The Listopia Challenge - 2014

[Meimei]

I've finished The Fault in Our Stars, perfect! 3/45, message 255

[Karma]

Finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

7/20

[Brianna Andreda]

Finished A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle yesterday.



Updated message 248. I now have 9/80 books read

[Zara's Corner]

all updated.

[Candiss]

Building on message #247:

I finished 2 more: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (04/12/14) and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (04/14/14) - both from my list #1, "1001 Books to Read Before You Die." I've updated my original post.

Total read: 5/20

[Elsbeth]

I finished The Moonstone, which is on the Great Victorian Mysteries-list.
3/13 for me...

[Lisa B]

I finished Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas. That should put me at 4/5 for the challenge.

[Carrie]

Read 10 books from Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy List


Read 5 books from Best 20th Century Books List

Read 5 books from Best 21st Century Books List

[mussolet]

Did an inventory, because this is the one challenge I really want to finish.
Switched out "Novels mentioned in "Among Others" for "Spain", because I somehow can't go near new Fantasy and especially SF this year.
Books that aren't linked are books that I haven't read yet, because I wanted to list all my available options.

6/77

I: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
1) Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Professor of Poetry, Harvest, The Cuckoo's Calling, Questions of Travel, The Night Rainbow, This Magnificent Desolation, Life after Life

II: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
1) Ali Shaw - The Man Who Rained
The Forrests, The Uninvited Guests, Snake Ropes, Merivel, The Light Between the Oceans, The Watch, The Bellwether Revivals

III: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
The Sentimentalists, The Proof of Love, The Absolutist, Today, The Last Gift, (Among Others)

IV: Magical Realism
The Lace Reader, Big Fish, Blackbird House, Invisible Cities, Of Bees and Mist, (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Life of Pi, All the Names, Like Water for Chocolate, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Midnight's Children

V: Spain
The Spanish Bow, The Coffee Trader, Waiting for Columbus, The Shadow of the Wind, The Ornament of the World, (The Prisoner of Heaven)

VI: Around the World in 100 Books
Wolves of the Crescent Moon, The Kashmir Shawl, The Death of Vishnu, In the Country of Men, Shantaram, A Golden Age

VII: Favourite Travel Books
A Moveable Feast, Shadow on the Silk Road, Passionate Nomad, A Walk in the Woods, A Year in the World, The Valleys of the Assassins

VIII: Microhistories: Sweeping Social Histories of Just One Thing
Color, The Song of the Dodo, The Swerve, Guns Germs and Steel, The Year 1000, The Map that changed the world

IX: Best for Book Clubs
1) Tan Twan Eng - The Gift of Rain
2) John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
Julie & Julia, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, To Kill a Mockingbird, Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress, True Colors, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

X: Silhouette Covers
1) Helen Oyeyemi - White is for Witching
2) Jacqueline Kelly - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The Monsters of Templeton, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, (The Glass Palace)

XI: Past-Present Books
The Island, The Little Stranger, Water for Elephants, The Winter Sea, The Legacy, The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, Cutting for Stone

[Karma]

I finished:

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

and

The Girl You Left Behind

Both from 2014:Women Born in the 1970s list

Which puts me at 9/20

[Meimei]

Kafka on the Shore, I definitely recommend this one! 4/45, message 255

[Candiss]

Building on message #278:


I finished Under the Skin by Michel Faber (from my list #1, 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, 04/19/14, ****)

Read: 6/20

[Meimei]

Closely Watched Trains, short book I read for my school reading, and One Hundred Years of Solitude as a part of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. 6/45, message 255

[Erika]

Finished 14/40 with Everything That Rises Must Converge from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die.

[Karma]

I finished Matched from the Women Born in the 1970s list. :)

10/20

[Candiss]

building on message #286:

I finished The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (****, 04/25/14) (from my list #3, Best Books of the 21st Century)

Read: 7/20

[Marina]

6/10 William Golding's Lord of the Flies (from Best Books of the 20th Century).

[Karena]

Updated 20/46

Half of a Yellow Sun from the Orange Prize list.

[Jannene]

4/11, I just finished .

[Candiss]

Building on message #290:

Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto **** (04/29/14)

(from list #2, Japanese Literature)

Read: 8/20

[Jodi]

I finished Eleanor & Park. I have my first list done and a start on my next list. I am 6/25

[Angelique]

Hi,

A bit late maybe, but because of that only 8 books from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Bel-Ami
3. The Color Purple
4. Of Mice and Men
5. Orlando
6. A Passage to India
7. The Day of the Triffids
8. A Christmas Carol
9. Bonus: The Return of the Soldier
10. Bonus: The Remains of the Day
11. Bonus: The Old Man and the Sea
12. Bonus: A Bend in the River
13. Bonus: Memoirs of a Geisha
14. Bonus: Brave New World
15. Bonus: Lolita
16. Bonus: Slaughterhouse-Five
17. Bonus The Handmaid's Tale
18. Bonus Siddhartha
19. Bonus El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (in English)
20. Bonus Like Water for Chocolate

18/8

[Lorelei]

I finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for this challenge in the "Best Books of the Decades 2010"
This puts me at 2/13.

[Erika]

updated msg 22

15/40. Chugging right along with this challenge.

[Meimei]

Updated message 255, read The Seagull, quick read but the book was so thoughtful! 7/45

[Candiss]

Building on message #294:

Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook **** (05/02/14)

(from list #3, Best Books of the 21st Century)

Read: 9/20

[Meimei]

Updated message 255, read The Scarlet Letter and Of Mice and Men. 9/45

[Kathryn]

I've just finished my 8th for this challenge - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - which I enjoyed although there was a lot of politics involved, but I thoroughly enjoyed Jonas Jonasson's dry wit and will be interested to read The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden some time.

I can't remember where I was up to in my updates, so this is my list so far:
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 5 stars
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - 3.5 stars
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs - 4 stars
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - 3.5 stars
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - 4.5 stars
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton - 3.5 stars
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson - 3.5 stars
The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era by Jessica Fellowes - 4 stars

[Angelique]

Hi,

I've finished my first book for this challenge:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Updated message 295
1/8

[Karma]

11/20 The Light Between Oceans

[Cassandra]

From the Goodreads 100 Fiction Listopia:


Finished May 15

2/6

[Erika]

Updated msg 22. I am now 17/40

[Candiss]

Building on message #299:

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig **** (05/17/14)

(from list #1, 1001 Books to Read)

Read: 10/20

[Jodi]

Hi Zara,

I am finished The Fault in Our Stars. I updated post #23. I have now finished 7 books. I have fully completed one of my lists.

[Karma]

I finished Life After Life and The Fault in Our Stars.

And I was looking at my numbering and realized I was off by two. Way back I numbered something 5/20 when it was actually supposed to be 7/20. So I am actually at 13/20 now. I went back and edited my other posts to change to the correct number. I'm sorry for that confusion. I am keeping track in my reading corner so you can look there if you need to see the list. So current and correct is 13/20.

[Kathryn]

I don't think I've updated this for a while!

I'm now at 10/20. My reads to date:

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - 4 stars
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 5 stars
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - 3.5 stars
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs - 4 stars
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - 3.5 stars
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - 4.5 stars
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton - 3.5 stars
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson - 3.5 stars
Howards End by E.M. Forster - 3 stars
The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era by Jessica Fellowes - 4 stars

[Angelique]

Hi,

I've finished

Read: 2/8

[Karma]

This weekend, I finished Just One Day and Just One Year, both on the "What Women in the 1970s have Read the Year list.

And also read Unwind which is on the "Best Books Ever" list.

That puts me at 16/20 :)

[Lorelei]

Listopia
6/10

Best Books of Decade 2010's
1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks*** READ 4.20.14
2. The Night Circus*** READ 6.2.14
3. Gone Girl *** READ 10.13.14
4. The Fault in Our Stars *** READ 9.9.14

Best Books Ever
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns *** READ 1.8.14
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time

Best Crime and Mystery Books
1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America *** READ 10.28.14
2. Whose Body

Best American History Books
1. Founding Brothers

[Kathryn]

I've been reading a few books from this challenge lately and am now at 12/20 after finishing:
- The Fault in Our Stars - 4 stars
- Howards End - 3 stars (perhaps one I should have read properly rather than listening to an audiobook)
- The Shadow of the Wind - 2.5 stars (too slow to engage me - or maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it?)
- The Eyre Affair - 3 stars (very strange, interesting premise, probably not interesting enough to make me want to read any more in the series)

[Angelique]

For another challenge I've read a book that is also on the 1001 Books you must read before you die, but that I hadn't planned to read for this challenge. I'm counting any extra books as Bonus books (unless I run out of time at the end of the year :-))

I've updated message 296

[Karma]

Finished Labor Day from the Women Born in the 1970s list.

17/20

[Erika]

Updated msg. 22. I'm now at 20/40.

[Zara's Corner]

Karma wrote: "I finished:

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

and

The Girl You Left Behind

Both from 2014:Women Born in the 1970s list

Which puts me at 9/20"

Karma, what did you think of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

[Zara's Corner]

everyone has been updated. please let me know if I've missed you at all.

[Karma]

Zara wrote: "Karma wrote: "I finished:

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

and

The Girl You Left Behind

Both from 2014:Women Born in the 1970s list

Which puts me at 9/20"

Karma, wha..."

I thought it was cute. It's written in an unconventional way, but I didn't feel like that slowed the story down any. It wasn't one of my favorites of the year, but it wasn't bad.

[Karma]

I've now fisnished

Me Before You

and

Whistling Past the Graveyard

These were both 4 star reads for me (I'm very stingy with my 5-stars :)

19/20

[Jojobean]

yay finished!

Post 24

[Angelique]

Hi,

I've added another Bonus book: The Remains of the Day

Updated msg 296, currently 2/8 + 2

[Elsbeth]

I saw that my addition from april was still not on the list. Now I've read 4/13:
Lady Audley's Secret.