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The Listopia Challenge - 2015
Updated message 106 - 8 of 15 read. Thanks!
Dee wrote: "Updated message 106 - 8 of 15 read. Thanks!"Excellent work Dee.
I want to jump in on this challenge! I've picked 3 lists that I like and I am going to try to knock out the "Want to Reads" on those lists. There is a total of 33 Books TotalBest Young Adult Books
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Everyone's Read It But Me
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10. Atonement
11. A Thousand Splendid Suns
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16. My Sister's Keeper
17. It
18. Son of a Witch
19. Catch-22
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22. I Know This Much Is True
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Books that Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Fahrenheit 451
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4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns
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10. Anna Karenina
11. Slaughterhouse-Five
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13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Atlas Shrugged
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16. The Poisonwood Bible
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I have now completed 3/24New York Times 100 notable books of 2014
1.The Book of Strange New Things✔
Modern Australian Literature
1.Burial Rites✔
2.The Rosie Project✔
Goal Read 10 books at least 3 from each category.Completed 12/10
List 1
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
1. 1984****
2. Slaughterhouse-Five***
3. The Catcher in the Rye**
4.Jane Eyre*****
5.Crime and Punishment***
List 2
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
1.Starship Troopers****
2.Stranger in a Strange Land****
3.Hyperion*****
4.The Moon is a Harsh Mistress****
List 3
BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS
1. Bag of Bones***
2. In the Night Room**
3.A Dark Matter*
Message 162 Updated
Starship Troopers****A really good book, my first book by Robert Heinlein but it won't be last.
I will participate using the Best Twists List! Best Twists
I will commit to five books for now but may add more!
Progress: (0/5)
Message 162 Updated3/10 Complete
1984**** - Top 100 Literary Novel
The Haunting of Hill House**** - Bram Stoker Award Winner
I'm going to do this challenge. I'm counting audiobooks and rereads. Also Books can can on multiple lists. Including books from the lists to read but these might be changed.Top 100 Romance Novels on Goodreads
Goal Read 5 books from this list. 2/5 Complete
Captive in the Dark by C.J. Roberts ✔
And Playing the Role of Herself by K.E. Lane ✔
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard
Addicted by Zane
Thrillers you Must Read
Goal Read 10 books from top 200 of this list 3/10 Complete
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ✔
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins ✔
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn ✔
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Misery by Stephen King
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Goal Read 10 books from top 100 of this list. 4/10 Completed
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ✔
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien ✔
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny ✔
Hyperion by Dan Simmons ✔
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Best Science Books Non-Fiction Only
Read 3 books from top 100 of this list. Completed 0/3
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Goodreads Top 100 literary novels of all time
Goal read 5 books from this list. Completed 0/5
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Total Read So Far: [30 of 45]
List 1: Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
Completed: [11 of 20]1.
2. Eyrie by Tim Winton
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8. Beastings by Benjamin Myers
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10. The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
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13. A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger
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15. Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville
16. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
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18. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
19. The Unamericans: Stories by Molly Antopol
20. The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
List 2: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Completed: [16 of 20]1.
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5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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15. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
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19. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis
20. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico
List 3: Best Historical Mystery Completed: [1 of 5]1.
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4. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
5. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
Updated msg 12 for February. I only read 1 book this month for this challenge4/39
Updated message 106 - 13 of 15 read. Thanks!
I would like to do this challenge. Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time:
Best Historical Fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Updated message 60Yea!!! I finally finished one of the books on my list. This is the only challenge that I hadn't completed at least one of the books until now.
1. War and Peace ✔ 3/6
Hi, Zara!I am participating in this challenge(message 166) but didn't see my name in the list. I suspect you have me listed as Pat as that was how my name came up before I fixed it :)
Update Message 158 Haven't updated here in a while, but I did knock 4 books off my Best Young Adult List!
A Wrinkle in Time
Looking for Alaska
The Maze Runner
Paper Towns
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Updated message 106 - 15 of 15 read! Thanks
I just noticed that while I read Kokoro on January 18, I forgot to list it here. So I've updated message 6.4.
Read: 4/25
Zara I'm going to continue my list from last year. Put me down for 5 right now.
Update Message 158Finished theThe Time Traveler's Wife which was on two of my listopia lists. I'm hoping to have one list completed by the end of April!
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List 1: Best Young Adult Books The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Giver by Lois Lowry (read 2-8-15)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Little Prince by Anoine de Saint-Exupery (read 3-24-15)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Paper Towns by John Green currently reading
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
COMPLETED 2/13 LIST 1
List 2: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery read (2-24-15)
The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (read 2-27-15)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Slaugherhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Emma by Jane Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
COMPLETED 2/22 LIST 2
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