Listopia Madness - January 2025

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Monthly Challenge: January 2025

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
Frosty Book Titles
Books that Make you Laugh
Causes of Ugly Crying
Best Books of the 21st Century Provided by December 1st place winner: Sammy
Best Book Titles Provided by December 2nd place winner: Jenny
I Should Probably Read This Sometime... Provided by December 3rd place winner: Angie


Please remember to set up notifications for the Announcement thread

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

January Bonuses



*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
Title Dominoes
Symbols of Luck & Fortune
Snowball Fight
Dark Christmas
Bingo
D&D Adventures
Book Quest Adventure
Arrows of Fortune


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 45
Sharon 0
Christene0
Sammy 78
Jenny 60
Ashley 17
Shan A 5
Maria 20
Heather 2

[Angie ☯]

Listopia Madness
Duration: January 1 - 31, 2025

January 2025 Lists | Total Points: 45
📗Frosty Book Titles
📘Books that Make you Laugh
📙Causes of Ugly Crying
📕Best Books of the 21st Century
📔Best Book Titles
📒I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

Books Read:
📔2837 📒1904 | The Hunting Party |406 pgs | 3p + 7bp | BQ - SF - 📚
📔7679 📒3228 | The Last House Guest | 368 pgs | 3p + 7bp | BQ - SF - 📚
📒3729 | Insomnia | 336 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - BG
📔265 📒153 | Listen for the Lie | 352 pgs | 3p + 3bp | SF - BQ
📔8726 | Murder Your Employer | 400 pgs | 3p + 6bp | SF - BQ - 📚
📘2352 | Fate's Edge | 384 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - AF

[SharonV]

R

[christene_littlelibrary]

R

[Sammy]

In!

📗Frosty Book Titles
📘Books that Make you Laugh
📙Causes of Ugly Crying
📕Best Books of the 21st Century
📔Best Book Titles
📒I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

Total points: 78


1. The Corrections 📕#53 & 📔#2888 - 5 points + 2 points for 2 lists & Book Quest
2. The Hunting Party📔#2766 & 📒 #1904- 3 points + 1 point for Book Quest - buddy read with Book quest team + 4 points + 1 point for 2 lists
3. The Bone Clocks📕#780 & 📔#2444 - 5 points + 2 points for 2 lists & BQ - BR with Donna + 4 points
4. Lessons in Chemistry📕#1203 & 📘#3179 - 3 points + 2 points for 2 lists & BQ
5. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library📔#6559 - 3 points + 1 point for BQ
6. And Then There Were None📔#43 & 📒#271 - 1 point + 1 point for 2 lists
7. Company of Liars📕#7879 & 📒#5479 - 5 points + 1 point for 2 lists
8. The Man Without Qualities 📔#247 & 📒#551 - 10 points + 1 point for 2 lists
9. Norwegian Wood📔#1844 & 📒#2973 - 3 points + 1 point fpr 2 lists
10. Never Lie📔#586 & 📒#435 - 1 point + 1 point for 2 lists
11. The Travelling Cat Chronicles📙#1182 - 1 point
12. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen📕#312 - &📒#2182 - 3 points + 1 point for 2 lists
13. Under the Whispering Door📔#389 & 📕#9784 - 3 points + 1 point for 2 lists
14. The Marriage Act 📔#1485 &📒#1046 - 3 points + 1 point for 2 lists
15. Around the World in Eighty Days📒#934 - 1 point
16. The Sins of the Father📕#2371 - 3 points

[Jenny]

Symbols of Luck & Fortune
Dark Christmas
D&D Adventures
Book Quest Adventure
Arrows of Fortune

📗Frosty Book Titles
📘Books that Make you Laugh
📙Causes of Ugly Crying
📕Best Books of the 21st Century
📔Best Book Titles
📒I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

Running total- 60

1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are 505pgs, 📔10149, D&D, Luck 5+2=7
2. The Wicked King 322pgs, 📔3746, 📒2850,
Luck, Arrow 3+3=6
3. The Hunting Party 406pgs, 📔2766, 📒1835, Book Quest, buddy read with Sammy and Angie 3+2+4=9
4. There Are Rivers in the Sky 446pgs, 📔9974, BQ, D&D 3+2=5
5. She Who Knows 161pgs, 📔10327, Symbols 1+1=2
6. Clockwork Boys 282pgs, 📘2032, Symbols 1+1=2
7. Dungeon Crawler Carl 464pgs, 📔9989, symbols 3+1=4
8. The Hunter 487pgs, 📕9038, Symbols 3+1=4
9. What Happened to Nina? 📔10253, Symbols 3+1=4
10. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal 444pgs, 📘3, 📕76, Symbols 3+2=5
11. Death of the Author 448pgs, 📔10089, Symbols, Quest 3+2=5
12. The Life Impossible 324pgs, 📔10221, Symbols, Quest 3+2=5

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Total Points: 17

📗Frosty Book Titles
📘Books that Make you Laugh
📙Causes of Ugly Crying
📕Best Books of the 21st Century
📔Best Book Titles
📒I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
🍀Symbols of Luck & Fortune Bonus
👯Buddy Read

Books Read:
The Poet X, 368pgs, 2-Jan = 🍀📕#1584 = 4pts
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 320pgs, 4-Jan = 🍀📔#45📒#91 = 5pts
The Last House Guest, 336pgs, 15-Jan =👯🍀📒#3135 = 8pts

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

lists have been updated... Happy Reading y'all!

[Sammy]

Thanks Donna!

[Shan ~A~]

Listopia Madness
January 2025
January Bonuses: *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

Total Points: 5

Frosty Book Titles (options through pg. 5)


Books that Make you Laugh (options through pg. 5)


Causes of Ugly Crying (options through pg. 5)


Best Books of the 21st Century (options through pg. 5)


Best Book Titles (options through pg. 5)


I Should Probably Read This Sometime... (options through pg. 5


Books that Make you Laugh (options through pg. 5)
The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston | 320 pgs | #371 | 01/15 | Snowball Fight, Dark Christmas, & Bingo | 5 pts

[Maria (a)]

This looks like fun!

📗Frosty Book Titles
📘Books that Make you Laugh
📙Causes of Ugly Crying
📕Best Books of the 21st Century
📔Best Book Titles
📒I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

Total points: 20

Books read:
1. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (228 pages; 3/1) | 📙#129 / 📔#10197 / 📒#135
Bingo & D&D Adventures
1 + 3 = 4 points

2. The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (351 pages; 6/1) | 📔#7572 / 📒#3103
January FBR
3 + 4 = 7 points

3. Moordgids voor lieve meisjes by Holly Jackson (445 pages; 11/1) | 📔 #2420 / 📒#2373
Bingo
3 + 2 = 5 points

4. De hoofdrol by Janice Hallett (480 pages; 22/1) | 📒 #7635
Bingo
3 + 1 = 4 points

[Heather]

📗Frosty Book Titles
📘Books that Make you Laugh
📙Causes of Ugly Crying
📕Best Books of the 21st Century
📔Best Book Titles
📒I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

Total points:12

Books read:4

1. Under One Roof 1/1/25 (112pgs)=1pts + 📔#6735 + Symbols of Luck=2pts
2. The Darkest Prison-1/7/25 (81pgs) + 📔#9357
3. All Together Dead-1/18/25 (336pgs) =3pts + 📕#325 + 📔 #2192 + 📒#4268 + 📘#2703 +3pts
4. Good Girl, Bad Blood-1/24/25 (413pgs)=3pts + 📒#748=4 pts.
5. Below Zero-1/30/25 (112pgs)=1pt + 📗 + 📒#9442

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Don't forget to update your posts!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

I did BEYOND terrible this month. I couldn't seem to get any of the books I wanted/needed to read to match up.

[Sammy]

I'd completely forgotten to check Angie's list! Managed to add a second list to so many of my books by checking 😆

[Angie ☯]

You're welcome! 🤣

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

1st Sammy 78
2nd Jenny 60
3rd Angie 45