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New 31/35
👹1. Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder🤬
👹2. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit🤵
👹3. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI🤵
👹4. Journey Into Darkness🤵
👹5. The Cases That Haunt Us🤬🤵
👹6. Obsession🤬
👹7. Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
👹8. The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton
👹9. Sleep, My Child, Forever: The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children🤬
👹10. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
👹11. Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates🤬
👹12. Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Monster🤬🤵
👹13. America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
👹14. The Map of Salt and Stars
👹15. Sleep In Heavenly Peace
👹16. The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals🤬🤵
👹17. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter🤬🤵
👹18. Practice to Deceive
👹19. Leaving Atlanta
👹20. The Boy in the Cellar 😭
👹21. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer😭
👹22. Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast, A Chilling Biography 🤬
👹23. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer🤬
👹24. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House🤑
👹25. Body Count🤬
👹26. The Nickel Boys
👹27. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals🕍
👹28. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
🤬29. Search for: CRIES UNHEARD
👹29. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
👹30. Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer🤬🤵
👹31. Newtown: An American Tragedy
New:
7/10
👹1. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story🤬
👹2. The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy🤬
👹3. A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town🤬
👹4. Blind Faith🤬😭
👹5. A Beautiful Child🤬
👹6. The Devil in the White City✅
👹7. Fatal Vision🤬😭

UPDATE: Listopia 2021 Best True Crime #334 35/35 new 10/10 read over 5 years ago
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
New Books 35\35
👹1. Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder🤬
👹2. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit🤵
👹3. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI🤵
👹4. Journey Into Darkness🤵
👹5. The Cases That Haunt Us🤬🤵
👹6. Obsession🤬
👹7. Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
👹8. The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton
👹9. Sleep, My Child, Forever: The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children🤬
👹10. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
👹11. Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates🤬
👹12. Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Monster🤬🤵
👹13. America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
👹14. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit 🤵
👹15. Sleep In Heavenly Peace
👹16. The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals🤬🤵
👹17. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter🤬🤵
👹18. Practice to Deceive
👹19. Leaving Atlanta
👹20. The Boy in the Cellar 😭
👹21. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer😭
👹22. Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast, A Chilling Biography 🤬
👹23. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer🤬
👹24. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House🤑
👹25. Body Count🤬
👹26. The Nickel Boys
👹27. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals🕍
👹28. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men🤬
👹29. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
👹30. Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
👹31. Newtown: An American Tragedy📌
👹32. No, Daddy, Don't!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge😭
👹33. Mind Games: Inside the Serial Killer Phenomenon🤬😭
👹34. The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History🤬
👹35. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Re-reading books read over 5 years ago.
10/10
👹1. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story🤬
👹2. The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy🤬
👹3. A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town🤬
👹4. Blind Faith🤬😭
👹5. A Beautiful Child🤬
👹6. The Devil in the White City✅
👹7. Fatal Vision🤬😭
👹8. The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare🤬
👹9. Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album 🤬😭
👹10. Dead at the Saddleworth Moor: The Crimes of Serial Killers Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

Progress: 36/36 - Challenge Complete (but I hope to add a couple more in December)
This month from 1001 Books To Read Before You Die:
1840 Russia: A Hero of Our Time
1949 England: Love in a Cold Climate
2000 England: White Teeth

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
42/50 - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 11/24/21
43/50 - Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - 11/26/21
44/50 - The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - 11/27/21

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
45/50 - Persuasion by Jane Austen - 12/01/21

30/30 Challenge completed!!!
List Two - First Book of a Cozy Mystery Series
5. The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
List Three- Books White People Need to Read
5. The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
List Five- Anticipated 2020 Books
5. Perestroika in Paris - Jane Smiley

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
42/50 - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 11/24/21
43/50 - Pippi Longstocking by [aut..."
I love Pipi Longstocking!💖 Every Child should read it to learn how to become fearless! 📚🥰

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
42/50 - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 11/24/21
43/50 - Pippi Longstocking
I love Pipi Longstocking!💖 Every Child should read it to learn how to become fearless! 📚🥰..."
Agree!!
Before this, I had only seen Pippi on TV. Watched it every time I saw it on as a child. It was very cool to get to read it finally.

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
46/50 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - 12/13/21

Progress: 40/36 - Challenge complete!
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - December:
Kristin Lavransdatter
The Radetzky March
The Reader
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear / Dance and Dream / Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
Thank you for hosting Trisha! I really enjoyed the challenge.

10/10
COMPLETED 12/19/2021
You Read a Book About What?
5/5 From the Top 100
2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
3. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
4. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
5. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
YA Short Stories & Collections
5/5 From the top 100
2. Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

9/16 this has been a year where I have not been reading what I expected at all again!

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
47/50 - The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard - 12/23/21

I am sad to report, this will assuredly be my last update for the year. I am two books short of my goal. But it was a fun time. Going to miss Listopia next year. I know I could use Bookworms....Shelfies for it. However, that challenge looks like too much fun to only fill the Listopia shelf.
The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
48/50 - Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas - 12/28/21


PROGRESS: 42/30
Trisha, thanks for this great challenge! 🤗
Happy 2022, enjoy your books! 🍀📚

27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - ★★★☆☆ - 26/12/21
36. Sense and Sensibility - ★★★☆☆ - 11/01/21
54. Crime and Punishment - ★★★☆☆ - 29/11/21
59. Catch-22 - ★☆☆☆☆ - 19/09/21
65. Rebecca - ★★★★☆ - 25/08/2021
Completed 5/6

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Progress: 48/50

Particpants:
Alison - 19 / 30
Amanda - 0 / 18
Amber - 0 / 12
Anastasia - 1 / 25
Ann - 11 / 12
Bobbi - 8 / 30
Brittany - 9 / 16
Cassie - 0 / 20
Clare - 2 / 12
Courtney - 0 / 30
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 20
Crystal - 0 / 10
Dominique - 0 / 30
Gloria - 0 / 34
Heather - 1 / 20
Ilona - 6 / 10
Janet - 17 / 30
Jennifer - 31 / 150
Johanne - 2 / 30
Jordynn - 0 / 10
Julie - 1 / 5
June - 0 / 50
Kara - 0 / 12
Kylie - 4 / 12
Leena - 0 / 10
Leona - 0 / 20
Leticia - 0 / 10
Library Queen - 1 / 40
Lilac - 5 / 6
Lindsay - 0 / 12
Lindsey - 0 / 30
Lisa - 0 / 10
Mave - 0 / 40
Mirliz - 0 / 12
Navi - 2 / 15
Nell - 13 / 25
Rachel (Pink coloured DP) - 5 / 30
ReadingWithLisaMarie - 0 / 30
Rebecca - 0 / 30
Rina - 48 / 50
Rona - 1 / 10
Sean - 48 / 50
Susan C - 0 / 12
Suzanne - 7 / 50
Tari - 4 / 7
Trisha - 3 / 20
Ushashi - 9 / 10
Zeejane (Sara) - 5 / 25
Goal completed:
Alyana - 10 / 10
Anne Hawn - 45 / 45
Audrey - 50 / 50
Beverly - 20 / 20
Carmen - 42 / 30
Carol - 27 / 27
Chalmation - 15 / 15
Claire - 7 / 3
Elaine - 50 / 50
Linda - 25 / 25
Margie - 40 / 36
Marleen - 10 / 10
Meghan L - 10 / 10
Mikaela - 30 / 30
Nat - 20 / 20
oshizu - 40 / 40
Rachael - 10 / 10
Rachel (Herself in DP) - 10 / 10
Sarah - 60 / 60
SarahKat - 6 / 6
Sunny - 23 / 23
Tricia - 25 / 25
Vanessa - 15 / 15
Ziggy - 15 / 15
Books mentioned in this topic
Firekeeper’s Daughter (other topics)Sense and Sensibility (other topics)
Crime and Punishment (other topics)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (other topics)
Rebecca (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Sylvain Neuvel (other topics)Jeff VanderMeer (other topics)
Victor LaValle (other topics)
Grady Hendrix (other topics)
Agatha Christie (other topics)
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22/27 completed