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Jill is joined by Emma, Rachel, and Kristin to discuss all of the books you should read before their adaptations appear in 2018 (or 2019, in some cases!).  Books Mentioned In this Episode Dumplin' by Julie Murphy Puddin' by Julie Murphy Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The First Man by James R. Hansen  Boy Erased by Garrard Conley Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 11/22/63 by Stephen King Big Little Lies by Liana Moriarty The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews The Sister's Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson  Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com "The Curtain Rises" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 podcast is an interview with Ann Leckie, the only author to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award for a single title. Her latest book, Provenance, is out now. Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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

Our friends over at Book Riot have put out their annual Read Harder Challenge and we're going to help you find some books!  In this episode we offer some recommendations for the following challenge items: A book published posthumously  True Crime A book set in or about a BRICS country Science fiction with a female protagonist written by a female author Books Mentioned In This Episode Ariel by Sylvia Plath The Trial by Franz Kafka The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens A False Report by T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Innocent Man by John Grisham American Kingpin by Nick Bilton Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore Ranger Games by Ben Blum The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Captains of the sands by Jorge Amado Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Dry White Season by Andre Brink The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Provenance by Ann Leckie Autonomous by Annalee Newitz The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley Kindred by Octavia Butler Midnight Robber by Nala Hopkinson   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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, author Heather Demetrios joins the show to chat about abusive relationships, her new book Bad Romance and the world of theater nerds. They discuss creating a better understanding of emotional abuse and recovering from this difficult relationships. Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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

In today's episode, Adam and Jill sit down with their OverDrive co-workers and former podcast guests to discuss what their reading resolutions for 2018 are! For some, it's a number of books, for others it's the type of books they are reading. We also hear how everyone plans on keeping track of what they read, be it Goodreads, a notebook, and of course there is Jill's classic spreadsheet. Find us on Twitter @ProBookNerds or email us at professionalbooknerds @ overdrive.com to share your own reading resolutions!  Books Mentioned In this Episode Corruption by Jessica Shirvington Bring Me Back by BA Paris Celtic Tales by Kate Forrester The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui Relish by Lucy Knisley Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks Gold Dust Woman by Stephen Davis Love, Janis by Laura Joplin A Natural Woman by Carole King Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson Foundation series by Isaac Asimov Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlen Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlen Roma series by Arthur C. Clarke Ringworld by Larry Niven The Hunger by Alma Katsu Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin Middlemarch by George Eliot A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Kissing Tolstoy by Penny Natasha, Pierra, and the Great Comet of 1812 by Leo Tolstoy Behave by Robert M. Sabolski The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien Blackdog by K.V. Johansen $2 a day by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer Evicted by Matthew Desmond Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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, we FINALLY can share our interview with Kelly Corrigan that took place back in August at Digipalooza. Kelly joined us in front of a room of 500 librarians to discuss her new book Tell Me More for the first time ever. In this hilarious chat, you'll hear about her writing process, being a memoirist and dealing with her kids' friends reading about her life and so much more. We had a blast with Kelly and her new book is a must read!  Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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 (an under the weather) Adam offer up some helpful ways to keep your reading goals on track in 2018. They also provide a few book recommendations, talk about the David Bowie Book Club and get excited about some Page to Screen movies coming in the next few months.  Books mentioned in this episode Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Iron Gold by Pierce Brown  Thornhill by Pam Smy House of Furies by Madeleine Roux (Narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown) Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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

Happy New Year! We welcome in 2018 with an interview with middle grade author MarcyKate Connolly, discussing her new book Shadow Weaver. Hear Adam chat with MarcyKate about magic, world building, ideas coming to her at the most inconvenient time and her adorable pugs!  Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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

We're ringing in a new year with the books coming out in January we're most excited for. Take a listen and then let us know what books you can't wait to read in 2018! Books mentioned in this episode Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins Gnomon by Nick Harkaway The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winnette Grist Mill Road by Christopher J Yates The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Red Clocks by Leni Zumas Iron Gold by Pierce Brown A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell The English Wife by Lauren Willig Batman Nightwalker by Marie Lu Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee Robots vs. Fairies   Even more January book releases to check out Everless by Sara Holland Meet Cute: Some People are Destined to Meet When -- The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries 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 and Jill sit down with some of their OverDrive coworkers and former podcast guests to find out what their favorite books of 2017 were!   Books Mentioned in this Episode: Hunger by Roxane Gay Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Interview with George Saunders available here A Court of Wings and Roses by Sarah J. Maas You by Caroline Kepnis Beard in Mind by Penny Reid The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter DC The New Frontier by Darwin Cooke Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly The Secret Wife by Gill Paul Big Mushy Happy Lumps by Sarah Andersen Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Pachinko by Min Jee Lee The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Oh, Christmas Tree Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Jingle Bells Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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