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Participants:Alison - 30 / 30 Completed!
Alison - 0 / 16
Alyana Pearl - 0 / TBD
Amber - 1 / 15
Andrea - 0 / 10
Andrew - 4 / 50
Ann - 8 / 12
Betsy - 3 / 12
Beverly - 15 / 15 Completed!
Brittany - 15 / 16
Carmen - 89 / 75 Completed!
Carol - 12 / 12 Completed!
Cassandra - 0 / 16
Cassie - 2 / 20
Chalmation - 15 / 15 Completed!
Christina - 8 / 10
Cindy III - 0 / 10
Claire - 0 / 5
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 20
Dominique - 0 / 20
Fran - 2 / 20
Gretchen - 9 / 15
Haley - 10 / 20
Janet - 20 / 20 Completed!
Jennifer - 0 / 100
Jennifer - 0 / 12
Jennifer - 1 / 50
Jessica - 0 / 28
Jill - 0 / 20
Jordynn - 3 / 20
Kara - 0 / 16
Katherine - ? / ?
Kelly - 5 / 50
Kristina Simon - 0 / 25
Kylie - 0 / 6
Leticia - 0 / 12
Library - 16 / 22
Lindsay - 0 / 12
Lisa - 0 / 9
Lisa - 0 / 20
M.H. - 0 / 20
Margie - 50 / 45 Completed!
Mariel - 3 / 25
Marika - 0 / 30
Marythios (AkaSusanne) - 0 / 100
Mave - 0 / 40
Mie - 43 / 40 Completed!
Mylene - 8 / 50
Nathalia - 6 / 25
Nell - 4 / 12
oshizu - 51 / 40 Completed!
Rachel - 1 / 40
Raluca - 40 / 40 Completed!
Rina - 60 / 60 Completed!
Sarah - 40 / 40 Completed!
Sarah - 0 / 5
Sarah Clemens - 8 / 16
SarahKat - 12 / 12 Completed!
Scott - 0 / 25
Sean - 56 / 37 Completed!
Sophie - 0 / 50
Susan C - 12 / 12 Completed!
Suzanne - 0 / 45
Tari - 17 / 24
Tom - 6 / 20
Tricia - 24 / 24 Completed!
Vanessa - 0 / 25
COMPLETED 2/20 AS OF 2/2/20TENTATIVE GOAL - 20 books
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Fahrenheit 451 COMPLETED 1/5/20
3. Memoirs of a Geisha
4. The Secret Garden
5. The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Books of the 20th Century
1. East of Eden
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. The Color Purple
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Best Books of the 21st Century
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns
2. Life of Pi
3. The Time Traveler's Wife
4. The Fault in Our Stars
5. The Secret Life of Bees
Best Historical Fiction
1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Completed 1/26/20
3. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
4. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
5. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
I'm in! I was not successful at this for this year. So I want to start fresh for 20201/40
Best Russian History Books
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Books to Read under the Trump Administration
1 The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation 4/6/20
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I'm in for 16!---
LIST ONE: Must Read Classics
At the end of 2019: 63/100
1. Don Quixote
2. The Three Musketeers
3. Persuasion
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel
LIST TWO: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Must Reads
At the end of 2019: 76/100
1. The Final Empire
2. City of Bones
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. The Fall of Hyperion
LIST THREE: Non-fiction Published in Year 2020
At the end of 2019: 0/100
1. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
2. Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
3. TBD
4. TBD
LIST FOUR:
Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance
At the end of 2019: 25/100
1. A Wizard of Earthsea
2. Who Fears Death
3. Bridge of Birds
4. Adulthood Rites
COMPLETED: 0/16
I am in. I plan to read... um.... let's say.... 37 books from this list:1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I started 2020 with 123/1315
I'm currently at 179/1315
Goal: 160/1315 - COMPLETE!!!!!!!!!
1/37 - The Quiet American by Graham Greene - 1/7/20
2/37 - Martin Eden by Jack London - 1/9/20
3/37 - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 1/17/20
4/37 - Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann - 1/24/20
5/37 - The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks - 1/27/20
6/37 - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges - 1/30/20
7/37 - Foundation by Isaac Asimov - 2/7/2020
8/37 - Watchmen by Alan Moore - 2/8/2020
9/37 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 2/8/2020
10/37 - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 2/11/2020
11/37 - Native Son by Richard Wright - 2/28/2020
12/37 - The Untouchable by John Banville - 3/3/2020
13/37 - A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - 3/10/2020
14/37 - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - 3/13/2020
15/37 - Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline - 03/22/2020
16/37 - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - 03/26/2020
17/37 - Beloved by Toni Morrison - 4/6/2020
18/37 - Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin - 4/12/2020
19/37 - Ulysses by James Joyce - 4/12/2020
20/37 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 4/14/2020
21/37 - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo - 4/24/2020
22/37 - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - 4/27/2020
23/37 - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway - 5/1/2020
24/37 - Walden by Henry David Thoreau - 5/10/2020
25/37 - Middlemarch by George Eliot - 05/16/2020
26/37 - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - 5/26/2020
27/37 - The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - 5/30/2020
28/37 - Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - 6/3/2020
29/37 - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - 6/4/2020
30/37 - The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 6/17/2020
31/37 - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - 7/3/2020
32/37 - Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa - 7/13/2020
33/37 - The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes - 8/10/2020
34/37 - The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante - 8/13/2020
35/37 - Cost by Roxana Robinson - 8/19/2020
36/37 - The Plague by Albert Camus - 8/19/2020
37/37 - A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov - 8/25/2020
38/37 - Bleak House by Charles Dickens - 8/28/2020
39/37 - Summer by Edith Wharton - 9/1/2020
40/37 - Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović - 9/16/2020
41/37 - Half of a Yellow Su/n by /Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 9/16/2020
42/37 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 9/23/2020
43/37 - Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi - 9/25/2020
44/37 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré - 9/27/2020
45/37 - The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi - 10/6/2020
46/37 - The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa - 10/8/2020
47/37 - Smiley's People by John le Carré - 10/21/2020
48/37 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 10/23/2020
49/37 - Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh - 10/28/2020
50/37 - Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally - 11/11/2020
51/37 - Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - 11/16/2020
52/37 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - 11/20/2020
53/37 - The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen - 11/22/2020
54/37 - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - 12/3/2020
55/37 - Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 12/15/2020
56/37 - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - 12/31/2020
I'm in for 20 books this year. 20/20
BBC Top 200 Books
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Small Gods 3/7/20 ****
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 4/4/20 ****
The Godfather 7/14/20 ***
The Name of the Rose 10/7/20 ***
A Fine Balance 12/7/20 ****
Must Read Classics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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The Cask of Amontillado 1/1/20 ***
Journey to the Center of the Earth 1/7/20 ****
The Stranger 1/18/20 ****
Foundation and Empire 1/30/20 ****
Five Weeks in a Balloon 2/22/20 **
The Diary of a Young Girl 6/11/20 ****
The Good Soldier 8/28/20 **
Inferno 10/14/20 *****
Native Son 10/31/20 *****
The Poisonwood Bible 11/11/20 ****
PBS's The Great American Read
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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The Sirens of Titan 4/30/20 ***
White Teeth 6/4/20 ****
Another Country 6/21/20 ****
The Help7/24/20 *****
Lonesome Dove 8/10/20 *****
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Goodreads 2019 Winners/Nominees
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Best Epic Fantasy
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Crime/Mystery
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
I will join for 12 again this yearTimeless Classics for Reading Challengers
1 All the Light We Cannot See
2 The Goldfinch
3 The Way of Kings
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The Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1 The Bell Jar
2 Wuthering Heights
3 The Joy Luck Club
4 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Books with Unforgettable Characters
1 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
2 A Prayer for Owen Meany
3 Educated
4 The Midnight Line
16 for me as well (I may have aggressively copied Kara.)LIST ONE: Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance
At the end of 2019: 16/100
1. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
2. Parable of the Sower
3. Who Fears Death
4. American Born Chinese
LIST TWO: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Must Reads
At the end of 2019: 68/100
1. The Wise Man's Fear
2. Stranger in a Strange Land
3. The Martian Chronicles
4. Flowers for Algernon
LIST THREE: LitHub's Best of the Decade (2010s)
At the end of 2019: 20/84
1. The Underground Railroad
2. Salvage the Bones
3. A Brief History of Seven Killings
4. The Sympathizer
LIST FOUR: Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
At the end of 2019: 18/100
1. A Short History of Nearly Everything
2. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
3. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
4. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Hola!This year I'm going to focus on only 2 list and aim to a goal of 75 books.
PROGRESS: 89/75
As the "An Author's Work Challenge" is out this year I'm going to cheat a bit and read books from the List:
The Golden Age Queens of Crime: Christie_Sayers_Marsh_Allingham_Wentworth 58/55
✔1. The Secret of Chimneys
✔2. Clouds of Witness
✔3. Unnatural Death
✔4. Grey Mask
✔5. The Crime at Black Dudley
✔6. Strong Poison
✔7. Mystery Mile
✔8. Look to the Lady
✔9. The Five Red Herrings
✔10. Have His Carcase
✔11. The Fashion in Shrouds
✔12. Sweet Danger
✔13. A Man Lay Dead
✔14. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
✔15. Enter a Murderer
✔16. Gaudy Night
✔17. The Nursing Home Murder
✔18. Death in the Clouds
✔19. Death in Ecstasy
✔20. Flowers for the Judge
✔21. Cat Among the Pigeons
✔22. The Case Is Closed
✔23. Police at the Funeral
✔24. Traitor's Purse
✔25. Death in a White Tie
✔26. Overture to Death
✔27. Dancers in Mourning
✔28. Death of a Peer
✔29. Death at the Bar
✔30. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
✔31. Death and the Dancing Footman
✔32. N or M?
✔33. Evil Under the Sun
✔34. Five Little Pigs
✔35. Colour Scheme
✔36. The Clock Strikes Twelve
✔37. The Hollow
✔38. They Came to Baghdad
✔39. The Case of the Late Pig
✔40. She Came Back
✔41. Artists in Crime
✔42. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
✔43. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
✔44. A Caribbean Mystery
✔45. Hallowe'en Party
✔46. The Chinese Shawl
✔47. By the Pricking of My Thumbs
✔48. Miss Silver Deals With Death
✔49. Pearls Before Swine
✔50. Death of a Ghost
✔51. The Seven Dials Mystery
✔52. Lord Peter Views the Body
✔53. Vintage Murder
✔54. Pilgrim's Rest
✔55. Hangman's Holiday
✔56. Latter End
✔57. Wicked Uncle
✔58. Postern of Fate
In the meantime I'm going to keep on reading books from the List:
1001 books you must read before you die 31/20✔
✔1. Crimen y castigo
✔2. Cien años de soledad
✔3. The Grapes of Wrath
✔4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
✔5. El perfume: Historia de un asesino
✔6. Cándido, o El optimismo
✔7. Nuestra Señora de París
✔8. Doctor Zhivago
✔9. Things Fall Apart
✔10. Mrs. Dalloway
✔11. The Blind Assassin
✔12. The Yellow Wall-Paper
✔13. El péndulo de Foucault
✔14. Contact
✔15. A Town Like Alice
✔16. El amante
✔17. A Visit from the Goon Squad
✔18. The Nine Tailors
✔19. Murder Must Advertise
✔20. Cancer Ward
✔21. Jazz
✔22. Kokoro
✔23. Kidnapped
✔24. Auto-da-Fé
✔25. Under the Yoke
✔26. Love in a Cold Climate
✔27. Soldados de Salamina
✔28 The Circle
✔29. Petals of Blood
✔30. La saga/fuga de J. B.
✔31. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Please put me down for 28 :)THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
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Sign me up for 50 books from the books that should be turned into movies list
I will sign up for 12 books1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1.Life of Pi
2.The Old Man and the Sea
3.The Scarlet Letter
4.Treasure Island
5.The Shining
6.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7.In Cold Blood
8.Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
9.Oliver Twist
10.Middlesex
11.Robinson Crusoe
12.Watchmen
Welcome everyone! I haven’t had time to add you all to the spreadsheet yet, but I just wanted to wish you all welcome to the challenge!
Jennifer wrote: "I will sign up for 12 books1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1.Life of Pi
2.The Old Man and the Sea
3.The Scarlet Letter
4.Treasure Island
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I'll be watching your progress Jennifer. That list is my obsession. Have fun and good luck with #8 .. wheeeew...
I'm in for 15.15/15
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Best Books Ever
1. Lord of the Flies
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Gone Girl
Most Interesting World
4. Dark Matter
5. Ubik
6. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Book of the Month Club
7. Recursion
8. Before the Fall
9. The Woman in Cabin 10
Books You Could Not Put Down
10. Revival
11. The Outsiders
12. Romeo and Juliet
Thrillers You Must Read
13. No Time for Goodbye
14. No Safe House
15. Fear the Worst
Listopia 2020Jan. 1, 2020-Dec. 31, 2020
17/24 (aiming for at least 20)
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
Will link when read
1. On What Grounds Cleo Coyle 3/26/20
2. It Takes a Witch Heather Blake 6/17/20
3. Death by Cashmere Sally Goldenbaum 1/30/20
4. Fatal Fixer-Upper—Jennie Bentley
5. A Peach of a Murder Livia J. Washburn 2/14/20
6. One Bad Apple Sheila Connolly 1/20/20
7. Homicide in Hardcover Kate Carlisle 1/27/20
8. Mum's the Word Kate Collins 4/14/20
9. If Fried Chicken Could Fly—Paige Shelton
10. A Deadly Grind Victoria Hamilton 6/19/20
11. Beaglemania Linda O. Johnston 7/24/20
12. Death of a Dapper Snowman Angela Pepper 1/11/20
13. Twisted Threads—Lea Wait
14. The Deep End Julie Mulhern 5/24/20
15. Cooking Up Murder--Miranda Bliss
16. The Mysterious Affair at Styles—Agatha Christie
17. Night of the Living Deed E.J. Copperman 4/12/20
18. The Chocolate Cat Caper-Joanna Carl
19. Mistletoe Murder Leslie Meier 2/4/20
20. Murder, She KnitPeggy Ehrhart 1/9/20
21. Raining Men and Corpses Anne R. Tan 1/12/20
22.Eggs in Purgatory Laura Childs 4/27/20
23. The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 7/9/20
24. Fly Me to the Moon—Diane Vallere
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Completed - 0 /20
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THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
I'm in for 12 books - 3 from each of these lists
12/12
✓ Best Non-Fiction Books of 2019
✓ 1. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators read 5/19/2020
✓ 2. Parkland: Birth of a Movement read 6/1/2020
✓ 3. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement read 8/29/2020
✓ Memoirs I've Loved
✓ 1. Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir read 2/3/2020
✓ 2. Educated read 7/13/2020
✓ 3. The Memory Palace read 11/21/2020
✓ Books to Read under the Trump Administration
✓ 1. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy read 1/5/2020
✓ 2. Red Notice read 1/11/2020
✓ 3. Dear Martin read 2/10/2020
✓ I Had No Idea This Book Would Be So Good
✓ Undone read 3/23/2020
✓ Matchmaking for Beginners read 4/20/2020
✓ The Silent Patient read 8/10/2020
I'm in... 2 lists, 6 books in total.List 1: Motivational & Self Improvement Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
1. How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up by Emilie Wapnick
I'm going to tentatively say in for 16! Have to go pick the lists yet!15/16
Going to read at least 3 from this list Best YA Novels of 2019
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THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
GOAL: 50 Books
Completed: 2/50
I'll do ten books each from 5 lists, focusing exclusively on comics and graphic novels. 50 books total.
If I finish early, I'll amend to add another graphic novel list.
Graphic Novels Featuring LGBTQ Themes
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2. The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal: Omnibus by E.K. Weaver 2/1/20
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Hi Winter, please sign me up for 40 books from 3 lists.43/40 - update 30 July - COMPLETE ✔️
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📌 Best crime & mystery books 🕵️♂️
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
📗 1. Destination Unknown
📗 2. The Red Pavilion
📗 3. Crooked House
📗 4. A Morbid Taste for Bones
📗 5. The Devotion of Suspect X
📗 6. The Chinese Nail Murders (Judge Dee
📗 7. The Woman in White
📗 8. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
📗 9. A Man Lay Dead
📗 10. Missing You
📗 11. Salvation of a Saint
📗 12. The Emperor's Pearl
📗 13. Fatal
📗 14. Enter a Murderer
📗 15. The Innocent
📌 Best historical fiction 🏰
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
📗 1. Genghis: Birth of an Empire
📗 2. Orphan Train
📗 3. The Snow Child
📗 4. Winter Garden
📗 5. Genghis: Lords of the Bow
📗 6. The Light Between Oceans
📌 Best book ever 🤩
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
📗 1. Number the Stars
📗 2. Eliza and Her Monsters
📗 3. Small Great Things
📗 4. The Time Paradox
📗 5. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
📗 6. Fool Moon
📗 7. A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
📗 8. Pudd'nhead Wilson
📗 9. Half Lost
📗 10. A Wrinkle in Time
📗 11. The Atlantis Complex
📗 12. If I Stay
📗 13. Never Let Me Go
📗 14. Assassin's Apprentice
📗 15. Journey to the Center of the Earth
📗 16. The Last Guardian
📗 17. Grave Peril
📗 18. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
📗 19. Fangirl
📗 20. Little House on the Prairie
📗 21. Rubbernecker
📗 22. Crazy Rich Asians
📗 23. The Testaments
LISTOPIAI wasn't going to do this challenge in 2020, but then I spotted Tari's brilliant choice and realized I'll be reading many books from that list already. Thank you, Tari!
Please sign me up for 35 books.
Progress: 51/40 books (4/4 Lists)
(Completed 20 Oct 2020)
✅LIST 1: Cozy Mystery Series: First Books: 17/15
✔️1. Murder is Binding
✔️2. Catering to Nobody
✔️3. The Coroner's Lunch
✔️4 Dog on It
✔️5. Still Life (JTF)
✔️6. Death Al Dente
✔️7. Hummus and Homicide (New Jersey)
✔️8. Maisie Dobbs (JTF)
✔️9. The Quiche of Death
✔️10. The Crepes of Wrath (Washington)
✔️11. Dead Man's Island
✔️12. Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (Michigan)
✔️13. Death by Dumpling (Ohio)
✔️14. Earthly Delights (Australia)
✔️15. Flipped for Murder (Indiana)
✔️16. Cat in an Alphabet Soup
✔️17. Who Moved My Goat Cheese?
✅LIST 2: Best Science Fiction: 11/8
✔️1. Artificial Condition
✔️2. Ninefox Gambit
✔️3. The Three-Body Problem
✔️4. Rogue Protocol
✔️5. The Martian
✔️6. The Gone World
✔️7. Artemis
✔️8. Exit Strategy
✔️9. Network Effect
✔️10. The Dark Forest
✔️11. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
✅LIST 3: Best Fantasy Books: 10/7
✔️1. Tigana
✔️2. Sailing to Sarantium
✔️3. The Way of Kings
✔️4. The Emperor's Soul
✔️5. Words of Radiance
✔️6. Oathbringer
✔️7. Blood Rites
✔️8. Ship of Magic
✔️9. In the Night Garden
✔️10. The Mad Ship
✔️11. Ship of Destiny
✅LIST 4: Best Japanese Books: 12/10
✔️1. The Lady Killer
✔️2. Confessions
✔️3. Battle Royale
✔️4. The Nakano Thrift Shop
✔️5. Convenience Store Woman
✔️6. The Lonesome Bodybuilder
✔️7. The Emissary
✔️8. A Bride's Story, Vol. 1
✔️9. The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔️10. The Memory Police
✔️11. The Tale of Genji
✔️12. Masks
Link to my challenge post
I've been trying to decide on whether I want to do a challenge this year. I think I'll join this one. I'm in for 24. Challenge Complete!
Progress: 24/24
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I wish I could read it for the first time again
Best Kindle Unlimited Books
Best Book Club Books
Can't Wait Books of 2020
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
TOTAL: 10/20 List 1: Best Books of 2019
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Silent Patient
The Wicked King
An Anonymous Girl
On the Come Up
Ask Again, Yes
Miracle Creek
Lock Every Door
Searching for Sylvie Lee
The Night Olivia Fell
The Queen of Nothing
Again, But Better
The Saviour
These Witches Don't Burn
Fix Her Up
List 2: What Women Born in the 90s Have Read in 2019
Normal People
My Sister the Serial Killer
The Song of Achilles
We Are Okay
Radio Silence
The Wife Between Us
City of Girls
Vox
Station Eleven
Call Me By Your Name
Wayward Son
You
After I Do
The Gown
Throne of Glass
Evvie Drake Starts Over
List 3: Favorite Historical Romance Novels
Outlander
When Beauty Tamed The Beast (Fairy Tales, #2)
Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1)
Never Love a Highlander (McCabe Trilogy, #3)
A Kiss at Midnight (Fairy Tales, #1)
Highlander Most Wanted (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs #2)
Highland Ever After (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs #3)
I'm in for 22. I made it all classics, to challenge myself. I may add to it. 16/22Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. Charlotte's Web 3-22-20
2.Tolkien on Fairy-stories 3-23-20
3. David Copperfield - 6-22-20
4. The Secret Garden - 8-29-20
5. Anne of Green Gables - 1-1-20
6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1-4-20
7. The Count of Monte Cristo
8. Great Expectations 4-1-20
9.Sense and Sensibility 2-22-20
10. A Little Princess 7-3-20
11. Peter Pan 3-12-20
12. The Wind in the Willows 8-23-20
13. The Phantom of the Opera
14. Treasure Island 4-10-20
15. Beowulf
16. The Martian Chronicles 1-10-20
17. The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh 7-25-20
18. Little House on the Prairie
19. The Jungle Book
20. Fahrenheit 451 5-10-20
21. Anna Karenina
22. Mary Poppins 3-3-20
I'm in for 15. The first 2 lists I'm aiming for the 1st 5 that I hadn't already read from the list. On the 3rd list, it is the 1st 5 books from the list. 15/15BOOKS THAT MADE YOU CRY:
1. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls FINISHED 1/9
2. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks FINISHED 10/17
3. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks FINISHED 10/7
4. A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer FINISHED 11/7
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank FINISHED 7/27
FAIRY TALES FOR GROWN CHILDREN:
1. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter FINISHED 11/25
2. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey FINISHED 6/27
3. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden FINISHED 11/25
4. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle FINISHED 4/22
5. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier FINISHED 2/10
BOOKS I PLAN TO READ IN 2019:
1. The Patient by Steena Holmes FINISHED 10/20
2. Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love by Mary Calvi FINISHED 8/10
3. Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle FINISHED 4/9
4. Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor FINISHED 6/18
5. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor FINISHED 11/1
I'm in!Read: 21/30
What We've Read So Far in 2019 :
1. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
2. Jane Harper: Force of Nature
3. Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
4. Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks: Pumpkinheads
5. Alex Michaelides: The Silent Patient
6. Beth O'Leary: The Flatshare
7. Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone
8. Tommy Orange: There There
9. Jessica Townsend: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
10. Elly Griffits: The Woman in blue
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2. Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
4. John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
5. Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days
Best Books of the Decade: 2010's :
1. V. E. Schwab: A Gathering of Shadows
2. Elly Griffiths: The Ghost Fields
3. Veronica Roth: Divergent
4. John Green: The Fault in Our Stars
5. Philip Pullman: La Belle Sauvage
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12/12 COMPLETEBest Books of 2019
1.A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
2. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
3. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Best Books of 2018
1. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
2. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
3. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Best Books of 2017
1. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
2. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
3. The Dry by Jane Harper
Best Books of 2016
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
2. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
3. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Updated! Welcome everyone! ^^
Progress: 40/40 Finished! ᕦ(◔ ⌣ ◔)ᕤBBC Top 200 Books
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* House of Leaves
* Three Men in a Boat
* The Diary of a Nobody
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
* Decline and Fall
* Zorba Grecul
* Lucky Jim
* The Postman Always Rings Twice
* Crash
* Patria m-a facut om(England Made Me)
* White Teeth
* Ethan Frome
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower
* The Godfather
* The Kite Runner
LitHub's Best of The Decade (2010's)
* The Tiger's Wife
* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
* On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
* The Sympathizer
Best Philosophical Literature
* The Road
* The Left Hand of Darkness
* The Forty Rules of Love
* The Man in the High Castle
* Lord Jim
Best Literary Mysteries
* Crime and Punishment
* The Talented Mr Ripley
* Big Little Lies
* 11/22/63
* The New York Trilogy
* The Shadow of the Wind
* The Angel's Game
Best Historical Fiction
* Year of Wonders
* Homegoing
* Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
* Infidel
I Only Watched the Movie!
* No Country for Old Men
* The Remains of the Day
* A Monster Calls
* The Importance of Being Earnest
You Read a Book about What?
* The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Hello, Winter!Sorry for changing my mind so quickly but....
Please increase my challenge goal to 35 books. Thank you!
Listopia Challenge: 12 Books DONE!!Progress 12/12
Best Literary Mystery
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1. #95: Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell 1/23/20
2. #78: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith 2/06/20
3. #152: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 2/18/20
Best Historical Mystery
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. #285: Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal 6/09/20
2. #36: And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander 7/01/20
3. #75 A Poisoned Season Tasha Alexander 7/06/20
4. #89 A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander 7/25/20
5. #95: Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas 8/17/20
6. #543 The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair 8/25/20
7. #818 Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott 10/12/20
8. #1675 Anthem for Doomed Youth by Carola Dunn 10/29/20
9. #50 Why Mermaids Sing by C.S. Harris 10/29/21
I will read 10 books.Top 10 Books For 10K Members 2016 Celebration
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
1/2 -Listopia is back for yet another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from the previous years, or to start fresh with new goals and new lists.
Goodreads features a number of user-created lists which can be found here.
In addition to the featured and popular lists on the main page, you can see lists your friends have voted on or search for lists with topics that interest you.
The number of lists you choose and the number of books you read from each is entirely up to you. One person might choose to read the Top 100 books from one list, another person may choose to read the Top 5 books from 10 lists. You can mix it up any way you like.
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I'm in for a total of 10 books divided between 2 different listsList 1: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
5. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
List 2: The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
1. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
2. A Child Called "IT" by Dave Pelzer
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
I would love to join for 16 books....will be back to update my lists and choices :-)Thank you!
Alison
I'm in for 20 books (5 different Listopias, 5 books each) - TBDProgress: 0/25
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Four lists - three books from each - 12 in totalPopsugar 2020 - A book with a book on the cover
1 FINISHED. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
2 The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites
3 FINISHED. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Born in the 1960s - What We've Read in 2015
1 FINISHED. City of Thieves by David Benioff
2 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
3 FINISHED. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Fearless Females
1 FINISHED. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
2 FINISHED. On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle
3 FINISHED. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Science Fiction 2010-2019
1 FINISHED. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
2 Armada by Ernest Cline
3 Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
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I'm in for a total of 20 books, with 5 each from the following lists:1.) Most Interesting World
2.) Best Books of the 20th Century
3.) Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
4.) Your Top 5 Reads in 2019
I am in for a total of 20 books from the following list:List: "I Am In Love"...I hope to correspond books from this list with the books I read for Popsugar, ATY and 2020 Romanceopoly challenges :)
***Completed Books*** 30 as of 10/2/2020...**Challenge Completed!!**
**I am raising my total for this challenge to 30 books as of 6/3/2020**
1. Rebecca
2. Jane Eyre
3. All the Light We Cannot See
4. 99 Percent Mine
5. The Unhoneymooners
6. Red, White & Royal Blue
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
9. Romancing Mister Bridgerton
10. Scarlet
11. Making Faces
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
13. A Hunger Like No Other
14. Darkfever
15. The Score
16. To Sir Phillip, With Love
17. P.S. I Love You
18. Empire of Storms
19. The Flatshare
20. Bloodfever
21. Faefever
22. The Notebook
23. Mists of the Serengeti
24. Water for Elephants
25. The Hunger Games
26. Catching Fire
27. Mockingjay
28. Angelfall
29. City of Ashes
30. City of Glass
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Here's an update to my earlier message (#47):Interesting Worlds:
1.) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2.) The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison
3.) Dune - Frank Herbert
4.) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
5.) Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
Everyone Should Read At Least Once:
1.) The Catcher in the Rye - J. D Salinger
2.) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
3.) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
4.) The Outsiders - S.E Hinton
5.) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Top 5 Reads of 2019
1.) Educated - Tara Westover
2.) Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden
3.) Wonder - R.J Palacio
4.) Becoming - Michelle Obama
5.) Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
Best Books of the 20th Century:
1.) 1984 - George Orwell
2.) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3.) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
4.) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
5.) A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
I'm in for 50 books:Read 10/50
20 books from Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
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2025 Reading Challenge
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Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Listopia is back for yet another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from the previous years, or to start fresh with new goals and new lists.
Goodreads features a number of user-created lists which can be found here.
In addition to the featured and popular lists on the main page, you can see lists your friends have voted on or search for lists with topics that interest you.
The number of lists you choose and the number of books you read from each is entirely up to you. One person might choose to read the Top 100 books from one list, another person may choose to read the Top 5 books from 10 lists. You can mix it up any way you like.
Posting a link to your chosen lists is not required, but it does help others find the list you are referring to if they want to check it out as well! If you do want to post a link, here are the instructions:
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