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Listopia - 2019
How to Participate1. Post here telling the Challenge Leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active. You must chose a goal for the challenge.
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---Please be sure to post the number of books (pages for the Let’s Turn Pages Challenge), you have completed every time you post an update. The Challenge Leader is not able to keep track for you because of the number of participants in the challenge.
3. Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the Challenge Leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.
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message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!
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Participants:
Adriana - 2 /5
Alison - 0 /12
Anissa - 0 /5
Ann - 10 /12
Anna - 1 /10
Anna - 0 /20
Barbara - 6 /10
Berit - 20 /20 Completed!
Betsy - 20 /20 Completed!
Blagica - 0 /15
Bmarieb27 - 16 /25
Brittany - 14 /14 Completed!
Candiss - 4 /12
Carmen - 172 /172 Completed!
Carolanne Saunders Lawrence - 0 /30
Carri - 0 /20
Carrie - 1 /12
Chafic - 0 /20
Chalmation - 12 /12 Completed!
Charity - 75 /50 Completed!
Cindy III - 0 /20
Claire - 1 /12
Courtney - 10 /40
CrazyAsACupcake - 1 /20
Crystal - 14 /10 Completed!
Dawn - 0 /20
Debra H - 0 /10
Dee - 0 /16
Dee ~ Funny Cat Reading - 1 /16
Den - 0 /10
Elisa - 0 /5
Erin - 4 /10
Haley - 47 /50
Haoyi - 0 /18
Heather - 0 /5
Ida - 0 /5
Isabela - 0 /12
Jane - 0 /20
Janet - 30 /30 Completed!
Jenny - 3 /11
Jessica - 0 /35
Jordynn - 0 /10
Jothany - 8 /40
Julie - 7 /15
Kadijah - 0 /20
Kara - 0 /16
Katherine - 0 /100
Ketutar - 6 /25
Kristy - 38 /30
Kylie - 0 /15
Lindsay - 16 /18
Margie - 21 /20 Completed!
Marianne - 1 /20
Martha - 4 /15
Mave - 0 /40
Mie - 20 /20 Completed!
Mindy - 10 /10 Completed!
Molly - 0 /60
Nóri - 0 /20
oshizu - 48 /40 Completed!
Rachel - 0 /20
Rebekah - 0 /25
Regina - 10 /10 Completed!
Rina - 30 /30 Completed!
Sarah - 50 /50 Completed!
SarahKat - 12 /12 Completed!
Shelly - 0 /6
Sherri - 0 /70
Sherry - 0 /12
Stef - 0 /12
Susan C - 18 /18 Completed!
Suzanne - 10 /10 Completed!
TerryJane - 100 /100 Completed!
These Violent Delights - 0 /12
Vanessa - 20 /20 Completed!
Wolf (Alpha) - 0 /100
I really enjoy this challenge so I’m in but I will have to do some searching before I decide on a number.75/50
2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
1. Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot 1/8/19
2. The Gunslinger by Stephen King 1/10/19
3. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes 1/14/19
4. Red Rising by Pierce Brown 2/25/19
5. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara 3/10/19
6. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 3/23/19
7. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 4/8/19
8. Vicious by V.E. Schwab 4/21/19
9. Gone by Michael Grant 5/7/19
10. Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness 5/17/19
11. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 7/18/19
12. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard 8/14/19
13. The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau 10/9/19
14. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan 11/9/19
The Best of Adult Urban Fantasy
1. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison 1/26/19
2. Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning 6/9/19
3. Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning 7/14/19
4. Faefever by Karen Marie Moning 10/20/19
5. Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning 11/3/19
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 1/4/19
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Popular Ya Fantasy Books
1. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige 1/28/19
2. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi 2/28/19
3. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi 4/29/19
4. La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman 6/23/19
5. The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman 7/2/19
6. Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley 8/8/19
7. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake 8/28/19
8. The Girl at Midnightby Melissa Grey 9/4/19
9. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 9/11/19
10. Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh 10/24/19
11. Starflight by Melissa Landers 10/30/19
Popular Ya Contemporary Books
1. Dumplin' by Julie Murphy 1/29/19
2. The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder 2/3/19
3. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott 2/26/19
4. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman 3/1/19
5. American Girls by Alison Umminger 3/6/19
6. How to Love by Katie Cotugno 3/22/19
7. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson 4/4/19
8. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 4/15/19
9. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith 5/18/19
10. Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills 5/18/19
11. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green 5/24/19
12. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver 5/26/19
13. Listen to Your Heart by Kasie West 6/17/19
14. History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera 6/18/19
15. Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian 6/23/19
16. Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno 6/24/19
17. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum 7/2/19
18. Pride by Ibi Zoboi 7/4/19
19. Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett 8/4/19
20. Odd One Out by Nic Stone 8/23/19
21. Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner 9/3/19
22. The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith 9/7/19
23. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner 9/12/19
24. A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro 9/15/19
25. The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed 9/25/19
Book of the Month Club Picks
1. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager 1/20/19
2. Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear 1/21/19
3. The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle 2/1/19
4. Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert 2/11/19
5. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 2/16/19
6. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy 3/2/19
7. Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser 3/3/19
8. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs 3/16/19
9. Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker 3/30/19
10. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks 4/7/19
11. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 4/14/19
12. Marlena by Julie Buntin 5/5/19
13. The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir 5/5/19
14. The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker 5/10/19
15. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo 5/24/19
16. Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally 5/27/19
17. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn 6/6/19
18. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 11/5/19
Popular Psychological Thriller Books
1. You by Caroline Kepnes 6/15/19
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I would like to join for 20, please 😊20/20 - COMPLETE ✔️
10 from Best science fiction & fantasy books ✔️
📗 1. Morning Star
📗 2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
📗 3. Outlander
📗 4. The Fellowship of the Ring
📗 5. Xenocide
📗 6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
📗 7. Slaughterhouse-Five
📗 8. Frankenstein
📗 9. Fahrenheit 451
📗 10. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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📗 11. The Lilac Bus
📗 12. Children of the Mind
5 from Best books of the 21st century ✔️
📗 1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
📗 2. Paths of Glory
📗 3. King's Cage
📗 4. Tell No One
📗 5. The Rosie Effect
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📗 6. The Sword of Summer
📗 7. The Secret Life of Bees
📗 8. The Sense of an Ending
📗 9. Just One Look
📗 10. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
📗 11. The Casual Vacancy
📗 12. Half of a Yellow Sun
5 from Top 10 for the Reading Challengers ✔️
📗 1. The Nightingale
📗 2. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
📗 3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
📗 4. The Outsiders
📗 5. The Hammer of Thor
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📗 6. The Secret History
📗 7. Left Neglected
This is my favorite yearly challenge, so you know I'm in!My goal is to read at least 12 books from the following lists.
-- A. Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners and Finalists
1. Red Spider White Web - Misha Nogha
2. The Loosening Skin - Aliya Whiteley
-- B. Best Hugo Award Winners and Nominees
3. More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
4. Nova - Samuel R. Delany
-- C. Nebula Award: Best Novella
5. City of Truth - James Morrow
6. The Tea Master and the Detective - Aliette de Bodard
-- D. Anticipated 2019 Literary Fiction
11. Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi
...plus one.
Read: 4/12
Like Charity I am in but I will post my lists and number of books before the end of the year.
I would like to join for 18 books. The Best Epic Fantasy
Best Young Adult Books
These are the lists I will be picking my books from. Thank you!
EDITED 2nd Feb - my list has changed as has my total (from 15 to 10), in fact I think I may have added one or two to these lists that aren't actually on the original Goodreads Listopia I chose :/ hope it can still count for the challenge? I've only tried 1/10 so far (DNF'd). New list is:Cozy mysteries (sea/coast related)
1. Murder on the SS Rosa, by Lee Strauss
2. Curses, Boiled Again! by Shari Randall
3. By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates
4. Lowcountry Boil, by Susan M. Boyer
5. Death at the Seaside, by Frances Brody - ABANDONED
Heists (5 true crime, and 5 speculative)
6. The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
7. The Hot Rock, by Donald E. Westlake
8. Heist Society, by Ally Carter
9. The Great Pearl Heist, by Molly Caldwell Crosby
10. Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History, by Andrew Scott Shelby
ORIGINAL POST:
I'd like to join - I want to read some heist books in 2019
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Speculative Fiction Heist/Caper Stories
And 5 from True-Crime Heists
And 5 from Cozy Mysteries: Seafood & Marine Themes
I'll join for 12. I'm going to work on the "Best of" lists for the last 2 or 3 years, or the 2010's decade. Undecided on how I'll split it up yet.2/12
Best Books of 2018
Children of Blood and Bone
Best Books of 2017
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Best Books of the Decade: 2010's
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I've never done the Listopia Challenge before, so I'm eager to play!For my lists, I've chosen two of the same as Mie's (because they're both great choices) plus the 1,001 books list and a smaller one that interests me.
Note: When a book appears in more than one of these 4 lists, the "1,001 books" list takes priority.
Please sign me up for 40 books.
Progress: 48/40 (Completed 1 Aug 2019)
📗LIST 1: Best Books of the 21st Centuy: 10/8
✔️1. Ready Player One
✔️2. The Time Traveler's Wife
✔️3. The Keeper of Lost Causes (Jussi Adler-Olsen)
✔️4. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Anthony Bourdain)
✔️5. Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
✔️6. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
✔️7. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan)
✔️8. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (David Grann)
✔️9. Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
✔️10. Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
✔️11. In the Woods (Tana French)
✔️12. The Shadow of the Wind
📗LIST 2: Best Multicultural Fiction: 7/6
✔️1. Interpreter of Maladies
✔️2. The Plague of Doves
✔️3. The Round House
✔️4. The Patience Stone
✔️5. Sold (Patricia McCormick)
✔️6. VietnamEazy: A Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Food
✔️7. Here Comes the Sun
📗LIST 3: 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: 12/11
✔️1. The Sense of an Ending
✔️2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
✔️3. A Confederacy of Dunces
✔️4. The Stranger
✔️5. The Namesake
✔️6. A Fine Balance
✔️7. The Quiet American
✔️8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
✔️9. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
✔️10. Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho)
✔️11. Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimananda Ngozi Adichie)
✔️12. Frankenstein
13. The Honorary Consul
📗LIST 4: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books: 17/15
✔️1. Doomsday Book
✔️2. The Gunslinger
✔️3. Warcross
✔️4. Wildcard
✔️5. Parable of the Talents
✔️6. Flowers for Algernon
✔️7. To Say Nothing of the Dog
✔️8. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
✔️9. Shadow and Bone
✔️10. Elantris
✔️11. The Final Empire
✔️12. The Well of Ascension
✔️13. The Hero of Ages
✔️14. Warbreaker
✔️15. Red Sister
✔️16. The Alloy of Law
✔️17. The Word for World Is Forest
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Link to my Member's Corner:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I will be joining this. I aiming at 20 books ( sorry, I couldn't figure out how to do the link)Progress 0/20
Historical Nonfiction 2018
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
2American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
3The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
4Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
5 Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
6The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case Against an American Icon
7Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever
8First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
9 Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill By J. Randy Taraborrelli
10Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
List Best Biographies
1The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
2A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More
3George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
4Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
5Catherine of Aragon
6Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert
7The Life of Thomas More
8Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
9John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
10 The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga
Best Bio Link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
14/101001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1: The Bell Jar
2 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Interview with the Vampire
5. Animal Farm
6. Of Mice and Men
7. The Fellowship of the Ring
You Read a Book about What?
1: Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
2: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
3: The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
4: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
5: The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
6: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
7: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
16/18Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1 Great Expectations #64 on 31st Jan
2 Catch-22 #76 on 15 Feb
3 The Perks of Being a Wallflower #11 on 18 May
4 The Diary of a Young Girl #8 on 27 May
5 Flowers for Algernon #128 on 7 Aug
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What Women Born in the 1970s Read in 2018
7 Wonder #156 on 3rd Jan
8 Eleanor & Park #669 on 12th Jan
9 To All the Boys I've Loved Before #258 on 31st Jan
10 The Ocean at the End of the Lane #172 on 8 Feb
11 Red Rising #262 on 16 Feb
12 The Bear and the Nightingale #54 on 6 Mar
13 Where'd You Go, Bernadette #17 on 10 Mar
14 Beartown #11 on 29 Mar
15 Us Against You #62 on 9 May
16 Homegoing #74 on 9 May
17 The Circle #782 on 9 May
18 Strange the Dreamer #987 on 9 May
Updated message 3. I'm gonna aim for 50.
This is my favorite challenge every year too--I'm going for 16 books in 2019. LIST ONE: Best Page Turners with Redeeming Social Value
At the end of 2018: 36/100
1. The Secret Life of Bees
2. Wuthering Heights
3. The Red Tent
4. Crime and Punishment
LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
At the end of 2018: 64/100
1. The Forever War
2. Dragonflight
3. Ringworld
4. The Sparrow
LIST THREE: 2019 Books by Authors of Color
At the end of 2018: 0/100
1. The Dragon Republic
2. Descendant of the Crane
3. We Set the Dark on Fire
4. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
LIST FOUR: Best 21st Century Nonfiction
At the end of 2018: 35/100
1. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
2. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
4. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
COMPLETED: 0/16
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List10/10
1. Emily the Strange
2. The Comedy of Errors
3. Fiddler on the Roof
4. The Outsiders
5. Babe: The Gallant Pig
6. Meditations
7. Beowulf
8. Don Quixote
9. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
10. House of Sand and Fog
Welcome everyone! I haven't been able to update yet, but I will add you as soon as I can. I'm exited to lead this challenge again ^^
I'm in for 15 books from lists.I'll post my lists shortly.
I want to read a total of 12 books! Suggestions for each list are found below. ^_^ Progress: 0/12
Best Books of 2018
#1 Circe
#2 Children of Blood and Bone
#3 The Wife Between Us
#4 Spinning Silver
#5 From Lukov with Love
#6 The Poppy War
#7 The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Most Anticipated 2019 YA
#1 Lady Smoke
#2 Two Can Keep a Secret
#3 Sorcery of Thorns
#4 Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss
#5 Match Me If You Can
#6 The Similars
2019 - Sequels
#1 The Wicked King
#2 Untitled
#3 Vow of Thieves
#4 Wolfhunter River
Update to message 6.I will sign up for 25 Books.
PBS’s The Great American Read: List of America’s Top 100 Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Hunger Games 1/4/19 ****
Jurassic Park 7/30/19 ***
Where the Red Fern Grows 5/17/19 *****
The Joy Luck Club 3/10/19 ****
And Then There Were None 5/13/19 ****
Ready Player One 1/25/19 ****
Gone Girl 8/7/19 ****
Foundation 4/5/19 ***
Tales of the City 11/30/19 ****
BBC Top 200 Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Papillon 8/28/19 ****
Midnight's Children 7/21/19 ***
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War 7/6/19 *****
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 3/29/19 ****
Welcome to Dead House 3/23/19 ***
Sophie's World 8/17/19 ****
Secrets 6/8/19 ****
Dustbin Baby 6/26/19 ****
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 10/5/19 ****
Pulitzer Prize Winners Fiction
Arrowsmith 2/13/19 ***
Guard of Honor 3/22/19 ****
Angle of Repose 3/5/19 *****
Gone with the Wind 5/5/19 *****
Gilead 2/1/19 ****
Must Read Classics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Paradise Lost 11/24/19 *****
Germinal 12/10/19 ****
Much Ado About Nothing 2/2/19 *****
Breakfast at Tiffany's 3/25/19 ***
The Giving Tree 3/29/19 ***
The Way of All Flesh 5/26/19 ***
Around the World in Eighty Days 6/18/19 ***
I'm in for 12.Books Completed: 12/12
COMPLETE
Best for Book Clubs
1. The Time Traveler's Wife
2. Les Misérables
3. The Maze Runner (Maze Runner #1)
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel
Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
1. Blindness
2. The Running Man
3. The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner #2)
4. The Death Cure (Maze Runner #3)
5. The Kill Order (Maze Runner #0.5)
The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
1. Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter #1)
2. The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter #2)
3. Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter #3)
Please put me down for 35 total :)Best Books of 2018
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I am in for 10 books. 2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
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☑ 2. Britt-Marie Was Here
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I am in for 15 books.Read: 9/15
Historical Fiction 2019
1. The Island of Sea Women
2. The Nickel Boys
3. The Night Tiger
4. The Bird King
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Anticipated Literary Fiction
1. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
2. The Dearly Beloved
3. The Other Americans
4. Disappearing Earth
5. The Farm
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I would like to read 20 books. 10 each fromBest Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I would like to sign up for 20 books in total!4 lists and 5 books from each list.
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Added :) Welcome everyone!
I would like to aim for 20, 5 from 4 lists:-
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
The Best Epic Fantasy
Best Books Ever
1001 Books You must Read Before You Die
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
The Best Epic Fantasy
Best Books Ever
1001 Books You must Read Before You Die
For me it has become a tradition to use 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List for this challenge every year. So there it is:
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The Shining by Stephen King
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
8. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 09.03.2019 ★★★☆☆
9. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
10. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The Shining by Stephen King
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
8. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 09.03.2019 ★★★☆☆
9. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
10. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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I'll join! I'm going for 20, please. YA Novels of 2018
✔ 1. The Cheerleaders
2. Sadie
3. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
4. A Map of Days
5. Escaping from Houdini
6. That's Not What Happened
✔ 7. A Room Away From the Wolves
8. Colliding Skies
9. Theatrical
10. Legendary
2/10
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1. The Selection
2. The Night Circus
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
4. Alice in Zombieland
5. The Song of Achilles
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Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
1. Graceling
2. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
3. The Titan's Curse
4. Rebel of the Sands
5. Dread Nation
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Total: 2/20
I really enjoyed the Listopia Challenge in 2018 even if I didn't succeed at finishing it so I will try and do one again.Going to try and read 4 more from this list Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
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Possible books to read : The Name of the Wind, The Way of Kings, American Gods, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Black Prism
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Possible books to read : History Is All You Left Me, Warcross, Flame in the Mist, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Silence Fallen, Hunted, Red Sister
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3 from a new to me list Best Historical Fiction of the 21st century
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Possible books to read : The Shadow of the Wind, Cleopatra's Daughter, The Heretic Queen, Pompeii
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Possible books to read : The Cruel Prince, Catwoman: Soulstealer, To Kill a Kingdom, The Belles, Batman: Nightwalker, Save the Date, Ash Princess, Furyborn, Sky in the Deep, Heart of Iron, Empress of All Seasons, Fawkes, Girl Made of Stars, Gunslinger Girl, Starry Eyes, Sweet Black Waves, Markswoman, Girls of Paper and Fire
Total 15/14
Anna wrote: "For me it has become a tradition to use 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List for this challenge every year. So there it is:1. [book:The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|80001..."
I hope you enjoy The Secret History Anna! I love that book! I also hope to read Treasure Island next year and a lot of the other books as well xD
Hi Winter,I will read 20 books for this challenge. Lists to come!
Thank you.
I will read 12 books for this challenge!Best books of 2018
[X] 1. The Great Alone
[X] 2. Circe
3. The Woman in the Window
[X] 4. The Immortalists
Best books of 2017
1. Pachinko
2. Come Sundown
[X] 3. Little Fires Everywhere
4. Beartown
Best books of 2019
1. Daisy Jones & The Six
[X] 2. The Silent Patient
[X] 3. Finale
[X] 4. An Anonymous Girl
Alison
I'm in for 11
Books White People Need to Read
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
3/11
1. The Souls of Black Folk
2. Twelve Years a Slave
3. A People's History of the United States
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
7. The Good Immigrant
8. Born a Crime
9. The Bluest Eye
10. Black and British
11. Pachinko
Books White People Need to Read
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
3/11
1. The Souls of Black Folk
2. Twelve Years a Slave
3. A People's History of the United States
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
7. The Good Immigrant
8. Born a Crime
10. Black and British
11. Pachinko
Japanese Fiction1. If Cats Disappeared from the World
2. Ms Ice Sandwich
3. Convenience Store Woman
4. Strange Weather in Tokyo
5. The Housekeeper and the Professor
7/15Vicarious Thrills- 5 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
1. Night
2. The Martian
Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once- 5 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. The Book Thief
2. Flowers for Algernon
3. The Memory of Running
4. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
5. The Signature of All Things
Funniest Novels of All Time- 5 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
I'm in for 30.38/30
Best Books of 2017
1. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden 2/17/19 ★★★★★
2. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine 4/30/19 ★★★★
3. Killman Creek by Rachel Caine 5/2/19 ★★★★
4. The Sumage Solution by G.L. Carriger 8/15/19 ★★★
5. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 10/7/19 ★★★★★
6. The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell 10/31/19 ★★★★
7. The Changeling by Victor LaValle 11/9/19 ★★★
8. Shacking Up by Helena Hunting 11/17/19 ★★★
Best Books of 2018
1. The Birthday List by Devney Perry 1/4/19 ★★★★★
2. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 1/19/19 ★★
3. Hate Notes by Vi Keeland 1/20/19 ★★★★
4. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 1/26/19 ★★★
5. Verity by Colleen Hoover 2/2/19 ★★★★
6. The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 2/14/19 ★★★★
7. Three Blind Dates by Meghan Quinn 2/20/19 ★★★★
8. No Exit by Taylor Adams 3/10/19 ★
9. Disgrace by Brittainy C. Cherry 3/12/19 ★★★★
10. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 3/13/19 ★★★
11. The Lost Man by Jane Harper 3/17/19 ★★★★
12. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 3/25/19 ★★
13. The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton 4/1/19 ★★★
14. Educated by Tara Westover 4/13/19 ★★★★
15. The Broken Girls by Simone St. James 4/20/19 ★★★★
16. What If It's Us by Adam Silvera 4/24/19 ★★★
17. Melmoth by Sarah Perry 5/3/19 ★
18. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 5/16/19 ★★
19. A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult 5/26/19 ★★★★
20. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren 5/27/19 ★★★★
21. Fight or Flight by Samantha Young 6/8/19 ★★★★
22. The Witch Elm by Tana French 6/25/19 ★★
23. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell 7/20/19 ★★
24. Early Riser by Jasper Fforde 8/2/19 ★★★
25. The Wife by Alafair Burke 8/6/19 ★★★★
26. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield 8/17/19 ★★★★
27. Seek by Mia Sheridan 9/15/19 ★★★
28. Digging In by Loretta Nyhan 9/23/19 ★★★★
29. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory 10/13/19 ★★★
30. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay 10/30/19 ★
After reviewing my reading list for the year, I discovered there were more books on these lists that I had read so...
COMPLETED
I'm in for this one. Ten books from each list. Fortunately, most were already on selected list for this coming year. Books subject to change although the lists will remain the same.
Note: If anyone sees anything that shouldn't be here or is a duplicate, etc., please feel free to let me know.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Book of the Month Club Picks
1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, 8/30/19, 4/5*
2. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, 2/24/19, 3/5*
3. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 3/4/19, 4/5*
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 7/2/19, 4/5*
5. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney, 5/2/19, 3/5*
6. All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage, 7/3/19, 3/5*
7. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende, 7/22/19, 3/5*
8. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy, 3/27/19, 2/5*
9. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 6/5/19, 3/5*
10. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce, 2/9/19, 4/5*
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 8/21/19, 3/5*
2. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 8/17/19, 3/5*
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 3/28/19, 4/5*
4. The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien, 7/11/19, 5/5*
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, 10/28/19, 4/5*
6. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, 3/20/19, 5/5*
7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 8/20/19, 5/5*
8. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 8/15/19, 3/5*
9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 7/30/19, 5/5*
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 5/21/19, 4/5*
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Best non-fiction - No Biographies
1. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan, 9/22/19, 3/5*
2. Night by Elie Wiesel, 1/26/19, 5/5*
3. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, 5/4/19, 4/5*
4. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, 8/1/19, 3/5*
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 3/15/19, 5/5*
6. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, 6/27/19, 4/5*
7. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff, 5/22/19, 5/5*
8. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, 9/10/19, 5/5*
9. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, 9/24/19, 3/5*
10. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach, 2/22/19, 3/5*
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
1. Divergent by Veronica Roth, 9/3/19, 5/5*
2. The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey, 4/18/19, 4/5*
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 3/7/19, 4/5*
4. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, 6/4/19, 3/5*
5. The Maze Runner by James Dashner , 8/18/19, 5/5*
6. The Stand by Stephen King, 10/27/19, 4/5*
7. Watchmen by Alan Moore, 3/11/19, 3/5*
8. The Host by Stephenie Meyer, 4/16/19, 3/5*
9. The Giver by Lois Lowry, 8/29/19, 3/5*
10. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, 9/29/19, 4/5*
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction
1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, 1/1/19, 4/5*
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, 1/8/19, 2/5*
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 6/30/19, 5/5*
4. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 2/15/19, 4/5*
5. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 9/4/19, 5/5*
6. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson, 3/23/19, 4/5*
7. March by Geraldine Brooks, 1/3/19, 3/5*
8. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 9/9/19, 3/5*
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison, 2/4/19, 4/5*
10. The Reivers by William Faulkner, 3/29/19, 3/5*
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. The Martian by Andy Weir, 3/10/19, 5/5*
2. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, 8/10/19, 4/5*
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 9/30/19, 3/5*
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, 8/13/19, 5/5*
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 10/10/19, 5/5*
6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 8/26/19, 3/5*
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 7/2/19, 3/5*
8. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 11/20/19, 5/5*
9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 11/8/19, 5/5*
10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, 3/1/19, 3/5*
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/....
Popular Psychological Thrillers
1. In the Woods by Tana French, 3/13/19, 5/5*
2. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware, 5/5/19, 2/5*
3. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 7/13/19, 4/5*
4. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor, 2/21/19, 3/5*
5. C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton, 1/13/19, 5/5*
6. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter, 11/13/19, 3/5*
8. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy, 3/27/19, 2/5*
9. Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris, 9/17/19, 2/5*
10. Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist, 1/29/19, 4/5*
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4 lists. 3 from each. 12 in totalNewberry 2015
1. FINISHED. The Crossover. Kwame Alexander
2. FINISHED. Greenglass House. Kate Milford
3. FINISHED. Nest. Esther Ehrlich
WWII Historical Fiction
1. FINISHED. The Nightingale. Kristin Hannah
2. FINISHED. The Alice Network. Kate Quinn
3. FINISHED. We Were the Lucky Ones. Georgia Hunter
Book Riot 100 Must-Read Memoirs
1. FINISHED. Night. Elie Wiesel
2. FINISHED. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. Jung Chang
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah
Awkward Protagonists Who Find Their Place In the World
1. FINISHED. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Gail Honeyman
2. I’ll Give You the Sun. Jandy Nelson
3. FINISHED. The Schwa Was Here. Neal Shusterman
10/12
10/10 completed.
10 books from:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Chess Story
2. The Bell Jar
3. Cloud Atlas
4. The Blind Assassin
5. Agnes Grey
6. The Handmaid's Tale
7. Wuthering Heights
8. The Moonstone
9. The Mayor of Casterbridge
10. Alberta and Jacob
10 books from:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Chess Story
2. The Bell Jar
3. Cloud Atlas
4. The Blind Assassin
5. Agnes Grey
6. The Handmaid's Tale
7. Wuthering Heights
8. The Moonstone
9. The Mayor of Casterbridge
10. Alberta and Jacob
I'm a little behind in adding you all in all the Christmas crazyness. Welcome everyone, you will be added as soon as I can! :)
I am going to start with 6( I have listed 8 books, but I will see where this takes me!)
Great Chinese Historical Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
The Green Phoenix: A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang
Best Books of 2018
Educated
A Ladder to the Sky
Best Historical Fiction
The Weight of Ink
Best Literature 2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer
An American Marriage
Must Read Non-Fiction
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Listopia Goal: 6I have listed 8 here, but will probably pick and choose a bit
Great Chinese Historical Fiction
>The Green Phoenix: A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang
Best Books of 2018
>Educated
>A Ladder to the Sky
Best Historical Fiction
>The Weight of Ink
Best Literature 2018
>My Sister, the Serial Killer
>An American Marriage
Must Read Non-Fiction
>Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
>The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
2025 Reading Challenge
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Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
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