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On today's episode, Jill chats with Ryder Carroll, inventor of the wildly popular Bullet Journal Method. He has a new book out about the practice called The Bullet Journal Method and he and Jill chat all things bujo.  With just a couple weeks left in 2018, now is the perfect time to start thinking about 2019 and your goals and plans and to help you with those, we have a giveaway! Head on over to our Instagram @ProBookNerds for your chance to win a copy of Ryder's book The Bullet Journal Method plus the same blue Leuchtturm 1917 dot grid journal that Jill loves to use for her own bullet journal.   Say Hello! Find us on Instagram and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Adam is joined by three of OverDrive's staff librarians to answer a few of the book request emails we've received over the last few weeks. Emma, Kristin, and Maria do not disappoint. Check out all these amazing books!   Books our librarians (and Adam) are reading:   My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer   Historical Fiction with a Medical Slant The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman The Physician by Noah Gordon Outlander by Diana Gabaldon   YA Poetry & Novels in Verse The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Crank by Ellen Hopkins The Dark Between Stars by Atticus If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess   Steampunk/Dieselpunk, Modern & Urban Fantasy The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan (Book One of the Map of Unknown Things series) The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin   Dark, Intense and Creepy audiobooks (based off of I'll be Gone In The Dark) You by Caroline Kepnes The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter   Dark Fantasy and moral ambiguity The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Furyborn by Clarie Legrand Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones The Sisters of the Winter Wood   Thrilling dad books! Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Micro) Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Marathon Man by William Goldman     HP Read Alikes and Literary Fiction A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (2019)   True Crime and books about drug dealers The Power of the Dog trilogy by Don Winslow No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel by Dan Slater The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s episode is sponsored by Sourcebooks and Sourcebooks Casablanca and features a conversation with romance suspense writer Kari Lynn Dell whose contemporary western romance series Texas Rodeo includes Reckless in Texas, Tangled in Texas, Tougher in Texas, Fearless in Texas and the new holiday special Mistletoe in Texas. Kari brings a lifetime of personal experience as a horse trainer and rodeo competitor to her writing about the exciting, dangerous – and romantic -- world of the Texas rodeo.   Look for other new Sourcebooks Casablanca Christmas titles such as You Had Me at Cowboy by Jennie Marts, Cowboy SEAL Christmas by Nicole Helm, Billionaire Wolf for Christmas by Terry Spear and Cowboy Christmas Jubilee from Dylann Crush.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Robin Witten from Audiofile Magazine and the Behind the Mic podcast joins us to talk about the absolute best audiobooks of the year. Behind the Mic is a daily podcast where you can get quick audiobook recommendations across multiple genres. It's a must listen for any fellow audiobook nerd. Subscribe to it today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is sponsored by Sourcebooks and Sourcebooks Casablanca and features a conversation with romance suspense writer Katie Ruggle.   Katie's newest book is Rocky Mountain Cowboy Christmas, the first in the new Rocky Mountain Cowboy series which brings pulse-pounding romantic suspense to a cowboy’s Colorado Christmas.     You’ll love the four books in her most recent series Rocky Mountain K9 Unit about K9 officers, their trusty dogs and the women they swear to protect. Track down Run to Ground, On the Chase, Survive the Night and Through the Fire.   Katie’s first series Search and Rescue included 6 titles about Rocky Mountain rescue divers courting danger—and each other.   Look for other new Sourcebooks Casablanca Christmas titles such as You Had Me at Cowboy by Jennie Marts, Cowboy SEAL Christmas by Nicole Helm, Billionaire Wolf for Christmas by Terry Spear and Cowboy Christmas Jubilee from Dylann Crush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December is right around the corner and Jill and Adam are here with their top picks for next month!  Books mentioned in this episode:  Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Born to be Posthumous by Mark Dery Pandemic by Robin Cook The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash Art Matters by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell We are the Nerds by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin The Noma Guide to Fermentation Guide by Rene Redzepi The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone Light Years by Kass Morgan The Disasters by MK England For the Sake of the Game by Laurie R King The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett  Milkman by Anna Burns   Say Hello! Find us on Instagram and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is a bit of a flashback as Jill and Adam pull an old episode from the archives. In this case, the amazing and incredible ALAN CUMMING OMG. Original episode was #73 back in December 2016, so for longtime listeners hope you enjoy this Monday rewind and for new listeners, enjoy this interview! Say Hello! Find us on Instagram and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is being released on Thanksgiving in the United States and Adam and Jill decide to talk about what they are thankful for which is OUR AMAZING AND AWESOME LISTENERS! They share emails and reviews from some listeners. Reach out to us at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com with your own questions and comments and maybe you'll also get an on air shout out on a future episode.  Say Hello! Find us on Instagram and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Jill and Adam interview Stuart Turton, author of the phenomenally mysterious The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. We discuss his passion for Agatha Christie, how to make a murder mystery that lives up to her legacy, editing this masterpiece, why it's named differently in the U.S. and the U.K. and so much more. This novel is a masterpiece of intrigue and Stuart is a delight.   Today's episode is sponsored by Sourcebooks, publishers of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. Be sure to check out these other excellent new releases in their cataloge: Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley Part history, part romance, and all kinds of magic, author Susanna Kearsley's latest masterpiece will draw you in and never let you go, even long after you've closed the last page.   Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris Inspired by a newspaper photo that stunned readers throughout the country during the depression, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of ambition, redemption, love and family.   The Fallen Architect by Charles Belfoure In this riveting novel from The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect, a man in disgrace finds that digging up the past is the only road he can take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Jill and Adam look back at how they're doing on their 2018 reading resolutions, discuss the different ways they handle depression and provide a bunch of different ideas for setting 2019 reading goals.     Books Adam and Jill have read lately:   The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish   The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman   The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie   Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao   The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White   Fraternity by Alexandra Robbins   Pledged by Alexandra Robbins   Born to Run by Christopher McDougall   North by Scott Jurek   Marathon Man by Bill Rodgers   Hunger by Roxane Gay   LandWhale by Jes Baker   You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar   Charlotte's Web by E. B. White   The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices