The Listopia Challenge - 2013

[Candiss]

Building on message 196:

10. From list #2: Quality Dark Fiction - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (11/4/13, ****)

Read: 10/20

[Adriana]

Participation List!.

Alison: 4/10 (5 lists)
Amie: 27/40 (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: 13/20 (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: 14/20 (2 lists)
Kat: 3/25 (5 lists)
Kate: 0/50 (10 lists)
Kattibrie: 1/10 (1 list)
Kelsi: 9/25 (6 lists)
Kme_17: 32/60 (6 lists)
Leah: 1/20 (4 lists)
Lesley- 17/25 (4 lists)
Lilac: 10/10 (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: 30/49 (7 lists)
Squirrel: 2/15 (4 lists)
Tearsa: 21/21 (3 lists) COMPLETE
Teresa: 21/14 (5 lists) COMPLETE
Theresa~OctoberLace: 23/20 (2 lists) COMPLETE
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- 1/1/14

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Since my last post I've read 2 more from list 2: Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction.

War Brides by Helen Bryan 10/19/13

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 10/20/13

This puts me at 13/10 on List 1 and 9/10 on List 2. When I finish Villette, I'll have this challenge completed.

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I finished Villette by Charlotte Brontë on 11/9/13.

This puts me at 13/10 for List 1: Must Read Classics and 10/10 for list 2: Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction. Both challenges are now completed.

[Candiss]

Building on message 202:

10. From list #1: Tranlated Speculative Fiction - Revenge by Yōko Ogawa (11/29/13, ****)

Read: 11/20

[Adriana]

I have updated you both Theresa and Candiss (:

Congratulations on completing both lists Theresa!

[Amie]

Completed one list!

Completed: 26/40

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
7. Ice Storm - Anne Stuart - 6/23/13
8. Out Of Control - Shannon McKenna - 8/16/13
9. Undertow - Cherry Adair - 10/1/13
10. Smoke in Mirrors - Jayne Ann Krentz - 11/29/13



Best Romance Series
1. Squeeze Play - Kate Angell - 3/13/13
2. Rock Chick - Kristen Ashley - 7/28/13
3. Beg for Mercy - Jami Alden - 8/18/13
4. Simply Irresistible - Rachel Gibson - 11/22/13
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Best Paranormal Romance Series
1. Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 7/5/13
2. Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane - 8/8/13
3. Captivated - Nora Roberts - 8/31/13
4. How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks - 10/13/13
5. Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione - 10/28/13
6. Tall, Dark & Dead - Tate Hallaway - 11/10/13
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I Love A Man In Uniform
1. Behind Closed Doors - Shannon McKenna - 1/13/13
2. Against the Law - Kat Martin - 5/22/13
3. Edge of Sight - Roxanne St. Claire - 5/27/13
4. Naked Truth - Amy J. Fetzer - 6/9/13
5. Nauti Boy - Lora Leigh - 7/30/13
6. The Darkest Hour - Maya Banks - 9/14/13
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[Adriana]

@Amie- Sweet! Good luck on the rest of your lists (:

[Lilac]

List 1 - Can't Wait Books of 2013
1. Allegiant - ★★★☆☆ - 16/11/13
11. Scarlet - ★★★★☆ - 31/05/13
12. Unravel Me - ★★★★☆ - 12/05/13
15. Prodigy - ★★★★☆ - 25/06/13
17. Through the Ever Night - ★★★★★ - 23/01/13
21. Sever - ★★★★☆ - 09/07/13
39. Light - ★★★★★ - 18/05/13
118. Fall of Night - ★★★★★ - 08/08/13

Completed 8/10

[Adriana]

@Lilac- Almost there! I've updated you (:

[Alison]

Adriana- I have 4/10. I just finished Catching Fire. In a few days Ill have 5 with Mockingjay done.

[Adriana]

Alright Alison! I've updated you ^__^

[Kme_17]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life2/6 lists

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography : "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/28... 6/10

1Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
2 Eat, Pray, Love
3 Up Till Now
4 A Lotus Grows in the Mud
5Notes from a Small Island
6 Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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Lesser Known Authors "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19...
1 The Peach Keeper
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Best Crime & Mystery Books "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11...
1 Body Double
2 Vanish
3 The Silent Girl
4 Dirty Blonde
5 Voice of the Violin
6 Devil Bones
7 What Came Before He Shot Her
8 The Neighbor
9 Bring Up the Bodies
10 A is for Alibi



Medicine and Literature"http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21... 6/10



1 The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
2Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery
3 At Home: A Short History of Private Life
4 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
5 The Private Patient
6 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Hungry readers"http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/26... 0/10
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Best Books of the Decade: 2000s http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5.... 10/10
1Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2 In a Sunburned Country
3 Never Let Me Go
4 Digging to America
5 Ya Yas in Bloom
6 The Judging Eye
7 Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
8 I am America
9 Lisey's Story
10 The Murder of King Tut

[Adriana]

Updated you Kme_17!

[Candiss]

Building on message 206:

12. from list #2: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (December 23, 2013) ****

Read: 12/20

(I'm certainly not going to finish before the end of the year, but I think I'll get another 2 in, and it's been fun!)

[Candiss]

13. From list #3: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (December 26, 2013) ****

Read: 13/20

[mussolet]

I've done some unorganized reading this year, and don't want to speed-read (or speed-review in some cases) now. I'll stop at my current stage (probably 30/49) and will do four of these lists again (from the start) next year.

Not doing "Most interesting magic system", because I don't want to start so many series. Not doing "Non Winners of the Man Booker", except for Atonement I didn't like them. Not doing Dystopia, not reading as much of that as I thought I would.

[Lilac]

May have cheated a little bit by gong right down to the 700s but I was determined to finish all my challenges (that I didn't drop out of) so I'm counting it. Now the only yearly challenge that I didn't manage to complete is a little personal one, where I only read 3 Welsh books rather than 6. Still a very successful year in terms of reading in my opinion. :)
Most of these "can't wait" books lived up to my expectations though Allegiant in particular was such a disappointment.

List 1 - Can't Wait Books of 2013
1. Allegiant - ★★★☆☆ - 16/11/13
11. Scarlet - ★★★★☆ - 31/05/13
12. Unravel Me - ★★★★☆ - 12/05/13
15. Prodigy - ★★★★☆ - 25/06/13
17. Through the Ever Night - ★★★★★ - 23/01/13
21. Sever - ★★★★☆ - 09/07/13
39. Light - ★★★★★ - 18/05/13
118. Fall of Night - ★★★★★ - 08/08/13
167. Daylighters - ★★★★★ - 31/12/13
708. Fracture Me - ★★★☆☆ - 29/12/13

Completed 10/10

[Karina]

10/10 on the list You read a book about what?

1. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
2. Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
3. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
4. Cats Are Not Peas: A Calico History of Genetics
5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
6. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
7. Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects
8. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
9. The Emperor of All Maladies
10. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Only 4/10 on the list Hugo Award Winners:

1. Rendezvous with Rama
2. Dreamsnake
3. Downbelow Station
4. The Snow Queen

...So my challenge ticks in at 14/20, meh!

[Adriana]

Updated everyone! Don't fret if you didn't make your goal. You always have next year (:

[Amie]

Completed: 27/40

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
7. Ice Storm - Anne Stuart - 6/23/13
8. Out Of Control - Shannon McKenna - 8/16/13
9. Undertow - Cherry Adair - 10/1/13
10. Smoke in Mirrors - Jayne Ann Krentz - 11/29/13



Best Romance Series
1. Squeeze Play - Kate Angell - 3/13/13
2. Rock Chick - Kristen Ashley - 7/28/13
3. Beg for Mercy - Jami Alden - 8/18/13
4. Simply Irresistible - Rachel Gibson - 11/22/13
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Best Paranormal Romance Series
1. Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 7/5/13
2. Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane - 8/8/13
3. Captivated - Nora Roberts - 8/31/13
4. How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks - 10/13/13
5. Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione - 10/28/13
6. Tall, Dark & Dead - Tate Hallaway - 11/10/13
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I Love A Man In Uniform
1. Behind Closed Doors - Shannon McKenna - 1/13/13
2. Against the Law - Kat Martin - 5/22/13
3. Edge of Sight - Roxanne St. Claire - 5/27/13
4. Naked Truth - Amy J. Fetzer - 6/9/13
5. Nauti Boy - Lora Leigh - 7/30/13
6. The Darkest Hour - Maya Banks - 9/14/13
7. No Place to Run - Maya Banks - 12/28/13
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[Adriana]

Updated you Amie! Good job (: