Listopia Madness - June 2024

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Monthly Challenge: June 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
Summer Must Reads
Best Experimental Books Ever
Best Book Titles
Character You Most Want to Sleep With Provided by May 1st place winner: Angie
The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books Provided by May 2nd place winner: Ashley
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort Provided by May 3rd place winner: Sammy


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
Ready Player One
Road Trip
A to Z Challenge
Fairy Tale Retellings
Magic Systems
TBR Busters
Buzzwords
Disney Challenge (coming soon)
June Birth Flower Challenge
Water Balloon Wars

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Participants

Angie 81
Tru 21
Ashley 55
Sammy164
Jenny 84
Tawallah
Heather 15

[Angie ☯]

Me!

Listopia Madness
Duration: June 1 - 30, 2024

June Lists | Total Points: 81
📗 Summer Must Reads
📘 Best Experimental Books Ever
📙 Best Book Titles
📕 Character You Most Want to Sleep With
📔 The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books
📓 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

Books Read:
📙 4961 | Skeleton Canyon | 400 pgs | 3p + 2bp | TBR - BZ
📙 2507 | Pines | 320 pgs | 3p + 2bp | TBR - RT
📙 5488 | The Moon-Spinners | 384 pgs | 3p + 2bp | BZ - MS
📕 2001 | Vendetta in Death | 354 pgs | 3p + 2bp | TBR - BF
📗 1317 📙 38 | Love in the Time of Cholera | 348 pgs | 3p + 3pb | NW - BF
📗 3085 📙 2433 | Wayward | 351 pgs | 3p + 3bp | TBR - BZ
📕 2386 | Golden in Death | 377 pgs | 3p + 2bp | MS - BF
📙 2175| Faithless | 576 pgs | 5p + 2bp | MS - BZ
📘 316 📕 129 | Catching Fire | 439 pgs | 3p + 3bp | WB - BZ
📕 4125 | Shadows in Death | 345 pgs | 3p + 2bp | WB - BF
📗2571📙6402|Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers |368 pgs| 3p+3bp| WB-BZ
📕 7986 |The Housemaid | 338 pgs | 3p + 2bp | WB - BZ
📗2617📙6275| How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying |528 pgs|5p+3bp|WB-NW
📗 2861 | The Search | 345 pgs | 5p + 2bp | WB - MS

[Truitt_T]

I'm in.

📗 Summer Must Reads
📘 Best Experimental Books Ever
📙 Best Book Titles
📕 Character You Most Want to Sleep With
📔 The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books
📒 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

Total Points: 21

1. Blackout by Connie Willis 📙#4865 - 5 page points, 1 bonus point (A-Z) - 6/2 6 points
2. All Clear by Connie Willis 📙#2879 - 5 page points, 1 bonus point (A-Z) - 6/15 6 points
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 📘#316 & 📒#936 - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (2 lists, A-Z) - 6/18 5 points
4. A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn 📙#4739 - 3 page points, 1 bonus point (A-Z) - 6/15 4 points

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Listopia 2024 - June
Total Points: 55

📚Buddy Read
🔤A to Z Challenge
🔖Fairy Tale Retellings
🔮Magic Systems

📗 Summer Must Reads
📘 Best Experimental Books Ever
📙 Best Book Titles
📕 Character You Most Want to Sleep With
📔 The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books
📒 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

Read:
📕#1523 📒#1655🔖🔮Heir of Fire, 562pgs, 1-Jun = 8pts
📔#12📕#35🔖🔮Dead to the World, 316pgs, 1-Jun = 6pts
📔#23📕#257🔖🔮Dead as a Doornail, 304pgs, 2-Jun = 6pts
📙#15📕#611🔮The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 213pgs, 3-Jun = 3pts
📙#3021📗#2988🔖🔮Ace of Spades, 470pgs, 4-Jun = 6pts
📔#22📕#24🔖🔮Definitely Dead, 324pgs, 5-Jun = 6pts
📕#129📙#813🔖🔮Catching Fire, 391pgs, 17-Jun = 6pts
📙#38📕#683🔮Love in the Time of Cholera, 348pgs, 19-Jun = 5pts
📙#3122🔖🔮📚The Last Thing He Told Me, 320pgs, 21-Jun = 9pts

[Sammy]

IN! 😁

📗 Summer Must Reads
📘 Best Experimental Books Ever
📙 Best Book Titles
📕 Character You Most Want to Sleep With
📔 The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books
📒 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

Total Points: 164

1. Mrs. McGinty's Dead📙#2767 - 1 point + 2 points for Buzz & magic
2. Faust📙#4905 & 📒#339 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, TBR & A-Z
3. Pines📙#2469 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
4. I Am a Cat📒#781 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
5. Love in the Time of Cholera📗#1975 & 📙#39 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & flower
6. The Silmarillion📒#144 - 3 points + 2 points for buzz & Magic
7. Wayward 📗#3085 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
8. Jane Eyre📒#3 & 📗#838 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & Flower
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas📘#20 & 📙#66 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, A-Z & TBR
10. Queen of Shadows📒#1646 & 📗#239 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & TBR
11. Against the Day📙#3701 & 📒#244 - 10 points + 3 points for 2 lists, TBR & Magic
12. Our Mutual Friend📗#1260 & 📒#128 - 7 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & flower
13. Tuesdays with Morrie📗#1292 & 📙#1948 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & flower
14. The Essex Serpent📙#8676 - 3 points + 2 points for buzz & Flower
15. A Tale of Two Cities📙#898 & 📒#406 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Flower and magic
16. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West📗#1785 & 📘#104 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, TBR & Magic
17. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking📙#4367 - 3 points + 2 points for flower & Magic
18. Anthem📗#1711 & 📙#8588 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, Flower & TBR
19. Empire of Storms📒#1642 & 📗#898 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, TBR & flower
20. The Count of Monte Cristo📒#4 & 📕#247 - 10 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Flower & Magic
21. The Human Division📙#2351 - 3 points + 2 points for TBR and Magic
22. Legendborn📗#247 & 📙#390 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Magic & Buzz
23. Tower of Dawn📒#1635 & 📗#2041 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, TBR & Magic
24. Catching Fire📘#316 & 📒#936 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Flower & Buzz
25. Little Women📕#345 & 📒#153 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & TBR

[Sammy]

Hey Tru, have you read Legendborn yet, and if not, is it one you're interested in? I remembered we planned to buddy read some sci fi, and I recently came across this one.

Anyone else interested?

[Truitt_T]

Sammy wrote: "Hey Tru, have you read Legendborn yet, and if not, is it one you're interested in? I remembered we planned to buddy read some sci fi, and I recently came across this one.

Anyone el..."

I'll read it with you - it looks interesting. I probably shouldn't plan on starting before 6/15, though. I suspect I may be reading to fill in Mini tasks.

[Sammy]

Same here, lol.

Shall we say some time around the 18-20th? Gives us a chance to gather ourselves after mini madness and organise ourselves BOM-wise 😁

[Truitt_T]

Sammy wrote: "Same here, lol.

Shall we say some time around the 18-20th? Gives us a chance to gather ourselves after mini madness and organise ourselves BOM-wise 😁"

That works for me. :)

[Sammy]

It's currently #247 on the Summer Must Reads list too 😁

[Truitt_T]

Sammy wrote: "It's currently #247 on the Summer Must Reads list too 😁"

Even better!

And maybe it'll end up on another - who knows?

[Sammy]

I haven't even thought about lists yet this month. I've not had a great one, but neither, it seems, has anyone else!

[Jenny]

📗 Summer Must Reads
📘 Best Experimental Books Ever
📙 Best Book Titles
📕 Character You Most Want to Sleep With
📔 The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books
📒 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

Ready Player One
A to Z Challenge
Fairy Tale Retellings
Magic Systems
TBR Busters
Buzzwords

1. Love in the Time of Cholera 📗1995, 📙38, Buzz, Magic 348pg 3+3=6
2. A Whisper in the Walls 📙5795, Buzz, TBR 3+2=5
3. Pines 📙2470. Buzz, Magic 3+2=5
4. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels 📙8283, Buzz, Magic 3+2=5
5. Jerusalem 📒573, Buzz, Magic 10+2=12
6. Ghostdrift 384pg, 📙7278, Buzz, AtoZ 3+2=5
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude 429pg, 📙24, 📒162, Buzz, TBR 3+3=6
8. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts 288pg, 📙7542, Magic, TBR, AtoZ 1+2=3
9. Mason & Dixon 773pg, 📒255, Buzz, TBR 5+2=7
10. The Thick and the Lean 384pg, 📒7668, TBR, AtoZ 3+2=5
11. Wanderers 845pgs, 📙8734, TBR, Magic 7+2=9
12. Blasphemy 381pgs, 📙5622, TBR, Buzz 3+2=5
13. Catching Fire 472pgs, 📘#316 & 📒#936, Buzz, AtoZ 3+3=6
14. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying 432 pgs, 📙5622, TBR, Magic 3+2=5

Running total- 84

[Jenny]

Sammy wrote: "Hey Tru, have you read Legendborn yet, and if not, is it one you're interested in? I remembered we planned to buddy read some sci fi, and I recently came across this one.

Anyone el..."

Let me know when you guys want to start this one. I will likely join in.

[Sammy]

Yay!

Now, who's up for a Dickens marathon? No? Just me? 😆

[Jenny]

You're on your own on that one I fear.

Now, an Asimov or Heinlein marathon, I would totally do.

[Sammy]

I do keep intending to finally get around to Starship Troopers (one of the few Heinleins I've not read yet), but it's a print copy and I already have a lot of those lined up. Might be able to squeeze it in at the end of the month though if anyone fancies it?

I've similar issues with asimov, but want to do a robots re-read in a few months, as I replaced my tattered old copies with these a little while ago;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Asimov-Colle...

[Jenny]

Those are pretty.
I love Starship Troopers. I even love the silly movie they made. It has almost nothing to do with the book, but it is great camp.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

All the lists have been posted. Happy reading!

[Sammy]

Oh yes, I love the movie. So much cheese! I'm a big fan of Verhoeven as a director, and that's definitely one of his more fun efforts!

[Sammy]

Thanks Donna!

[Angie ☯]

So, are any former Snow Lobbing Troublemakers going to try a comeback in the Water Balloon War?? Maybe balloons filled with water are easier to lob than snowballs....🤣

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

I think you guys enjoyed being targets last time. I can go announce that you want to be targeted again...

[Sammy]

Oh dear... Apparently I'm not doing enough challenges again.

at least this one doesn't require specific books, lol!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Hey, I gave you options in the egg hunt. You could have read books with colored covers... which would have worked for UNO. Every one of those eggs had the option to read a book with the cover the color of the egg. You chose to read the other option.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

[Sammy]

They were usually the wrong colours 😆 My team mates mostly didn't want to read for the green and yellows, so muggins here took most of those. Of course, I was making it harder on myself by trying to match the shade of the eggs to my book covers as much as possible too. 😂

I always flail a bit when I'm doing more than one competitive challenge at a time. I have to choose which gets priority, and then I go back and forth and do less well on both. Unfortunately there are far too many fun challenges to do! 😉

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

ROFL! I would never fault you if it wasn't a perfect match to the color on the egg. You put too much pressure on yourself.

[Sammy]

I know, it was just me making things complicated for myself.

Like I'm limiting myself to books added before this year for the TBR challenge. It adds some extra interest for me, and means I don't shoot so far ahead of people who don't read such a ridiculous amount. Makes it a little more competitive for me, and hopefully a little less disheartening for people who read normal amounts of books 😂

With the egg hunt it seemed like only a couple of us were playing, and I was pretty far ahead, so I never got that competitive kick up the bum that is the fun part of competitive challenges, so I was adding in little things like that to keep myself interested. if I'd known Angie was sitting on hers, I would have known better 😂

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

We ended up with 6 people in the end. We even lost Tru which surprised me. This is why I want to do multiple levels next year. Keep you guys separated from the regular competitive people so they don't all drop out. There were people that signed up from the beginning as non-competitive that had me raising my eyebrows because that was unusual for them. They always sign up for my team challenges. I think separating the power readers into a higher competitive group will make them want to compete.

[Sammy]

Makes sense to me. I do often worry about putting less insane people off playing some of these challenges, so separate levels would help with that.

[Tawallah]

Listopia Madness : June 2024

Hoping I remember to come back and fill this out, 2024 has been wild


Books Read

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Listopia TBR Possibilities :
Summer Must Read : Strange the Dreamer; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; These Violent Delights; Brave New World; Skyward;The Passage; The Poisonwood Bible; Six of Crows; Tender is the Night

Best Experimental Books Ever: Mrs. Dalloway; Brave New World; Things Fall Apart; To the Lighthouse; The Hobbit; The City and the City; The Man who was Thursday; The Name of the Rose

Best Book titles: The Man who was Thursday; Brave New World;
The Name of the Rose; Tender is the Night; Things Fall Apart; Water for Elephants; Shogun

Big Fat Books worth the effort: Anna Karenina; Shogun; The Poisonwood Bible; A Fine Balance; The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay; The Name of the Rose

[Angie ☯]

Sammy, I wasn't intentionally sitting on my updates. I get distracted and don't remember to do all the updates until close to the end of the month! I am going to TRY to update as I read this month - or - at least weekly. I'm probably setting myself up to fail, though!! LOL

[Sammy]

Truitt_T wrote: "Sammy wrote: "It's currently #247 on the Summer Must Reads list too 😁"

Even better!

And maybe it'll end up on another - who knows?"

Yep, #390 on best titles too 😁

[Sammy]

Angie ☯ wrote: "Sammy, I wasn't intentionally sitting on my updates. I get distracted and don't remember to do all the updates until close to the end of the month! I am going to TRY to update as I read this month ..."

I know you do. I'm quite used to seeing a flurry of activity from you at the last minute as you madly dash to update everything 😆

[Heather]

📗 Summer Must Reads
📘 Best Experimental Books Ever
📙 Best Book Titles
📕 Character You Most Want to Sleep With
📔 The Best Adult Vampire Romance Books
📒 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

Books read:7
Points: 35

1. Crown of Midnight-6/2/24 ( 420pgs=3pts) + 📗#264 + Magic + TBR + June= 2pts=5pts total.
2. The Unhoneymooners-6/5/24 (432 pgs=3pts) + 📗#650 + Magic + TBR + June=2 pts=5pts total.
3. The Happy Ever After Playlist (401 pgs=3 pts) + 📙 #3796 + 📕#1459 +Magic + TBR=2 pts=5 pts
4. Sizzling Sixteen (371 pgs=3pts) + 📗#2612 + TBR + Buzzwords= 4pts
5. The 100 (323 pgs=3pts) + 📗#980 + 📙#2282 + TBR + Buzzwords=5pts
6. Maybe Someday (385pgs=3pts) + 📕#784 + TBR + Buzzwords=4pts
7. After (585 pgs=5pts) + 📙#4302 + 📗#3229 + TBR + Roadtrip=7pts



Challenges Accepted for Bonus points
The Name Game
Ready Player One
Road Trip
A to Z Challenge
Fairy Tale Retellings
Magic Systems
TBR Busters
Buzzwords
Disney Challenge (coming soon)
June Birth Flower Challenge
Water Balloon Wars

[Sammy]

Ladies and gentlepeople, we have a thread for Legendborn:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'll probably start it this evening, but feel free to join in whenever 😁

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Don't forget to update your scores....

[Truitt_T]

Four books - only four books I read this month worked for Listopia!

I'd like to say that I'll do better next month, but I doubt it, lol.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

1st place: Sammy
2nd place: Jenny
3rd place: Angie