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message 251: by Ashley (new)

Ashley I got you updated, Kara. Congrats on finishing one of your lists! :)


message 252: by mussolet (new)

mussolet (sovotchka) | 615 comments Updating:

Listopia Challenge
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2012
Progress: 37/49

List #1: Best For Book Clubs
1) **** Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
2) ** Vicki Myron - Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
3) ***** Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
4) **** Kathryn Stockett - The Help

List #2: The Queen's Library: Best of the Commonwealth
1) **** Rose Tremain - The Colour
2) **** Nadeem Aslam - Season of the Rainbirds
3) ***** Gita Mehta - River Sutra
4) *** David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

List #3: Best Steampunk Books
1) *** Mark Hodder - The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
2) **** Gail Carriger - Changeless
3) **** M.K. Hobson - The Native Star
4) **** Gail Carriger - Blameless
5) ***** Gail Carriger - Heartless
6) ****Gail Carriger - Timeless
7) *** Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass

List #4: Favourite Magical Realism Novels
1) *** Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
2) ** Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
3) ***** Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper
4) **** Sarah Addison Allen - The Sugar Queen
5) *** Jo Walton - Among Others
6) **** Ali Shaw - The Girl With Glass Feet

List #5: Favourite Travel Books
1) ***** Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring
2) **** Peter Mayle - A Year In Provence
3) **** Tahir Shah - The Caliph's House
4) *** John Steinbeck - Logbuch Des Lebens Roman
5) **** Ferenc Máté - The Hills of Tuscany

List #6: Thieves
1) **** Sarah Prineas - Stolen
2) *** Markus Zusak - Die Bücherdiebin
3) *** Hannah Tinti - The Good Thief
4) ***** Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

List #7: ONE DAY Best Summer Reads
1) ***** Katherine Paterson - Bridge To Teribithia
2) *** David Nicholls - One Day
3) ***** Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon
4) ***** Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells
5) ***** Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
6) **** Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
7) **** G.R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones


message 253: by Erika (last edited Dec 30, 2012 06:14PM) (new)

Erika  (readingbutterfly) | 511 comments Listopia Challenge
Finished 20/33
Abandoned 5/33


Can't Wait Book of 2012

1.Insurgent***7/2/12
2.Pandemonium-Abandoned
3.Bitterblue*6/22/12
4.Fair Game****4/29/12
5.Endlessly-Abandoned
6.A Million Suns** 2/1/12
7.Bloodrose** 6/20/12
8.Incarnate**** 2/26/12
9.Dreamless-Abandoned
10.Pure*****5/15/12
11.The Selection**** 9/8/12
12.I've Got Your Number: A Novel* 2/29/12
13.Hidden ** 11/21/22
14.Under the Never Sky*** 2/23/12
15.Outpost
16.The Wood Queen ** 3/30/12
17.Deity
18.Stolen Nights
19.The Other Life
20.Struck
21.Wake-Abandoned
22.Destiny's Fire
23. Rainshadow Road***4/28/12

Original Stories A Breath of Fresh Air

1.Magic Study
2.The Replacement
3.Heist Society**6/22/12
4.Delirium *** 3/3/12
5.Princess Academy * 3/27/12

Best Chick Lit

1.Watermelon**12/27/12
2.I Heart New York* 12/17/12
3.Natural Born Charmer-Abandoned
4.Redeeming Love ** 4/2/12
5.Poison Study*** 12/4/12


message 254: by Kara (last edited Dec 31, 2012 08:12AM) (new)

Kara (karaayako) | 3984 comments I had to do some switching around to finish this challenge, but I did!


LIST ONE: Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1.Like Water for Chocolate, 3/3
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, 2/14
3. Garden Spells, 7/10
4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, 11/14
5. Practical Magic, 11/24

LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction Books
1. Fahrenheit 451, 9/8
2. Slaughterhouse Five, 7/12
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 2/28
4. I, Robot, 7/15
5. The Stand, 4/21

LIST THREE: Best Books of the 20th Century
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, 10/6
2. The Hobbit, 11/30
3. Gone With the Wind, 7/14
4. Catch-22, 5/10
5. Lolita, 4/28

COMPLETED: 15/15


message 255: by Norelle (new)

Norelle (onefabknitter) | 20 comments too many to pick!!! I want to read off every list..lol


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