, healthiest corners of the world.
Apocalypse : how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures
Speaking in tongues
Defining style : the book of interior design
Animal behavior
The intermediaries : a Weimar story
Things in nature merely grow
The theatrical adventures of Edward Gorey : rare drawings, scripts, and stories
The gift of not belonging : how outsiders thrive in a world of joiners
The spinach king : the rise and fall of an American dynasty
The Möbius book
What my father and I don't talk about : sixteen writers break the silence
The peepshow : the murders at Rillington Place
Is a river alive?
Before gender : lost stories from trans history, 1850-1950
It rhymes with Takei

New Movies & TV in August

The actor
All we imagine as light
The amateur
Ash
The ballad of Wallis Island
Death of a unicorn
Eephus
The featherweight
Fight or flight
Final destination. Bloodlines
Grantchester. The complete tenth season
Hallmark 3-movie collection. Love on the Danube : Love song ; Royal getaway ; Kissing stars.
Hell of a summer
The legend of Ochi
Murdoch mysteries. Season 18
Patience. [Season one]
The Phoenician scheme
Rosario
The rule of Jenny Pen
Rust
Sinners
Solo leveling. Season 1
Thunderbolts* : *The new Avengers
The trouble with Jessica
Until dawn
Warfare

2025 Book Bingo: Genre Mashup

Martyr!
Monstress. Book one
Penance
An Extraordinary Union
Ring Shout
All's Well
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
She Who Became the Sun
On the Savage Side
The City & The City
Legends & Lattes
Kindred
Babel: An Arcane History
Karen Memory
Siren Queen
When I Arrived at The Castle
Bless Your Heart
The Conductors
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Oshi No Ko. 1
What Moves the Dead
Glass Houses
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Manhunt
A Marvellous Light
Our Hideous Progeny
Zodiac
The Salt Grows Heavy
In the Lives of Puppets
Three Parts Dead
Between the World and Me

2025 Movie Bingo: Coming of Age

A Chiara
Are You There God? It's me, Margaret
Babyteeth
Beans
Belfast
Booksmart
Buoyancy
Dear Evan Hansen
Drylongso
Easy A
Eighth Grade
The Fabelmans
Finding You
Fitting In
Girl Picture
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The King of Staten Island
Lady Bird
Licorice Pizza
Marvelous and the Black Hole
Minding the Gap
Minyan
Moonlight
Moonrise Kingdom
On the Come Up
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Return to Seoul
Stand By Me
The Starling Girl
The Wolfpack
A Silent Voice
Weathering With You

2025 Movie Bingo: College or School Setting

Back to School
The Breakfast Club
Carrie
Clueless
Damsels in Distress
Dazed and Confused
Dead Poets Society
Drumline
Election
Finding Forrester
Footnote
Freedom Writers
Good Will Hunting
The Great Debaters
Heathers
Lady Bird
Mean Girls
Napoleon Dynamite
National Lampoon's Animal House
The Nutty Professor
Pitch Perfect
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Rushmore
School of Rock
A Serious Man
A Single Man
The Social Network
The Sure Thing
To Sir, With Love
Whiplash
Wonder Boys
Detachment
Detention
Scent Of A Woman
Mona Lisa Smile

2025 Book Bingo: Out of This World

Binti: The Complete Trilogy
Ocean's Godori
Boys Weekend
The Six
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Loki's Ring
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Saga. Volume one
All Systems Red
Stories of Your Life and Others
A City on Mars
The Dispossessed
Dawn
Gideon the Ninth
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Jujutsu Kaisen
Welcome to Night Vale
Cryptid Club
Something Deeply Hidden
Floating Hotel
The Martian Chronicles
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
LaGuardia
The Three-Body Problem
Meru
The Night Eaters. Book 1, She Eats the Night
The Magicians
Packing for Mars
Cascade Failure
Ghost Station
Orbital
The Stardust Grail

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