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One of my reading resolutions this year is to read more classics. I'm going to use this list to help me.0/20
I am joining the Listopia Challenge for 2019.I am going to read 20 books. I will list them here and mark completed as I finish them throughout the year.
1. A Tale of Two Cities-COMPLETED
2. Oliver Twist-COMPLETED
3. The Stranger- COMPLETED
4. The Winter of Our Discontent-COMPLETED
5. The Good Earth-COMPLETED
6. A Prayer for Owen Meany-COMPLETED
7. The Kite Runner-COMPLETED
8. Howards End-COMPLETED
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls-COMPLETED
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-COMPLETED
11. A Fine Balance-COMPLETED
12. Frankenstein-COMPLETED
13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass-COMPLETED
14. The Scarlet Letter-COMPLETED
15. Invisible Man-COMPLETED
16. Their Eyes Were Watching God-COMPLETED
17. The House on Mango Street-COMPLETED
18. Beloved-COMPLETED
19. Rebecca-COMPLETED
20. Great Expectations-COMPLETED
Updated 7/1/2019 Completed 8/20
CHALLENGE COMPLETED!! 20/20
UPDATED 12/31/2019
So excited to finally read some of these! I'll go for 5 books from the '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' list. 1.. The Little Prince
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Gone with the Wind
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I'm trying for 5 from this list. I'll look at a few other lists and add another 7 books for a total of 12 books.https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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I am going to do 10 books from: Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once:
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Hello! First timer in the challenge, so I will give it a go and set a goal of 20 books. Here is the breakdown for me: 1/20
Best Classics Ever Written
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I definitely want in on this one! Here are my lists..5 Books from:
Best Crime & Mystery Books
1. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin 3/30/19 (#133)
2. A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris 1/2/19 (#2087)
3. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie 4/5/19 (#1191)
4. The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen 4/15/19 (#322)
5. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 6/16/19 (#2)
5 Books from:
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1. Man In The Queue by Josephine Tey 1/19/19 (#347)
2. Survival of the Fritters by Ginger Bolton 1/24/19 (#647)
3. The Diva Runs Out of Thyme by Krista Davis 2/23/19 (#95)
4. The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett 3/17/19 (#186)
5. Cover Her Face by P.D. James 5/16/19 (#71)
10 Books from:
Short Fiction of tor.com
1. Brimstone and Marmalade by Aaron Corwin 3/19/19 (#3)
2. Under the Spinodal Curve by Hanuš Seiner 8/10/19 (#248)
3. Your Orisons May Be Recorded by Laurie Penny 8/10/19 (#91)
4. The Log Goblin by Brian Staveley 10/22/19 (#88)
5. Fangs for Hire by Jenna Black 10/22/19 (#207)
6. Fare Thee Well by Cathy Clamp 10/25/19 (#230)
7. We Have Always Lived on Mars by Cecil Castellucci 11/11/19 (#52)
8. The Insects of Love by Genevieve Valentine 11/12/19 (#32)
9. Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes 11/13/19 (#5)
10. Selfies by Lavie Tidhar 11/29/19 (#130)
The Listopia Challenge Duration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
I am in for 5 books from the following list:
100 Historical Romance To Read Before You Die
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Using Books Mentioned in Tools of Titan by Tim Ferris
I'll keep track in my member's corner and update when I can:
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I'm in with five books this year. :)Listopia challenge
I'm doing a total of five books in this challenge
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. Lolita
2. The Book Thief
3. Memoirs of a Geisha
You Read a Book about What?
1. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
2. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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I will join for 15 books to start from 3 lists I hope to not forget about this challenge this year.
I've never participated in a challenge before, so please forgive me if it goes south. I intend to read at least 12 of the books from this list:
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
As I get a better idea of which ones, I'll update.
....so much pressure...
Hi, I'd like to join with 30 books, please. I have a bunch that I didn't get to read last year.THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Progress: 45/30 (Completed)
List: Goodreads Choice Award Winners & Nominees
Nominees:
1 - The President Is Missing - nominee
2 - The Last Time I Lied - nominee
3 - Sometimes I Lie - nominee
4 - We Were Liars - nominee
5 - The Copper Gauntlet - nominee
6 - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - nominee
7 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette - nominee
8 - El Deafo - nominee
9 - A Court of Frost and Starlight - nominee
10 - The Cruel Prince - nominee
11 - Force of Nature - nominee
12 - Armada - nominee
13 - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating - nominee
14 - Strange the Dreamer - nominee
15 - The Lost Hero - nominee
16 - Silver Shadows - nominee
17 - The Bronze Key - nominee
18 - The Red Pyramid - nominee
19 - Born with Teeth - nominee
20 - Captivated by You - nominee
21 - War Storm - nominee
22 - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - nominee
23 - The Raven Boys - nominee
24 - The Dream Thieves - nominee
25 - The Fates Divide - nominee
26 - Top Secret Twenty-One - nominee
27 - The Throne of Fire - nominee
28 - Blue Lily, Lily Blue - nominee
29 - Us Against You - nominee
30 - Muse of Nightmares - nominee
31 - Grit - nominee
32 - The Ruby Circle - nominee
33 - The Death of Mrs. Westaway - nominee
34 - The Cuckoo's Calling - nominee
35 - The Serpent's Shadow - nominee
Winners:
1 - Salt to the Sea - winner
2 - Herding Cats - winner
3 - The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One - winner
4 - Leah on the Offbeat - winner
5 - Why Not Me? - winner
6 - Eleanor & Park - winner
7 - The Son of Neptune - winner
8 - Red Rising - winner
9 - The Mark of Athena - winner
10 - Confess - winner
11 - Room - winner
2019 Listopia ChallengeDuration: Jan 01 2019 - Dec 31 2019
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Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
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1.The Little Prince byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry,01/10/19*****
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Original Stories....a Breath of Fresh Air
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100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
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The 800+ Page Gorillaz
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I'm in for 10 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Not sure what I'm doing wrong with adding the link, lol
Working on updating you guys. If you don't see your name on the list, it's coming soon. Welcome everyone! :)
I am in for 20, 5 each from 4 list List 1: Hello Sunshine Book Picks!
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LIST 2: Newbery Medal Winners
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LIST 3: 35 Books That Will Make You a Better Person
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LIST 4: 100 Classics to Read in a Lifetime
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I'm in for 20. Progress as of 12/11/19: 26/20 CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
2019 Tournament of Books Longlist: 6/5
Best Angry Woman Books: 5/5
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: 15/10
2019 Tournament of Books Longlist
1. The Great Believers
2. The Italian Teacher
3. A Terrible Country
4. French Exit
5. Fruit of the Drunken Tree
6. Small Country
Best Angry Woman Books
1. Bad Feminist
2. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
3. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
4. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
5. Women Talking
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. The Moonstone
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3. The White Tiger
4. Possession
5. A Room with a View
6. The Quiet American
7. Falling Man
8. Things Fall Apart
9. The Secret History
10.Pride and Prejudice
11.North and South
12. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
13. Far From the Madding Crowd
14. The Diary of a Nobody
15. The Remains of the Day
Updated :) Welcome everyone! :D
Update to message 22 - 2/25
I'm in for 25, mostly from the 1001 List, but maybe some others, too.LISTOPIA 2019 - Yearly Challenge
Message 76
New goal: 100/100 -- COMPLETE 8/4/19
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Boxall
The Secret History
Giovanni's Room
The Body Artist
In Watermelon Sugar
There But For The
Madame Bovary
Veronika Decides to Die
Wise Blood
What Maisie Knew
Northanger Abbey
The Thin Man
Brideshead Revisited
Contact
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Day of the Triffids
Red Harvest
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Book of Illusions
Brighton Rock
Annie John
The Girls of Slender Means
Out of Africa
Chocky
The Pilgrim's Progress
An Artist of the Floating World
Persuasion
Thérèse Raquin
Pulitzer Prize
Interpreter of Maladies
The Road also Oprah's Book Club
Agatha Award
Track of the Cat
Goodreads Choice Awards & Nominees
The Woman in the Window
Red Rising
Golden Son
Morning Star
The Library Book also Reese's Book Club
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Iron Gold
Something in the Water also Reese's Book Club
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Lost City of Z
Eligible
A Dog's Purpose
Between the World and Me also Pulitzer and National Book Award
A Reliable Wife
Little Fires Everywhere also Pi Phi Pages and Reese's Book Club
Next Year in Havana also Pi Phi Pages and Reese's Book Club
Hidden Figures also Cargnegie and Pi Phi Pages
The Baker's Daughter
Strange the Dreamer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
The Last Time I Lied
Whiskey in a Teacup
The Map of Salt and Stars
Eleanor & Park also Banned or Challenged
Muse of Nightmares
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death also Pi Phi Pages
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
Winter Garden
The Help also Audie Award
The Last Guardian
The Genius of Birds
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine also Reese's Book Club
Where the Crawdads Sing also Reese's Book Club and Edgar Award
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Oprah's Book Club
Black and Blue
also Audie Award
Barry Award
Still Life
Reese's Book Club
The Proposal
The Alice Network also Goodreads Choice
Man Booker
Purple Hibiscus
Moon Tiger
The Butcher Boy also 1001 Boxall
Pi Phi Pages
Everybody's Got Something
Gemini
On the Beach
The Midwife's Tale
100 Bookbub
The Outsiders also Banned or Challenged
Fahrenheit 451 also Hugo Award and Banned or Challenged
Gratitude
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn also Audie Award
Tuesdays with Morrie
1984 also 1001 Boxall
Audie Award
My Sister's Keeper also Banned or Challenged
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Last Lecture
I Know This Much Is True also Oprah's Book Club
The Maltese Falcon also 1001 Boxall
The Third Man also 1001 Boxall
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography also Oprah's Book Club
National Book Award
All the Pretty Horses also 1001 Boxall
East of Eden also Oprah's Book Club
Between the World and Me also Goodreads Choice and Pulitzer
Carnegie
The Time Paradox
Astray also Audie Award
Banned or Challenged
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Edgar Award
Jane Steele
Where the Crawdads Sing
Update to msg #10:(Did my msg # change already?)
Progress: 4/40
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Updated message 56 1/12 completed and I added one more list. Just need one more list....UPDATE: Found my 3rd list and it has been added :)
I'm in for 4 categories--- we'll say 12 books total for now
Updated message 7613/25
Wow, so many challenges and so little time!I'll adjust some of the books I've just on my 2019 list and then maybe I'll add some more.
PROGRESS:
LATEST UPDATE: 172/172
❎Best Books of the 21st Century TOTAL: 56/56
1. Criadas y señoras✔
2. Life of Pi✔
3. The Time Traveler's Wife✔
4. La carretera✔
5. Kafka en la orilla✔
6. The Graveyard Book✔
7. La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao✔
8. The Night Circus✔
9. Gone Girl✔
10. El arte de conducir bajo la lluvia✔
11. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan✔
12. A Short History of Nearly Everything✔
13. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time✔
14. Tigre Blanco✔
15. Cutting for Stone✔
16. Ready Player One✔
17. El jilguero✔
18. The Sea of Monsters✔
19. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books✔
20. Me Before You✔
21. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children✔
22. The White Queen✔
23. The Ocean at the End of the Lane✔
24. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet✔
25. The Passage✔
26. The Forgotten Garden✔
27. If I Stay✔
28. Orphan Train✔
29. Wonder✔
30. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier✔
31. In the Woods✔
32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants✔
33. The Girl You Left Behind✔
34. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking✔
35. The Indigo Spell✔
36. Please Look After Mom✔
37. The Rosie Project✔
38. Bloodlines✔
39. Something Borrowed✔
40. The Golden Lily✔
41. The Likeness✔
42. Big Little Lies✔
43. Between Shades of Gray✔
44. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic✔
45. Flight Behavior✔
46. Heist Society✔
47. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie✔
48. Something Blue✔
49. Where'd You Go, Bernadette✔
50. The Sugar Queen✔
51. Firefly Lane✔
52. Segundo Verano En Vaqueros✔
53. Burial Rites✔
54. Open City✔
55. All the Bright Places✔
56. Small Great Things✔
❎1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die TOTAL: 51/51
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray ✔
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes✔
3. Los Miserables: Obra Completa ✔
4. Frankenstein✔
5. The Handmaid's Tale✔
6. War and Peace✔
7. Lolita✔
8. Catch-22✔
9. El Color Púrpura✔
10. Sin novedad en el frente✔
11. Treasure Island✔
12. Persuasión✔
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles✔
14. The Godfather✔
15. El proceso✔
16. Gulliver's Travels✔
17. On the Road✔
18. Watchmen✔
19. Pippi Calzaslargas: Todas las historias✔
20. El amor en los tiempos del cólera✔
21. The Virgin Suicides✔
22. Rojo y negro✔
23. La Peste✔
24. Beloved✔
25. La vuelta al Mundo en 80 Dias✔
26. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd✔
27. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings✔
28. A Farewell to Arms✔
29. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle✔
30. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder✔
31. Zorba the Greek✔
32. Annie John✔
33. The Moonstone✔
34. Smilla's Sense of Snow✔
35. The Turn of the Screw✔
36. White Teeth✔
37. Libra✔
38. Out of Africa✔
39. The Bluest Eye✔
40. Novela de ajedrez✔
41. The 39 Steps✔
42. Wide Sargasso Sea✔
43. Cheese✔
44. The Year of the Hare✔
45. Ficciones✔
46. The Magician of Lublin✔
47. So Long a Letter✔
48. Faceless Killers✔
49. In Cold Blood✔
50. The Pursuit of Love✔
51. El reino de este mundo✔
❎Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books TOTAL: 9/10
1. Ender's Game✔
2. Snow Crash✔
3. 20000 leguas de viaje submarino✔
4. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency✔
5. Galápagos✔
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe✔
7. The Magician's Nephew✔
8. De la tierra a la luna✔
9. Cinco semanas en globo✔
10. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories✔
❎Favorite Georgette Heyer Book! TOTAL: 10/10
1. Frederica✔
2. Cotillion✔
3. The Unknown Ajax✔
4. Regency Buck✔
5. Lady of Quality✔
6. False Colours✔
7. An Infamous Army✔
8. Charity Girl✔
9. Duplicate Death✔
10. Detection Unlimited✔
❎Best Agatha Christie Book TOTAL: 15/15
1. 4:50 from Paddington✔
2. A Murder Is Announced✔
3. The Thirteen Problems✔
4. The Big Four✔
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train✔
6. Peril at End House✔
7. Three Act Tragedy✔
8. Poirot Investigates✔
9. The Moving Finger✔
10. They Do It with Mirrors✔
11. A Pocket Full of Rye✔
12. And Then There Were None✔
13. Black Coffee✔
14. Appointment with Death✔
15. Murder in Mesopotamia✔
❎Big Fat Books Worth the Effort TOTAL: 4/4
1. East of Eden✔
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies✔
3. Pet Sematary✔
4. The Origins of Totalitarianism✔
❎Books Made into Movies TOTAL: 26/26.
1. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe✔
2. The Joy Luck Club✔
3. The Outsiders✔
4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ✔
5. The Bridges of Madison County✔
6. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 ✔
7. Girl, Interrupted✔
8. Message in a Bottle✔
9. Fight Club✔
10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X✔
11. Hamlet✔
12. The Witches of Eastwick✔
13. The Black Dahlia✔
14. Captain Blood: His Odyssey✔
15. The Great Train Robbery✔
16. Casino Royale ✔
17. Captains Courageous✔
18. The Body✔
19. La tía Julia y el escribidor✔
20. Confessions of a Shopaholic ✔
21. El Fantasma de la Ópera✔
22. Warm Bodies✔
23. All the King's Men✔
24. Devil in a Blue Dress✔
25. Riders of the Purple Sage✔
26. The Scapegoat✔
Oh, nice! I want to play!1. Best Steampunk books
Soulless
Leviathan
Boneshaker
Perdido Street Station
The Time Machine
2. Best Talking-Animal Books
Stuart Little
The Phantom Tollbooth - DNF, replaced
Bunnicula
The Tale of Despereaux
3. Top 100 Middle School Must-Reads
The Hunger Games
The Outsiders
Number the Stars
Stargirl
Island of the Blue Dolphins
4. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Catcher in the Rye
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
5. Favorite Magical Realism Novels
Garden Spells
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Sugar Queen
The Night Circus
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I have found all the Steampunk novels to read, and most of the classics. Will find the rest in the library.
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Started reading the Phantom Tollbooth. I hate it. I really hate it. So, I'm replacing it with A Bear Called Paddington
Updated Message 43 1/30 completed. Unfortunately, I did not like that book at all, but felt it necessary to add an extra star since I actually couldn't walk away from it.
I updated message #252018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
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January update to msg #10:Progress: 9/40
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Room (other topics)The Serpent's Shadow (other topics)
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THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
18/18 Challenge completed!
I will read at least two books from each list, and will read a total of 18 books
Books to Read under the Trump Administration
✓ The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year read 6/25/2019
✓ The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election read 7/12/2019
✓ Reasons to Stay Alive read 11/13/2019
Funniest Novels of All Time
✓ You Suck read 8/3/2019
✓ Bite Me read 10/14/201
Books I Kind of Want to Physically Snuggle After Reading
✓ Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend read 1/22/2019
✓ The Sun Is Also a Star read 2/22/2019
✓ The Girl You Left Behind read 4/11/2019
✓ Still Me read 6/25/2019
Best Books of 2017
✓ Astrophysics for People in a Hurry read 1/14/2019
✓ Idaho read 2/15/2019
✓ Pachinko read 3/10/2019
✓ Beneath a Scarlet Sky read 6/8/2019
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
✓ Autumn read 8/22/2019
✓ We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves read 10/23/2019
Must Read Non-Fiction
✓ Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
✓ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother read 7/29/2019
✓ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City read 12/6/2019