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Listopia Challenge - 2017
Goal: 8/25Recommended by 2016 Reading Challengers
1. Lilac Girls
2. The Summer that Melted Everything
3. The Traitor Baru Cormorant
4. Born a Crime
5. Animal Farm
6. The Little Prince
7. American Gods
8. Looking for Alaska
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I haven't decided what books I'm going to read yet but I'm going to read from this list:YA Novels of 2017
Middle Grade Novels of 2017
Must Read Classics
0/10 books
Welcome to the challenge!Adriana, let me know when you decide how many books to read.
I'll start with 52 for the children's books and the 3 for the 4th century books.
I updated both of your goals! Good luck. :)
Listopia 20178/20
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
1. Dark Matter
3. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
5. Commonwealth
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
4. Great Expectations
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
BBC Top 200
2. I Capture the Castle
3. The Pillars of the Earth
5. Persuasian
Oulipo, etc.
2. Cloud Atlas
3. The Virgin Suicides
5. The Blind Assassin
As with the Randomiser Challenge, Listopia Challenges are also my nemesis and I've never been able to finish one! Yet, here I am signing up for another one... lol read → 13 | 15
Best Books of the 21st Century
read → 06 | 03
30 → American Gods by Neil Gaiman | ★★★
34 → The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson | ★★★★
06 → Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling | ★★★★
47 → City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare | ★★★★
05 → Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling | ★★★★
44 → City of Glass by Cassandra Clare | ★★★★
Can't Wait Books of 2016
read → 03 | 03
11 → The Crown by Kiera Cass
97 → P.S. I Like You by Kasie West | ★★★
22 → This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab | ★★★★
Top 100 YA Books
read → 05 | 06
13 → Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead | ★★★
21 → Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins | ★★★★★
26 → Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor | ★★★★
70 → The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey | ★★★
07 → The Giver by Lois Lowry | ★★★★
Diversity in Young Adult and Middle Grade
read → 02 | 03
02 → Cinder by Marissa Meyer | ★★★
10 → Scarlet by Marissa Meyer | ★★★★
Listopia Challenge
32/50
2017 Tournament of Books
1. All the Birds in the Sky 2/7 **
2. Moonglow 1/29 ***
3. Homegoing 3/15 ****
4. The Nix 2/25 ***
5. High Dive 2/12 ****
6. Version Control 2/21 ***
7. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 2/19 ***
8. My Name Is Lucy Barton 2/20 *****
9. The Underground Railroad 2/21 ***
10. The Throwback Special 2/4 ***
11. The Sport of Kings 2/18 **
12. Black Wave 2/15 **
13. Mister Monkey 2/5 **
14. Sweet Lamb of Heaven 1/31 **
15. Sudden Death
16. We Love You, Charlie Freeman 1/23 ***
17. The Vegetarian 1/30 **
18. The Mothers 1/31 **
The Millions Most Anticipated: First Half of 2017
19. Exit West, by Mohsid Hamid 11/23 ****
20. Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, by Manjula Martin 3/18 ***
21. A Separation, by Katie Kitamura 7/10 **
22. 300 Arguments: Essays 5/1 **
23. Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders 4/11 ***
24. White Tears, by Hari Kunzru 12/4 ***
25. Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin 9/25 ***
26. Dear Cyborgs 12/16 ***
27. War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans 10/1 ***
28. So Much Blue, by Percival Everett 12/24 ***
2017 Mock Newbery
29. Wolf Hollow 8/18 ****
30. The Wild Robot 8/20 **
31. Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land 6/26 ****
32. Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White 6/1*****
32/50
2017 Tournament of Books
The Millions Most Anticipated: First Half of 2017
2017 Mock Newbery
I love lists! I'll read 5 each from the following lists:
Recommended by 2016 Reading Challengers:
1. Ull, (#46 ) - 2/3
2. Neverwhere, (#40) - 4/17
3. The Bridges of Madison County, (#427) - 7/3
4. The Boy on the Bridge, (#691) - 8/8
5. In the Woods, (#325) - 11/17
Books You Wish More People Knew About:
1. Fury, (#266) - 1/24
2. Every Heart a Doorway, (#3036) - 3/24
3. Wildest Dreams, (#3074) - 6/1
4. The Grimm Legacy, (#19) - 9/7
5. Vampire Crush, (#2432) - 9/30
The Best Fairytales and Retellings:
1. Beastly (#10 ) - 1/27
2. A Kiss in Time (#41 ) - 2/26
3. Red Queen, (#1666) - 5/15
4. Stardust, (#6) - 7/18
5. The Earthsea Trilogy, (#1739) - 10/15
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once:
1. If I Stay, (#626) - 4/14
2. Ella Minnow Pea, (#1414) - 3/23
3. Warm Bodies, (#1742) - 5/2
4. The Song of Achilles, (#1034) - 5/15
5. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, (#1454) - 10/8
Best Gay books based on fairytales
1. Red (#90) 4/1
2. Duck! (#2) 7/11
3. Driven Snow (#80) 9/11
4. Once Upon a Dream ( #94) 7/5
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Welcome to the challenge, everyone! I love looking at the lists you've picked.
Hi Cassandra,I bumped my goal up to 30 (instead of 25).
Thanks!
Alison
Please sign me up for 20 books.THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2017
20 books in total.
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. 1984 by George Orwell ✔
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ✔
3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ✔
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ✔
The 'Can't Wait' Books of 2017
1. A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab ✔
2. Caraval by Stephanie Garber ✔
3. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor ✔
4. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ✔
5. King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard ✔
6. Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab ✔
7. Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh ✔
8. Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo ✔
9. Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton ✔
10. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon ✔
MG/YA/NA #ownvoices
1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ✔
2. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona ✔
3. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo ✔
2016 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
1. Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence ✔
2. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton ✔
3. Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield ✔
COMPLETE: 20/20 [31.10.2017]
Welcome Kelly!I updated your goal, Alison. Good luck!
I will start off with 10 books as I will have other challenges going on in 2017.Goal: 0/10
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Angelfall (Susan Ee)
Enclave (Ann Aguirre)
The Darkest Minds (Alexandra Bracken)
Red Rising (Pierce Brown)
The Death Cure (James Dashner)
Best Epic Fantasy
Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
Wizard's First Rule (Terry Brooks)
Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
Furies of Calderon (Jim Butcher)
Starting with 5 from this list:Best Cozy Mystery Series
First 5 on the list I've not already read:
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (Psychic Eye Mystery, #1)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
Reading only 12 books! https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...1984
The Great Gatsby
The Little Prince
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Little Women
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Count of Monte Cristo
Brave New World
Handmaiden's Tale
Memoirs of a Geisha
Anna Karenina
The Bell Jar
Listopia ChallengeChallenge Accepted: January 1, 2017
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: December 31, 2017
I am in for 50 in any combination from the lists below...
Best M/M Contemporary Books of 2016
FAVOURITE ROMANCE BOOKS OF 2016
Best New M/M Series of 2015
Tortured Sexy Trash
Best Ever Contemorary Romance Books
Best Paranormal Romance Series
Hi - I'm joining inListopia Challenge 2017
Inspired by - 2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
I'll aim for 20 books.
Books Read - 0/20
Current ideas are -
1. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
2. Small Island by Andrea Levy
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4. The Lake House by Kate Morton
5. The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
7. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
8. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
10. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
11. Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) by Rachel Caine
12. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
13. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
14. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
15. The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston
16. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
17. Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1) by Sarah Addison Allen
18. Witch Light by Susan Fletcher
19. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
20. The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies
The Listopia ChallengeDuration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Books Read: 26/50+
Lists Completed: 1/5
List 1: Best Nora Roberts Novels 16/15
In Death Series (at least 10 books) (J.D. Robb) & 5 Nora Roberts books (view spoiler)
In Death series (14/10):
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#32 / In Rache entflammt=New York to Dallas #33 / Chaos in Death #33.5The following by Nora Roberts (2/5):
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(currently reading or planned next) The Liar (also on List 2) / The Obsession / Tödliche Flammen=Blue Smoke (also on List 2)
List 2:Best Romantic Suspense 6/5+
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Romantic Suspense series by by Karen Rose:
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#18Black Knights Inc. series by Julie Ann Walker:
#1,
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/ Thrill RideBuried by Kendra Elliot
Three-Year Rule by Alaina Stanford
The Affair by Lee Child
Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson
List 3: Awesome Books by Christian Indies 0/5
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List 4:Christy Award Winners 1/5
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(also on List 5A)List 5 (A & B):A: Christian Mystery/Suspense Books & B: Christian Crime Fiction 3/10
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Women of Justice series by Lynette Eason (A):
#2 / A Killer Among Us #3 / Gone in a Flash #3.5
by Irene Hannon (A)
by Dee HendersonDeadly Reunions series by Lynette Eason (A):
When a Secret Kills #3 / Retribution #3.5
List 6 ( A & B): A: Christian Contemporary Romance Favorites & B: Amazing Books! (Mostly Christian) 0/10
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Welcome to the challenge, everyone!
I will read 30 books from the following lists:1.Best Historical Fiction (6)
2.Best Southern Literature (6)
3.Best Middle East Fiction (6)
4.What We've Read So Far in 2016 (6)
5.Best Cozy Mystery Series (6)
I will list the books as I read them for each list.
This is intriguing for me. I want in, but I need to do some researching. I'll add to this post once I made up my mind.Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
1. Graceling by Kristen Cashore
2. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamore Pierce
3. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
4. The Blue Sword by Robert McKinley
5. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
1. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
5. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
6. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
7. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
8. Lirael by Garth Nix
9. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
10. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Welcome!Samantha, let me know when you decide how many books to read. :)
I'm in! I plan to read 50 books in total.This is still under construction. Will continue to add more.
Five from this list: Best Historical Fiction
1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. Gone with the Wind
3. The Pillars of the Earth
4. Cold Mountain
5. Outlander
Five from this list: Best Strong Female Fantasy Novels
1. Bitten
2. The Laughing Corpse
3. Poison Study
4. Graceling
5. Fire
Five from this list: Five Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. The Giver
2. Charlotte's Web
3. Frankenstein
4. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5. Water for Elephants
Ten from this list: Best Nora Roberts Novels
1. Vision in White
2. Bed of Roses
3. Savor the Moment
4. Happy Ever After
5. Rising Tides
6. Inner Harbor
7. Chesapeake Blue
8. Blue Dahlia
9. Black Rose
10. Red Lily
Seven from this list: Best Paranormal Romance Series
1. Dark Lover
2. Halfway to the Grave
3. Darkfever
4. Moon Called
5. Hush, Hush
6. The Warlord Wants Forever
7. Tempting the Beast
Three from this list: Best Crime Mystery Books
1. 1st to Die
2. A is for Alibi
3. In the Woods
Five from this list: The Best Fairytales and Retellings
1. Beastly
2. Wicked Lovely
3. The Looking Glass Wars
4. Daughter of the Forest
5. Wings
Five from this list: What Women Born in the 90s Have Read in 2016
1. Sleeping Giants
2. Red Queen
3. The Selection
4. All the Bright Places
5. Rebel of the Sands
Five from this list: Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1. Dark Lover
2. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
3. Throne of Glass
4. Shiver
5. Frostbite
LIST ONE: Science Fiction Books by Female AuthorsBy the end of 2016, read 25/100
1. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
2. Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
3. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
4. Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
5. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
LIST TWO: Best Non-fiction (non biography)
By the end of 2016, read 36/100
1. Into the Wild
2. A Brief History of Time
3. A People's History of the United States
4. The Rape of Nanking
5. Cosmos
LIST THREE: Best Business Books
By the end of 2016, read 14/100
1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
3. The 48 Laws of Power
4. Liar's Poker
5. Strengths Finder 2.0
COMPLETED: 0/15
"THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
I'm starting fresh - it will be my first time participating in this Listopia challenge. I'm very excited!
Going for 20 books for this challenge.
FIVE books from the "Best books of the 1990s"
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
4. Holes
5. The Virgin Suicides
FIVE books from "Best Books of the 2000s"
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
5. The Road
FIVE books from the "Best of the 2010s"
1. 11/22/63
2. The Light Between Oceans
3. Go the Fuck to Sleep
4. Freedom
5. Room
FIVE books from "Best Women-authored Books"
1. Black Beauty
2. The Secret Garden
3. The Giver
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I am in for 3I am planning on:
Americanah (Spirit of the Toast)
The Dispossessed (SF Masterworks)
Watchmen (Best Dystopian Fiction)
But plans can change!
I'm thinking 12 books, hopefully from these lists:2/12
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...
1. Val McDermid - Northanger Abbey
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Writing Books for Writers
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. Holly Lisle's Create A Plot Clinic by Holly Lisle
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Going to spend the next 10-ish days trying to decide on lists to use for this challenge - I think I enjoy this as much as Kara does. :)
I am in!! I would like to do 5 books from 5 lists so 25 total. Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
1. The Color Purple
2. Looking for Alaska
3. The Crucible
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin
5. The Outsiders Completed 4/19/17
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
1. The Green Mile
2. Memoirs of a Geisha
3. Angela's Ashes
4. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
5. White Oleander
Best Adult Female Friendship Books
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
3. The Secret Life of Bees
4. Little Women
5. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Completed 4/20/17
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
1. Speak
2. If I Stay Completed 3/1/17
3. Wintergirls
4. Just Listen
5. Paper Towns
Historical Fiction 2015
1. The Last Queen of India
2. The Lake House Completed 3/29/17
3. At the Water's Edge
4. The Other Daughter Completed 3/6/17
5. Mademoiselle Chanel
Completed: 5/25
I'm in for 12 books from these lists:Best Twists
✓ The Wasp Factory read 8/28/2017
✓ House Rules read 5/18/2017
Best Books of 2016
✓ When Breath Becomes Air read 1/30/2017
✓ Truly Madly Guilty read 2/2/2017
✓ The Nest read 4/24/2017
✓ The Widow read 10/12/2017
✓ A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy read 4/21/2017
Best Books of the 21st Century
✓ The Year of Magical Thinking read 4/20/2017
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
✓ Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons read 1/23/2017
✓The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales read 3/14/2017
✓ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant read 5/21/2017
✓ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer read 7/14/2017
12/12 Challenge completed! 10/12/2017
I'm in but unsure. Maybe 3 lists with at least 3 books in each category. So put me down for 9 books for now...
In for 12, please. I think I'll do all from 500 Essential Graphic Novels. I really want to up my comic book and graphic novel reading in 2017.===================
[3/12]
01. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2017.02.16, ★★★★☆).
02. The Complete Persepolis (2017.03.27, ★★★★☆).
03. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel (2017.04.30, ★★☆☆☆).
I'm going to try for 30 from the following lists:Best Books of the 20th Century
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by WOMEN
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Best Adult Female Friendship Books
Best Modern Australian Literature
I'm in for 36 from the following lists that I've been using since 2016:Newbery Medal Honor Books
Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge
Wodery's Around the World in 80 Books list
Scoo's Better "Best Books" List
The Literary United States: A Map of the Best Book for Every State
Rory Gilmore Reading List
Women Pulitzer Winners in Non-Fiction
Women Pulitzer Winners in Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
I want to read or at least give a fair chance to all of the Gilmore Girls books that I haven't read yet. It will be a multi-year effort, but for this challenge, my goal is 10 books.Listopia Challenge - 2017
10/10
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn COMPLETED MAY 6
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland COMPLETED MAY 12
3. Beloved COMPLETED JUNE 30
4. Slaughterhouse-Five COMPLETED JULY 9
5. Carrie COMPLETED OCT 13
6. Anna Karenina COMPLETED OCT 27
7. The Awakening COMPLETED NOV 9
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray COMPLETED Dec 4
9. Candide COMPLETED DEC 8
10. The Art of War COMPLETED DEC 13
Books I'll read for this challenge: 4/15
Lists:
Best Books Ever
1. The Remains of the Day
2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
3. The Forgotten Garden
4. Home Front
Amazing WWII Fiction
1. The Soldier's Wife
2. The Secret Keeper READ 2.10.17
Favorite Chick-Lit
1. Winter Garden READ 1.12.17
2.Where the Heart Is READ 2.20.17
3. Night Road
Best Historical Fiction
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. Sarah's Key
3. The Bronze Horseman
Favorite Cozy Mystery Series
1. Murphy's Law READ 1.3.17
2. An Incomplete Revenge
Women Who Solve Crimes
1. Among the Mad
2.Royal Flush
Best History Books
1. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
2.The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
There are 18 books contained in these lists.
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEI Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
I am in for 25
5 each from 5 list
3/5
29/25
List 1 - COMPLETE
5/5
The best books published during the 2010's decade (2010 - 2019)}.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4093
1. The Selection (The Selection, #1) by Kiera Cass
2. Matched (Matched, #1)by Ally Condie
3. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
5. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
LIST 2
4/5
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
2. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
3. The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
4. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
5.
LIST 3
3/5
Reese Witherspoon's Book Club
http://www.listchallenges.com/reese-w...
1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
3. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
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LIST 4. COMPLETE
5/5
Lisat Challenges, Popular Book Club Reads
http://www.listchallenges.com/200-boo...
1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
4. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
5. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
LIST 5 COMPLETE
12/05
5 from
Books Every Kid Should Read
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. If You Give a Mouse A Cookie by by Laura Joffe Numeroff
3. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
4. Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
5. The Big BFG by Roald Dahl
6. A Bad Case Of Stripes by David Shannon
7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume"
8. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
9. Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
10. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
11. The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
12. The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
I'm going to aim for 20 from three different lists.Best Non-Fiction (non biography)
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The Best Epic Fantasy
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Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
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I'd like to join this challenge. I'd like to add lists and books at a later date but lets start with a goal of 10 book.
I'm in for 15.THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Goal: 1/15
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
1. The Girl Next Door | 01.15.2017
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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In the Spirit of The Toast
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I'll read a total of nine books for this challenge
0/9
In the Spirit of Toast
1. Americanah
2. The Poisonwood Bible
3. The Golem and the Jinni
Best Southern Literature
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
3. Cold Sassy Tree
Best Non-Fiction/Non-Biography
1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
2. In Cold Blood
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
0/9
In the Spirit of Toast
1. Americanah
2. The Poisonwood Bible
3. The Golem and the Jinni
Best Southern Literature
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
3. Cold Sassy Tree
Best Non-Fiction/Non-Biography
1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
2. In Cold Blood
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Cynthia wrote: "I'll read a total of nine books for this challenge 0/9
In the Spirit of Toast
1. Americanah
2. The Poisonwood Bible
3. The Golem and the Jinni
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Hi! I added Devil in the White City to my TBR just yesterday. If you make it there before me, you'll have to let me know how you liked it!
Three lists for me, 15 books in all.0/15
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FINISHED. 1. Love in the Present Tense. Katherine Ryan Hyde
2. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Katherine Boo
3. Life After Life. Kate Atkinson
Best Graphic Novels
1. FINISHED. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Satrapi
2. FINISHED. Blankets. Craig Thompson
3. FINISHED. Paul Has a Summer Job. Michel Rabagliati
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
1. The Nightingale. Kristin Hannah
2. FINISHED. Our Souls at Night. Kent Haruf
3. Fifteen Dogs. Andre Alexis
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
1. FINISHED. Big Little Lies. Liane Moriarty
2. FINISHED. Everything I Never Told You. Celeste Ng
3. FINISHED. Station Eleven. Emily St. John Mandel
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
1. To Rise Again At a Decent Hour. Joshua Ferris
2. FINISHED. Oryx and Crake. Margaret Atwood
3. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time. Mark Haddon
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2025 Reading Challenge
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Sorry 12 in total x