Listopia Madness - January 2024

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Monthly Challenge: January 2024

Welcome to our monthly Listopia Madness challenge. It is a relatively simple challenge. Every month you will get 3 listopia lists from me and 3 from the winners of the previous month. *Please note that if you do not respond in a reasonable amount of time that the 4th place person (and so on) will replace you until we get 3 lists.

How it works
📘You will read as many books as you want from as many of the lists provided as you want.
📘You will score each book using the point system provided below
📘You will keep a running tally of your total in your post (try to keep your books in one comment, if possible for easy tracking)
📘I will contact the 3 highest-scoring readers at the end of the month and they will each choose one listopia list to be included in the next month's challenge.

Challenge rules:
📘No poetry or cookbooks allowed.
📘Standard Rules Apply

Book Points


Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.


Listopia Lists
Best Books of 2023
Erotica and Romance Men, Vamps and Alien Males with Endowed and Unique Penises
Most Interesting World
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Provided by December 1st place winner: Sammy
Best Crime & Mystery Books Provided by December 2nd place winner: Angie
I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes Provided by December 3rd place winner: Jenny

Please remember to set up notifications for the Announcement thread

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

*1 bonus point if your book is on 2 of the lists in message 1
*1 bonus point if your book is on one of these lists & used in any one of the challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on one of these lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & used in any of the challenges listed below
*3 bonus points if your books is on 2 lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*4 bonus points if you buddy read a book on any list with at least 1 other person (Sign up here)

Challenges Accepted for Bonus points

The Name Game
Author Spotlight: Anne McCaffrey
Snowball Fight
Ready Player One
Road Trip
The Bare Necessities
Birth Flower challenge - January
Buzzwords
Random Word Challenge
(Impossible)Disney Challenge
Historical Fiction Around the US

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Participants

Ashley 23
Angie 87
Jenny 55
Risa
Tawallah
Bobbi
Sammy 195
Truitt_T 195
Clare
Aoife 67
Heather 9

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

January 2024 Listopia Lists
Total Points: 23

✨(Impossible) Disney Challenge
📚Buddy Read

📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes

Read
📗#209 + ✨: The Mystery Guest, Read: 2-Jan-2024, 304pgs = 4pts
📙#19 + ✨: The Giver, Read: 4-Jan-2024, 208pgs = 2pts
📗#118 + ✨: Butcher & Blackbird, Read: 7-Jan-2024, 355pgs = 4pts
📒#58 + 📙#3244 + ✨: The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Read: 10-Jan-2024, 369pgs = 5pts
📙#2077 + ✨: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Read: 11-Jan-2024, 261pgs = 2pts
📙#5256 + ✨: From Blood and Ash, Read: 25-Jan-2024, 622pgs = 5pts

Reading/Planning

[Angie ☯]

I'm in again!

Listopia Madness
Duration: January 1 - 31, 2024

January Listopia Lists | Total Points: 87
📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes

Books Read:
📓261 ~ Wonderment in Death | 112 pgs | 1p +2bp | SF - RT
📗266 ~ Bookshops & Bonedust | 339 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - NG
📒472 & 📙1286 ~ Pretty Girls | 548 pgs | 5p + 3 bp | SF - ID
📒7042 ~ Lost Lives | 310 pgs | 3p + 2 bp| SF - BZ
📙2339 & 📒45 ~ Brotherhood in Death | 494 pgs | 3p + 3bp | SF - RP
📕60 & 📒5 ~ In Cold Blood | 368 pgs | 3p + 7bp | SF - RT - 📚
📗 6 ~ Iron Flame | 884 pgs | 7p + 2bp | SF - RW
📓413 & 📗985 ~ Catch Her Death | 306 pgs | 3p +3bp | SF - RW
📗56 & 📓467 ~ Lost in the Moment and Found | 161 pgs | 1p + 3bp | SF - BZ
📗20 & 📒298 ~ The Only One Left | 401 pgs | 3p + 3bp | SF - NG
📙601 &📓516 ~ His Majesty's Dragon | 384 pgs | 3p + 3bp | SF - BZ
📓440 ~ Forged by Fury | 488 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - RT
📓372 ~ Only Bad Options | 427 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - BZ
📕7 & 📙27 ~ The Little Prince | 100 pgs | 1p + 3bp | SF - BZ
📓261 ~ Apprentice in Death | 382 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - RW


Challenges for Bonus Points:
BZ - Buzzwords
ID - Disney Impossible
NG - The Name Game
RP - Ready Player One
RT - Road Trip
RW - Random Word
SF - Snowball Fight
📚 - Buddy Read

[Jenny]

Me too!

Bonus points-
Ready Player One
Buzzwords
Random Word Challenge

📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes


Jan 2 The Hanging City 344pg 📓961, Snowball, Random 3+2=5
Jan 7 The Overstory 502pg 📙2009, Snowball, Buzzwords 5+2=7
Jan 5 Kitty Cat Kill Sat: A Feline Space Adventure 475pg 📓958, Snowball, Buzzwords 3+2=5
Jan 11 The Reformatory 576pg 📓820, Snowball, Random 5+2=7
Jan 13 Touched 176pg 📓997, Snowball, Buzzwords 1+2=3
Jan 14 Lolita 368pg 📓984, 📕37, Snowball, Buzz, Random 3+3=6
Jan 16 Maternal Instinct  📓954, Snowball, Random 1+ 2=3
Jan 20 His Majesty's Dragon 374pg 📙601, Snowball, Buzzwords, Random 3+2=5
Jan 25 Irish Whiskey 384pg 📓938, Snowball, random, buzz 3+2=5
Jan 26 Dogs of War 262pg 📙6184, Snowball, random, buzz 1+2=3
Jan 30 Fata Morgana 195pg 📓947, snowball, random, buzz 1+2=3
Jan 31 The Dancer from Atlantis 183pg, 📓928, Snowball, Random, Buzz 1+2=3

Running total 55

[❡MaRisa]

Listopia Madness
Jan 1 - Jan 31



Total Points: 17

♢♦ Lists & tentative TBR :
📗Best Books of 2023
♦ #7 Iron Flame 9/1 12 Points
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
♢ #9 Dune
♢ #10 1984
♦ #26 Cinder 13/1 5 Points
♢ #31 Ender's Game
♢ #41 American Gods
♢ #43 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking-Glass
📕1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
♢ #3 1984
♢ #10 The Catcher in the Rye
♢ #12 Lord of the Flies
♢ #27 Memoirs of a Geisha
♢ #36 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
♢ #60 In Cold Blood
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
♢ #5 In Cold Blood
♢ #6 The Godfather
♢ #28 A Study in Scarlet
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
♢ #6 American Gods
♢ # 8 A study in Scarlet
♢ #10 The Stand
♢ #14 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
♢ #34 The Catcher in the Rye
♢ #89 Ender's Game
♢ #97 The Lost Symbol

✣ Possible Bonus Points:
Ready Player One
The Bare Necessities
Buzzwords
Random Word Challenge
(Impossible)Disney Challenge

[Tawallah]

I'll try this one

January 1-31 2024

Listopia Madness

1. Best Books of 2023
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Possible reads:
The Ferryman
The Covenant of Water
The House of Eve
Dust Child


3. Most Interesting World
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Potential reads
Out of the Silent Planet
The Hobbit
Persepolis Rising
Mystic River
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

[Bobbi]

Listopia Madness: January 2024
Points Total:

📘 Best Books of 2023
Yellowface
Divine Rivals
The Stolen Heir
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
All the Dangerous Things
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
In the Lives of Puppets
Weyward

📙 Erotica and Romance Men, Vamps and Alien Males with Endowed and Unique Penises


📒 Most Interesting World
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
Stardust
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
Legendborn (Legendborn, #1)
Marked (House of Night, #1)

📓 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
To Kill a Mockingbird
Memoirs of a Geisha
Slaughterhouse-Five
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Never Let Me Go
The Things They Carried

📗 Best Crime & Mystery Books
The Lovely Bones
Shutter Island
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

📕 I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Help
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

🎆Books Read:🎆

[Sammy]

Erotica and Romance Men, Vamps and Alien Males with Endowed and Unique Penises

BWAAHAA!!!

I'm in, of course!

📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 books you must read before you die
📒2nd Place Winner
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes

Total Points: 195

1. Devils 📕#387 - 7 points + 2 points for birth flower & disney
2. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia📕#800 - 1 point + 2 bonus points for flower and snowballs
3. The Music of Chance📕#1053 - 1 point + 2 points for flower & snowballs
4. The Forsyte Saga📕#253 - 7 points + 2 points for flower and Disney
5. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 📕#71 - 1 point + 2 points for flowers and snowballs
6. The Passion📕#334 - 1 point + 2 points for flowers and snowballs
7. La Reine Margot📕#828 - 5 points + 2 points for Disney and Bare
8. H is for Hawk📕#738 - 3 points + 2 points for flowers and Disney
9. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories📕#315 - 1 point + 2 points for Bare and flower
10. The Glass Bead Game📕#361 & 📙#2784 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, flowers and Disney
11. The Sun Also Rises📕#89 - 1 point + 2 points for flowers and snowballs
12. A Gate at the Stairs📕#714 - 3 points + 2 points for flowers and Disney
13. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 📗#10 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney & bare
14. Robinson Crusoe📕#74 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney & flowers
15. Elantris 📙#849 - 5 points + 2 points for disney & snowballs
16. Humboldt's Gift 📕#1019 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney and flowers
17. The Way of All Flesh 📕#591 - 3 points + 2 points for disney and flowers
18. The Malevolent Seven📗#331 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney and snowballs
19. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow📕#206 & 📒#50 - 3 points & 3 points for 2 lists, disney and flowers.
20. Earth Abides📙#559 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney & snowballs
21. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen📗#109 - 3 points & 6 points for Disney, flowers and BR (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
22. The A.B.C. Murders 📒#175 - 1 point + 2 points for Bare and Flowers
23. Bel-Ami📕#276 - 3 points + 2 points for flowers and Disney
24. The Marriage Plot📕#437 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney & bare
25. Shards of Honour📓#484 - 1 point + 1 point for snowballs
26. I'm Not Scared 📕#922 - 1 points + 2 points for flowers and bare
27. The Evidence📒#6406 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney & Bare
28. The Mysteries of Udolpho📕#596 - 5 points + 2 points for Disney and bare
29. Kiss of the Spider Woman 📕#1280 - 1 point + 1 point for snowballs
30. Cider with Rosie📕#601 - 1 point + 2 points for Bare & snowballs
31. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel 📗#482 - 3 points + 6 points for Disney, Flowers and BR
32. Foe📕#1293 - 1 point + 2 points for Bare & snowballs
33. The Sicilian 📙#4993 & 📒#1687 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, disney and snowballs
34. How to Kill Your Family📙#5877 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney and Bare
35. Chess Story📕#240 - 1 point + 1 point for snowballs
36. The Awakening and Other Stories 📕#154 - 3 points + 1 point for snowballs
37. The Windsor Knot📙#3264 - 3 points + 2 points for disney and flowers
38. The Last Colony📙#1271 - 3 points + 2 points for Disney and Snowballs
39. The Stolen Heir 📗#7 & 📙#95 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Disney and snowballs
40. The Bluest Eye 📕#226 - 1 point + 1 point for snowballs

[Truitt_T]

I shouldn't, but I'm in, too. I've got rehearsals for a play beginning halfway through January, though, so this will be one of the few challenges I'm joining. How could I not, with Erotica and Romance Men, Vamps and Alien Males with Endowed and Unique Penises on offer?

📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 books you must read before you die
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes

Bonus Challenges: Disney, Author Spotlight: Anne McCaffrey, Random Words, Buzzwords, Snowball Fight

Points: 195

1. Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts by Lyn Gala 📘#64 - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (S, D) - 1/2 3 points
2. A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie 📒#391 - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (S, D, AM) - 1/2 3 points
3. The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis 📓#293 &📒 #982 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (buzz, rand, DIS) - 1/3 6 points
4. Quest of Fools by Megan Derr 📙#4640 - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (buzz, rand, DIS) - 1/3 3 points
5. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch 📒#2327 & 📙#5540 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (buzz, rand, DIS, snow) - 1/5 6 points
6. For the Fans by Nyla K. 📗#713 - 5 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/6 7 points
7. Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher 📙#4356 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/6 5 points
8. The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein 📙#444 & 📒#5346 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/7 6 points
9. Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 📗#894 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/8 5 points
10. Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart 📓#352 & 📒#2490 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (Anne, DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/8 6 points
11. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📒#447 & 📓#1556 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points, 4 BR points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow, BR) - 1/10 10 points
12. 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 📗#815 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/10 5 points
13. Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh 📓#508 & 📒#918 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/12 6 points
14. On Basilisk Station by David Weber 📓#257 & 📙#472 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/13 6 points
15. Foxed by Jay Hogan 📗#479 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow), 4 BR points - 1/13 9 points
16. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 📒#3 &📙#704 - 7 page points, 3 bonus points, 4 buddy read points (Anne, DIS, rand, buzz, snow & BR - 1/14 14 points
17. The Honor of the Queen by David Weber 📙#433 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, snow) - 1/15 - 5 points
18. Never Have I Ever: Submitted to My Enemy by Willow Dixon 📗#650 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/16 - 5 points
19. The Short Victorious War by David Weber 📙#272 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, snow) - 1/17 - 5 points
20. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood 📗#4 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow, DC) - 1/17 - 5 points
21. Field of Dishonor by David Weber 📙#708 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow, DC) - 1/17 - 5 points
22. Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews 📗#65 - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/19 - 3 points
23. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles 📗#108 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points, 4 BR points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow, & BR ) - 1/19 - 9 points
24. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 📒#75 & 📕#197 - 1 page point, 3 bonus points (Anne, DIS, rand, snow) - 1/19 4 points
25. Maniac by Onley James 📗#571 - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/20 - 3 points
26. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov 📙#456 & 📒#1202 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/22 6 points
27. Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb 📒#1026 & 📙#1041 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (Anne, DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/23 6 points
28. Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood 📗#83 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/24 5 points
29. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📙#2801 - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (buzz, rand, DIS, snow) - 1/24 3 points
30. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles 📗#479 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points, 4 BR points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow, & BR ) - 1/25 - 9 points
31. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 📒#5 & 📕#60 3 page points, 3 bonus points, 4 BR points (DIS, rand, snow, & BR ) - 1/25 - 10 points
32. The Lost World by Michael Crichton 📙#305 & 📒#6363 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (DIS, rand, buzz, snow) - 1/27 6 points
33. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer 📓#790 &📒 #2129 - 3 page points, 3 bonus points (DIS, buzz, rand, snow) - 1/29 6 points

[Jenny]

Truitt, what play are you doing?

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

I added that list as a New Year's gift for you & Jenny, Tru ; )

[Truitt_T]

Donna wrote: "I added that list as a New Year's gift for you & Jenny, Tru ; )"

You're so good to us, Donna!

[Truitt_T]

Jenny wrote: "Truitt, what play are you doing?"

My favorite community theatre is doing Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2019. It's going to be contoversial, to say the least, lol.

Are you active in theatre, Jenny? Or like to read plays?

[Angie ☯]

Donna - I noticed that the list 'Best Books of 2023' is one of the December and January Listopias. Wanted to make sure that was intended before I choose books from that list that I didn't read in December for January.

[Jenny]

Truitt_T wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Truitt, what play are you doing?"

My favorite community theatre is doing Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in..."

I used to be in a theater group. We performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe two years running. Plus a bunch of plays locally. So, I have a soft spot for theater. I haven't been on stage in ages though. Sometimes I miss it.

I have not heard of the play you are doing, so I am off to look at it now...

[Clare]

Listopia Madness: January 2024
Points Total:

📘 Best Books of 2023
Fourth Wing
Yellowface
Divine Rivals
The Stolen Heir
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
All the Dangerous Things
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
In the Lives of Puppets
Weyward

-Erotica and Romance Men, Vamps and Alien Males with Endowed and Unique Penises

- Most Interesting World


📓TBD
-fourth wing
Divine rivals
Yellowface
Books Read:


*1 bonus point if your book is on 2 of the lists in message 1
*1 bonus point if your book is on one of these lists & used in any one of the challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on one of these lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & used in any of the challenges listed below
*3 bonus points if your books is on 2 lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*4 bonus points if you buddy read a book on any list with at least 1 other person

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Angie ☯ wrote: "Donna - I noticed that the list 'Best Books of 2023' is one of the December and January Listopias. Wanted to make sure that was intended before I choose books from that list that I didn't read in D..."

I didn't notice that I chose a duplicate. Go ahead and choose books. It doesn't hurt to have it again.

[Angie ☯]

Thank you!

[Truitt_T]

Jenny wrote: "Truitt_T wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Truitt, what play are you doing?"

My favorite community theatre is doing Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, which won the Pulitzer P..."

Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Jenny, I am seriously impressed!

I'm only managing one show a year, these days, although I volunteer in other capacities.

Fairview is not for the faint of heart. It deals with race issues and is definitely going to make some of our patrons unhappy. The structure is also unusual - the lines of Act II are spoken over a silent repeat of the action of Act I - and then Act III gets really strange. We'll see how it goes, lol.

I'd love to hear what you think of it if you get a chance to read it!

[Jenny]

I will let you know what I think!!!

[Aoife]

Listopia Madness January 2024

📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes

Bonus Points
(view spoiler)[
*1 bonus point if your book is on 2 of the lists in message 1
*1 bonus point if your book is on one of these lists & used in any one of the challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on one of these lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & used in any of the challenges listed below
*3 bonus points if your books is on 2 lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*4 bonus points if you buddy read a book on any list with at least 1 other person

Ready Player One - RPO
The Name Game - NG
The Bare Necessities - BN
Buzzwords - BW
Random Word Challenge - RW
(Impossible)Disney Challenge - DC
Snowball Fight - SB
(hide spoiler)]

Points: 67

Read
📙#223 📕#247📒#805 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | 02/01 | 306 pages | RW, DC, BN, BW, SB | 3+3 points
📓#18📒#5533 The Metamorphosis | 03/01 | 201 pages | DC, SB | 2+3 points
📘#28 Barbarian Lover | 03/01 | 191 pages | DC, SB | 1+2 points
📗#40 The Only One Left | 03/01 | 398 pages | SB, DC, RPO | 3+2 points
📒#3778 We, the Jury | 11/01 | 304 pages | SB, DC, BW | 3+2 points
📕#3 📓#170 1984 | 13/01 | 368 pages | SB, DC, BW | 3+3 points
📒#4354 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good | 14/01 | 185 pages | SB, DC, BW | 1+2 points
📙#3077 Anansi Boys | 15/01 | 387 | SB, DC, BW | 3+2 points
📘#77 Gracie's Touch | 15/01 | 323 | SB, DC, BW | 3+2 points
📗#83 Starling House | 19/01 | 320 | DC, SB, BW | 3+2 points
📒#45 Naked in Death | 22/01 | 306 | DC, SB, BW | 3+2 points
📘#119 Choosing Theo | 22/01 | 369 | DC, SB, BW | 3+2 points
📙#470 The War of the Worlds | 23/01 | 205 | DC, SB, BW | 1+2 points
📕#24📙#13 The Handmaid’s Tale | 26/01 | 314 | DC, SB, BW | 3+3 points

TBR
📙#30 Fahrenheit 451 | date | pages | used |
📒#6975 When I Was You | date | pages | used |
📒 #2160 The Housemaid | date | pages | used |
📙 #856 Under the Whispering Door | date | pages | used |
📗#407 You Shouldn't Have Come Here | date | pages | used |

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Lists have been posted. Happy Reading!!

[Sammy]

😁

[Truitt_T]

Donna wrote: "Lists have been posted. Happy Reading!!"

So many choices....

Great picks, everyone!

Although, as always, I'm baffled by some of the books on the lists, lol.

[Truitt_T]

Donna -

Is Snowball ok for Bonus this time around? You've got Surfing on the list, and I was wondering if it was actuall supposed to be Snowball Fight instead....or maybe we're already reading too much for Snowball, lol?

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Truitt_T wrote: "Donna -

Is Snowball ok for Bonus this time around? You've got Surfing on the list, and I was wondering if it was actuall supposed to be Snowball Fight instead....or maybe we're already reading too..."

Yeah, I deleted the wrong challenge when I copied the list over. I fixed it. It is supposed to be Snowball Fight and not Series Surfing. Thanks for catching that.

[Sammy]

Good thing you highlighted that! Because I had figured we weren't using it when I entered my first book, and then brain fog set in and my brain reverted to December for the next 2. Wouldn't have been an issue as I used them in other challenges too, but don't want to be confusing anyone (or myself for that matter, lol)

[Sammy]

Sometimes people's inability to add the right books to lists works out in one's favour...

H is for Hawk doesn't belong on the 1001 list, but it's there anyway, so yay! more points, lol!

At least it's not as ridiculous an addition to the list as some I've come across, lol.

[Jenny]

You might want to double check. I thought I saw H is for Hawk on the special penis list too.

teehee

Three books I have read so far weren't on any of the lists. Sigh.

[Sammy]

I think that might be a different book 😂

I was surprised to see Stranger in a Strange Land on there though!

I've had a couple of listless book so far too, but they were "on the TBR/shelf" for ever books, so I'm glad to have read them now anyway, lol.

[Heather]

Listopia Madness
Jan 1 - Jan 31

description

📗Best Books of 2023
📘Erotica & Romance Men, Vamps & Alien Males with Endowed & Unique Penises
📙Most Interesting World
📕1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
📒Best Crime & Mystery Books
📓I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes

Bonus Points
*1 bonus point if your book is on 2 of the lists in message 1
*1 bonus point if your book is on one of these lists & used in any one of the challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on one of these lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & used in any of the challenges listed below
*3 bonus points if your books is on 2 lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*4 bonus points if you buddy read a book on any list with at least 1 other person (Sign up here)

Points: 9 points

1. Bright Young Women-read 1/1/24 (384pgs) 📗#737; 📓 #980-3pts, bonus pts 1.(2 lists)
2. Unfortunately Yours-read 1/6/24 (384 pgs)📗#116-3 pts
3. The Villa-read 1/10/24 (279 pgs)📗#66-1pt
4. The Woman in the Library-1/14/24 (292 pgs) 📙 #3348-1 pt

[Truitt_T]

Sammy wrote: "I think that might be a different book 😂

I was surprised to see Stranger in a Strange Land on there though!

I've had a couple of listless book so far too, but they were "on the TBR/she..."

I wondered at Stranger in a Strange Land being on the list, too. Valentine Michael Smith isn't actually an alien and I don't recall there being any particular mention of his gentalia....

Jenny - I've read four so far that haven't been on any of the list. I don't think there's been a month in which every book I read counted. Doubt it'll ever happen, lol.

[Truitt_T]

Greetings, all -

I just posted a list of possible books for Buddy Reads over on the Find a Buddy Read Partner thread. Would anyone care to join me?

[Jenny]

About half of the books I have read so far this month are not on any of these lists!!! How annoying. Oh well, I am reading some fun books anyway.

[Angie ☯]

Same for me, Jenny!

[Sammy]

Fun books is what it's all about!

I had a half dozen or so at the start of the month that didn't fit, but as I'm actively reading through a pile of 1001-list audible freebies before they disappear, most of my books are gonna count, lol.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Same, Jenny! Also, January tends to be a low reading month for me... I don't honestly know why, just busy I guess. I started off strong, but now... eeek! I even make a personal goal to read 20 books this month, and I'm not sure I'll make it lol. I usually read more than that without trying...

[Sammy]

December is like that for me. I rarely read anything during the last couple of weeks.

At the moment I'm housesitting with very little else to do, which helps with getting through the tbr a bit, lol.

[Truitt_T]

It's been an unexpectedly good month for me. The Lists have been good to me!

[Truitt_T]

I have a question about Graphic Novels, Donna.

If I'm reading the Standard Book Requirements correctly, to count a GN toward a competitive challenge, it needs to be found on one of the ARBookfind sites and be a minimum of 30,000 words OR be 400 pages long to convert .25 x 400 = 100 pages, right?

Example: Mimosa (which is on the Best of 2023) is not on any of the ARBookfind sites. It has 272 pages, so it does not meet the minimum 100 page conversion (.25 x 272 = 68.)

So, I cannot use it for Listopia, Disney, or Snowball because points are being tracked, but I can use it for Fairytale or Author Spotlight (no point counting) because it meets the 100 page (unconverted) minimum.

Did I get that right, lol?

Thanks - and I hope you're feeling better!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

You almost got it right. I have special graphic novel rules for Listopia Madness. If you look in message 1, you will find them. Mimosa does qualify because you will use the actual page count to qualify the book and the adjusted page count to figure out your book score.

[Truitt_T]

Donna wrote: "You almost got it right. I have special graphic novel rules for Listopia Madness. If you look in message 1, you will find them. Mimosa does qualify because you will use the actual page count to qua..."

Whoops - sorry about that, Donna. I'm glad I can use it, though!

[Jenny]

Well, I have a few books to add before the end of the month, but I have been unlucky on the lists this time out.

I have been trying to get rid of books from my TBR before Uno and whatever other task specific challenges are on the horizon, and a lot of them are just not on any lists.

So, winners, pick some good listopias please for February!!!!
I will give you a run for your money another month. teehee

[Truitt_T]

Jenny wrote: "Well, I have a few books to add before the end of the month, but I have been unlucky on the lists this time out.

I have been trying to get rid of books from my TBR before Uno and whatever other t..."

Seriously - this is the best month I've had and probably the best month for Listopia I will every have. And I still think Sammy will best me, lol.

[Sammy]

Don't think I will Tru! I'm struggling to find books on the lists now, lol. I've finally gotten through all the audible+ freebies I needed to this month, most of which were 1001-list books. Now I'm just mostly reading shorties waiting for UNO to start.

But I'm quite content coming second 😁

[Sammy]

Jenny wrote: "I have been trying to get rid of books from my TBR before Uno and whatever other task specific challenges are on the horizon, and a lot of them are just not on any lists."

Which is precisely what I was doing. But I planned ahead and chose my list accordingly. Hence the obscene amount of pink on my list of books read this month 😂

[Truitt_T]

So what types of books do you read for UNO? I have a list in mind, but I’m not sure it’ll be popular…..

[Sammy]

Coloured covers (red, blue, green and yellow) are useful, as are books with the numbers 1-9 in the title, books that are 1-9 in series and books that have the letters Z, O, T, H, F, I, S, V, E, N, K & P (title, author, character name, setting)

Also books that a team member has previously read.

And it all depends on what cards your team draws each month.

So basically, impossible to plan lists for 😂