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PBN favorite, Riley Sager, returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, The Only One Left. Emma and Riley also discuss Duran Duran, "twist overkill," why he set the book in the 1980s, his intense writing schedule, the writer's strike in Hollywood, and some BREAKING NEWS for the next book that's still being written.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.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

Joe, Emma, and Jill chat all things Mockingjay in the conclusion to the Hunger Games retrospective series. They share their feelings on the final installment, whether they're happy with the ending, the characters they loved and lost, and some bonus hot takes on The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!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.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

Emma welcomes back author, Claire Legrand, to chat about A Crown of Ivy and Glass, writing unlikeable characters, the ballet inspiration behind the story, believing in your creative process, Crimson Peak era Tom Hiddleston, writing romance scenes, and so much more!Books mentioned in this episode: A Crown of Ivy and Glass audiobook Circe by Madeline MillerPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeThe Secret History by Donna TarttKristin CashoreReaders 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.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

Grab your water bottles and sunscreen- today, Joe and Holly are sharing some recommended reads for Pride month 🌈 From rom-coms to memoirs, light to deep, these titles are sure to add to your Pride reflections and celebrations. Titles mentioned in this episode:Holly's Titles:  The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry  Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2) by Ashley Herring Blake Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz   Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour  The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller  Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy by Rachel Krantz  Camp Damascus by Dr. Chuck Tingle (out 7/18 ) Joe’s Titles:  The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass  Bath Haus by PJ Vernon  How You Get Famous by Nicole Pasulka  Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly  Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart  My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson  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.Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!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. We’ve got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's guest is a DREAM come true! It's audiobook narrator, actor, performer, and all around talent, Santino Fontana. Emma and Joe have a lively chat about For You and Only You (and the rest of the You series), killing superstitions, trenta coffee orders, keeping it different, Cleveland love, and more!Audiobooks mentioned in this episode: You by Caroline KepnesFor You and Only You by Caroline KepnesThe Institute by Stephen KingElection by Tom PerrottaWheelmen by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'ConnellWishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Rebecca Traister For a complete list of titles that Santino has narrated available on OverDrive.com, click 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.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

Emma and Joe share a big list of books they're most excited about for June. They also chat about vacation, book mail, the cultural impact of "Juno," fake dating, barn moms, and what types of books they like to read the most during the summer season.Emma’s Picks:    The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand   Unfortunately, Yours by Tessa Bailey   Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood   The Whispers by Ashley Audrain   My Murder by Katie Williams   Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier   Everything’s Fine by Cecillia Rabess   You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron   Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton   She Started It by Sian Gilbert    Joe’s Picks:   Pageboy by Elliot Page   The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende    The Grimoire of Grave Fates by Hanna Alkaf   Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould   The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar   Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie   100 Places to See After You Die by Ken Jennings   Saint Juniper’s Folly by Alex Crespo   The Warning by Kristy Acevedo   The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson   The Only One Left by Riley Sager    Other books mentioned:  Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy  Brat by Andrew McCarthy  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

Grab the popcorn and join Joe and Rachel as Christian from Kanopy returns to share more films to add to your watch list! Come for the films, stay for the book recs in this double-trouble for your TBR episode of Professional Book Nerds!Titles mentioned in this episode: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Ruinsong by Julia Ember Soaked in Bleach (2015) Come At You Are by Michael Azerrad Serving the Servant by Danny Goldberg Father Brown (Series 1) The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy Trainspotting (1996) Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh Ophelia (2018) Ophelia by Lisa Klein Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Weight of an Infinite Sky by Carrie La Seur Catch-22 (1970) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller In the Heat of the Night (1967) In the Heat of the Night by John Ball The Great Gatsby (1974) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 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.Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!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. We’ve got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, Joe chats with Ore Agbaje-Williams about her debut title, The Three of Us (out May 16). Ore shares about her work as an editor and her creative process. Ore and Joe talk about writing what you think will sell versus what you enjoy, NaNoWriMo, and of course Twilight.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.Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!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. We’ve got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma, Joe, and Maria chat about Romantic Fantasy aka "Romantasy," Queen Sarah J. Maas, reading things when they're trendy or not, and share a bunch of recommendations.Book's Mentioned: Emma’s Picks:   From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout  A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas  Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross   Maria’s Picks:   Throne of Glass series by SJM  The Bright and Breaking Sea and A Swift and Savage Tide by Chloe Neill  The Foxglove King by Hannah Witten  A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland  A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske   Joe’s Picks:   The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley  Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell  Song of Scarabs and Fallen Stars by Lindsey Sparks  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.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

Today on the pod, Joe is joined by Chloe Spencer, author of Monstersona. They talk about writing road trip stories, unpacking grief, parental backstories, and Supernatural.Books mentioned in this episode: Against the Stars by Christopher Hartland Out of Character by Jenna Miller 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.Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!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. We’ve got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices