Listopia Challenge - 2017

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 14/20
✅ The Help ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[bookswithchaipai]

Update Message 110

11/15

[Amanda]

Update #32

Best Books of the Decades: 2000's

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Completed 7/6/17 Rating 5 stars

6/20

[Janet]

Update to message 331

Far from the Madding Crowd from BBC Top 200 Books
Something Wicked This Way Comes, A Bend in the River and Fifth Businessfrom Modern Library 100 Best Novels

17/30

[Julie]

updated message 104

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 15/20
✅ Divergent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Kelly]

Updated #66.

10/20 complete

[[deleted user]]

Updated Message 61
21/50

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 16/20
✅ Charlotte's Web ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 17/20
✅ Of Mice and Men ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Anne Hawn]

Message 365
I'm very late getting started with this challenge, but I have a lot of books on my "To Read" list that don't fit my other challenges.

I want to read 10 books from the Pulitzer Prize list and 20 books from the An Eclectic Booklist and 10 books, 1 from each list to be chosen later. I have an idea that this is going to take 2 years, so I have selected several different lists.

Total 40 books. 5/40

An Eclectic Booklist:
1. Battlefield Of The Mind: Winning The Battle In Your Mind Joyce Meyer Finished
✅2. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Sue Klebold
Finished
3. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd Jim Fergus
4. The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
5. Les Misérables Victor Hugo
6. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
7. Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside OutPhillip C. McGraw
8. The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister John O'Sullivan
9. The Greatest Story Ever Told Fulton Oursler
10. Vatican Malachi Martin
11. Life Is Not a Dress Size Rita Farro
12. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 Andrew Roberts
13. Through My Eyes Tim Tebow
14. Shaken: Tim Tebow
✅15. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News Bernard Goldberg Finished
16. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lew Wallace
15. The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence
16. Adam Bede George Eliot
17. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
18. My Man Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse
19. Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I Thomas Malory
20. King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard
21. O Pioneers! Willa CatherThe Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe
22. Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens Finished
23. The Plague Albert Camus
24. The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
25. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston


Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels:
✅1. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
2. The Color Purple Alice Walker
3. The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
5. The Shipping News Annie Proulx
6. The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
7. All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
8. The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
9. March Geraldine Brooks
10. Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener
11. So Big Edna Ferber
12. The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
13. Advise and Consent Allen Drury

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once:

1. 1984 George Orwell
2. Animal Farm George Orwell
3. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4. The Book Thief Markus Zusak
5. Lord of the Flies William Golding
6.Night Elie Wiesel
7. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
8. The Color Purple Alice Walker
9. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
10. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
11. The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
12. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
13. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
14. The Time Traveler's Wife Niffenegger
15. The Fault in Our Stars John Green
16. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess


Books by Homeschoolers:

1. Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations Alex Harris
2. I Kissed Dating Goodbye Joshua Harris
3. It’s (Not That) Complicated: How to Relate to Guys in a Healthy, Sane, and Biblical Way Anna Sofia Botkin
4. Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are Alex Harris
5. Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships Jana Duggar
6. Through My Eyes Tim Tebow
7. Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms Tim Tebow
8. Know Who You Are, Live Like It Matters Tim Tebow
9. What God Says about You: Believing in Yourself When Others Don't Tim Tebow


Books You Could Not Put Down:
1. The Girl with the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson
2. Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
3. The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeannette Walls
4. The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
5. The Fault in Our Stars John Green
6. Outlander Diana Gabaldon
✅7. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
8. 1984 George Orwell
9. Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
10. The Road Cormac McCarthy
✅11. The Book Thief Markus Zusak
12.Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon
14. Night
13. The Stand Stephen King Elie Wiesel
14. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
15. The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
16. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
17. The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
18. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
19. Go Ask Alice Beatrice Sparks
20. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog John Grogan

The Best Gothic Tales
1. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
2. Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
3. The Little Stranger Sarah Waters
4. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Edith Wharton
5. The Birds and Other Stories Daphne du Maurier

Best Detective/Mystery Series
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
2. The Black Echo Michael Connelly
3. Naked in Death J.D. Robb
4. Listening Woman Tony Hillerman
5. In the Woods Tana French
6. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
7. Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear

[Anne Hawn]

Anna wrote: "Meeting my 2016 reading challenge was way too easy. So for 2017 I'm going to really challenge myself. I'm going to read 60 books from one single list.

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once..."

I really like the way you have done your list and the books you have chosen. I also like the green checkboxes and would like to know how to make them myself. It makes it much easier to see what has yet to be read. Would you mind telling me how to do them?

[Anne Hawn]

Cassandra wrote: "THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Our most open-ended challenge is back for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from the previous years, or to start fr..."

I have made a list called "An Eclectic Booklist" except that I have mispelled Eclectic. How can I edit the title?

[Ilona]

Anne Hawn wrote: "Cassandra wrote: "THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Our most open-ended challenge is back for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from the previous yea..."

Hi Anne Hawn,
You can pretty much copy and paste symbols from comments or other websites. Is this the check mark that you mean: ✅?

Regarding your Listopia list, I am not so sure how to do that. If there is no option anywhere, you could try contacting Goodreads support. They will be able to help you.

[Maxine]

update msg 15

14/40
Thanks

[Eggp]

June update:
Goal: 15/20, 75.00%

Radium Age Sci-Fi: 100 Best - 5/5
05. We - 08 Jun 2017, 3/5

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 3/5
03. The Blind Assassin - 12 Jun 2017, 5/5

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 7/10
07. The House of Mirth - 24 Jun 2017, 3/5

[Amanda]

I've read another couple from my list so have now read 9/22.

Amanda (message38)

[Lindsay]

Update msg 26

12 completed

The Great Gatsby

[Mindy]

Updated message 93:

3/10

[Susy]

Update message 276

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith → FINISHED
2. Emma by Jane Austen → FINISHED

2/2 → challenge completed

[Melissa]

updated #58: 8/20

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 7/16

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 18/20
✅ The Lightning Thief ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Kelly]

Updated #66.

11/20 complete

[GailW]

Update message 9:
12/25
[X] 1. Her Royal Spyness
[X] 2. Britt-Marie Was Here
[X] 3. Commonwealth
[X] 4. A Gentleman in Moscow
[X] 5. The Summer Before the War
[X] 6. The Ex
[X] 7. The Nest
[X] 8. The Nix
[X] 9. News of the World
[X] 10. Truly Madly Guilty
[X] 11. A Great Reckoning
[X] 12. The One-in-a-Million Boy

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 19/20
✅ The Call of the Wild ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Mie]

Update msg 17: 20/20 - COMPLETE ✔️
✅ Girl in Translation ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 8/16

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

17/28

[Ann]

update 102

6/15

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

18/28

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 32. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 06/16/2017 ★★★★☆

✅ 47. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 06/28/2017 ★★☆☆☆

28/60

[Kelly]

Updated #66.

14/20 complete

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 07/27/2017 ★★★☆☆

29/60

[Maxine]

update

16/40

[Alison]

Update to post #7 :-)

[Mindy]

Updated message 93:

4/10

[Eggp]

July update:
Goal: 18/20, 90.00%

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 5/5
04. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) - 01 Jul 2017, 4/5
05. Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) - 05 Jul 2017, 4/5

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 8/10
08. Ice - 06 Jul 2017, 4/5

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 9/16

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

19/28

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 33. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 08/12/2017 ★★★★☆

30/60

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 34. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 08/14/2017 ★★★★☆

31/60

[Heather]

Finished Remember Me
That's my challenge completed :)

20/20 read

[Nik]

Congratulations, Heather!

[Cheri]

Update: 7/10

San Francisco Bay Area Fiction list
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (3 stars)

[Claire]

Updated #136

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 48. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 08/21/2017 ★☆☆☆☆

32/60

[Amanda]

Update #32


Best Books of the Decades: 2010's

Room by Emma Donoghue Completed 1/8/17 Rating 4 stars

Best Books of the Decades: 1990's

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Completed 18/7/17 Rating 4 stars


8/20

[Stephanie]

Updated message 216: 8/10 books complete

[Mindy]

Hi Cassandra,

I've posted a couple of updates, but my tally on page 1 is still 0. Should be 4/10.

Thanks!