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.

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