Your Guide to Completing the Pro Book Nerds 2024 Reading Challenge
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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?

**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 

- Sheets) by Brenna Thummler  

- Tomie) – Juno Ito 

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.

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