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Pro Book Nerds 2023 Reading Challenge!

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On today's episode of the podcast, the Professional Book Nerds are here to share the prompts for 2023's reading challenge! We read some completed entries from last year's challenge, share the prompts for this year, and tell you what prompt we're most excited about. This episode marks an important milestone for Emma and Joe, too! :)

This year's challenge includes:

  • Greek myth retelling 
  • A popular YA series 
  • Book you ONLY picked for the cover 
  • Book with a map 
  • Audiobook narrated by the author 
  • The highest or lowest rated book on your TBR 
  • A book with a bilingual character 
  • A cookbook & make a recipe 
  • Read a poetry collection 
  • Read a friend’s FAVORITE book 
  • A book by an author with a pen name 
  • A book about found family 


    • Books mentioned in this episode:

    • We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
    • The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
    • Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
    • Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas
    • Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
    • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
    • The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
    • Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
    • Verity by Colleen Hoover
    • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno- Garcia
    • It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    • There, There by Tommy Orange
    • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall


      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 here.

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