The Listopia Challenge - 2015

[Kara]

LIST ONE: Speculative Fiction that Passes the Bechdel Test
(At the end of 2014: read 13 of the top 100)
1. Alanna: The First Adventure
2. Kushiel's Dart
3. Soulless
4. Wild Magic
5. Terrier

LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
(At the end of 2014: read 55 of the top 100)
1. Hyperion
2. The Host
3. Rendezvous with Rama
4. The Forever War
5. Dragonflight

LIST THREE: You Read a Book About What?
(At the end of 2014, read 13 of the top 100)
1. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
2. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
3. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
4. Seabiscuit: An American Legend
5. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

COMPLETED: 0/15

[Wendi]

Hi! I'm in. :)


The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015

Books Read: 30/30
Lists Completed: 6/6

List 1: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

✔1.Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen - Nov 29 - ★★★★★
✔2.The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Nov 15 - ★★★☆☆
✔3.Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë - Jul 26 - ★★★★★
✔4.The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger - Jul 21 - ★★★☆☆
✔5.Animal Farm | George Orwell - Jul 3 - ★★★★☆



List 2: The "Can't Wait" Books of 2015

✔1.Reborn | Jennifer Rush - Nov 8 - ★★★★☆
✔2.Dead Heat | Patricia Briggs - Mar 6 - ★★★★☆
✔3.Vision in Silver | Anne Bishop - Mar 16 - ★★★★☆
✔4.End of Days | Susan Ee - Sep 20 - ★★★★☆
✔5.The Winner's Crime | Marie Rutkoski - Mar 23 - ★★★☆☆



List 3: The Best Urban Fantasy

✔1.Shiver | Maggie Stiefvater - Nov 21 - ★★★☆☆
✔2.Stray | Rachel Vincent - Apr 10 - ★★★☆☆
✔3.Touch the Dark | Karen Chance - Jan 16 - ★★★☆☆
✔4.Angels' Blood | Nalini Singh - Aug 8 - ★★★★☆
✔5.Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire - Feb 10 - ★★★★☆



List 4: The Best Epic Fantasy

✔1.A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin - Jan 29 - ★★★★☆
✔2.Mistborn: The Final Empire | Brandon Sanderson - Nov 18 - ★★★★★
✔3.The Way of Kings | Brandon Sanderson - Dec 4 - ★★★★★
✔4.The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie - Apr 2 - ★★★☆☆
✔5.Kushiel's Dart | Jacqueline Carey - Feb 5 - ★★☆☆☆



List 5: Best Medieval Romance Novels

✔1.A Kingdom of Dreams | Judith McNaught - Nov 10 - ★★★☆☆
✔2.The Secret | Julie Garwood - Mar 14 -★★★☆☆
✔3.Ransom | Julie Garwood - Apr 22 - ★★★☆☆
✔4.The Wedding | Julie Garwood - Feb 22 - ★★★☆☆
✔5.Fires of Winter | Johanna Lindsey - May 14 - ★★★★☆



List 6: Fantasy Romance

✔1.Warprize | Elizabeth Vaughan - Mar 23 - ★★★★☆
✔2.Lady of Light and Shadows | C.L. Wilson - Jul 19 - ★★★★☆
✔3.King of Sword and Sky | C.L. Wilson - Jul 20 - ★★★★☆
✔4.Master of Crows | Grace Draven - Oct 22, 15 - ★★★★☆
✔5.Wildest Dreams | Kristen Ashley - Mar 1 - ★★★★☆

[Karla]

I choose the "Science" list for my Listopia 2015 challenge. I will read 5 books in the science list.

[Katy (Queen of the trash nerds)]

I am in with 20 books!

Books You Wish More People Knew About

1. Everlost FINISHED on January 11th
2. Inside Out
3. Sisters Red
4. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
3. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
4. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
5. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Best Strong Female Fantasy Novels

1. Arrows of the Queen FINISHED AUGUST 28
2. Touch of Power
3. Grave Mercy
4. Graceling
5. Sabriel FINISHED MAY 28

Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance

1. Moon Called
2. American Gods
3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
4. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
5. Zoo City
6. Legend FINISHED JULY 13

[K]

30 total! Let's see how far I get.

Best Graphic Novels

0/15
01) Persepolis, Volume 1 - Marjane Satrapi
02) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
03) Batman: The Killing Joke - Alan Moore
04) Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned - Brian K Vaughan
05) From Hell - Alan Moore
06) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 - Alan Moore
07) Saga, Volume 1 - Brian K Vaughan
08) Kingdom Come - Mark Waid
09) 100 Bullets - Brian Azzarello
10) Black Hole - Charles Burns
11) Marvels - Kurt Busiek
12) Umbrella Academy, Vol.1: The Apocalypse Suite - Gerard Way
13) Stardust - Neil Gaiman
14) X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga - Chris Claremont
15) Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice - John Layman

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

5/15
01) Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier Feb 25
02) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
03) The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
04) 1984 - George Orwell June 20
05) Animal Farm - George Orwell June 24
06) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Jan 25
07) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
08) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
09) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
10) Dracula - Bram Stoker Mar 13
11) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley May 1
12) Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Dec 25. Got a bit of a head start :)
13) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
14) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
15) The Color Purple - Alice Walker Jan 4

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

I found a list that works with my other challenges. I'll start with 10 and see how it goes!
Read 11/10

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

✔ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer 1,614 pages 1/28/15
✔ 2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2/23/15
✔ 3. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan 783 pages 3/22/15
✔ 4. Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan 863 pages 5/2/15
✔ 5. Time Regained by Marcel Proust 784 pages 6/4/15
✔ 6. Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1,463 pages 7/3/15
✔ 7. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 656 pages 8/15/15
✔ 8. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 592 pages 8/23/15
✔ 9. Ulysses 783 pages 8/30/15
✔ 10. The Three Musketeers 786 pages 9/6/15
✔ 11. Don Quixote 982 pages 11/30/15
12. The Witching Hour 1,207 pages currently reading


To be read:
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- A Suitable Boy
- Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
- Taltos
- The Feast of All Saints

[Lorelei]

Hi Zara,
I've updated my Listopia which is #37. I'm in for 15, but I have more on my list (jik).
Thanks for moderating.

[Laurie]

I plan to read 5 from: Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1. War and Peace ✔ 3/6
2. Great Expectations ✔ 9/10
3. Middlemarch ✔ 4/25
4. Gone with the Wind ✔ 5/17
5. Doctor Zhivago ✔ 6/26

[Meg]

I've made my selections (24 books in total from 2 different lists) and updated in msg 29

[Kathryn]

Meg wrote: "I've made my selections (24 books in total from 2 different lists) and updated in msg 29"

Love your second list, Meg - Modern Australian Literature. I've read 4 from your list and thoroughly enjoyed them all. Hope you find them good reads!

[mussolet]

Zara,
I'll just continue quietly with the same lists I've had for two years. Maybe I'll actually finish this challenge in five years or so.

I: Not the Booker Prize 2010
Possibilities: The Imperfectionists, Ghost Light, Lights out in Wonderland, The Finkler Question, In a strange room, The Golden Mean, Under Heaven
II: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
Possibilities: The Absolutist, Today, The Last Gift, The Raw Man, The Sentimentalists, Irma Voth, The Proof of Love, Among Others, The Storyteller of Marrakesh, Telescope
III: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
Possibilities: The Light Between The Oceans, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Casual Vacancy, The Bellwether Revivals, John Saturnall's Feast, Coward's Tale, The Watch, The Forrests, Dogs at the Perimeter, Snake Ropes, The Uninvited Guests, Merivel, Harmattan, The Man Who Rained, The Land of Decoration, The Garden of Evening Mists, The Chemistry of Tears
IV: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
Possibilities: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Professor of Poetry, Harvest, The Spinning Heart, The Last Banquet, This Magnificent Desolation, Life After Life, Paris, The Luminaries, The Night Rainbow, Questions of Travel, The Cuckoo's Calling
V: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
Possibilities: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, Carthage, & Sons, The Invention of Wings, And the Mountains Echoed
VI: Favourite Magical Realism Novels
Possibilities: Life of Pi, The Lace Reader, Big Fish, Blackbird House, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, Like Water for Chocolate, Midnight's Children, Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen, The Girl Who Chased The Moon, The Peach Keeper, Winter's Tale, Invisible Cities, Little Big, If on a Winter's Night..., The Night Circus, The Snow Child, The Tiger's Wife
VII: Favourite Travel Books
Possibilities: Shadow of the Silk Road, Into the Wild, A Moveable Feast, Passionate Nomad, The Valleys of the Assassins, Without Reservations,
VIII: Microhistories
Possibilities: Evening in the Palace of Reason, The Swerve, Colour, Song of the Dodo, The Map that Changed the World, The Devil in the White City
IX: Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers

[ChrisP]

Count me in
2015 LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 2015 - December 2015
Completed 0/10

List 1 Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time


Goal Read at least 3 Books from the list. 0/5 Complete

List 2 Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award

Goal Read at least 3 Books from the list. 0/5 Complete

List 3 BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS

Goal Read at least 3 Books from the list. 0/5 Complete

[Kristin]

I'm in for 2015.

Favorite Human Drama Books Featured on Well Read
1) The Valley of Amazement
2) The Buddha in the Attic
3) The Round House


Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
1) Ender's Game
2) Dune
3) Dragonflight


Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
1) Pride and Prejudice
2) Lolita
3) 1984

[Kathryn]

Right - I've had a think about this one. I'm in for 10 books from 3 lists.


Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2) The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
3) The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin

Have Passport Will Travel
4) Q & A by Vikas Swarup
5) Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
6) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Australian Christian Authors
7) Angelguard by Ian Acheson
8) Black Forest Redemption by Amanda Deed
9) Passion Play - the Oberammergau Tales by Valerie Volk
10) Though the Bud Be Bruised by Jo Wanmer

[E]

So yeah, I think I'll read random 3 books of each of these lists. And I think I already have more books in all challenges I wanted to do than I can actually read, but I am hopeful.

1001 Boos You Must Read Before You Die
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

The BBC Book List Challenge
BBC thinks you've only read 6 of these books...
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

World's Greatest Novellas
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Best Historical Fiction
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

So it's 15 books in total, I thinks that's doable...

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Betwixt the]

The Listopia Challenge (2015)

I'll be attempting to work on the following:

Best Books Ever
1. The Lovely Bones --Finished
2. Water for Elephants --Finished
3. Flowers for Algernon --Finished
4. The Golden Compass --Finished
5. Clockwork Angel --Finished
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time --Finished
7. Peter Pan --Finished
8. Thirteen Reasons Why --Finished
9. Delirium --Finished
10. Cinder --Finished
11. Throne of Glass --Finished
12. The Iron King --Finished
13. Eleanor & Park --Finished

13/10

[DeNeal]

I would like to join and I do 10 books from Best Historical Fiction. I will add them as I go.

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here

[Carine]

Let's do this

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

1) The Catcher in the Rye
2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3) A Clockwork Orange
4) Never Let Me Go
5) Breakfast at Tiffany's


Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers

1) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
2) The Time Traveler's Wife
3) Gone Girl
4) One Day
5) The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer



2014 Contemporary YA

1) Love Letters to the Dead
2) Side Effects May Vary
3) Pan[book:Afterworldsic|17565845]



Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers

1) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
2) The Time Traveler's Wife
3) Gone Girl
4) One Day
5) The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer



2014: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
1) The Rosie Project
2)Orange Is the New Black
3) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

[Zara's Retreat]

Carine I have added you. Welcome and good luck

[Deborah]

Joining this challenge as well:)

5 each

Best Urban Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...

1)Dead Witch Walking
2)Grave Witch
3)A Discovery of Witches
4)Dreams Underfoot
5)A Local Habitation



Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

1) The Night Circus
2) Life of Pi
3) The Princess Bride
4) Legend
5) A Discovery of Witches

[Zara's Retreat]

Deborah I have added you. Welcome and good luck

[Shaunte]

I'm in for 10 books from 2 lists (5 each)


Best Christian Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

1. The Atonement Child - Francine Rivers
2. Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
3. The Scarlet Thread - Francine Rivers
4. Hinds' Feet on High Places - Hannah Hurnard
5. Last Light - Terri Blackstock

Christian Chick Lit
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

1. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down - Neta Jackson / Completed 1/25/15
2. The Book of Jane - Anne Dayton
3. Sushi for One? - Camy Tang
4. In Between - Jenny B. Jones
5. The Trophy Wives Club - Kristin Billerbeck

[Zara's Retreat]

Shaunte I have added you.

[Naomi]

I'm going in for this challenge, but I'm not doing too much. I've picked out 10 books to read for this. The books I chose aren't listed in any particular order.

Japanese Literature

Requiem by Shizuko Go
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
No Longer Human by Ozamu Dazai
The Doctor's Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo

[Zara's Retreat]

Naomi I have added you.

[Renáta]

I'm going for 17 books from 2 lists:

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1. Cat's Cradle
2. The Little Prince
3. The Catcher in the Rye
4. Lord of the Flies
5. Animal Farm
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. Alice in Wonderland
9. The Yellow Wallpaper
10. The Call of the Wild
11. Of Mice and Men

The Best Epic Fantasy:

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Warded Man
3. Blood Song
4. Prince of Thorns
5. The Ruins of Gorlan
6. The Hero of Ages

[Zara's Retreat]

Renée I have added you. Welcome.

[Heather (Heatso)]

I want to read a total of 25 books over 6 lists, minimum of reading 2 books from each list, no rereads.

19/25

Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers (2/2)
1. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Completed 12/10
2. Paper Towns by John Green Completed 6/14


Best Young Adult books (3/2)
1. Burned by Ellen Hopkins Completed 5/1
2. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
3. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Completed 7/28
4. Stardust by Neil Gaiman Completed 12/8


Best YA Fiction w/GLBTQQI (3/2)
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
3. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Completed 6/15
4. Something Like Summer by Jay Bell Completed 6/23
5. Something Like Autumn by Jay Bell Completed 7/20


Can't Wait for 2015 (5/2)
1. Never Never by Colleen Hoover
2. Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan Completed 4/25
3. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Completed 7/29
4. You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day Completed 12/6
5. Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella Completed 11/22
6. None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio Completed 12/5


Best Books Under 200 Pages (3/2)
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Completed 6/25
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Completed 6/19
4, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Completed 12/21


Dystopian/Utopian/Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic (2/2)
1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
2. Unwind by Neal Shusterman
3. The Selection by Kiera Cass
4. Monument 13 by Emmy Laybourne
5. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Completed 12/16
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell Completed 1/29

[Brittany]

My List:
Best Covers Of 2014.

I've decided to read the top five for now (because many are farther into a series I will have to read the previous books)

1.The One
2.Ignite Me
3.Cress
4.A Thousand Pieces of You
5.City of Heavenly Fire

[Zara's Retreat]

Heather I've added you. Welcome and good luck

[Jenn]

I'm in!
I want to read a total of 15 books over 3 lists, 5 from each list, no rereads.
Read 6/15

Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers
1. The Fault in Our Stars ✓
2. The Book Thief
3. Beauty Queens ✓
4. Me Before You
5. Between Shades of Gray


Best Young Adult Books
1. Speak
2. A Great and Terrible Beauty
3. Delirium
4. Anna and the French Kiss ✓
5. The Body Finder


Best YA Dystopian/Utopian/Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic
1. Uglies
2. Monument 14 ✓
3. Bumped ✓
4. Eve ✓
5. Wither

[Zara's Retreat]

Welcome Jenn. I've added you.

[Meimei]

★ THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE ★
❃ Lists: 5
❃ TOTAL: 0/45 

List #1 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
0/12

List #2 World's Greatest Novellas
0/10

List #3 Best Teen Books About Real Problems
0/10

List #4 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
0/3

List #5 New Adult Literature
0/5

List #6 2014 Contemporary YA
0/5

[Zara's Retreat]

Meimei I've added you. Welcome.

[Shaunte]

Hi Zara,

I updated my list (#76) - I actually switched one of my Listopia lists - it's all up to date now. Thanks!!!

[Amanda]

Im in!

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015

What Women Born in the 1970's Have Read So Far This Year (1/10)

Side note: I'd like to point out I was NOT born in the 1970s, but just barely in the 80's. I would hate to make myself older than I already am.

1. Landline
2. The Book of Life completed 1.1.15
3.I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
4.The Kite Runner
5.The Great Gatsby
6.A Thousand Splendid Suns
7.The Perks of Being a Wallflower
8.One Plus One
9.The Girl You Left Behind
10.All the Light We Cannot See


May add more...

[Zara's Retreat]

Amanda I've added you. Welcome.

[Tahj]

I'll be reading 4 books from 1 list... (-:

Best Young Adult Books

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling

2. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

3. The Giver by Lois Lowry

4. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

[Nancy]

I've chosen 3 lists
I want to read a total of 12 books over 3 lists, 4 from each list, no rereads

Best Paranormal Romance Series



Best Ever Contemporary Romance Books

✓ - Completed 1/24/15 ✓ - Completed 3/24/15


Best Young Adult Books

[Zara's Retreat]

Nancy I've added you.

[Zan]

I would like to join please

[Zara's Retreat]

Zan I have added you.

[Stacey]

I'm in...once I figure out how to post. ;)

[Zara's Retreat]

Pitch I've added you.

[Sally]

I'm in! :)

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015

LIST ONE:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë ★★★★★ (11/02/15)
2. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell ★★★★☆ 1,472 pages (15/03/15)
3.
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

2/10

LIST TWO:
Best Historical Fiction

1. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant ★★☆☆☆ (01/02/15)
2.
3.
4.
5.

1/5

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here

[[deleted user]]

Listopia Challenge

I plan to read 10 books from each of the following three lists: -- 30/30

2015 Tournament of Books Long List -- 10/10
✓ 1. A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall: A Novel by Will Chancellor (3/3)
✓ 2. An Untamed State by Roxane Gay (3/5)
✓ 3. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (3/1)
✓ 4. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (3/1)
✓ 5. Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball (3/13)
✓ 6. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (3/6)
✓ 7. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (2/28)
✓ 8. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (2/24)
✓ 9. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2/13)
✓ 10. Euphoria by Lily King (4/10)

Newbery 2015 -- 10/10
✓ 1. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (3/19)
✓ 2. The Fourteenth Goldfish byJennifer L. Holm (3/20)
✓ 3. Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff (1/22)
✓ 4. El Deafo by Cece Bell (3/15)
✓ 5. Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (3/19)
✓ 6. Nest by Esther Ehrlich (3/14)
✓ 7. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (3/12)
✓ 8. A Piece of Sky by Ann Hunter (3/19)
✓ 9. The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer (2/15)
✓ 10. Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire

Mock Printz 2015 -- 10/10
✓ 1. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (2/27)
✓ 2. Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (3/19)
✓ 3. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (5/24)
✓ 4. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (3/31)
✓ 5. One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva (3/20)
✓ 6. This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki (3/15)
✓ 7. The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming (3/10)
✓ 8. Girls Like Us by Gail Giles
✓ 9. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (1/13)
✓ 10. Noggin by John Corey Whaley (3/2)

[Kylie]

I'm in.

My first list is Behaviour Change and Social Psychology How People Make Decisions

1 Thinking Fast and Slow
2 Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
3 The Power of Habit Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
4 Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
5 Made to Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
6 The Paradox of Choice Why More Is Less
7 Doer's Dilemma - Why Achievers Suffer And What To Do About It
8 Sway The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
9 Mistakes Were Made But Not by Me Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts
10 Flow The Psychology of Optimal Experience
11 Why We Make Mistakes How We Look Without Seeing Forget Things in Seconds and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
12 Eat Move Sleep How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
13 You Are Not So Smart Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
14 The Likeability Factor How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams
15 The Emotional Extremist's Guide to Handling Cartoon Elephants How to Solve Elephantine Emotional Problems Without Getting Run Over Chased Flattened
16 Willpower Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

0/16


Second List: Autism Fiction and Non-Fiction
1 The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
2 I Think I Might Be Autistic A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults
3 The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism
4 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders A Lifesaver for Parents and Professionals Who Interact Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
5 Autism and Me Sibling Stories

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I don't think I can fit all of this reading in, but just to keep track of my top "reading about writing" plans -
Third List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1 On Writing A Memoir of the Craft
2 Story Style Structure Substance and the Principles of Screenwriting
3 The Anatomy of Story
4 Characters Emotion Viewpoint or Characters and Viewpoint
5 Wired for Story
6 How to Write a Damn Good Novel A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
7 Beginnings Middles Ends
8 The Writer's Journey
9 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
10 Writing the Breakout Novel (and workbook)
11 45 Master Characters
12 Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
13 Conflict Action and Suspense
14 The Screenwriter's Bible A Complete Guide to Writing Formatting and Selling Your Script
15 Plot Structure or https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... by Ansen Dibell
16 The Emotion Thesaurus
17 The Negative Trait Thesaurus
18 The Positive Trait Thesaurus
19 How to Write a Damn Good Novel II Advanced Techniques For Dramatic Storytelling
20 Dialogue Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue
21 Revision Self-Editing
22 The Key How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth
23 How to Write a Damn Good Mystery
24 How to Write a Damn Good Thriller
25 Creating Characters
26 Description Setting
27 20 Master Plots
28 The Breakout Novelist
29 The Fire in Fiction