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The Listopia Challenge - 2014
I put all those top 5's as my goal, but since I had already read some that's why there are some crossed out and my count started? I'm confused now!
I want to do 6 from We ♥ YA Books! Top 100 Must Read Books1. Vampire Academy
2. Shiver
3. Graceling
4. Matched
5. The Hobbit
6. Half-Blood
Ashley wrote: "I want to do 6 from We ♥ YA Books! Top 100 Must Read Books1. Vampire Academy
2. Shiver
3. Graceling
4. Matched
5. [book:The Hobbit|5907..."
Ashley I've added you. Welcome and good luck.
Lisa (messages 47 & 48) I have added you both. My apologies for missing you both before. Welcome and good luck.
Hey guys, I'd like to sign up for 5 books from 2 lists.I don't really want to do the top 5 in each list, so I'm picking out of the top 15-20, I'm guessing this is ok? This is what I've got planned:
Best for Book Clubs.
1. The Help
2. The Time Traveler's Wife
3. My Sister's Keeper
4. Memoirs of a Geisha
5. Life of Pi
Best Ever Contemporary Romance Books.
1. Bet Me
2. Can You Keep a Secret?
3. The Notebook
4. Sugar Daddy
5. Something Borrowed
Mhairi I have added you. Welcome and good luck. You have some great books there. Three of my favourites from your list are Can You Keep a Secret?, Memoirs of a Geisha, My Sister's Keeper. The book of My Sister's Keeper is far and away better than the movie. The ending in the movie is really disappointing. I hope you like them.
Crime and Mystery Listopia - 6/11Not sure if we can overlap books in multiple challenges, so I did not. I have a lot on my around the world month challenge that are under this listopia as well.
The Brass Verdict-Michael Connelly
A Cold Day for Murder -Dana Stabenow
The Neighbor -Lisa Gardner
Divine Justice-David Baldacci
Chosen Prey-John Sanford
Hi Jannene I have added you to the list. Welcome and good luck.
I would like to join. I am going for a total of 24 books.List 1: Most Inspiring Books
1. The Alchemist
2. The Help
3. Eat, Pray, Love
4. Memoirs of a Geisha
List 2: Best Female Lead Characters
1. The Hunger Games
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Color Purple
4. Dead Until Dark
List 3: Best Young Adult Books
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
2. City of Bones
3. Eragon
4. Fallen
List 4: Best Horror Novel
1. The Shinning
2. Carrie
3. The Exorcist
4. Red Dragon
List 5: Winter Reads
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. A Tale of Two Cities
3. Gone with the Wind
4. The Phantom of the Opera
List 6: Best Crime/Mystery Books
1. Angel and Demons
2. In Cold Blood
3. The Lincoln Lawyer
4. Along Came a Spider
Sara wrote: "I would like to join. I am going for a total of 24 books.List 1: Most Inspiring Books
1. The Alchemist
2. The Help
3. Eat, Pray, Love
4. Memoirs of a Geisha
List 2: Best Female Lead Characters
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Hi Sara, I have added you to the list. Welcome and good luck.
Count me in for 30 books!Best Historical Fiction
1) The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2) Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
3) The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
Best Young Adult Books
1) The Host by Stephanie Meyer
2) Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
3) Speak by Laurie H. Anderson
4) Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
5) Poison Study by Maria V. Synder
YA Novels of 2013
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4) Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi
5) Everbound by Brodi Ashton
6) Asunder by Jodi Meadows
7) These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
2) Insurgent by Veronica Roth
3) The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
4) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
5) Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Best Books of the 21st Century
1) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
2) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3)
Best Books Boyfriend
1) Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
2) Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
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What We've Read So Far in 2013
1) Vain by Fisher Amelie
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3) Requiem by Lauren Oliver
Nay I have added you. Welcome and good luck.
I'll go for two lists. Hidden Gems: YA-Fantasy Novels 10 books (now 11)
1The Dark Lord of Derkholm
2Year of the Griffin
3Fire and Hemlock
4The Perilous Gard
5The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
6Secrets in the Dark
7Summers at Castle Auburn
8The Singer of All Songs
9The Hawk and His Boy
10Obernewtyn
11The Goblin Wood
Best for Book Clubs 5 books
1The Catcher in the Rye
2Lolita
3Frankenstein
4The Sounding
5Firefly Lane
Six books total, from two lists for me:Superhero Fiction
Oh the Villainy!--Evil Geniuses, Super Villains and Overlords
I will do 17 :)BEST BOOK BOYFRIENDS
1. Hopeless
2.Bared to You
3.The Edge of Never
4.Divergent
5.Walking Disaster
6.The Fault in Our Stars
7.Obsidian
8.Fifty Shades Freed
9.City of Bones
10.The Mighty Storm
11. Clockwork Angel
12.Never Too Far
BEST CHRISTIAN FICTION
1.Redeeming Love
2.As Sure as the Dawn
3.Black: The Birth of Evil
4.Fireproof
5. Pearl in the Sand
Starfleetbrat, Kimberly and Laura I have added you all. Welcome and good luck.Laura, I've read one of the books that you have listed - Redeeming Love - I found it to be a really awesome book. I couldn't put it down (my daughter took it off me at one point but I had to get her to give it back to me because I was having bad withdrawal symptoms. LOL). It had a really profound affect on me. I was glad I had this response because when I read another of this author's books I absolutely hated it.
I have also watched the movie of "Fireproof" and was also touched by that story as well. I look forward to reading your comments and thoughts.
Zara, That's awesome. So far I really like the author, I just read the 1st and 2nd book of the Mark of the Lion trilogy by her. If you like historical romance, you should give it a try.
Laura wrote: "Zara, That's awesome. So far I really like the author, I just read the 1st and 2nd book of the Mark of the Lion trilogy by her. If you like historical romance, you should give it a try."Thanks Laura for the recommendation. I might just have to look at adding them to my ever-growing TBR list. lol
I'm in again, for the same number (7x7). Lists 1&2 are included because I had so much fun last year with the 2012 list.Added: Redoing some lists form last year that I didn't finish. I'll be spending a lot of time on this challenge.
I: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
II: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
III: Novels mentioned in 'Among Others' by Jo Walton
IV: Silhouette Covers
V: Around the World in 100 Books
VI: Microhistories: Sweeping Social Histories of Just One Thing
VII: Best for Book Clubs
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From last year:
VIII: Magical Realism
IX: Favourite Travel Books
X: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
XI: Past-Present Books
SilverRaindrops wrote: "I'm in again, for the same number (7x7). Will look for new lists once I'm done with the old challenge :-)."Hi SilverRaindrops. Are you aiming for 14 or 49 books?
Please put me down for 13 from the following lists:Best Books of the Decade 2010's
Best Books Ever
Best Crime and Mystery Books Ever
Best American History Books
I'll keep track of these in my "Member Corner"
(Not sure how to set up links, I'll figure it out).
I was tossing up whether to do this one or not, but the Listopia lists are too intriguing, so…count me in!I'll aim for 20 from 3 lists.
What Women Born In The 70s Have Read So Far This Year (Thanks to Jodi for this list - I love it!)
2/11 completed
1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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3. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
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5. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
6. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
7. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
8. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
9. Joyland by Stephen King
10. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
11. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Downton Abbey-esque Books
1/6 completed
1. Howards End by E.M. Forster
2. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
3. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon
4. The World of Downtown Abbey by Jessica Fellows
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6. The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
Stories For Book Lovers
0/3 completed
1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
*Updated from 12 books to 20 books on 15/2/14
@Kathryn we both have planned Me Before You and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I haven't read The Fault in Our Stars yet either. We should do some buddy reads in the New Year.By the way, I read Fahrenheit 451 in the summer. I loved it. I hope you enjoy it too.
Jodi wrote: "@Kathryn we both have planned Me Before You and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I haven't read The Fault in Our Stars yet either. We shou..."Buddy reads sound good, Jodi! I was thinking reading Miss Peregrine in about March, no plans for Me Before You or The Fault in Our Stars yet, but The Fault is still in quite heavy demand at my library so will prob leave it until later in the year and my reading schedule is already pretty full for Jan and Feb anyway! But let me know when you're considering reading them and I'll see if I have time! Ideally, I'd like to try and slot those books into challenges I do with other groups, but I won't know what those challenges are till later in the year, so that may not work out anyway, but it's all part of the fun!!
Kathryn and Lorelei I have added you both. Welcome and good luck.
I think I'll go with 5 books from each of these lists (20 books total) :"50 Fantasy & Science fiction works that socialists should read" by China Miéville*
Greatest psychology books
Medicine and literature
SF & Theology
* I identify as "huge dorky Miéville fan", more than anything else :3
Karina I have updated your goal. Good luck.
I will go for 24 total. 2 books from each of these 12 lists, and I am going to do my best to keep to my monthly schedule:January: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
February: Best LGBT Humor
March: Best Humorous Nonfiction
April: Best Books Under 200 Pages
May: What Women Born in the 70's Have Read So Far This Year
June: Best Non-Fiction Non-Biography
July: Medicine and Literature
August:Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers
September:Best Lesbian Fiction
October:Lannan Non-Fiction Awards
November:Top Dog Reads
December:Microhistories: Sweeping Social Histories of Just One Thing
I have no clue yet which books I will choose from each list though!
Kellyanne I have added you. Welcome and good luck.
Hey Zara, I'll make it 20 if I can :) Thanks!
Updaed your goal Kellyanne. Good luck.
Zara wrote: "SilverRaindrops wrote: "I'm in again, for the same number (7x7). Will look for new lists once I'm done with the old challenge :-)."Hi SilverRaindrops. Are you aiming for 14 or 49 books?"
Zara, this is seven books from seven lists, so 49 :).
SilverRaindrops wrote: "Zara wrote: "SilverRaindrops wrote: "I'm in again, for the same number (7x7). Will look for new lists once I'm done with the old challenge :-)."Hi SilverRaindrops. Are you aiming for 14 or 49 boo..."
Thanks SilverRaindrops. I just wanted to be sure.
Zara wrote: "The Listopia ChallengeDuration: January 2014 - December 2014
It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from 2013, or t..."
Hi Zara, I posted my goal here but don't seem to have been added to the participant list.
Kelsi's Listopia Challenge0/9
*This is a continuation from last year, since I did not finish the challenge.
List One: Books about Paris
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List Two: Best Nonfiction Non Biography
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List Five: Best American History Books
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Sibyl, my apologies. I added you to my tracking spreadsheet but not here. You're now added. Welcome and good luck.Kelsi I have added you. Welcome and good luck as well.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 13/36 Man Booker Prize Winners - 1/5
Orange Prize Fiction Winners - 3/3
Costa/WhitBread Novel Winners -1/4
Pulitzer Prize Winners - 1/8
Total of 46
UPDATED *Mar 18-18/46 list here Fixed amount read after deleting other list.
Listopia Challenge Duration: 01/01/2013-12/31/2014
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I will attempt 12. This will be 6 from each of these two Lists.
Favorite Christian Books
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Best Christian Fiction
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I will go for ten from three listsBest Twists 10/10
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
1.Murder on the Orient Express
2.The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
3.My Sister's Keeper
4.Odd Thomas
5.The Time Machine
6.On the Road
7.Shadowfever
8.The Snowman
9.The Keeper of Lost Causes
10A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Best Young Adult Books
10/10
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
1.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3.Anne of Green Gables
4.Twilight
5.Coraline
6.The Night Circus
7.What Happened to Goodbye
8.Infinity
9.If I Stay
10The Hobbit
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone 10/10
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1.In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
2. 11/22/63
3.Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
4.Shakespeare: The World as Stage
5.Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
6.The Glass Castle
7.The Selfish Gene
8.The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
9.Mystic River
10Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Karena, wow what an impressive goal you have set. I have added you. Welcome and good luck.Audrey and Kme_17 I have added you both as well. Welcome and good luck.
I'm in with this one, too!I'll set my goal to 10 books: 5 from Best Books of the 20th Century and 5 from Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction.
Zara wrote: "Karena, wow what an impressive goal you have set. I have added you. Welcome and good luck.Audrey and Kme_17 I have added you both as well. Welcome and good luck."
Thanks! I have a yearly goal of 225. My goal this year was at 175 and I'm up to 201 so I decided to up my challenge. This group is giving me an organized way of meeting my goal. :) So thanks!
LIST ONE: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century(At the end of 2013: read 15 of the top 100)
1. Old Man's War
2. Anathem
3. Revelation Space
4. Leviathan Wakes
5. Perdido Street Station
LIST TWO: Best Feminist Fiction
(At the end of 2013: read 38 of the top 100)
1. The Awakening
2. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
3. The Mists of Avalon
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
5. A Doll's House
LIST THREE: Must Read Classics
(At the end of 2013: read 50 of the top 100)
1. Hamlet
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Crime and Punishment
Marina I have added you. Welcome and good luck.Kara you have some interesting books in your lists. Good luck.
Kara, I would love to get around to reading Anathem - if you feel like making it a buddy read!
That would be great, Karina! Any month except January works for me.
Kara and Karina I have added Anathem to the february list of buddy reads. If this doesn't work please let me know.
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It's up to you Melissa. It's what you feel you can read in the year. Does that make sense?