Pro Book Nerds 2023 Reading Challenge!

12/01/2023 19 min
Pro Book Nerds 2023 Reading Challenge!

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Episode Synopsis

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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