Listopia Madness - September 2024

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Monthly Challenge: September 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
Unique special abilities/superpowers
Twisted Tales
LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
World's Greatest Novellas Provided by August 1st place winner: Sammy
Best Books of the 21st Century Provided by August 2nd place winner: Tru
Best Book Cover Art Provided by August 3rd place winner: Jenny


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[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
TBR Busters /a>
Buzzwords
Shiny
Water Balloon Wars
Olympic Games
Bookopoly
Killer Clown Roundup


Q&A
Q: Can we read a different book in the series than the book on the list?
A: Not for this challenge. We are focused on the listopia for this challenge.

Q: Can we use a different edition than the one on the list?
A: Yes, it is the same book so the edition you use does not matter.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Participants

Angie 48
Tru 0
Sammy 142
bamaace83 8
Jenny 90
LaurLa 19
Bernadette 37
Ashley 38
Heather 4

[Angie ☯]

Listopia Madness
Duration: September 1 - 30, 2024

September Lists | Total Points: 59
📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔 Best Books of the 21st Century
📒 Best Book Cover Art

Books Read:
📔7308 📒 1544 | Ninth House | 476 pgs | 3p + 7bp | WB - BO - 📚
📒 705 | My Sister, the Serial Killer | 241 pgs | 2p + 2bp | WB - BO
📒 11678 | The Last Murder at the End of the World | 368 pgs | 3p + 2bp | WB - BO
📔222 📒 2127| Still Alice | 353 pgs | 3p + 3bp | RT - KCR
📗89 📒 2974 | The BFG | 208 pgs | 2p + 3bp | WB - BO
📕8 📒 4168 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 111 pgs | 1p + 3bp | BO - BZ
📘172 📕29 | Lord of the Flies|227 pgs | 1p + 3bp | BO - SY
📔167 📒873 | The Eyre Affair | 385 pgs | 3p + 3bp | BO - BZ
📒11692 | Full Speed to a Crash Landing | 192 pgs | 1p + 2bp | BO - BZ
📔8451 | Nona the Ninth | 502 pgs | 5p + 6bp | BO - TBR - 📚

[Truitt_T]

I'm in.

[Sammy]

In please 😁

📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔 Best Books of the 21st Century
📒 Best Book Cover Art

Total points: 142


1. Storm Front📘#61 & 📒#945 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & A-Z
2. The Nightingale 📒#1541 & 📔#176 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & clowns
3. The Chimes 📕#171 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons + A-Z
4. Not Till We Are Lost 📒#11627 - 3 points + 2 points for balloons & TBR + 4 points for BR with Jenny
5. Fool Moon 📘#549 & 📒#2657 - 3 points + 2 points for balloons & buzz
6. The Nix 📒#8142 & 📔#547 - 5 points + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & clowns
7. The Tommyknockers📒#6022 - 7 points + 2 points for balloons & olympics
8. The Mist📕#52 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & buzz
9. The Bookbinder of Jericho📔#2455 - 3 points + 2 points for balloons & buzz
10. Aurora Rising📒#2738 & 📔#2912 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & olympics
11. Candide📕#15 - 1 point + 2 points for balloon & A-Z
12. All Systems Red📕#74 & 📔#2065 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & buzz
13. Artificial Condition📒#5806 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & buzz
14. Rogue Protocol📕#195 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & buzz
15. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde📒#4168 & 📕#8 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & buzz
16. The Man With the Golden Gun📒#8443 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & buzz
17. Small Things Like These 📕#173 & 📔#8722 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & buzz
18. The Call of the Wild 📕#16 & 📒#11702 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, balloons & A-Z
19. The End of the Affair📒#2515 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & buzz
20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie📕#46 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & A-Z
21. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 📒#4168 - 1 point + 2 points for balloons & shiny
22. Magic Bites 📔#741 - 1 point + 2 points for TBR & Buzz
23. The Dragon Republic 📔#8868 - 5 points + 2 points for clowns and Olympics
24. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 📒#7824 & 📔#684 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, buzz & A-Z
25. Dying Light📒#9484 - 5 points + 2 points for Olympics & shiny
26. The Penelopiad 📒#899 & 📕#513 - 1 point + 2 points for 2 lists & A-Z
27. The Tombs of Atuan📒#7483 - 1 point + 2 points for A-Z & buzz
28. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea📒#3360 - 1 point + 1 point for A-Z
29. A Room with a View 📒#11139 - 1 point + 2 points for A-Z & Buzz
30. Magic Burns📔#1600 - 1 point + 2 points for Buzz & Shiny
31. Magic Study📒#2002 & 📔#1862 - 3 points + 3 points for TBR & Flowers

[Truitt_T]

Donna -

Would you be willing to add KCR to the bonus options? I'm looking forward to playing!

[bamaace83]

My spot for this month.

1. The Diviners by Libba Bray 603 pages #927 on Book Cover List and 1327 on Book 21st list, Olympics and KCR - 8 points

[Jenny]

Ready Player One
A to Z Challenge
TBR Busters /a>
Buzzwords
Water Balloon Wars
Olympic Games
Bookopoly

📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔 Best Books of the 21st Century
📒 Best Book Cover Art

Running total- 90

1. Not Till We Are Lost 401pgs 📒#11627, BR with Sammy, water, bookopoly 3 + 2 + 4 =9
2. The Last Murder at the End of the World 368pgs, 📒11677, bookopoly, water 3+2=5
3. Same Bed Different Dreams 528pgs, 📒11091, water, bookopoly 5+2=7
4. The Passage 784pgs, 📔164, 📒1159, water, bookopoly 7+3=10
5. Small Things Like These 📕#173 & 📔#8722 - buzz, bookopoly 1+3=4
6. Stars Uncharted 412pgs, 📒8921, TBR, Bookopoly 3+2=5
7. Full Speed to a Crash Landing 192pgs, 📒11691, TBR, Buzz 1+2=3
8. The Shadow of What Was Lost 602pgs, 📒3707, buzz, bookopoly 5+2=7
9. Girls of Paper and Fire 385pgs, 📒2870, TBR, bookopoly 3+2=5
10. Noumenon Ultra 576pgs, 📒11401, TBR, bookopoly 5+2=7
11. Starsight 461pgs, 📒8446, 📔8811, Olympics, bookopoly 3+3=6
12. Annihilation 195pgs, 📔431, 📒2382, bookopoly 1+2=3
13. Just One Damned Thing After Another 480pgs, 📒9635, olympics, bookopoly 3+2=5
14. Long Live Evil 435pgs, 📒11653, TBR, bookopoly 3+2=5
15. The Hearing Trumpet 199pgs, 📒10705, TBR, bookopoly 1+2=3
16. The Mercy of Gods 422pgs, 📒11659m RPO, bookopoly 3+2=5

[LaurLa]

Listopia Madness
September 2024

My Listopia Madness Challenge (msg 20)

📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔Best Books of the 21st Century
📒Best Book Cover Art


Book🚦The Awakening🚦436 pp🚦09.14 ★★★★🚦📒#9134
Points🚦3 pp + 2 bp for TBR & Shiny🚦5 points


Book🚦River Marked🚦337 pp🚦09.21 ★★★★🚦📔#896
Points🚦3 pp + 2 bp for TBR & Olympics🚦5 points


Book🚦Exit Strategy🚦163 pp🚦09.21 ★★★★🚦📕#531
Points🚦1 pp + 2 bp for TBR & Shiny🚦3 points


Book🚦Bet Me🚦432 pp🚦09.26 ★★★★★🚦📔#2844 📒#2460
Points🚦3 pp + 3 bp for TBR & Olympics + 2 lists🚦6 points

RUNNING TOTAL🚦19

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Truitt_T wrote: "Donna -

Would you be willing to add KCR to the bonus options? I'm looking forward to playing!"

added

[Truitt_T]

Donna wrote: "Truitt_T wrote: "Donna -

Would you be willing to add KCR to the bonus options? I'm looking forward to playing!"

added"

Thanks, Donna!

[Bernadette]

September 2024 Listopia
Total Points: 37

📚 Buddy Read
🔤 A to Z Challenge
🥇 Olympics
🎲 Bookopoly
📖 Big Book

📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔Best Books of the 21st Century
📒 Best Book Cover Art

Books Read:

James/Percival Everett - 9/2, 303 pages; 📔#6,604; 🥇🎲: 3 pts + 2 bonus
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer/Kai Bird - 9/7; 721 pages: 📔#4,625; 🥇🎲📖: 7 pts + 2 bonus
Love & Gelato/Jenna Evans Welch - 9/12, 386 pages; 📒3,464; 🥇🎲: 3 pts + 2 bonus
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore/Matthew J. Sullivan - 9/17, 328 pages; 📒4,590; 🥇🎲: 3 pts + 2 bonus
Ninth House/Leigh Bardugo - 9/22, 461 pages; 📒1,544, 📔7,308; 🥇🎲: 3 pts + 3 bonus
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents/Isabel Wilkerson - 544 pages: 📔1,776; 🎲📖: 5 pts + 2 bonus pts

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

September - Listopia 2024
Total Points: 38

📚 Buddy Read
🔤 A to Z Challenge
🥇 Olympics

📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔Best Books of the 21st Century
📒Best Book Cover Art

Books Read:
5-Sep: Crazy Rich Asians, 403pgs,📒#3786,📔#6826🥇=5pts
19-Sep: All Together Dead, 336pgs,📔#325,📒#2239🥇=5pts
22-Sep: From Dead to Worse, 368pgs,📔#348=3pts
22-Sep: Dead and Gone, 320pgs,📔#390,📒#2133=4pts
23-Sep: Dead in the Family, 320gs,📒#2002🥇=4pts
26-Sep: Ninth House, 458pgs,📔#7300🥇📚=8pts
27-Sep: Geekerella, 320pgs,📒#9903🥇🔤=5pts
30-Sep: Deadlocked, 327pgs,📒#11161🥇=4pts

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

The lists have been updated. Happy reading!

[Truitt_T]

Well, between my list and Jenny's. we ought to be able to find a few.....

[Sammy]

thanks Donna!

[LaurLa]

Sammy, did you realize that the Novella list might be helpful for Turf Wars but not so much here for points? I'm not complaining... just thinking about how you trying to merge your two personalities may have a hiccup 😉😂

[Sammy]

I am aware, lol. I intend to read a lot of novellas, so it made sense. 😆

[LaurLa]

Sammy wrote: "I am aware, lol. I intend to read a lot of novellas, so it made sense. 😆"

I hear you! You really won't hear me complaining about short books... I prefer them! I actually found Gail Carriger on the list and I do enjoy her universe, so no matter what, this is a winner list for me (not to mention Murderbot!)

[Sammy]

murderbot belongs on ALL of the lists! 😁

[Truitt_T]

Truth!!!!

[Heather]

September - Listopia 2024
Total Points: 6

📗Unique special abilities/superpowers
📘Twisted Tales
📙LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games
📕World's Greatest Novellas
📔Best Books of the 21st Century
📒Best Book Cover Art

1.The Selection (336)-9/1/24 📒#90 + 📔#291=2 pts
2. The Elite (336)-9/7/24 📒#304 + 📔#597 =2pts
3. The One (323)-9/14/24 📒#156 + 📔#703=2 pts
4.Funny Story-9/15/24 📒 #6830 =1pt
5. Holiday in Death-9/29/24 📒 #9965= 1pt

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Don't forget to update your posts!

[LaurLa]

Finished and updated... only 4 books this month. Still, it gets me reading some books I might not have otherwise, so there is that!
Updated post: My Listopia Madness Challenge (msg 20)

[Truitt_T]

Ugh - I’m not going to get updated this month. I’m sorry!

[Angie ☯]

I will post my update shortly!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Is everyone updated?

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

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