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The Listopia Challenge - 2015

Adriana 4/12
Alison 0/5
Alissa
Amanda
Amelia 4/25
Amy 7/15
Angel
Angelique 4/39
Anissa 0/5
Ariel(mots_femme) 13/45
Ashley 3/20
Blagica
Brianna
Brianna Andreda
Candiss 7/25
Carine
Charity 23/40
Charlotte
ChrisP 3/10
ClaireP
Danielle
Deborah
Deneal
Dominique
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Elizabeth
Erika
Heather
Heather (Heatso)
Jacqueline
Jane
Janet
Jenn
Jodi
Kara 4/15
Karena
Karina
Karla
Kathryn
Katy (Queen of the trash nerds)
Kelsi
Krystal
Kristin
Krystina
Kylie
Laurie 3/6
Lilac
Lindy-Lane
Liz
Lois
Lorelei 8/15
Maria 4/35
Mary Pat 1/5
Melissa 0/24
Meg 4/24
Meimei
Mirliz
Monica
Nancy
Naomi
Pat
Pawel
Peggy
Pitch
Rachel
Renée
~*Ro*~
Robin
Sally 3/20
Scott 12/33
Sharon
Shaunte
SilverRaindrops
Stefani-SpelingExpirt
Stephanie 10/30
Stephanie 9/33
Stormie
Susan 5/12
Theresa~OctoberLace
Tina 28/30
Vernice 5/10
Whitney
Zan
Zara

Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
Completed: 6/20
List 1: Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. Atonement
2. Middlesex
3. Madame Bovary
5. The Idiot
6. Infidel
7. The Historian
List 2: Social History Books - All About People & Society
2. Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
3. Life in a Victorian Household
List 3: Books That Had You Sobbing
1. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
4. If I Stay
List 4: Earthquake, Volcano and Tsunami
1. Pompeii
2. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
List 5: Lesser Known Authors
1. Legend
2. Life, In Spite of Me: Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice

These books are split about 40% books I own + 40% library books + 20% public domain e-book classics. I won't be buying any new books for challenges this year.
List 1: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Goal: Read 5 more books. Read: 5/5
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List 2: Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and PR
Goal: Read 10 more books. Read: 11/11
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List 3: World's Greatest Novellas
Goal: Read 7 more books. Read: 6/6
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List 4: Kirkus Review's Best Fiction Books 2014
Goal: Read 3 more books. Read: 3/3
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Total read: 25/25
The Best Epic Fantasy: 5/5 Completed
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Completed March 31, 2015.
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Completed August 18, 2015.
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Completed June 25, 2015.
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Completed January 31, 2015.
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Completed March 8, 2015.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: 5/5 Completed
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Completed January 25, 2015.
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Completed June 12, 2015.
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Completed May 31, 2015.
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Completed May 7, 2015.
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Completed May 13, 2015.
Best Historical Fiction: 10/10 Completed
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Completed January 17, 2015.
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Completed September 4, 2015.
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Completed September 2, 2015.
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Completed April 19, 2015.
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Completed May 27, 2015.
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Completed July 29, 2015.
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Completed June 29, 2015.
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Completed January 20, 2015.
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Completed June 12, 2015.
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Completed August 27, 2015.
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: 5/5 Completed
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Best Historical Fiction: 10/10 Completed
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https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Goal: Read 8 more books Read 8/8
Things Fall Apart2/5/15 ****
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 Dying 10/13/15 ****
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas7/20/15 ****
List 2: BBC Top 200 Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Goal: Read 8 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 Nobody3/23/15 ***
Silas Marner1/18/15 *****
East of Eden 8/9/15 *****
The God of Small Things9/9/15****
Total read 18/18

Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
Goal: To read 10 Books from Have Passport Will Travel.
1. To the Heart of the Nile by Pat Shipman.
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Read: 0/10

I'm going for a total of 39 books from 5 lists:
Four Seasons for 4 books 2/4
1 Winter Solstice
2 Spring Torrents
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The Best Dutch Literature for 5 books. 3/5
1 Bezonken rood
2 Oeroeg
3 Zwaar Verliefd!
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Best Historical Fiction Books that are actually Historical Fiction for 10 books. 2/10
1 Shadows and Strongholds
2 Pilaren van de aarde
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Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time for 10 books. 1/10
1 The Count of Monte Cristo
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BBC Top 200 Books for 10 books. 2/10
1 Welcome to Dead House
2 Alice in Wonderland
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There's a lot of overlap between the last two lists, but I'll count each book I read for only one of the lists.
10/39

Speculative Fiction that passes the Bechdel test
Finished, 10/10
1. Fire and Hemlock
2. The Sparrow
3. Howl's Moving CastleHowl's Moving Castle
4. City of Stairs
5. Uprooted
6. Seveneves
7. Updraft
8. Three Parts Dead
9. The Mirror Empire
10. The Shepherd's Crown
...I knew this Bechdel genre fic list was a non-challenging challenge, so I didn't really pay attention to it as the year went along. Now that I stopped to check my reading against it - early October - I found that I had to add a bunch of qualifying titles to the list myself, but I had very much reached the 10/10. I hesitated for a moment and thought it might not be in the spirit of the challenge to use books you added to the list yourself - but considering the nature of this list, that's silly, and everything is fine.
Radiolab suggested readings
1. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
2. Man's Search for Meaning
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Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
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2. Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer
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4. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2014
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3. We Are Not Ourselves Matthew Thomas
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5. Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi
6. Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill

List here
17. Wuthering Heights (owned)
27. Gone with the Wind
32. Slaughterhouse-Five
42. The Count of Monte Cristo
48. Memoirs of a Geisha (buddy read February)
51. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (owned)
58. Crime and Punishment
60. Catch-22 (owned)
69. The Stand
71. The Bell Jar
73. The Sun Also Rises
75. The Pillars of the Earth (owned)
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
84. Outlander
89. The Brothers Karamazov (buddy read January)
90. The Wind up Bird Chronicle
92. Beloved
100. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
Completed - 0/18

Becoming Culturally Literate
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

The Listopia Challenge
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction - 3/10
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Legend by Marie Lu
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Best Epic Fantasy - 3/10
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters - 1/5
Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters
Total - 7/25
I am in. I chose two lists and will read five books from each.
List One
This one is Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. Ulysses
2. The Screwtape Letters
3. The Trial
4. Oliver Twist
5. The Original Frankenstein
List Two
Best Women Authored Books
1. Sharp Objects
2. Cranford
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. To the Lighthouse
5. The Mill on the Floss
List One
This one is Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. Ulysses
2. The Screwtape Letters
3. The Trial
5. The Original Frankenstein
List Two
Best Women Authored Books
2. Cranford
4. To the Lighthouse
5. The Mill on the Floss

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
"https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2..."




maybe from this list also ... I'll choose a couple
"https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4..."




maybe I'll choose books from one more list
"https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8..."





My list is "Have Passport will travel"
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
My goal is 10 books"
I like the look of your Have Passport, Will Travel listopia, Lois - this may be one of my listopias that I read from this year as well...!


List 1: What Women Born in the 70s Have Read So Far This Year
1. The Light Between Oceans
2. Me Before You
✔3. Water for Elephants
4. Ready Player One
✔5. Every Day
List 2: Best Books Ever
✔1. The Bell Jar
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. The Color Purple
List 3: Best Non-Fiction (Non Biography)
1. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
3. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
4. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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List 4: Trippy Books
1. American Psycho
2. Cat's Cradle
3. Uglies
4. House of Leaves
5. Vampire Academy
List 5: Recommended By Reading Challengers - 2014
✔1. And Then There Were None
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
✔3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
4. Neverwhere
✔5. Fall of Giants

Duration: January-December 2015
Completed: 0/9
The BOOK was BETTER than the MOVIE
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. The Da Vinci Code
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Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers
1. The Fault in Our Stars
2. The Hunger Games
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Continued from 2014
Best Books under 200 Pages
1. Of Mice and Men
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
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I am doing 12 books each from 2 lists
New York Times 100 notable books of 2014
1.The Book of Strange New Things
2.Lila
3.The Paying Guests
4.The Bone Clocks
5.The Book of Unknown Americans
6.Euphoria
7.A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
8.10:04
9.The Magician's Land
10.The Narrow Road to the Deep North
11.On Immunity: An Inoculation
12.The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
Modern Australian Literature
1.Burial Rites
2.The Rosie Project
3.Big Little Lies
4.Shiver
5.On the Jellicoe Road
6.True History of the Kelly Gang
7.Shantaram
8.The Idea of Perfection
9.The Slap
10.Oyster
11.The Bodysurfers
12.Bitter Greens

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
Best Stand-Alone Books
8/10
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
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- What Women Born In The 1970's Have Read So Far This Year
- Best Books Set In Australia
- Have Passport Will Travel
- and either Oh Royalty or Modern Medical Science Nonfiction or You Read a Book about What?

Books that everyone should read at least once . :
1. 1984
2.The Giver
3.Wuthering Heights
4.The Help
5.The Old Man and the Sea
6.The Time Traveler's Wife
Books that had me bawling my eyes out . :
1.Looking for Alaska
2.If I Stay
3.The Perks of Being a Wallflower
4.After Forever Ends
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

40 + Main Characters
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Best Books for an African Safari
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Around the World in Books
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Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the Past 30 Years
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Best Memoir, Biography and Autobiography
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READ 1/20
total of 20 books reading from these lists:
best seasonal romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
christmas chick lit
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
favorite christmas cozy mysteries
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
books read will be posted on this shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

The Best Crime and Mystery Books
5. The Godfather
Must-Read Classics
4. Crime and Punishment
Almost all of these are on my to-read list, so I'm really looking forward to this challenge!
Completed: 8/10

25 from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
01. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
02. Watchmen by Alan Moore
03. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
04. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
05. Summer by Edith Wharton
06. Howards End by E. M. Forster
07. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
08. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
09. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
10. Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
11. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
12. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
13. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
14. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
15. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
16. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
17. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
18. Persuasion by Jane Austen
19. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
20. Middlemarch by George Eliot
21. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
22. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
23. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
24. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
25. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
And 5 from Strong Female Characters Written By Female Authors
01. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
02. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
03. My Antonia by Willa Cather
04. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
05. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

14/15
Here's my lists:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ***READ 9.15.15
The Handmaid's Tale***READ 9.7.15
Best Historical Mystery
An Incomplete Revenge
The Beekeeper's Apprentice***READ 7.24.15
Crocodile on the Sandbank
A Royal Pain*** READ 3.12.15
Best Cozy Mystery Series
The Full Cupboard of Life
The Kalahari Typing School for Men *** READ 5.5.15
Death Of A Gossip***READ 3.22.15
Plum Spooky
No Young Adult Best Chic Lit Reads
Little Lady, Big Apple***READ 6.1.15
I've Got Your Number***READ 1.12.15
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
Confessions of a Shopaholic***READ 10.5.15
2014: What the Over 35's are Reading
Fly Away
And the Mountains Echoed
Orphan Train*** READ 1.16.15
Christmas in Cedar Cove: 5-B Poppy Lane\A Cedar Cove Christmas ***READ 1.6.15
Big Little Lies *** READ 3.6.15
Best Series
The Inn at Eagle Point ***READ 5.17.15
Best Books Ever
Summer on Blossom Street
And Then There Were None
A Little Princess***READ 4.3.15

Medieval England (Historical Fiction)
msg 12 updated

I always wait until after Karina posts her lists, then I just steal a couple of hers, haha. She finds the BEST Listopias.

40+ Main Characters
✓ 1 - The Remains of the Day read 4/26/2015
✓ 2 - The History of Love read 2/22/2015
✓ 3 - Bel Canto read 2/18/2015
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
✓ 1 - Daughter of Fortune read 11/25/2015
✓ 2 - A Short History of Nearly Everything read 3/10/2015
✓ 3 - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking read 2/4/2015
Books that Exceeded your Expectations
✓ 1 - The Bell Jar read 3/25/2015
✓ 2 - Atonement read 10/12/2015
✓ 3 - The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity read 7/31/2015
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
✓ 1 - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir read 10/29/2015
✓ 2 - Take This Man: A Memoir read 10/7/2015
✓ 3 - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness read 1/9/2015
12/12 completed
Challenge completed!

2014 Contemporary YA
1. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
2. Isla and the Happily Ever After ✔ 14/02/15
3. Since You've Been Gone
4. We Were Liars ✔ 01/03/15
5. What I Thought Was True

I am going to do 5 from: 1001 Books to Read Before you Die
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Two "100 books you should read" lists by Finnish newspapers
Keskisuomalaisen 100 kirjaa
IS:n sata parasta
Best Finnish books from the 2000s as listed by one newspaper
HS:n sata parasta
And 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I think there are two books that are on all three Finnish lists and one that is in the first two and 1001. I think two of those are my priority, maybe...
1. Purge
2. The Unknown Soldier
Others
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Winnie-the-Pooh
5. The Great Gatsby
6. Animal Farm
7. Rebecca
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's
10. Wuthering Heights
But I might read more or I might not read these books. (And maybe I should add the Nobel winners list, too..) But we shall see.

Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
3/9
New_York_Times_100_Notable_Books_of_2014
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. The Bone Clocks
3. The Paying Guests -08/18/15
4. Fourth of July Creek
5. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride: 01/30/15
Books_That_Had_Me_Bawling_My_Eyes_Out
1. Allegiant
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns 09/30/15
3. We Were Liars
4. Champion

2/20
List #1
The Best Urban Fantasy
1. Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1) by Ilona Andrews
2. Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, #1) by Kim Harrison
3. Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1) by J.R. Ward
4. Shiver (The Wolves Of Mercy Falls, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
5. Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, #1) by Faith Hunter





List #2
The "Can't Wait" Books Of 2015
1. A Court Of Thorns & Roses (A Court Of Thorns & Roses, #1) by Sarah J Maas CURRENTLY READING
2.Queen Of Shadows (Throne Of Glass, #4) by Sarah J Maas
3. Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) by Victoria Aveyard
4. Invaded (Alienated, #2) by Melissa Landers
5. Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, #4) by Patricia Briggs
6. Bound By Flames (Night Prince, #3) by Jeaniene Frost Completed
7. The Girl At Midnight (The Girl at Midnight, #1) by Melissa Grey
8. Tiger's Dream (The Tiger Saga, #5) by Colleen Houck
9. An Ember In The Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) by Sabaa Tahir COMPLETED
10. Reawakened (Reawakened, #1) by Colleen Houck










List #3
Next Series To Fangirl Over
1. The Girl Of Fire & Thorns (Fire & Thorns, #1) by Rae Carson
2. Trial By Fire (Worldwalker, #1) by Josephine Angelini
3. The Archived (The Archived, #1) by Victoria Schwab
4. Rebel Belle (Rebel Belle, #1) by Rachel Hawkins
5. Written In Red (The Others, #1) by Anne Bishop






Ha! I think it's worked the other way around, too.
I updated my post with my two lists for 2015. I found a lot of clever and deliciously narrowly themed ones that'll have to wait another year, though...!

Total 2/20
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2014: What Women Born in the 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
1.Me Before You
2.Fangirl
3.Attachments
4. Landline
5. Sharp Objects- Complete (3/5) 01/09/2015
1/5
Quirky Southern Ficton
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Complete (5/5) 1/6/15
2. The Prince of Tides
3. Little Altars Everywhere
4. Ya Yas in Bloom
5. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Books mentioned in this topic
The Library Window: A Story of the Seen and Unseen (other topics)The Library Window: A Story of the Seen and Unseen (other topics)
Tricky Twenty-Two (other topics)
Double Fudge Brownie Murder (other topics)
Devoted in Death (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Jo Wanmer (other topics)Ian Acheson (other topics)
Jon Krakauer (other topics)
Ariana Franklin (other topics)
Michelle Moran (other topics)
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Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015
It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from 2014, or to update with new goals and new lists. :)
Goodreads features a number of user created lists which can be found here: Listopia.
Besides the featured and popular lists on the main page you can see lists your friends have voted on as well as 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 decide and mix it up any way you like.
Rules :
Choose your list (or multiple lists!) and the number of books you plan to read from each.
State your goals in your first post (posting a link to your lists is recommended*).
Any format of book, cross challenging etc. are all fine.
You can keep track in your Member's Corner or update here.
When you finish off a list, post your completed list here so we can all congratulate you!
* NOTE: Posting a link is not necessary, but it does help others find the list you are referring too if they want to check it out as well! If you do want to post a link, here are the instructions.
1. Find your list and copy the URL (which can be found at the top of your browser, in the box with the website address)
2. When posting your comment in the comment box, the code you use to add a link is this: (backspace all the *) <*a href="">Name of list here<*/a*>.
3. Paste the URL of your list between the two " in the first tag.
For example this (without the *): <*a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8... Science Fiction Books<*/a> turns into this: Best Science Fiction Books