Introducing the 2024 PBN Reading Challenge!

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