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 

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