The Listopia Challenge - 2013

[Adriana]

Participation List!.

Adriana: 1/14 (2 lists)
Alison: 3/10 (5 lists)
Amie: 8/40 (4 lists)
Alexandra: 0/18 (6 lists)
Amanda: 3/8 (4 lists)
Amy: 0/3? (1 list)
Ana: 0/49 (8 lists)
April Lyn: 3/15 (3 lists)
Ashley: 0/20 (4 lists)
Audrey: 1/25 (5 lists)
Bibiophile: 0/4 (1 list)
Bridget: 3/15 (3 lists)
Candiss: 9/20 (3 lists)
Carrie G: 1/5 (1 list)
Carrie S: 0/10 (10 lists)
Elisa: 0/26 (1 list)
Evana: 0/30 (6 lists)
Heena: 0/10 (1 list)
Jennifer: 1/15 (3 lists)
Jessica: 0/30 (8 lists)
Joanne 29/47 (5 lists)
Johanna: 0/20 (2 lists)
Joni: 0/15 (3 lists)
Kara: 11/20 (4 lists)
Karin: 0/15 (3 lists)
Karina: 7/20 (2 lists)
Kat: 3/25 (5 lists)
Kate: 0/50 (10 lists)
Kattibrie: 1/10 (1 list)
Kelsi: 9/25 (6 lists)
Kme_17: 0/60 (6 lists)
Leah: 1/20 (4 lists)
Lesley- 17/25 (4 lists)
Lilac: 1/10 (1 list)
Lisa: 10/10 (2 lists) COMPLETE
Marianna: 0/12 (4 lists)
Morgan: 0/25 (5 lists)
Neisha: 0/12 (3 lists)
Rebecca: 0/16 (2 lists)
Rebecca: 0/36 (3 lists)
Retha: 11/50 (4 lists)
Regan: 0/15 (3 lists)
Ruby: 0/13 (1 list)
Shelley: 0/9 (3 lists)
SilverRaindrops: 27/49 (7 lists)
Squirrel: 2/15 (4 lists)
Tearsa: 21/21 (3 lists) COMPLETE
Teresa: 1/14 (4 lists)
Theresa~OctoberLace: 20/20 (2 lists)
Toni: 0/10 (2 lists)
Tracy: 0/20 (5 lists)
Trevor: 0/12 (2 lists)
Tricia: 2/30 (2 lists)
Vani: 6/15 (5 lists)
Zara: 0/6 (4 lists)

Updated- 10/11/13

[Amie]

Update: This is going so much slower than I thought it would.

Completed: 8/40

Best Romantic Suspense
1. Standing in the Shadows - Shannon McKenna - 2/16/13
2. Black Ice - Anne Stuart - 2/17/13
3. Cold As Ice - Anne Stuart - 3/24/13
4. Ice Blue - Anne Stuart - 3/31/13
5. Divine Evil - Nora Roberts - 4/28/13
6. Deadly Heat - Cynthia Eden - 6/9/13
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Best Romance Series
1. Squeeze Play - Kate Angell - 3/13/13
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I Love A Man In Uniform
1. Edge of Sight - Roxanne St. Claire - 5/27/13
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[Lisa]

#113 on The Best Historical Fiction list

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

Completed 8/10

[mussolet]

Updating my lists. I'm on 13/49. The prize-winning ones are all either awful or not on my lists.

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I: 2x7 from "Magical Realism"
A1) **** Aimee Bender - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
A2) ** Alice Hoffman - The Ice Queen
A3) **** Italo Calvino - Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht
A4) **** Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
A5) **** Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale

II: 7 from "YA Dystopia"
1) **** Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky
2) **** Kristen Simmons - Article 5
3) **** Dan Wells - Partials

III: 7 from "Past-Present Books"
1) ** Victoria Hislop - Das Herz der Tänzerin

IV: 7 from Best Fantasy of the 21st Century
1) **** Sarah Ash - Lord of Snow and Shadows

V: 7 from "Major Award Winners since 1990"
1) ** Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
2) *** Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending

VI: 7 from "Non-Winners of the Man Booker"
1) *** Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze

[Ruby]

One Day
1984#
The Alchemist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Looking for Alaska
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714
Thirteen Reasons Why
V for Vendetta
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
American Psycho
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

I want to read all these before 2014 :)

[Heena]

The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance With Dragons
Allegiant
The Book Thief

[Candiss]

One more read: (building on message 149)


7. From list #2 - Quality Dark Fiction

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (***/3.5? 6/29/13)

Read: 7/20

[Alison]

Actually not really, Adriana! I like small books! But I have quite a few thick books on my shelf that I would like to read, so I am getting a few done this year.

Adriana wrote: "Alison wrote: "Alison wrote: "Im in for this challenge. I will be reading 2 books from 5 categories. I am putting everything on my corner. Here's the link Alison's Corner"

I have finished 2 books ..."

[Lesley]

UPDATE:

I've got 2 of my 4 lists finished. Still have 10 books to go to finish up the last 2. I think it's time to start picking my reads on these lists instead of just letting my picks fall into place here!!

PROGRESS: 15/25

Going to go with 5 from each of the following:

Falling In Love with my Best Friend/Best Friend's Brother/Brother's Best Friend, etc.
1. 2/19/13 Sweet Sofie by Elizabeth Reyes
2. 3/2/13 Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
3. 3/23/13 Hopeless
NEED 2 MORE

Humorous Romance Books COMPLETED

1. 3/14/13 Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
2. 4/11/13 The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
3. 5/2/13 Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
4. 5/25/13 Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. 5/29/13 Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

and 10 from:
First books of some good Cozy series
1. If You Can't Stand the Heatby Robin Allen
2. Knit One, Kill Twoby Maggie Sefton
Need 8 more


plus I added one other list in message 110 - 5 from the Best Hockey Romance books list (completed that one on 4/19/2013)
I will read 5 from: THIS LIST IS COMPLETE!!

Best Hockey Romance


1. 2/2/13 Offside
2. 3/1/13 Taking Shots
3. 3/13/13 Empty Net
4. 4/15/13 Simply Irresistible
5. 4/19/13 See Jane Score

[Kelsi]

Update*** This is the challenge I'm the most behind on!


Yearly Challenge:Listopia Challenge
Goal: 9/25

List One: Books about Paris
1.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 1/19/13
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas 3/21/13

List Two: Best Nonfiction Non Biography
1.In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

List Three: Best Gothic Books of All Time
1. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice-1/1/13
2.Beloved by Toni Morrison 3/17/13
3. Dracula


List Four: Best Books of the Ancient World
1.The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius
2. The Aeneid
3. Lysistrata and Other Plays


List Five: Best American History Books

[Adriana]

Ruby wrote: "One Day
1984#
The Alchemist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Looking for Alaska
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714
Thirteen Reasons Why
V for Vendetta
A Thousand Splendid Sun..."

1 list right?

[Adriana]

Heena wrote: "The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance With Dragons
Allegiant
The Book Thief"

1 list right?

[Marianne]

Love this!!

List 1: Best Science Fiction

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
3. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

List 2: I Only Watched the Movie

1. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
2. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
3. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

List 3: You Read a Book about What?

1. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
2. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
3. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein

List 4: Best Gothic Books of All Time

1. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
2. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
3. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

[Adriana]

Good luck!

[Jenn]

I've finished one book so far out of my fifteen. When I made my list I went with all YA books...but I've been on a memoir kick. Should have went with memoirs...I'd have finished the challenge by now. Will try to get myself back into the YA groove.

[Lisa]

#135 on the Best Historical Fiction list
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

Challenge Total 9/10 complete

[Alison]

I finished Catcher in the Rye last night. So now I am 3/10. It was in the list Books Everyone should read at least once.

[Lesley]

I've finished another 5 on a list, bringing my total up to 17/25.

Falling In Love with my Best Friend/Best Friend's Brother/Brother's Best Friend, etc.
1. 2/19/13 Sweet Sofie by Elizabeth Reyes
2. 3/2/13 Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
3. 3/23/13 Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
4. 4/20/13Taking Chances by Molly McAdams
5. 7/22/13 The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I just joined the group and have chosen two lists from which to read 10 books each in 2013. The lists are:

List 1. Must Read Classics 7/10

List 2. Best Historical Fiction Books That Are Actually Historical Fiction 4/10

The chosen books will be posted in the Members Corners discussion under Theresa's Corner 2013

[Adriana]

Everyone's updated!

[Candiss]

Building on message 158:

8. From list #1: Translated Speculative Fiction - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (*** 8/20/13)

Read: 8/20

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Here's my update on List 1. Must Read Classics

Goal: Read 10 in 2013 All 10 read - Challenge Complete

1. The Woman in White January 2013
2. The End of the Affair February 2013
3. Alice in Wonderland Listened to Jim Dale's wonderful reading of this one 8/19/13
4. The Handmaid's Tale June 2013
5. The Remains of the Day April 2013
6. Emma August 17, 2013
7. Heart of Darkness August 20, 2013
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy August 24, 2013
9. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 8/25/13
10. Dracula 8/27/13

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

And an update on List 2. Best Historical Fiction Books That Are Actually Historical Fiction

Goal: Read 10 in 2013 4/10 Read

1. Wolf Hall January 2013
2. The Remains of the Day April 2013
3. Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies March 2013
4. Emma August 17, 2013

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I just finished The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, so that brings me to 13/20 for my Listopia Challenge.

[Adriana]

You are on a roll Theresa! Will update you (:
I have you down for 13.

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Tonight I finished Dracula, which completes my commitment of 10 books from the Must Read Classics list. I now stand at 14/20 from my two lists.

[Adriana]

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "Tonight I finished Dracula, which completes my commitment of 10 books from the Must Read Classics list. I now stand at 14/20 from my two lists."

Okay. Updated you (:

[mussolet]

After eight months have passed, I've looked through what I liked the most, and switched my lists around accordingly. (I didn't want to read five books from a list that's not that cool when I could do better.)
So here's the update (still 49 books, up to 7 lists).

27/49

I: 7 from "Magical Realism"
(down to seven books)
1) **** Aimee Bender - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, 05/07
2) ** Alice Hoffman - The Ice Queen, 05/12
3) **** Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child, 05/25
4) **** Italo Calvino - Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht, 06/01
5) **** Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale, 06/07


II: 7 from "YA Dystopia"
1) **** Kristen Simmons - Article 5, 04/02
2) **** Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky, 04/03
3) **** Dan Wells - Partials, 05/18
4) **** Hugh Howey - Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1), 06/22


III: 7 fromFavourite Travel Books
1) **** Alice Steinbach - Without Reservations: The Travels Of An Independent Woman, 03/01
2) **** Rita Golden Gelman - Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, 06/28
3) ** Dervla Murphy - Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, 08/22


IV: 7 from Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
Newbie because I've loved some of the books on it
1) **** J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy, 05/11
2) ***** Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists, 06/15
3) ***** Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears, 08/01
4) **** Lawrence Norfolk - John Saturnall's Feast, 08/29


V: 7 from Most Interesting Magic System
Fits well with my books :).
1) **** Brandon Sanderson - The Rithmatist, 06/19
2) *** K.C. Hilton - The Magic of Finkleton, 07/09
3) **** Cornelia Funke - Tintenherz, 08/05


VI: 7 from "Non-Winners of the Man Booker"
1) *** Zadie Smith - On Beauty, 05/31
2) *** Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze, 05/26
3) **** Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness, 07/06
4) ***** Ian McEwan - Atonement, 07/31


VII: 7 from "Past-Present Books"
1) ** Victoria Hislop - Das Herz der Tänzerin, 06/08
2) **** Kristin Hannah - Firefly Lane, 06/26
3) ***** Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, 07/09
4) *** Susanna Kearsley - The Rose Garden, 07/31

[Adriana]

SilverRaindrops wrote: "After eight months have passed, I've looked through what I liked the most, and switched my lists around accordingly. (I didn't want to read five books from a list that's not that cool when I could ..."

Updated you! I love that you seem to be the most ambitious out of the group of participants. Good luck!

[Elisa]

I'm starting late in the game, but I've decided to complete http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/26.... I've read 15/100 and I plan on continuing the list until it's complete. This is what I've read so far...

1.The Blind Assassin
2.Brideshead Revisited
3.Catch-22
4.The Catcher in the Rye
5.A Clockwork Orange
6.The Grapes of Wrath
7.The Great Gatsby
8.I, Claudius
9.Invisible Man
10.Lucky Jim
11.On the Road
12.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
13.Slaughterhouse-Five
14.To Kill a Mockingbird
15.Watchmen

And this is what I am currently reading 1984

By the end of this year, I plan on reading all of the books that I own, that are on this list. These include...
The Adventures of Augie March
All the King's Men
American Pastoral
An American Tragedy
The Corrections
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Golden Notebook
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Handful of Dust
Herzog
Infinite Jest
Light in August
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Fellowship of the Ring
Money
Naked Lunch
The Painted Bird
Rabbit, Run
Snow Crash
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
To the Lighthouse
Tropic of Cancer
White Noise

Hopefully I can make it!

[Adriana]

So I'm putting you down for 26 correct? Good luck!

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I'd completed my challenge of 10 books from the Must Read Classics, but I've now finished two more:

11. A Separate Peace 9/8/13
12. Watership Down 9/14/13

Do I change my goal or just leave it be?

[Kara]

It's up to you, Theresa! Youc an do it either way.

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So I reconfigured some things and realized I was further along than I had thought. Yay!

LIST ONE: Translated Speculative Fiction
(At the end of 2012: read 13 of the top 100)
1. Solaris, finished 1/30
2. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, finished 8/29
3. Blindness
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
5. Invisible Cities

LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
(At the end of 2012: read 45 of the top 100)
1. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, finished 5/4
2. Solaris, finished 1/30
3. Hyperion
4. The Time Machine
5. Cat’s Cradle, finished 2/4

LIST THREE: You Read a Book About What?
(At the end of 2012: read 5 of the top 100)
1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, finished 3/13
2. Salt: A World History, finished 8/21
3. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
4. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, finished 9/1
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, finished 8/16

LIST FOUR: Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
(Goal: Read five new-to-you authors)
1. Kindred, 5/26
2. Shards of Honour
3. Foreigner
4. The Children of Men
5. In the Garden of Iden, 1/16

COMPLETED: 11/20

[Adriana]

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "I'd completed my challenge of 10 books from the Must Read Classics, but I've now finished two more:

11. A Separate Peace 9/8/13
12. Watership Down 9/14/13

Do I change my goal or just leave it be?"

I'll just add it on to what you have now if that's okay (:

Got you down Kara!

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I just finished my 5th book in list 2: Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction.
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier 9/18/13

This puts me at 12/10 on List 1 and 5/10 on List 2.

[Adriana]

Awesome Theresa (:

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I seem to have chosen quite a few of the Must Read Classics. I finished listening to Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, read by Jeremy Irons, on 9/20/13.

This gives me 13 of 10 for List 1 and 5 of 10 for list 2.

[Karina]

Karina wrote: "Two choices, for now - 10 of the unread books from each of these lists:

Hugo Award Winners
You Read a Book about What?"

I haven't been moving through this challenge at great speed - will be at 7/20 when I finish my current read. (30 pages left, so I'm brazenly adding it to the list already.) I'm not changing my goal, though. :)

Hugo Award Winners
01. Rendezvous With Rama
02. Downbelow Station
03. Dreamsnake

You Read a Book About What?
01. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
02. Cats Are Not Peas: A Calico History of Genetics
03. Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
04. Christopher Ryan - Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

[Adriana]

Got both of you down - Theresa and Karina!

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I just finished Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran from List 2. This puts me at 13/10 on List 1 and 6/10 on List 2.

[Zara's Retreat]

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "I just finished Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran from List 2. This puts me at 13/10 on List 1 and 6/10 on List 2."

Hi Theresa,

What would you give Cleopatra's Daughter out of 5 stars?

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Zara wrote: "Hi Theresa,What would you give Cleopatra's Da..."

Zara,

I would have given Cleopatra's Daughter 3.5* but since GR doesn't allow 1/2 stars, I gave it 3*. I listened to the audiobook, and the narration was very good. It was quick, since I started listening during my Monday commute and finished it shortly after midnight on Wednesday. I'd recommend it for a light read.

My reason for the 3* is in this spoiler: (view spoiler)[

Based on the illustration on the book cover, I expected to read about Cleopatra Selene as an adult. Instead, the book only covered her from ages 11 through 15. The story line was, in my opinion, too predictable for a 4* rating. (hide spoiler)].

[Lisa]

#97 on the Best Epic Fantasy List
The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

Challenge Total - 10/10 Complete

[Adriana]

Updated everyone! Congrats on completing your goal Lisa!

[Candiss]

Building on message 172:

9. From list #2: Quality Dark Fiction - The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato (***** 9/30/13)

Read: 9/20**

**Edit 11/4: When I was updating this thread with my #10 read, I realized I had my total listed here as 8 instead of 9, so I'm fixing it now. :)

[Adriana]

Updated you Candiss! Great job (:

I put you down for 9.

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Yesterday I finished my 7th book in list 2: Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks10/5/13

This puts me at 13/10 on List 1 and 7/10 on List 2.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Update: I completed 3 of 5 lists. Some of the lists have books I did not get to but I replaced them with books that I was able to read instead, therefore they count (to me) as completed lists. I will try to read the books that I did not get to in 2014.

Listopia Challenge 2013
Duration: Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2013

List One: Favorite Magical Realist Novels

1. The Sugar Queen - DONE
2. The Peach Keeper - DONE

(Wanted to read, but did not get to):
3. The Night Circus
4. Practical Magic

List Two: Biographies of Significant Historical Women
**DID NOT READ THIS**
1. Marie Curie: A Life

List Three: Best Cover Art 2011 Non YA
1. - DONE
2. - DONE

(Originally wanted to read, but did not get to):
1Q84
The Dovekeepers

List Four: Best Historical Fiction
**DID NOT READ. Will attempt to read these in 2014**
1. Lonesome Dove
2. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
3. The Thorn Birds
4. The Mists of Avalon
5. Outlander
6. The Good Earth
7. The Hundred Secret Senses

List Five: Best YA Realistic Novels
**All Complete!! Originally started with 5, but ended up with 17 complete**
1. Anna and the French Kiss
2. The Truth About Forever
3. If I Stay
4. Where She Went
5. Lola and the Boy Next Door
6. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
7. What Happened to Goodbye
8. Jellicoe Road
9. Saving Francesca
10. Dairy Queen
11. The Piper's Son
12. Looking for Alibrandi
13. Someone Like You
14. The Off Season
15. Front and Center
16. Please Ignore Vera Dietz
17. Just One Day

Number of Lists: 5
Total Books: 21 Read

[Adriana]

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "Yesterday I finished my 7th book in list 2: Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks10/5/13

This put..."

Ooh! Year of Wonders looks really good (:

[Adriana]

Congratulations on completing your goal Teresa!