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The Listopia Challenge - 2015
I would like to join. I think I can either finish it by December OR have enough already read to get some of these marked off. I am going to post this and then when I get all my challenges added to my corner, I am going to go through my “2015 books” list and see if any of those match the criteria.
Lists & Numbers of Books from Each:
Lists & Numbers of Books from Each:
Books that Should be Made Into Movies : 10 books
Best Young Adult Books:10 books
What to Read Next:5 books
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction:10 books
Book Boyfriends:10 books
Books of the Decade: 2000s:10 books
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
Completed: 13/30
List 1: Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. The Day of the Triffids - completed 31/01/15
2. Ubik - completed 11/02/15
3. The Maze Runner - completed 08/05/15
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau - completed 14/05/15
5. The Feast of the Drowned
List 2: Best Time Travel Fiction
1. Doctor Who: Shada - completed 05/07/15
2. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - completed 01/08/15
3. Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons
4. Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise
5. The Art of Destruction
6. Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island
7. Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
8. Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
9. Doctor Who: Only Human
List 3: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1. Redshirts - completed 21/01/15
2. The Martian - completed 17/05/15
3. The Long Earth - completed 07/06/15
List 4: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
1. The Man in the High Castle - completed 23/07/15
List 5: Best Doctor Who Books
1. Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories - completed 27/06/15
2. Doctor Who: Engines of War - completed 12/07/15
3. Doctor Who: The Blood Cell - completed 15/07/15
4. Doctor Who: City of Death
5. The Clockwise Man
6. Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain
7. Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams
8. Doctor Who: Winner Takes All
9. Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
10. Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside
List 6: Best Star Trek Books
1. Last Full Measure
2. The Good That Men Do
I had signed up for this challenge and I don't see my name listed. Please add me.Thank you.
Updated Message 215 with three books from three different lists. Almost done this challenge 14/15!Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison from from Epistolary Fiction
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman from Art and Artists in Fiction
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer from Microhistory:Social Histories of Just One Thing
26/38 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I've updated msg 12 and I'm currently 10 books of 39 read
So it looks like I've completed this challenge! Yay!THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
Best Stand-Alone Books
10/10
1. Eat, Pray, Love
2. House Rules
3. Howl's Moving Castle
4. The Silver Linings Playbook
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns
6. Gone Girl
7. Me Before You
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
10. I Am Legend
Update Message 158Howl's Moving Castle
Delirium
Water for Elephants
Life of Pi
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Middlesex
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
17/33
Ladies, I hope you don't mind, but I've changed one of my listopia's (Medieval England (Historical Fiction) to Best Historical Fiction Books that are actually historical Fiction. The books I already read from the original list are also on the new list, so it doesn't make any difference for my totals.msg 12 updated
Listopia Challenge Update1. Recommended Historical Ficton:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Help
2.Best Book About Tudor England:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
The Other Boleyn Girl
3.Best Cozy Mysteries Series:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
The Quiche of Death
Completed My Listopia Challenge!
I have completed 15 out of 17 books for this challenge. I have read all the books I picked from one of the two lists chosen.
Goal Read 10 books at least 3 from each category.Completed 11/10
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**
I updated message #6.15. The Seventh Day by Yu Hua (09/13/15, *****) (from my list #2, Non-Caucasian Protagonists in SF/F/H/PR)
Read: 15/25
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
Completed: 14/30
List 1: Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. The Day of the Triffids - completed 31/01/15
2. Ubik - completed 11/02/15
3. The Maze Runner - completed 08/05/15
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau - completed 14/05/15
5. The Feast of the Drowned
List 2: Best Time Travel Fiction
1. Doctor Who: Shada - completed 05/07/15
2. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - completed 01/08/15
3. Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons
4. Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise
5. The Art of Destruction
6. Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island
7. Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
8. Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
9. Doctor Who: Only Human
List 3: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1. Redshirts - completed 21/01/15
2. The Martian - completed 17/05/15
3. The Long Earth - completed 07/06/15
List 4: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
1. The Man in the High Castle - completed 23/07/15
List 5: Best Doctor Who Books
1. Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories - completed 27/06/15
2. Doctor Who: Engines of War - completed 12/07/15
3. Doctor Who: The Blood Cell - completed 15/07/15
4. The Clockwise Man - completed 07/09/15
5. Doctor Who: City of Death
6. Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain
7. Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams
8. Doctor Who: Winner Takes All
9. Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
10. Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside
List 6: Best Star Trek Books
1. Last Full Measure
2. The Good That Men Do
Updated message 131. Challenge complete! but I will continue reading more from these lists until the end of the year.
42/40
Updated message 605/5 Challenge complete
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
I updated message #6.16. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (09/19/15, ***/3.5)
(from my list #2, Non-Caucasian Protagonists in SF/F/H/PR)
Read: 16/25
Updated 384
4. Jane Eyre***** Terrific Book!!!
5. Crime and Punishment***Thought provoking
11/10 Complete
I've updated msg 37 with Confessions of a Shopaholic which I finished 10.5.15. It is on my list "No Young Adult Best Chic Lit. I have read 14/15 books for this challenge!
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
Panty Dropper List 14 books total
Panty Droppers List
31/32 Completed
14/14 completed
1. ✔Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by E.L. James 6/28/2015
2. ✔On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street, #1)
by Samantha Young
3. ✔ Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #3)
by J.R. Ward
4. ✔Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
by E.L. James
5. ✔ If I Were You (Inside Out, #1)
by Lisa Renee Jones
✔6. Seducing Cinderella (Fighting for Love, #1)
by Gina L. Maxwell 5/24/15
7. ✔ Lick (Stage Dive, #1) have
by Kylie Scott
✔8. Logan's Acadian Wolves
(Immortals of New Orleans, #4 by Kym Grosso 1/08/15
✔9. Hate F*@ck: Part One (The Horus Group, #1)
by Ainsley Booth 5/17/15
✔10. Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
by E.L. James
11. ✔ Wicked Ties (Wicked Lovers, #1) by Shayla Black
✔12. Hate F*@k: Part Two (The Horus Group, #2) by Ainsley Booth 5/23/15
13. ✔Rules of Entanglement (Fighting for Love, #2)
by Gina L. Maxwell (Goodreads Author) May 29,2015
✔ 14.Léopold’s Wicked Embrace (Immortals of New Orleans, #5)
by Kym Grosso 03/13/15
Smut for Smart
Smut for Smart
11/11
1. ✔Backstage Pass (Sinners on Tour, #1)
by Olivia Cunning
2. ✔Rock Hard (Sinners on Tour, #2)
by Olivia Cunning
3. ✔The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1)
by J.A. Redmerski
4. ✔Thoughtless (Thoughtless, #1)
by S.C. Stephens June 24, 2015
5. ✔Reasonable Doubt: Volume 1 (Reasonable Doubt, #1)
by Whitney Gracia Williams
6. ✔Love Unscripted (Love, #1)
by Tina Reber
7. ✔His Name is Sir (The Power to Please, #3) by Deena Ward 6/5/15
8. ✔The Man Without Rules (Without Rules, #1) by Tyffani Clark Kemp
9. ✔Reasonable Doubt: Volume 2 (Reasonable Doubt, #2) Whitney Gracia Williams 5/26/15
10. ✔Breaking Leila Lucy V Morgan (Name change of the Chairman of the Whored ) June 24, 2015
11. .✔The Whored's Prayer (Whored, #2) by Lucy V. Morgan 9/22/15
I’M IN LOVE
books 6/7
1. ✔Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2) By: JR Ward
2. ✔Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. ✔Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
4. ✔Looking for Alaska by John Green
5. ✔Taint (Sexual Education, #1) by S.L. Jennings
6. ✔Hot Ticket (Sinners on Tour, #3) by Olivia Cunning
hoping to add another 9 books from these lists or something new haven't decided
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
32/32 Completed
Panty Dropper List 14 books total
Panty Droppers List
32/32 Completed
14/14 completed
1. ✔Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by E.L. James 6/28/2015
2. ✔On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street, #1)
by Samantha Young
3. ✔ Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #3)
by J.R. Ward
4. ✔Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
by E.L. James
5. ✔ If I Were You (Inside Out, #1)
by Lisa Renee Jones
✔6. Seducing Cinderella (Fighting for Love, #1)
by Gina L. Maxwell 5/24/15
7. ✔ Lick (Stage Dive, #1) have
by Kylie Scott
✔8. Logan's Acadian Wolves
(Immortals of New Orleans, #4 by Kym Grosso 1/08/15
✔9. Hate F*@ck: Part One (The Horus Group, #1)
by Ainsley Booth 5/17/15
✔10. Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
by E.L. James
11. ✔ Wicked Ties (Wicked Lovers, #1) by Shayla Black
✔12. Hate F*@k: Part Two (The Horus Group, #2) by Ainsley Booth 5/23/15
13. ✔Rules of Entanglement (Fighting for Love, #2)
by Gina L. Maxwell (Goodreads Author) May 29,2015
✔ 14.Léopold’s Wicked Embrace (Immortals of New Orleans, #5)
by Kym Grosso 03/13/15
Smut for Smart
Smut for Smart
11/11
1. ✔Backstage Pass (Sinners on Tour, #1)
by Olivia Cunning
2. ✔Rock Hard (Sinners on Tour, #2)
by Olivia Cunning
3. ✔The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1)
by J.A. Redmerski
4. ✔Thoughtless (Thoughtless, #1)
by S.C. Stephens June 24, 2015
5. ✔Reasonable Doubt: Volume 1 (Reasonable Doubt, #1)
by Whitney Gracia Williams
6. ✔Love Unscripted (Love, #1)
by Tina Reber
7. ✔His Name is Sir (The Power to Please, #3) by Deena Ward 6/5/15
8. ✔The Man Without Rules (Without Rules, #1) by Tyffani Clark Kemp
9. ✔Reasonable Doubt: Volume 2 (Reasonable Doubt, #2) Whitney Gracia Williams 5/26/15
10. ✔Breaking Leila Lucy V Morgan (Name change of the Chairman of the Whored ) June 24, 2015
11. .✔The Whored's Prayer (Whored, #2) by Lucy V. Morgan 9/22/15
I’M IN LOVE
books 7/7
1. ✔Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2) By: JR Ward
2. ✔Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. ✔Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
4. ✔Looking for Alaska by John Green
5. ✔Taint (Sexual Education, #1) by S.L. Jennings
6. ✔Hot Ticket (Sinners on Tour, #3) by Olivia Cunning
7. Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4)
all 32 books done may come back and do 8 more for an even 40 but for now I'm done
~does a little happy dance~
I updated message #6.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (10/28/15, ****, re-read) (from list 1001 Books to Read)
Read: 18/25
Completed the challenge today.List 1: Radcliffes 100 Best Novels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Goal: Read 8 more books Read 8/8
Things Fall Apart 2/5/15 ****
This Side of Paradise 10/30/15 ***
The Sun Also Rises 1/22/15 ***
Tender Is the Night 1/4/15 ****
A Separate Peace 1/15/15 *****
Orlando 7/25/15 ***
As I Lay Dying10/13/15 ****
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 7/20/15 ****
List 2: BBC Top 200 Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Goal: Read 10 more books. Read:10/10
Love in the Time of Cholera 1/11/15 ***
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging 2/26/15 **
Katherine 2/23/15 *****
Stormbreaker 8/11/15 ****
Point Blank 8/17/15 ****
Black Beauty 8/23/15 ****
The Diary of a Nobody 3/23/15 ***
Silas Marner 1/18/15 *****
East of Eden 8/9/15 *****
The God of Small Things 9/9/15 ****
Total read 18/18
Updated message 42Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir read 10/29/2015
11/12 completed
11/35 completeList 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 read 9-8-15
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton read 5-25-15
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 read 11-11-15
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Paper Towns by John Green read 3-27-15
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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 read 5-23-15
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
read 3-24-15
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 read 9-28-15
Emma by Jane Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides read 4-8-15
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I am now up to 10/12 on both of my listsNew York Times 100 notable books of 2014
1.The Book of Strange New Things✔
2.The Paying Guests✔
3.The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History✔
4.The Bone Clocks✔
5.Lila
6.The Book of Unknown Americans✔
7.Euphoria✔
8.A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing✔
9.10:04
10.Nora Webster✔
11.The Narrow Road to the Deep North✔
12.The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History✔
Modern Australian Literature
1.Burial Rites✔
2.The Rosie Project✔
3.Big Little Lies✔
4.On the Jellicoe Road✔
5.All That I Am✔
6.True History of the Kelly Gang✔
7.The Bodysurfers✔
8.The Idea of Perfection✔
9.The Slap✔
10.The Narrow Road to the Deep North✔
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Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (07/31/15, ****) (from my list #2, Non-Caucasian Protagonists in SF/F/H/PR)
Read: 14/25