Listopia Challenge - 2017

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, everyone!

[Julie]

I'm in for 5 from the 100 Books to read in a Lifetime list

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

5/5

1. Still Alice
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
3. Room
4. In Cold Blood
5. Tuesdays with Morrie

[Cassandra]

Welcome, Julie!

[Wei]

I would like to join! I will choose 40 different books from a mix of 5 lists!

0/40 books

Best Books of the Decade 2010s

Best Crime Mystery Books

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

Best Books of 2016

[Kina]

In for 31 books. I'll post the listopias later.

[Christa]

I'm in for 100. Lists and books TBD. I'm excited to start looking!

[Emma]

Please sign me up for 25 books from the following lists:
Will bold once read
Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. 1984
3. Animal Farm
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. Les Misérables
6. Macbeth
7. Hamlet

Currently Read 0 / 7

The Best Epic Fantasy
1. A Feast for Crows
2. A Dance with Dragons
3. The Hobbit
4. The Fellowship of the Ring
5. The Two Towers
6. The Return of the King
7. The Odyssey

Currently Read 0 / 7

Best YA Contemporary
1. Attachments
2. This Song Will Save Your Life
3. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
4. An Abundance of Katherines
5. Thirteen Reasons Why
6. The Square Root of Summer
7. Landline
8. Tell Me Three Things
9. Love & Gelato
10. This is Where it Ends
11. Clean

Currently Read 0 / 11

[bookswithchaipai]

I'm in for 15 books.

Female psychological Thrillers and suspense
Sharp Objects
What Alice Forgot
The Couple Next Door
Behind Closed Doors

Best Dystopian and Post Apocalytic Fiction
Divergent
Animal Farm
Red Rising
American Gods

Best Horror Novels
It
The Exorcist

Books everyone should read at least once
Jane Eyre
The BFG
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Matilda
Mansfield Park
Little Women

11/15

[Jill]

I'm in for 20.

Completed: 1/20

Recommended by 2016 Reading Challengers

1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr...FINISHED 1/5/17
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Best Agatha Christie Book

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What We're Reading at Goodreads: September 2015

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[Kate Elizabeth]

I am in for 12 books.

YA Novels of 2016:

Heartless
The Unexpected Everything
Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
Gemina

Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once:

Pride and Prejudice
The Hobbit
Of Mice and Men
A Tale of Two Cities

YA Novels of 2017:

A Court of Wings and Ruin
Untitled
Lord of Shadows
Always and Forever, Lara Jean

0/12

[[deleted user]]

Updated Message 61 and increased my total to 50 books. Thanks!

[Mie]

Update - 1/20
✅ 2. Dracula ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Korey]

Two lists, four books each:


Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
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SF Masterworks
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[Jill]

I have my lists up in post #111 No I just have to decide on what books to read throughout the year

[Chalmation]

Updated Message #37

1/28

[Emma]

Can you change my goal from 30 to 25 please?

[Alex]

I would like to do 3 books from 4 different lists.
0/12

LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2017
2/12 books completed

Best Plot Twist
✔1. Why She Left Us | 1/16/17
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Women Are Writing The Best Crime Novels
✔1. In the Woods | 2/15/17
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Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
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Women And Mental Illness
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[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 01/03/2017 ★★★★★

1/60

[zandrama]

I really didn't know about the Listopia section of Goodreads. HOW can I have missed it?! I found too many interesting, fun, educational and just... wow... lists but my final choice was this one.

You Read a Book About What?!
I will try to read at least 2 books from this list during 2017.

1. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Done!
2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Finished: 1/2

[Cherry Maple]

Finished 1/5 .
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

[Katy (Queen of the trash nerds)]

I'm in for 15 books!

Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance

1. American Gods
2. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
3. Zoo City
4. Moon Called
5. The Red Pyramid

Speculative Fiction that Passes the Bechdel Test

1. The Mists of Avalon
2. Uglies
3. Seraphina
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
5. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

You Read a Book about What?

1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
3. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
5. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

[Lynette]

I finished my first book for this challenge - Moby Dick, on the Rory Gilmore List

[Chalmation]

Updated Message #37

2/28

[Janet]

Completed The Jungle from Radcliffes 100 Best Novels list.

1/30

[Melanie]

I was going to go for the Top 5 in 3 lists, but there were some repeats, so I'm going for top 5 in 4 instead (17 different books total)

Lists:
1 - Best of 2010s
1 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Goodreads Author)
2 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4 - Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) by Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
5 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)

2 - Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1 - 1984 by George Orwell
2 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
3 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4 - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

3 - Best Books Ever
1 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
2 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Goodreads Author)
4 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
5 - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

4 - The Best Epic Fantasy
1 - The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
2 - The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan
3 - The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4 - The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
5 - Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1) by Terry Goodkind (Goodreads Author)

[Cassandra]

Welcome new folks to the challenge!

Congratulations to Mie, Chalmation, Anna, Amber, Lynette, and Janet for finishing their first books. :)

[Heather]

Ok, I'm off the mark - read I See You
Hoorah

1/20

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

1/40

[Erin]

Update to message #8

✔ 1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

1/20

[Jill]

Updated my post #111 All the Light We Cannot See

[Karen]

I like to take part but I be using my list for catching up Book Series that I have fallen behind in

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Mie]

Update - 2/20
✅ 7. Watership Down ⭐️⭐️⭐️(⭐️)

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 29. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 01/08/2017 ★★★☆☆

2/60

[Claire]

1/10

Best Books of the Decade 2010s

1. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

[Chalmation]

Updated Message #37

3/28

[Cassandra]

Hi Karen! That's fine. How many books would you like to read?

Welcome, Claire!

[Meagan]

I'l try for 20 books. Five from each of the following lists:

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. 1984
3. Brideshead Revisited
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
5. Rebecca

Gilmore Girl's Complete Reading List
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. Little Women
4. Brave New World
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Best Horror Novels
1. It
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Red Dragon
4. House of Leaves
5. Interview with the Vampire

Books White People Need to Read
1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
3, Between the World and Me
4. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
5. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Progress 0/20

[Heather]

Second one read - Big Little Lies

[Cassandra]

Karen, did you see we have a challenge specifically designed for series?

Welcome Meagan!

No problem, Caitlin - you can change your goal or swap out books anytime you need to.

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 3/20
✅ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⭐️⭐️

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

2/40

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 1/16

[Mie]

Update msg. 17: 4/20
✅ Persuasion ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Diana S]

The Listopia Challenge 2017
Books Read: 0/40


My Listopia Lists ( will read 5 books from each list)

1. GR Picks for Tournament of Books 2017

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2. Booklist Best Adult Fiction 2016 (Part 1 of 2)
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3. Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List

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4. Over 35 List: Books You Most Want to Read in 2015

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5. Biographical Fiction

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Middle Grade Novels of 2017

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Middle Grade Novels of 2016

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Middle Grade Novels of 2013

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[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 40. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 01/12/2017 ★★★★☆

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[Karen]

Cassandra wrote: "Karen, did you see we have a challenge specifically designed for series?

No I got take a look thank you Cassandre:-)

[Lindsay]

Update msg 26

1/12

American Gods

[Lorelei]

I've updated msg 94 with Winter Garden which I finished 1.12.17.

2/15

I can hardly believe this is "Favorite Chick Lit." It is a great book but Chick Lit, not so much.

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 2/16

[Cassandra]

Welcome, Diana!

Interesting, Lorelei - what about it didn't feel like chick lit to you? I don't always agree with Goodreads readers' genre classifications either.