Introducing the 2024 PBN Reading Challenge!

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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