Listen

Description

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.
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. 
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices