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www.goodreads.com/list/show/952.1001_...
1.In Cold Blood
2. Northanger Abbey
3. Aesop's Fables
4. The Fall of the House of Usher
5.The House of the 7 gables
6. 1984
7. The Pilgrim's Progress
8. Jane Eyre
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. Wuthering Heights
11. Of Mice and Men
12. The Scarlett Letter
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Uncle Tom's Cabin
15. Don Quiote
/www.goodreads.com/list/show/264.Books...
16. Animal Farm
17. The Kite Runner
18. The Fault in our Stars
19. The Canterbury Tales
20. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
21. The Screwtape Letters
22. Paradise Lost
23. Room
24. Salem's Lot
25. The Kitchen House
Updated message 28 with the books I plan to read.

You can count books just once for the same challenge, so just one list. You can count books across different challenges though.

Newbery Medal Award Winners
5/10
1. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - 4/4/16
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - 2/29/16
3. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - 6/14/16
4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
5. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan - 2/17/16
6. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
7. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
8. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - 3/27/16
9. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
10. Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Newbery Medal Honors
5/10
1. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - 3/22/16
2. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale - 5/3/16
3. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater - 7/10/16
4. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
5. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
6. El Deafo by Cece Bell - 5/16/16
7. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
8. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
9. The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
10. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer - 6/10/16
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
5/10
1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - 7/20/16
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 2/13/16
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 3/27/16
6. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - 7/30/16
7. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
10. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - 8/25/16


Must Read Classics:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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2. Crime and Punishment
3. Les Misérables
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. The Scarlet Letter
Kadijah's best books (as the challenge leader, I trust her taste!):
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
1. Jacob Have I Loved
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5. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Quality Dark Fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. The Elephant Tree
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3. The Zombie Room
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. The Secret Garden
3. A Christmas Carol
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. Pippi Longstocking
6. The Catcher in the Rye
Must Read Classics
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Animal Farm
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Persuasion
5. Emma
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin

0/1 from LIST #1
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
1. The Kite Runner
0/2 from LIST #2
Best Japanese Books
2. Norwegian Wood
3. Confessions of a Mask
0/3 from LIST #3
Best Existential Fiction
4. The Plague
5. Nausea
6. The Master and Margarita
0/4 from LIST #4
Best Hardboiled PI Noir
7. The Long Goodbye
8. The Postman Always Rings Twice
9. The Killer Inside Me
10. Kiss Me, Deadly
0/5 from LIST #5
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
11. The Hound of the Baskervilles
12. Bonjour tristesse
13. The Tartar Steppe
14. Manhattan Transfer
15. The General of the Dead Army
0/5 from LIST #6
Let's Shake It Up a Bit (a great list that deals with books that transcended boundaries)
16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
17. Tropic of Cancer
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19. The Cement Garden
20. Amerika
0/4 from LIST #7
Most Depressing Book of all time
21. The Bell Jar
22. The Hours
23. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
24. Othello
0/3 from LIST #8
Time Magazine's All Time 100 Novels/a>
25. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
26. Herzog
27. Portnoy's Complaint
0/2 from LIST #9
The Great American Novel
28. Ragtime
29. The Naked and the Dead
0/1 from LIST #10
The 800 page Gorillaz
30. 2666


0/20 Completed:
List 1 (4 books): Books that Everyone Should Read A Leas Once
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List 2 (4 books): Award Winners Since 1990
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List 3 (4 books): Must Read Classics
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List 4 (4 books): Best Hardboiled PI Noir
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List 5 (4 books): Best Books by Women
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I have the same issue. I picked 8 for each of my lists, but I knew there would be a lot of overlap. I cut my goal to 20. We do not encourage using the same book twice in the same challenge, but you can use the same book in multiple challenges.


I don't see why not. I think a few others have done the same.

Read: 3/10 books
Best Young Adult Books - 5 books
✘1. Vampire Academy ✯✯✯✯ 3/31/16
✘2. Uglies ✯✯✯ 4/30/16
3. Divergent
4. The Lightning Thief
5. City of Bones
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s - 5 books
1. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
✘2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America ✯✯✯ 3/4/16
3. Me Talk Pretty One Day
4. American Gods
5. The Help

Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016
I try to read two books each lists and one bonus so seven total.
Brainpicking's Best Science and Technology Books
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists
Wonders of the Universe (Wonders of Brian Cox #2)
You Read a Book about What?
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Spook
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
7/7

Edit: My lists so far.
Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels - 3/5
✓1. Moon Called ★★★★ Aug. 31
✓2. Uprooted ★★★★ Jul. 18
3. Graceling
4. Bitten
✓5. Shiver ★★ Sep. 11
Best Non-Fiction (non biography) - 2/5
1. Eat, Pray, Love
2. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
3. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
✓4. He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys - Greg Behrendt ★★ Feb. 29
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Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About (of all types) - 2/5
1. Horns
✓2. Thirteen Reasons Why ★★★ May 11
✓3. The Shack ★★★★ Aug. 29
4. Animal Farm
5. City of Ashes
This is what I've come up with so far.
















50 Best Social Psychology Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
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Best Price & Prejudice Sequels/Variations/Adaptations OR Jane Austen Books/Sequels/Bios and More
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9... OR https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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Writing Books for Writers
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
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Dark erotica
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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Signing up for 15!
The Listopia Challenge 2016
Duration: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2016
Completed: 0/15
List 1: Best Spy Novels
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List 2: Best Historical Fiction
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List 3: Can't Wait Books of 2016
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List 4: Best Epic Fantasy
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The Listopia Challenge 2016
Duration: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2016
Completed: 0/15
List 1: Best Spy Novels
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List 2: Best Historical Fiction
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List 3: Can't Wait Books of 2016
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List 4: Best Epic Fantasy
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Yearly Challenge: Listopia Continued
Best Young Adult Books
Graceling
The Little Prince
Just Listen
The Catcher in the Rye
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
The Truth About Forever
Go Ask Alice
This Lullaby
0/8
Everyone's Read It But Me
Interview with the Vampire
The Catcher in the Rye
Atonement
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
My Sister's Keeper
Son of a Witch
I Know This Much Is True
4/11
Everyone's Read It But Me
The Little Prince
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
Atlas Shrugged
The Poisonwood Bible
3/12

Most Interesting Science Non-Fictions Books Read in 2016:
1) Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby
2) How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
0/2
More lists and novels to come...
So many great lists...hard to pick...
sign me up for 12 lists and 52 books
List #1 Best Kick-Ass Female Character from YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Graceling
2. A Great and Terrible Beauty
3. The Host (reread)
4. Clockwork Angel
List #2 Best Book Boyfriends
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Beautiful Disaster (reread)
2. Vampire Academy (reread)
3. Love Unscripted
4. The Vincent Boys
5. Taking Chances
6. Crash (reread)
List #3 Books You Wish People Knew About
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. The Zombie Room
2. The Ghost and the Goth
3. Nobody's Princess
4. Prophecy of the Sisters
5. Finding Sky
6. Incarnate
List #4 The Best Fairytales and Retellings
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1. Fairest
2. Beastly
3. Avalon High
4. Ophelia
List #5 College Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Easy (reread)
2. The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
3. Clash
4. Callum & Harper
5. The Secret of Ella and Micha
6. The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
List #6 Best Adult Vampire Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Dracula
2. Interview with the Vampire
3. Let the Right One In
4. Dead Until Dark
List #7 Books that made you cry!
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. The Time Traveler's Wife
2. A Child Called "It" (reread)
3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4. Gone with the Wind (reread)
List #8 Favorite books from my childhood (rereads)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. Charlotte's Web
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. Little Women
4.James and the Giant Peach
5. Black Beauty
6. Peter Pan
List #9 The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. American Psycho
2. Lord of the Flies
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Flowers in the Attic
List #10 Intense and "Angsty" Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Slammed
2. Point of Retreat
3. The Vincent Brothers
4. Love Unrehearsed
List #11 YA Debuts 2015
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
1. My Heart and Other Black Holes
2. The Wrath and the Dawn
3. The Night We Said Yes
4. The Creeping
List #12 Best Zombie Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. Rot & Ruin
2. Cell
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Dust & Decay
sign me up for 12 lists and 52 books
List #1 Best Kick-Ass Female Character from YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Graceling
2. A Great and Terrible Beauty
3. The Host (reread)
4. Clockwork Angel
List #2 Best Book Boyfriends
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Beautiful Disaster (reread)
2. Vampire Academy (reread)
3. Love Unscripted
4. The Vincent Boys
5. Taking Chances
6. Crash (reread)
List #3 Books You Wish People Knew About
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. The Zombie Room
2. The Ghost and the Goth
3. Nobody's Princess
4. Prophecy of the Sisters
5. Finding Sky
6. Incarnate
List #4 The Best Fairytales and Retellings
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1. Fairest
2. Beastly
3. Avalon High
4. Ophelia
List #5 College Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Easy (reread)
2. The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
3. Clash
4. Callum & Harper
5. The Secret of Ella and Micha
6. The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
List #6 Best Adult Vampire Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Dracula
2. Interview with the Vampire
3. Let the Right One In
4. Dead Until Dark
List #7 Books that made you cry!
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. The Time Traveler's Wife
2. A Child Called "It" (reread)
3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4. Gone with the Wind (reread)
List #8 Favorite books from my childhood (rereads)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. Charlotte's Web
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. Little Women
4.James and the Giant Peach
5. Black Beauty
6. Peter Pan
List #9 The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. American Psycho
2. Lord of the Flies
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Flowers in the Attic
List #10 Intense and "Angsty" Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Slammed
2. Point of Retreat
3. The Vincent Brothers
4. Love Unrehearsed
List #11 YA Debuts 2015
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
1. My Heart and Other Black Holes
2. The Wrath and the Dawn
3. The Night We Said Yes
4. The Creeping
List #12 Best Zombie Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. Rot & Ruin
2. Cell
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Dust & Decay

1. The Turn of the Screw
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Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
1. A Canticle for Leibowitz
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. Shards of Honor
4. Graceling
5. Half Bad
6. Alif the Unseen
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray
8. The Winner's Curse
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I'm going to use this challenge to help me find books for other challenges.
Best young adult realistic novels
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Best books of the 20th century
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I only watched the movie
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Best book boyfriends
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Total 20

^ Going to up this to 26 books.
List One; Big Fat Books Worth The Effort
1. Schindlers List - Thomas Keneally - DONE
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List Two; Books Turned Into Disney Movies
1. The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen - DONE
2. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - DONE
3. Winnie The Pooh - A A Milne - DONE
4. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson - DONE
5. Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie - DONE
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List Three; 1001 Childrens Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1. Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans - DONE
2. Heidi - Johanna Spyri - DONE
3. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - DONE
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List Four; Best Young Adult Books
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9/26

List 1: BBC Top 200 Books
1. Wuthering Hights by Emily Bronte
2. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
List 2: The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
1. Sharp Objects by Gillian Welch
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
3. Dark Places by Gillian Welch
List 3: Best Post Apocalyptic Fiction"
1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
2. The Children of Men by P D James
3. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
List 4: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1. The Martian by Andy Weir
2. Robopocalyps by Daniel Wilson
3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
List 5:Best Feminist Fiction
1.The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2. ROOM by Emma Donoghue
3. Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
COMPLETED!

Quirky Southern Fiction
1. Gone with the Wind
2. Garden Spells
3. Where the Heart Is
4. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
5. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
2015: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
1. The Girl on the Train
2. All the Light We Cannot See
3. The Nightingale
4. Orphan Train
5. Big Little Lies
2014: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
1. Eleanor & Park
2. What Alice Forgot
3. Fangirl
4. Landline
5. One Plus One

Quirky Southern Fiction: 8 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once: 13 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Best Young Adult Books: 10 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: 9 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written: 4 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2455
Best Book Boyfriends: 6 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Worst Books of All Time: 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Best Paranormal Romance Series: 4 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Couldn't Put The Book Down: 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

List 1: Best Books Ever
1. The Book Thief
2. Les Misérables
3. The Alchemist
4. Dracula
5. A Tale of Two Cities
Dark Lover
List 2: Favorite Historical Romance Novels
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Mine Till Midnight
3. Seduce Me at Sunrise
4. Married By Morning
5. The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie
The Secret
Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage
List 3: Musically Inclined Heroes Heroines In Romance
1. Thoughtless
2.On Dublin Street
3.Love's Rhythm
4.Rock Addiction
5.Effortless
List 4: Best Book Boyfriends
1. Unleashed
2. Fallen Crest High 01.01.16
3. Fallen Crest Family
4. Fallen Crest Public
5. Fallen Fourth Down
List 5: Funny as Hell
1. Tangled
2. About a Dragon
3. Skin Deep
4. A Demon and His Witch
5. Christmas from Hell
List 6: My Laugh Out Loud Romantic Books
1. The Mane Event
2. What a Dragon Should Know
3. To Woo A Warrior
4. Holding Out
5. In Bed with a Highlander

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. East of Eden
3. The Name of the Rose
4. Shōgun
5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
6. A Suitable Boy
7. The Mill on the Floss
8. The Final Empire
9. Tai-Pan
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. The Bell Jar

1. 2015: What Women Born in 1970s have read so far this year
✔ a. Everything I Never Told You
✔ b. The Good Girl
✔ c. Lock In
✔ d. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2. Printz Award Winners and Honor Books
✔ a. I Am the Messenger
✔ b. I'll Give You the Sun
c. On the Jellicoe Road/ The Scorpio Races
✔ d. Monster
3. Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies and Duologies
a. The Eye of the World
b. The Way of Kings
c. Words of Radiance
d. The Lies of Locke Lamora
4. Interesting Well Written Books not by Dead/Old White Men
✔ a. Beloved
b. Half of a Yellow Sun
c. Villette
d. The Awakening
5. Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
a. Mansfield Park
✔ b. Dune
c. The Brothers Karamazov
d. David Copperfield
6. Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
✔ a. The Chrysalids
✔ b. The Postman
✔ c. Across the Universe
d. The Scorch Trials













For this challenge I wold like to try for 10 books from this list.
1.) A Morbid Taste for Bones
2.) The Mask of Ra

Yearly Challenge
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016
Rules :
Choose your list (or multiple lists!) and the number of books you plan to read from each.
State your goals in your first post (posting a link to your lists is recommended*).
Any format of book, cross challenging etc. are all fine.
You can keep track in your Member's Corner or update here.
When you finish off a list, post your completed list here so we can all congratulate you!
I'm going to do 20 from 1 list
Books: 1/20
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
1. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett - #548 (2/1/2016)
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Thanks for any tips that you might have! :)

I type in a search for the book and on the book's page it lists the listopias it is on.

I didn't even notice that was there. Thank you so much! Makes life much easier :)

You are welcome! I am glad it can help you.

5/12 read.
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
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2. Of Mice and Men
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. The Return of the King
"Can't Wait" Books of 2016
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3. The Last Star
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Best YA Books
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2. The Hobbit
3. Uglies
4. A Great and Terrible Beauty
Books mentioned in this topic
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (other topics)The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (other topics)
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (other topics)
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (other topics)
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Philip Pullman (other topics)George Orwell (other topics)
Philip Pullman (other topics)
George Orwell (other topics)
Kathryn Stockett (other topics)
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