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*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
Theme Throwdown
2025 A to Z Challenge
International Day of Happiness
Famous Tropes
The Book Carnival Circuit
Title Dominoes - May 2025
Book Quest Adventure
Impossible Solar System
Buzzwords
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.
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Sammy 144
Jenny 76
Jessica 14
Angie 110
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*
Teddie 17
Anastasia 78
Bernadette 54
Ashley 44
Heli 26
Ellen 25
C 30
Maria 27
IN!📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Total Points: 144
1. Educated 📗#569 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & BQ
2. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 📗#1110 - 3 points + 2 points for BQ & Buzz
3. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 📗#589 - 3 points + 2 points for BQ & Buzz
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 📒#639 - 10 points + 2 points for BQ & Buzz
5. The Trial 📗#1943 & 📔#189 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & A-Z
6. Nettle & Bone 📗#6952 & 📕#181 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, Buzz & A-Z
7. Love and Other Pranks 📔#802 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking📗#725 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
9. The Dark Tower📗#1462 & 📔#873 - 10 points + 3 points for 2 lists, BQ & solar
10. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane📗#3786 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
11. The Mountains Sing 📕#331 - 3 points + 2 points for buzz & A-Z
12. Paladin's Strength📕#1797 - 3 points + 2 points for A-Z & Buzz
13. China 📕1966 - 7 points + 2 points for Solar & Buzz
14. A Gentleman in Moscow 📗#3729 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
15. Murder Must Advertise📗#2624 - 3 points + 2 points for A-Z & buzz
16. East of Eden📗#2058 - 5 points + 2 points for buzz & A-Z
17. The Family Game📕#899 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
18. The Magus 📗#1401 - 5 points + 2 points for Buzz & Solar
19. The Mists of Avalon📗#4142 - 10 points + 2 points for Solar & Carnival
20. Taken at the Flood 📗#3742 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
21. The Other People📗#6368 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & solar
22. Darling Girls 📕#824 - 3 points + 2 points for Solar & Buzz
23. The Housemaid 📕#97 - 3 points + 2 points for Buzz & A-Z
📗 Hardest Book to Put Down📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Theme Throwdown
2025 A to Z Challenge
International Day of Happiness
The Book Carnival Circuit
Title Dominoes - May 2025
Book Quest Adventure
Impossible Solar System
Buzzwords
Running total 76
Qualityland 352pgs, 📔779, AtoZ 3+1=4
Demon Copperhead 560pgs, 📕30, AtoZ, Quest 5+2=7
The Gray House 736pgs, 📔624, Buzz, Quest 7+2=9
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 544pgs, 📕41, 📗698, AtoZ, Quest 5+3=8
The Dark Tower 1050pgs, 📗1496, Quest, Buzz, buddy read, 10+2+4=16
The Antidote 432pgs, 📔843, Quest, Carnival, buddy read 3+2+4=9
Whale Fall 224pgs, 📔854, 📕2117, Buzz, Solar 1+3=4
In Universes 240pgs, 📔863, Buzz, Solar 1+2=3
The Reformatory 576pgs, 📕2419, Quest, Carnival, buddy read 5+2+4=11
Where the Axe Is Buried 336pgs, 📕1084, Buzz, Solar 3+2=5
Back again :)📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
📗 The Grapes of Wrath #19
16-May ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The House in the Cerulean Sea 📗#2828 📕#2
2-May ⭐⭐⭐
📗MacRieve 4344
10-May ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗 The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories 5513
⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗 Widdershins 6830
7-May ⭐⭐⭐
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Listopia Madness
Duration: May 31, 2025
May 2025 Lists | Total Points: 110
📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Books Read:
📘635 | Charmed and Dangerous | 298 pgs | 1p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📗589 | In the Heart of the Sea | 338 pgs | 3p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📕380 | Rock Paper Scissors | 304 pgs | 3p + 2bp| AZ - BZ
📗576 | Educated | 336 pgs | 3p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📔843 | The Antidote | 432 pgs | 3p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📕 436 | The Bone Shard Daughter ~ 5/26 | 449 pgs | 3p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📗1496 📔876 | The Dark Tower | 1072 pgs | 10p + 7bp| BQ - IS - 📚
📔17| Framed | 336 pgs | 3p + 2bp| BQ - IS
📔376| The Light Pirate | 357 pgs | 3p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📗1773 | Siege and Storm | 448 pgs | 3p + 6bp| BQ - BZ - 📚
📗1022 | Finders Keepers | 558 pgs | 5p + 2bp| BC - BZ
📗7941 | Blood Moon | 440 pgs | 3p + 2bp| AZ - BZ
📗1511 | The Night Tiger | 380 pgs | 3p + 2bp| IS - BZ
📕1299 |There are Rivers in the Sky | 498 pgs | 3p + 2bp| IS - BZ
Challenges Accepted for Bonus points
(view spoiler)
I'm going to "borrow" the above format.📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Angie ☯ wrote: ""Ok, I blame my glasses, but every time I see your "Dibs" graphic, my brain reads (view spoiler) - and I'm like, "Why is she -- oh, right, right."
:D
APRIL LISOPIAtotal: 17
📗 #7618 || 🤡☀️ The Archer's Tale | 374 p | read 5.4.25 = 5
📕 #136 || 🔎☀️ James | 303 p | read 5.12.25 = 5
📙 #96 || 🔎🤡☀️ The Bourne Legacy | 597 p | read 5.14.25 = 7
+++ KEY +++
📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
🔎Book Quest
🤡Book Carnival Circuit
☀️ (Impossible) Solar System Challenge
👯Buddy Read
Donna, any chance we can add Book Quest, Impossible Solar and/or Buzzwords to the challenge list?
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Ok, I blame my glasses, but every time I see your "Dibs" graphic, my brain reads....
:D"
That made my day, Teddie!! Maybe I should find a new graphic!!
Angie ☯ wrote: "Teddie wrote: "Angie ☯ wrote: ""Ok, I blame my glasses, but every time I see your "Dibs" graphic, my brain reads....
:D"
That made my day, Teddie!! Maybe I should find a new graphic!!"
Hell no! It makes me laugh every time - and I'm sure its just my glasses :)
May Listopia📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Books read: 13 Points: 78
1. The Girl in 6E by A.R. Torre Read 01/05/2025 352 pages #1605 Hardest book to put down list Used in Carnival and Tropes challenges = 3 + 2bonus = 5 points
2. Endless Night by Agatha Christie Read 01/05/2025 303 pages #670 Hardest book to put down list Used in Carnival and impossible solar challenge = 3 + 2 bonus =5 points
3. Relic by Douglas Preston Read 04/05/2025 480 pages #1069 Hardest to put down list Used in Carnival challenge and impossible solar =3 + 2 bonus =5 points
4. Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge Read 08/05/2025 421 pages #851 hardest book to put down list Used in Carnival and impossible solar challenges = 3 points + 2 Bonus =5 points
5. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Read 12/05/2025 1874 pages #12 📒Used in Carnival and impossible solar challenges = 10 + 2 bonus = 12 points
6. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Read 13/05/2025 304 pages 📗#2085 Used in Carnival and impossible solar challenges = 3 + 2 bonus = 5 points
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Read 14/05/2025 784 pages #3📗Used in Carnival and Impossible solar challenges = 7 + 2 bonus = 9 points
8. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer Read 15/05/2025 577 pages 📗#15 Used in Carnival and Impossible solar challenges = 5 + 2 bonus = 7 points
9. The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø Read 16/05/2025 528 pages 📗#1792 Used in Carnival and Impossible solar challenges = 5 + 2 bonus = 7 points
10. Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter read 17/05/2025 321 pages 📗#5901 Used in Carnival challenge = 3 + 1 bonus = 4 points
11. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer read 20/05/2025 📗#14 Used in Carnival and Impossible solar challenges = 5 + 2 bonus = 7 points
12. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai Read 21/05/2025 352 pages 📗#796 used in book quest = 3 + 1 bonus = 4 points
13. From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming 259 pages Read 23/05/2025 📗#1038 📙#18 used in carnival challenge = 1 + 2 bonus =3 points
May ListopiaPoints: 54
📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
🔎Book Quest
👯Buddy Read
🤡Book Carnival Circuit
☀️ (Impossible) Solar System Challenge
1. Conclave/Robert Harris - 5/5; 302 pages; 📗2,467; 🤡🔎☀️; 3 pts + 2 bonus = 5
2. Jurassic Park/Michael Crichton - 5/5; 450 pages; 📗1,791; 🤡☀️; 3 pts + 2 bonus = 5
3. If We Were Villains/M.L. Rio - 5/20 - 354 pages; 📗1,098; ☀️; 3 pts + 1 bonus = 4
4. The People We Keep/Allison Larkin - 5/15 - 368 pages; 📕322; ☀️; 3 pts + 1 bonus = 4
5. House Rules/Jodi Picoult - 5/18 - 532 pages; 📗874; 🔎🤡☀️; 5 pts + 2 bonus = 7
6. If We Were Villains/M.L. Rio - 5/20 - 354 pages; 📗1,109; ☀️; 3 pts + 1 bonus = 4
7. Siege and Storm/Leigh Bardugo - 5/20 - 435 pages; 📗1,766; 🔎👯🤡; 3 pts + 2 bonus = 5
8. All Quiet on the Western Front/Erich Maria Remarque - 5/21 - 296 pages - 📗4,658, 📒542; ☀️; 1 pt + 2 bonus = 3
9. The Bone Shard Daughter/Andrea Stewart - 5/23 - 435 pages; 📕436; 🔎👯🤡☀️; 3 pts + 2 bonus = 5
10. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig/Jonathan Eig - 5/24 - 432 pages; 📗5,848; 🔎☀️; 3 pts + 2 bonus = 5
11. The Reformatory/Tananarive Due - 5/31 - 576 pages; 📕2,418; 🔎👯☀️; 5 pts + 2 bonus = 7
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Points: 44pts
📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕 Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔 Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒 Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
🔎Book Quest
👯Buddy Read
🤡Book Carnival Circuit
☀️ (Impossible) Solar System Challenge
Books Read:
12-May: Shadow and Bone 358pgs📗#1012🔎👯🤡☀️=9pts
14-May: Undead and Unwed 288pgs 📗#6145☀️=2pts
15-May: A Psalm for the Wild-Built 151pgs📕#50🔎🤡☀️=3pts
17-May: The Hunger Games 384pgs📗#1🔎☀️=5pts
20-May: The Bone Shard Daughter 435pgs📕#436🔎👯🤡☀️=9pts
21-May: The Tainted Cup 410pgs📔408📕#1329🔎🤡☀️=6pts
22-May: First They Killed My Father 238pgs📗#2370🔎☀️=3pts
25-May: Disappearing Earth 312pgs📗#5650🤡☀️=5pts
27-May: A Golden Age 276pgs📗#5650☀️=2pts
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Ok, I blame my glasses, but every time I see your "Dibs" graphic, my brain reads [spoilers removed] - and I'm like, "Why is she -- oh, right, right."
:D"
I’m so glad I’m not the only one!!! Every single time!
🤣🤣🤣
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "I’m so glad I’m not the only one!!! Every single time!🤣🤣🤣"
LMAO - we must have the same glasses :)
Teddie wrote: "Angie ☯ wrote: ""Ok, I blame my glasses, but every time I see your "Dibs" graphic, my brain reads [spoilers removed] - and I'm like, "Why is she -- oh, right, right."
:D"
Teehee! Glad I'm not the only one 😆
And once you've seen it, there's no unseeing it. (everyone on the thread, you're welcome, lol!)
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May Listopia📗 Hardest Book to Put Down
📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Total Points: 26
1. Beauty Queens - 5/7, 📗#5383, 405 pages = 3
2. A Wanted Man: - 5/9,📗 #1530, 417 pages= 3
3. And There He Kept Her - 5/15, 📕#2051, 324 pages = 3
4. The Alchemyst - 5/17, 📗#4031, 402 pages = 3
5. The Diamond Eye - 5/17, 📕#2223, 448 pages = 3
6. Love Your Life - 5/19, 📕#1523, 432 pages = 3
7. Funny Story - 5/22, 📕#280, 400 pages = 3
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude - 5/24, 429 pages, 📗#278 📒#17 = 4 points
9. The Murder on the Links - 5/29, 272 pages, 📗#2846 = 1 point
I saw it the first time you posted it and sprayed my drink all over my monitor 😂
I just showed it to hubby, he saw it immediately too (without me letting on first) 😆
I am so glad glad I have found my people - lol
Kind of adds new meaning to the "This is my spot" text.Ok, I'll stop now.
Teddie, you were team Lust, remember? Did you really expect anything else? 😆
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Ok, I'll stop now."
Hahahahaha!!
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You would have been a perfect fit Angie! 😆
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possibly...
Donna wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Donna, any chance we can add Book Quest, Impossible Solar and/or Buzzwords to the challenge list?"possibly..."
You are a wonderful person, you.
Thank you!
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Thanks Ashley for the emojis to use for the Challenges Accepted for Bonus points - I've been copying yours😊
I've been copying Bernadette, who's been copying Ashley - so thank you both :D
I'm in!Points: 25
1.
: 3 points. 2.
: 1 point3.
: 3 points4.
: 3 points5.
: 3 points6.
: 3 points 7.
: 1 point8.
: 5 points9.
: 3 points
Finally! My first book for this month! Never been this late getting my first Listopia read before. granted, I didn't get a chance to read during the first week this month because of both parents and daughter visiting, and lots of outings as well as packing and loading vans and whatnot, but still...Best get my backside in gear!
Points: 30Mask of Deception and Sacrifice
1 pt page count; Hardest Book to Put Down + Indie + Solar System + Buzzwords
His Orphaned Bride
1 pt page count; Indie + Buzzwords + Solar System
A Matter of Honor
1 pt page count; Indie + Solar System + Buzzwords
Forest of Scarlet
3 pt page count; Indie + Solar System + Buzzwords
Empire of Shadows
3 pt page count; Indie + Buzzwords + Book Carnival
The Sultan and the Storyteller
1 pt page count; Hardest Book to Put Down + Indie + Buzzwords + Book Carnival
Pearls of Salt and Sacrifice
1 pt page count; Hardest Book to Put Down + Indie + Buzzwords + Solar System
Wolf Claw
1 pt page count; Indie + Solar System
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📗 Hardest Book to Put DownMockingjay📘 Indie/Self-Published Books
📙 Best Spy Novels
📕Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📔Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
📒Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
🔎Book Quest
🤡Book Carnival Circuit
☀️ (Impossible) Solar System Challenge
👯Buddy Read
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 384 pg - 📗📒 -☀️🤡 3 + 1 + 3 = 7
2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - 391 pg - 📒 -☀️ 3 + 1 = 4
3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - 400 pg - 📒 -☀️🤡 3 + 2 = 5
4. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - 433 pg - 📒 - ☀️ 3 + 1 = 4
5. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer - 563 pg - 📒 - ☀️ 🤡 5 + 2 = 7
Total Points: 27
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2nd: Angie 110
3rd: Anastasia 78
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Monthly Challenge: May 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
Hardest Book to Put Down
Indie/Self-Published Books
Best Spy Novels
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's Provided by April 1st place winner: Angie
Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction Provided by April 2nd place winner: Jenny
Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Provided by April 3rd place winner: Sammy
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