The Listopia Challenge - 2016

[Charity]

Updated message 10.

26/50

[Stephanie]

Update: Just finished "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. It applied to three of my lists. I now have 13/25

[[deleted user]]

Updated message 29

Completed 5/10

[Charity]

Updated message 10.

27/50

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


4/10

best science fiction and fantasy books
Gathering Blue
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
A Game of Thrones

[Janet]

Updated message 305

Jude the Obscure on BBC Top 200 list

19/30

[Elena]

Updated message #108 - 15/25

[Janet]

Updated message 312

Skeleton Key on BBC Top 200 list

20/30

[Candiss]

I updated message #4.

Read: 14/30

[Tawallah]

I updated message 92 - currently 10/24

[Charity]

Updated message 10.

28/50

[Janet]

Updated message 314

Hogfather on BBC Top 200 list

21/30

[Reija]

Updated, I must try to little bit more next months.

msg 70

Brainpicking's Best Science and Technology Books

You Read a Book about What?
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thinga
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Cloudspotter's Guide

3/7

[Stephanie]

Update: I finished "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides over vacation and now have 14/25.

[Eggp]

August update:
Goal: 29/30, 96.67%

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 9/10
08. A God in Ruins - 01 Aug 2016, 3/5
09. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels - 21 Aug 2016, 5/5

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 5/5
05. The Passage (The Passage, #1) - 04 Aug 2016, 3/5

[Charity]

Updated message 10.

30/50

[Jackie B. -]

Yikes. August was not a good month for me. I only read one book for my challenge! That puts me at 15/30-- It's September and I'm only halfway done?! I need to pay more attention to my challenges...

[Kadijah Michelle]

Hello All, Happy September! It is my favorite month of the year! Partially because my birthday is coming up, but mostly because fall starts, and I love all the fun the end of the year brings. School starts, sweater weather, snow! Lots of time to read.

I know I'm a few days late with August's statistics, but I was out of town away from my computer, so here they are: as of today, we have 85 participants. We have read 444 books of the 2147 pledged, and 2 participants have completed the challenge!

Great job everyone!

[Janet]

Updated message 318

The Unbearable Lightness of Being on BBC Top 200 list

22/30

[[deleted user]]

I know that it is quite late, but I'd like to join this challenge. I have a lot of big books on my TBR, but I am so intimidated by them. So, I made a dicision to read books from the list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort, that I already own. I'm setting a goal of reading 2 or 3 books a month from this list, so approximately 10 books.

Duration of the challenge for me: September 1 - December 31, 2016

***COMPLETE***

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
✔ 3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1013 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 27 to November 06, 2016
✔ 4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (592 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 13 to 19, 2016
✔ 5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (974 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 26 to November 05, 2016
✔ 6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (896 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 04 to 08, 2016
✔ 7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (512 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 19 to 26, 2016
✔ 8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (592 pages) ★★★★★
Read from October 06 to 11, 2016
✔ 9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (895 pages) ★★★☆☆
Read from September 28 to October 04, 2016
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 15 to October 03, 2016

10/10

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


7/10

best science fiction and fantasy books
Best Science Fiction of 21st Century

Gathering Blue
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
A Game of Thrones
The Martian
Messenger
Son

[❀ Sabina]

Update message 71:
Read 6/15
DNF: 1

[Candiss]

I updated message #4.

Read: 15/20

[Stephanie]

Updated message 85 with:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Sharp Objects by Gillian Welch
Dark Places by Gillian Welch
11/22/63 by Stephen King

Now have 12/15 of pledged goal.

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. It was on both Rory's Book Club (6/10) and Books Everyone Should Read Once (7/10). I now have 15/25 total.

[Candiss]

I updated message #4.

Read: 16/30

[Eggp]

Challenge complete.
Goal: 30/30, 100.00%

Thanks for keeping track, and hope you have a happy birthday, Kadijah!

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 5/5
01. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 10 May 2016, 2/5
02. The Grapes of Wrath - 24 May 2016, 4/5
03. The Name of the Rose - 30 Jun 2016, 4/5
04. Middlesex - 27 Jul 2016, 4/5
05. The Passage (The Passage, #1) - 04 Aug 2016, 3/5

Best Detective/Mystery Series - 5/5
01. The Thin Man - 05 Jan 2016, 4/5
02. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 24 Jan 2016, 3/5
03. Mystic River - 02 Apr 2016, 4/5
04. The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) - 26 Apr 2016, 3/5
05. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) - 18 May 2016, 4/5

Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror - 5/5
01. The Terror - 15 Mar 2016, 4/5
02. The Halloween Tree - 14 Apr 2016, 3/5
03. The Other - 31 May 2016, 4/5
04. Lord of the Flies - 04 Jul 2016, 4/5
05. Hell House - 13 Jul 2016, 3/5

Must Read Classics - 5/5
01. The Little Prince - 06 Jan 2016, 2/5
02. Fahrenheit 451 - 05 Feb 2016, 4/5
03. The Martian Chronicles - 17 Mar 2016, 4/5
04. The Metamorphosis - 03 Apr 2016, 3/5
05. Siddhartha - 18 May 2016, 1/5

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 10/10
01. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) - 27 Jan 2016, 5/5
02. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories - 22 Feb 2016, 4/5
03. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1) - 08 Mar 2016, 2/5
04. To the Lighthouse - 12 Apr 2016, 4/5
05. To Kill A Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird, #1) - 27 May 2016, 5/5
06. The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4) - 10 Jun 2016, 4/5
07. The Handmaid's Tale - 05 Jul 2016, 5/5
08. A God in Ruins - 01 Aug 2016, 3/5
09. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels - 21 Aug 2016, 5/5
10. The House of the Spirits - 10 Sep 2016, 5/5

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
9. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

1/10

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
9. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

2/10

[Susan C]

Updated message 12 - Done!


New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2014
1. Everything I Never Told You read 1/7/2016
2. Boy, Snow, Bird read 1/21/2016
3. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End read 2/20/2016

What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2015
1. Yes Please read 1/8/2016
2. After You read 1/25/2016
3. Necessary Lies read 2/26/2016

No Young Adult Best Chic Lit Reads
1. Little Lady, Big Apple read 1/3/2016
2. Where We Belong read 3/6/2016
3. What Alice Forgot read 9/17/2016

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
1. A Dirty Job read 1/1/2016
2. World Without End read 2/2/2016
3. The Thirteenth Tale read 5/6/2016

12/12
Challenge completed!

[Candiss]

I updated message #4.

Read: 17/30

[Janet]

Updated message #325

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23/30

[Ashley]

Count me in, I'm going to try for 50 :)

Complete: 22/50

Best F/F Romance Books 1/5

1. Holiday Escort



Best Kick-Ass Female Characters... 2/5

1. Pippi Longstocking ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Silver Chair ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️



YA & MG Books WITHOUT Romance 0/5


Best 21st Century Non Fiction 2/5

1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln ⭐️⭐️⭐️



Books that Make you Laugh 1/5

1. The Princess Bride ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️



Books Every Teen Should Read 2/5

1. Of Mice and Men ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️



Best Pop Science Books 13/20

1. Outliers: The Story of Success ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind ⭐️⭐️
3. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ⭐️⭐️
6. Physics of the Impossible ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. The Origin of Species ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World ⭐️
9. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature ⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. The Code Book ⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. The Optimism Bias ⭐️⭐️⭐️
13. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion ⭐️

[Candiss]

I updated message #4.

Read: 18/30

[Sam F]

Update Message

28/30 completed to date

[Candiss]

I updated message #4.

Read: 19/30

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
9. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★

3/10

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
9. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 15 to October 03, 2016

3/10

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
✔ 9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (895 pages) ★★★☆☆
Read from September 28 to October 04, 2016
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 15 to October 03, 2016

4/10

[Angelique]

Oh boy, I actually finished this challenge a while ago, but I hadn't noticed it yet.

Anyway, I've picked 15 books from 3 lists:
Big Fat Books Worth The Effort, thank you Eggp for the suggestion

1 - Weaveworld
2 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3 - The Time Traveler's Wife
4 - Into the Wilderness
5 - Anna Karenina

Causes of Ugly Crying, thank you Jodi for the suggestion
1 - The Fault in Our Stars
2 - Little Women
3 - Thirteen Reasons Why
4 - The Edge of Never
5 - The Book Thief

Books that Make you Laugh, to compensate the ugly crying
1 - The Martian
2 - Dead Until Dark
3 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
4 - Catch-22
5 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

15/15

[Sarah]

Update message 58 - currently on 5/15.

A third of the way through - not great, but not bad!

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "The Joy Luck Club" from the Best Feminist Books List. I now have 16/25.

[Stephanie]

Updated message 85. Now 14/15 done.

[Christa]

Updating from message 253. My 3 remaining are books that have not yet been released, but will be this month or next. So close to the finish line!

TOTAL GOAL: 137/140

Penguin Drop Caps
Authors A-Z from the Penguin Drop Caps collection
26/26

✓ Pride and Prejudice
✓ Jane Eyre
✓ My Antonia
✓ Great Expectations
✓ Middlemarch
✓ Madame Bovary
✓ Lord of the Flies
✓ Siddhartha
✓ An Artist of the Floating World
✓ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
✓ The Secret Life of Bees
✓ Native Speaker
✓ Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
✓ Five Children and It
✓ BUtterfield 8
✓ Swann's Way
✓ The Greek Coffin Mystery
✓ Haroun and the Sea of Stories
✓ Cannery Row
✓ The Joy Luck Club
✓ Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath
✓ Candide: Or Optimism
✓ Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose
✓ Sky Burial
✓ When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
✓ The Shadow of the Wind

YA Novels of 2015
22/22
✓ 1. Queen of Shadows
✓ 2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
✓ 3. The Heir
✓ 4. An Ember in the Ashes
✓ 5. Carry On
✓ 6. The Wrath & the Dawn
✓ 7. Shadow Study
✓ 8. Illuminae
✓ 9. Happily Ever After
✓ 10. Miss Mayhem
✓ 11. The Invasion of the Tearling
✓ 12. Dumplin'
✓ 13. The Rose Society
✓ 14. Ten Thousand Skies Above You
✓ 15. Soundless
✓ 16. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
✓ 17. The Heart of Betrayal
✓ 18. The Darkest Part of the Forest
✓ 19. Golden Son
✓ 20. The Mime Order
✓ 21. The Girl at Midnight
✓ 22. Their Fractured Light

Can't Wait Books of 2016
32/36
✓ 1. The Raven King
✓ 2. Glass Sword
✓ 3. The Crown
✓ 4. The Hidden Oracle
✓ 5. Stars Above
✓ 6. A Gathering of Shadows
✓ 7. The Rose & the Dagger
✓ 8. Passenger
✓ 9. Night Study
✓ 10. Starflight
✓ 11. Kings Rising
✓ 12. Rebel of the Sands
✓ 13. The Last Star
✓ 14. The Siren
✓ 15. Stiletto
✓ 16. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
✓ 17. The Forbidden Wish
✓ 18. Truthwitch
✓ 19. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
✓ 20. Firstlife
✓ 21. A Study in Charlotte
✓ 22. The Bands of Mourning
✓ 23. League of Dragons
✓ 24. This Savage Song
✓ 25. The Abyss Surrounds Us
✓ 26. A Court of Mist and Fury
✓ 27. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
✓ 28. The Beauty of Darkness
✓ 29. The Star-Touched Queen
✓ 30. Empire of Storms
✓ 31. A Torch Against the Night
✓ 32. Crooked Kingdom
✓ The Hammer of Thor
Heartless
Gemina
A Million Worlds with You

Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
24/24
✓ 1. Matilda
✓ 2. Wild Magic
✓ 3. Poison Study
✓ 4. Throne of Glass
✓ 5. Magic Study
✓ 6. Fire Study
✓ 7. Grave Mercy
✓ 8. Storm Glass
✓ 9. Matched
✓ 10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
✓ 11. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
✓ 12. Touch of Power
✓ 13. Alanna: The First Adventure
✓ 14. In the Hand of the Goddess
✓ 15. The Goose Girl
✓ 16. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
✓ 17. Lioness Rampant
✓ 18. Terrier
✓ 19. So You Want to Be a Wizard
✓ 20. The Red Pyramid
✓ 21. Vampire Academy
✓ 22. Wolf-Speaker
✓ 23. Emperor Mage
✓ 24. The Realms of the Gods

Best Feminist Books
14/14
✓ 1. The Bell Jar
✓ 2. The Color Purple
✓ 3. The Help
✓ 4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
✓ 5. How to Be a Woman
✓ 6. Kindred
✓ 7. Valley of the Dolls
✓ 8. The Red Tent
✓ 9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
✓ 10. Herland and Selected Stories
✓ 11. We Should All Be Feminists
✓ 12. Cat's Eye
✓ 13. The Penelopiad
✓ 14. The Second Sex

Books That Make You Laugh
10/10
✓ 1. The Importance of Being Earnest
✓ 2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
✓ 3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
✓ 4. Anne of Green Gables
✓ 5. Go the Fuck to Sleep
✓ 6. Life of Pi
✓ 7. The Princess Bride
✓ 8. Coyote Blue
✓ 9. Dead Until Dark
✓ 10. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Top 100 Gay Novels of the XXI century
8/8
✓ 1. Almost Like Being in Love
✓ 2. Captive Prince
✓ 3. Prince's Gambit
✓ 4. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
✓ 5. The Song of Achilles
✓ 6. Rainbow Boys
✓ 7. Havemercy
✓ 8. Cut & Run

[Sam F]

Update:

Message 33

31/330 completed to date

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (896 pages) ★★☆☆☆

5/10

[Janet]

Update to message 338

Naked Lunch
High Fidelity

25/30

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
✔ 6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (896 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 04 to 08, 2016
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
✔ 8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (592 pages) ★★★★★
Read from October 06 to 11, 2016
✔ 9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (895 pages) ★★★☆☆
Read from September 28 to October 04, 2016
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 15 to October 03, 2016

6/10

[Amanda]

Updated #175

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up


12. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Completed 30/09/16 Rating 5 stars
13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Completed 15/10/16 Rating 5 stars

Must Read Classics

14. Watership Down by Richard Adams Completed 21/09/16 Rating 4 stars

14/25

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "Atonement" by Ian McEwan from Rory's Book List. I now have 17/25