Your Guide to Completing the Pro Book Nerds 2024 Reading Challenge
Posted on: June 20, 2024
On today’s episode, Emma and Joe share some tips and tricks to completing your 2024 Pro Book Nerds Reading Challenge. They also discuss the prompts they’ve completed and what books they read. Finally, they offer some suggestions for, perhaps, some harder to complete prompts. Let us know, have you done your 2024 reading challenge yet? What’s your progress?
Check show notes for suggestions for each prompt. We didn’t have time to talk about everything we wanted to in this episode!
2024 PBN Reading Challenge:
A genre you don’t normally read
- The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles
- The Bearable Slant of Light by Lynnell Edwards
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
A book with main characters that are a different age than you
- House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas
A book on your TBR longer than 1 year
- Who Could That Be at This Hour by Lemony Snicket
- Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
An audiobook (full cast or dramatized!)
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- House of Earth and Blood, Part 2 by Sarah J. Maas
A book in translation
- A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon
- Reykjavik by Ragnar Jonasson
Reread a childhood favorite
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
- Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Book with dual POV
- Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Read a duology
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
A book with a one-word title
A book from any bestseller list
- Rouge by Mona Awad
- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
- Think Twice by Harlan Coben
A book your first heard about on PBN
- Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
- Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen
A book out of season
- So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison (takes place in Winter)
- This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune (Summer)
Check out Joe’s conversation with Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket here. Listen to Emma’s chat with Harlan Coben here. Want to hear more about seasonal reading, listen to our Seasons of Books episode here.
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.
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 professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com.
On today’s episode, Emma and Joe share some tips and tricks to completing your 2024 Pro Book Nerds Reading Challenge. They also discuss the prompts they’ve completed and what books they read. Finally, they offer some suggestions for, perhaps, some harder to complete prompts. Let us know, have you done your 2024 reading challenge yet? What’s your progress?
Check show notes for suggestions for each prompt. We didn’t have time to talk about everything we wanted to in this episode!
2024 PBN Reading Challenge:
A genre you don’t normally read
- The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles
- The Bearable Slant of Light by Lynnell Edwards
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
A book with main characters that are a different age than you
- House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas
A book on your TBR longer than 1 year
- Who Could That Be at This Hour by Lemony Snicket
- Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
An audiobook (full cast or dramatized!)
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- House of Earth and Blood, Part 2 by Sarah J. Maas
A book in translation
- A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon
- Reykjavik by Ragnar Jonasson
Reread a childhood favorite
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
- Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Book with dual POV
- Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Read a duology
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
A book with a one-word title
A book from any bestseller list
- Rouge by Mona Awad
- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
- Think Twice by Harlan Coben
A book your first heard about on PBN
- Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
- Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen
A book out of season
- So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison (takes place in Winter)
- This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune (Summer)
Check out Joe’s conversation with Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket here. Listen to Emma’s chat with Harlan Coben here. Want to hear more about seasonal reading, listen to our Seasons of Books episode here.
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.
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 professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com.
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