Listopia Challenge - 2017

[Charity]

Updated message 12

22/40

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 10/16

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 11/16

[Sherry]

Update: 9/9 BOOKS Completed ✔

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [Read 6/16/2017]
2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren [Read 7/6/2017]
3. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett [Read 7/18/2017]

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. Autumn by David Moody [Read 8/5/2017]
2. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi [Read 8/25/2017]
3. Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder [Read 7/29/2017]

Funny as Hell!
1. The Teacher's Pet by Anica Mrose Rissi [Read 9/1/2017]
2. Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach [Read 9/7/2017]
3. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka [Read 6/16/2017]

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 09/09/2017 ★★☆☆☆

33/60

[Amanda]

Update #32


The Great American Novel

The Color Purple by Alice Walker Completed 25/8/17 Rating 4 stars


9/20

[Cheri]

Update: 8/10
Sourdough by Robin Sloan (3 stars)
(on San Francisco Bay Area Fiction list)

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

20/28

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 09/20/2017 ★★★☆☆

34/60

[Stephanie]

Updated message 216. 9/10 complete.

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

27/40

[Janet]

Update to message 358

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Scoop, The Door Into Summer and The Death of the Heart from Modern Library 100 Best Novels
The Master and Margarita, The Beach and Naughts & Crosses from BBC Top 200 Books

24/30

[Lauri]

Updating msg. 13. Only at 3 of my extremely optimistic original 50 🙃

Must. Try. Harder!

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 35. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 09/29/2017 ★★★★☆

35/60

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 44. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 09/30/2017 ★☆☆☆☆

36/60

[Eggp]

September update:
Goal: 19/20, 95.00%

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 9/10
09. Orlando - 17 Sep 2017, 4/5

[Kelly]

Updated #66.

18/20 complete

[Brianna]

updated message 60

read → 13 | 15

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

21/28

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #31.

✅ 15. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 10/09/2017 ★★★★☆

37/60

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

22/28

[Julie]

updated message 104

Challenge complete!

[Eggp]

All done, hope this one makes it back next year!
Goal: 20/20, 100.00%

Radium Age Sci-Fi: 100 Best - 5/5
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 5/5
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 10/10

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

23/28

[[deleted user]]

Listopia Challenge

01/01/17 - 31/12/17

Completed!!!

Hugo Award Books
1) The Three-Body Problem by Lix Cixin - 12/02/17
2) Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre - 07/08/17
3) The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon - 13/09/17
4) The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin - 30/04/17
5) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin - 20/07/17

Canada
1) A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews - 25/01/17
2) The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny - 31/05/17
3) The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood - 27/08/17
4) The Tent Peg by Aritha Van Herk - 13/10/17
5) The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - 10/06/17

Best Fantasy of 2010's
1) Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - 29/01/17
2) Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas - 19/02/17
3) Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 25/02/17
4) Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas - 13/03/17
5) Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan - 26/07/17

Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2017
1) The Stars Are Legion are Kameron Hurley - 23/03/17
2) Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon - 22/07/17
3) All Systems Red by Martha Wells - 09/08/17
4) Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan - 03/07/17
5) Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs - 19/03/17


Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners and Nominees
1) Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay - 10/03/17
2) Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis - 20/10/17
3) Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson - 27/06/17
4) Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 09/10/17
5) Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien - 09/04/17

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

29/40

[Ilona]

Updated message 45

5) The Giver
6) The Fellowship of the Ring
7) Slaughterhouse-Five
8) Frankenstein
9) The Handmaid's Tale

9/5

[Winter, Group Reads]

Winter: 6/11

[Stephanie]

updated message 216 - 10/10 books read. Now complete!

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 12/16

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

31/40

[Kate]

Updated message 18- 25/25 Completed

[Kelly]

Updated #66.

COMPLETE: 20/20 [31.10.2017]

[Carri]

update 95
5 each from 5 list
3/5 list complete
29/25

3 more books to read
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
4.
5.


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

[Alison]

Hi there....I just updated my post (#7) and wanted to let you know I've changed my goal to 22 books instead of 30. Considering the time I have left, I thought I'd make a more reasonable goal :-)

Thanks!!!

Alison

[Amanda]

Update #32


Best Books of the Decades: 2010's

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Completed 13/9/17 Rating 3 stars


Best Books of the Decades: 2000's

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Completed 20/8/17 Rating 4 stars

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Completed 9/9/17 Rating 3 stars

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Completed 12/10/17 Rating 3 stars


Favorite Magical Realism Novels

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Completed 22/10/17 Rating 3 stars


14/20

[Nina]

Update

1001 books you must read before you Die
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

1. To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Animal Farm
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

1. To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Northanger Abbey


Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

1. To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
2. All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
3.

6/8

[Susan C]

Updated message 88

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

[Chalmation]

Updated message #37

25/28

[Kadijah Michelle]

Hello everyone!

Cassandra has been really busy this year, so I'm going to post this update for you all.

Participants:

Carri - 29 /25 Completed!
Eggp - 20 /20 Completed!
Heather - 20 /20 Completed!
Ilona - 9 /5 Completed!
Julie - 5 /5 Completed!
Kate - 25 /25 Completed!
Kelly - 20 /20 Completed!
Lindsay - 13 /12 Completed!
Mie - 20 /20 Completed!
Monique - 25 /25 Completed!
Sherry - 9 /9 Completed!
Stephanie - 10 /10 Completed!
Susan C - 12 /12 Completed!
Susy - 2 /2 Completed!
Adriana - 2 /10
Agnieszka - 26 /50
Alex - 2 /12
Alison - 11 /22
Aly - 0 /50
Amanda - 14 /20
Amanda - 17 /22
Amber - 1 /5
Andrea - 5 /34
Anissa - 0 /5
Ann - 9 /15
Anna - 37 /60
Anne Hawn - 5 /40
Ashley - 23 /50
Blagica - 0 /30
Brianna - 13 /15
Candiss - 12 /16
Cassandra - 1 /30
Chaitra - 11 /15
Chalmation - 25 /28
Chantal - 1 /20
Charity - 33 /40
Cheri - 8 /10
Christa - 0 /100
Claire - 1 /10
Clare - 4 /12
cobean - 1 /15
Courtney - 0 /5
Cynthia - 0 /9
Debra - 0 /20
Diana S - 0 /40
Dominique - 0 /20
Elaine - 0 /50
Erika - 0 /30
Erin - 6 /20
Gail W - 12 /25
Gem - 0 /16
Holly - 9 /10
Ida - 1 /2
Jacki - 0 /25
Janet - 24 /30
Jenn - 3 /40
Jennifer - 14 /55
Jennifer - 0 /52
Jessica - 0 /62
Jill - 1 /20
Jordyn - 0 /5
Kara - 0 /15
Karina - 0 /15
Kate Elizabeth - 0 /12
Katherine - 48 /50
Kathryn - 0 /50
Katy (Queen of the Trash Nerds) - 0 /15
Kelly B - 2 /13
Kelsi - 24 /25
Kim E. - 2 /58
Korey - 0 /8
Kristina - 0 /10
Kristy - 0 /20
Kylie - 2 /12
Lauri - 3 /50
Lorelei - 4 /15
Lynette - 1 /36
Marie - 0 /12
Maureen - 0 /20
Maxine - 16 /40
Meagan - 0 /20
Melanie - 5 /25
Melanie - 0 /17
Melissa - 8 /20
Mindy - 4 /10
Miriam - 18 /75
MyzanM - 5 /25
Natalie - 1 /30
Nik - 3 /12
Nikinnia - 0 /31
Ninaastrid - 6 /8
Sam F - 31 /40
Samantha - 1 /15
Shelly - 0 /3
Stefani - SpelingExpirt - 0 /20
Sue - 0 /40
Tammy - 0 /30
Tanaz - 0 /12
Tina - 21 /50
Vernice - 8 /25
Vicki - 5 /50
Wie - 0 /40
Winter - 6 /11
Yanni - 0 /12

[zandrama]

Hi!

I haven't had the time to update my post so instead of trying to find it I'll post this new post and just copy from my reading corner. ^^

Listopia Challenge

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 ✔️
2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - ✔️

Completed: 2/2

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

34/40

[Janet]

Update to message 416

The Green Mile from BBC Top 200 Books

25/30

[Lindsay]

Update msg 26

14/12

Completed!

[[deleted user]]

Updated Message 61
28/50

[Charity]

Updated message 12.

35/40

[Kadijah Michelle]

Here is an update for this challenge:

Carri - 29 /25 Completed!
Eggp - 20 /20 Completed!
Heather - 20 /20 Completed!
Ida - 2 /2 Completed!
Ilona - 9 /5 Completed!
Julie - 5 /5 Completed!
Kate - 25 /25 Completed!
Kelly - 20 /20 Completed!
Lindsay - 14 /12 Completed!
Mie - 20 /20 Completed!
Monique - 25 /25 Completed!
Sherry - 9 /9 Completed!
Stephanie - 10 /10 Completed!
Susan C - 12 /12 Completed!
Susy - 2 /2 Completed!
Adriana - 2 /10
Agnieszka - 26 /50
Alex - 2 /12
Alison - 11 /22
Aly - 0 /50
Amanda - 14 /20
Amanda - 17 /22
Amber - 1 /5
Andrea - 5 /34
Anissa - 0 /5
Ann - 9 /15
Anna - 37 /60
Anne Hawn - 5 /40
Ashley - 23 /50
Blagica - 0 /30
Brianna - 13 /15
Candiss - 12 /16
Cassandra - 1 /30
Chaitra - 11 /15
Chalmation - 25 /28
Chantal - 1 /20
Charity - 35 /40
Cheri - 8 /10
Christa - 0 /100
Claire - 1 /10
Clare - 4 /12
cobean - 1 /15
Courtney - 0 /5
Cynthia - 0 /9
Debra - 0 /20
Diana S - 0 /40
Dominique - 0 /20
Elaine - 0 /50
Erika - 0 /30
Erin - 6 /20
Gail W - 12 /25
Gem - 0 /16
Holly - 9 /10
Jacki - 0 /25
Janet - 25 /30
Jenn - 3 /40
Jennifer - 14 /55
Jennifer - 0 /52
Jessica - 0 /62
Jill - 1 /20
Jordyn - 0 /5
Kara - 0 /15
Karina - 0 /15
Kate Elizabeth - 0 /12
Katherine - 48 /50
Kathryn - 0 /50
Katy (Queen of the Trash Nerds) - 0 /15
Kelly B - 2 /13
Kelsi - 24 /25
Kim E. - 2 /58
Korey - 0 /8
Kristina - 0 /10
Kristy - 0 /20
Kylie - 2 /12
Lauri - 3 /50
Lorelei - 4 /15
Lynette - 1 /36
Marie - 0 /12
Maureen - 0 /20
Maxine - 16 /40
Meagan - 0 /20
Melanie - 5 /25
Melanie - 0 /17
Melissa - 8 /20
Mindy - 4 /10
Miriam - 18 /75
MyzanM - 24 /25
Natalie - 1 /30
Nik - 3 /12
Nikinnia - 0 /31
Ninaastrid - 6 /8
Sam F - 31 /40
Samantha - 1 /15
Shelly - 0 /3
Stefani - SpelingExpirt - 0 /20
Sue - 0 /40
Tammy - 0 /30
Tanaz - 0 /12
Tina - 28 /50
Vernice - 8 /25
Vicki - 5 /50
Wie - 0 /40
Winter - 6 /11
Yanni - 0 /12

We are also bringing this challenge back for 2018. You can join here.

[Clare]

updated message 49
9/12

[Mindy]

Updated message 93:

8/10

[Candiss]

I updated message #5.

Read: 13/16