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Come and join Emma and Joe as they share results from the 2023 PBN Reading Challenge and introduce the prompts for 2024! You can download the PDF version of our challenge here and the social sharing size here.
This year's challenge includes:
A genre you don’t normally read
The Humans – Matt Haig
A book with main characters that are a different age than you
The Marlow Murder Club – Robert Thorogood
A book on your TBR longer than 1 year
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
An audiobook (full cast or dramatized!)
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev – Dawnie Walton
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
One of Us is Dead – Jeneva Rose
Sadie – Courtney Summers
A book in translation
Shoko’s Smile – Choi Eunyoung
The Dinner – Herman Koch
The Good Son – You-Jeong Jeong
Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One – Raphaelle Giordano
Reread a childhood favorite
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series - Louise Rennison
Stranger with My Face – Lois Duncan
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
1-800-Where-R-U series - Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle series)
Book with dual POV
Betting on You - Lynn Painter
Icebreaker - Hannah Grace
Beard Science - Penny Reid
The Quiet Tenant - Clemence Michallon
A book out of season
Read a duology
Letters of Enchantment - Rebecca Ross
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
All the Stars and Teeth - Adalyn Grace
A book with a one-word title
Tombs – Junji Ito
Maame – Jessica George
You – Caroline Kepnes
Sadie - Courtney Summers
Haunted by Meg Cabot
A book from any bestseller list
Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Untamed – Glennon Doyle
Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
The Queen’s Gambit – Walter Tevis
The Storyteller – Dave Grohl
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Every Summer After – Carley Fortune
The Invisible Kingdom – Meghan O’Rourke
A book you heard about first on PBN
Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode on OverDrive.com or in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace.
Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!
We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email to [email protected]. We’ve got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse).
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Come and join Emma and Joe as they share results from the 2023 PBN Reading Challenge and introduce the prompts for 2024! You can download the PDF version of our challenge here and the social sharing size here.
This year's challenge includes:
A genre you don’t normally read
The Humans – Matt Haig
A book with main characters that are a different age than you
The Marlow Murder Club – Robert Thorogood
A book on your TBR longer than 1 year
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
An audiobook (full cast or dramatized!)
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev – Dawnie Walton
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
One of Us is Dead – Jeneva Rose
Sadie – Courtney Summers
A book in translation
Shoko’s Smile – Choi Eunyoung
The Dinner – Herman Koch
The Good Son – You-Jeong Jeong
Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One – Raphaelle Giordano
Reread a childhood favorite
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series - Louise Rennison
Stranger with My Face – Lois Duncan
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
1-800-Where-R-U series - Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle series)
Book with dual POV
Betting on You - Lynn Painter
Icebreaker - Hannah Grace
Beard Science - Penny Reid
The Quiet Tenant - Clemence Michallon
A book out of season
Read a duology
Letters of Enchantment - Rebecca Ross
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
All the Stars and Teeth - Adalyn Grace
A book with a one-word title
Tombs – Junji Ito
Maame – Jessica George
You – Caroline Kepnes
Sadie - Courtney Summers
Haunted by Meg Cabot
A book from any bestseller list
Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Untamed – Glennon Doyle
Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
The Queen’s Gambit – Walter Tevis
The Storyteller – Dave Grohl
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Every Summer After – Carley Fortune
The Invisible Kingdom – Meghan O’Rourke
A book you heard about first on PBN
Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode on OverDrive.com or in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace.
Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!
We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email to [email protected]. We’ve got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse).
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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