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THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016

It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from the previous years, or to update with new goals and new lists. :)

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Besides the featured and popular lists on the main page you can see lists your friends have voted on as well as search for lists with topics that interest you.

The number of lists you choose and the number of books you read from each is entirely up to you. One person might choose to read the Top 100 books from one list, another person may choose to read the Top 5 books from 10 lists. You decide and mix it up any way you like.

Rules :
Choose your list (or multiple lists!) and the number of books you plan to read from each.
State your goals in your first post (posting a link to your lists is recommended*).
Any format of book, cross challenging etc. are all fine.
You can keep track in your Member's Corner or update here.
When you finish off a list, post your completed list here so we can all congratulate you!

* NOTE: Posting a link is not necessary, but it does help others find the list you are referring too if they want to check it out as well! If you do want to post a link, here are the instructions.
1. Find your list and copy the URL (which can be found at the top of your browser, in the box with the website address)
2. When posting your comment in the comment box, the code you use to add a link is this: (backspace all the *) <*a href="/">Name of list here<*/a*>.
3. Paste the URL of your list between the two " in the first tag.

For example this (without the *):
Best Book on My Shelf
(This is my personally created list; please feel free to vote on it).

If you would like to share any of your personal Listopias, please feel free to do so in this thread.

How to Participate

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

For more information about how challenges work, check out This Thread or ask your challenge leader.

Participants

Alison 0/5
Aly 0/80
Amanda 19/25
Andrew 3/20
Angelique 15/15 Completed!
Anna 10/10 Completed!
Annabeth 2/30
Ashley 10/35
Beth (Ducky) 0/80
Bobbi 1/10
Candiss 25/30
Carolyn 1/35
Cassandra 5/15
Ceri 0/20
Charity 33/50
Christa 140/140 Completed!
Claire 1/6
Cynthia 0/9
Delitealex 0/30
Dominique (Dom) 0/25
Eggp 30/30 Completed!
Elena 15/25
Elizabeth 0/25
Erika (message 18) 23/45
Erika (message 103) 0/20
Geri 11/10 Completed!
Grace 0/20
Gretchen 2/10
Gwen 4/25
Heather (Heasto) 1/40
Jacki 0/20
Jackie B. 15/30
Jacqualine 0/15
Jade 5/50
Jakub 1/40
Janet 28/30
Jenn 7/20
Jenny 7/24
Jessica 0/59
JessicaAnn 0/25
Jill 0/15
Jodi 0/25
Joe 0/20
JuliaOrlando 0/9
June 10/24
Kadijah Michelle 23/20 Completed!
Kara 0/15
Karina 0/25
Kate 3/12
Kathryn 7/25
Kelly 11/15
Kelsi 25/25 Completed!
Kim 0/12
Kylie 0/12
Lindsey 0/52
Lorraine 1/12
Lucy Jade 9/26
Lulu 0/25
Mary Pat 10/10 Completed!
Maureen 1/20
Melissa 0/30
Monique 10/10 Completed!
Nikki 0/5
Nikinnia 0/60
Rebecca 1/30
Reija 6/7
Ro 0/15
Sabina 6/15
Sally 0/15
Sam F 31/33
Samantha 0/15
Sara 0/5
Sarah (message 47) 0/20
Sarah (message 58) 6/15
Sherry 11/11 Completed!
Steph & Manda 0/5
Stephanie (message 15) 0/15
Stephanie (message 85) 15/15 Completed!
Stephanie (Chinchillita) 1/31
Stephanie (R-A) 17/25
Stipe 0/30
Susan C 12/12 Completed!
Talia 0/15
Theresa-OctoberLace 0/20
Vernice 1/50
Winter 2/40
Yvonne 17/25

as of message 383

I'm in for this challenge. I plan on reading 30 books from these two lists.

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels
/list/show/8...

A Farewell to Arms
Lord Jim
Death Comes for the Archbishop
White Noise
Song of Solomon
Babbitt
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Naked Lunch
Absalom, Absalom!
Tropic of Cancer


BBC Top 200 Books
/list/show/1...

Goodnight Mister Tom
Heidi
Swallows and Amazons
Kim
Atonement
Artemis Fowl
Flowers in the Attic
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Mort
Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld
Brideshead Revisited
Soul Music
Jude the Obscure
Skeleton Key
Hogfather
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
High Fidelity
Trainspotting

28/30

I love this challenge. I was wondering if it would be returning.

I'm in for 30.


Quality Dark Fiction
1.This Census-Taker - China Miéville
2. The Ophiuchi Hotline - John Varley
3. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft - Joe Hill
4. The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
5. Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
6. The Vegetarian - Han Kang
7. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas - Yōko Ogawa
8. Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
9. The Girl with All the Gifts - Mike Carey
10. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
11. The Grownup - Gillian Flynn
12. Ransom - David Malouf
13. The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
14. Dune by Frank Herbert

Great Women Authors
1. The Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich
2. Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
3. The Beautiful Bureaucrat - Helen Phillips
4. Bluets - Maggie Nelson
5. Sula - Toni Morrison
6. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
7. Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
8. Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories by Daphne du Maurier

The Readercon Slipstream Canon
1. Tainaron: Mail from Another City - Leena Krohn
2. As She Climbed across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
3. The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson

NPR's Best Books of 2015
1. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
3. Slade House - David Mitchell
4. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay

*plus as many others as it takes to make 30 across all lists*


Read: 25/30

I love this challenge. Sign me up for 5 lists with 5 books in each list. Thanks.

Most Begun "Read but Unfinished"


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Most Disturbing Book Ever

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Non-Fiction Non-Biography

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Causes of Ugly Crying

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2015: What Women Born in 1970s Have Read So Far

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6/40 rereads allowed if its been 10+ years


Printz Winners/Honors - 10 books
1. This One Summer Completed 7/28
2. American Born Chinese
3. And We Stay
4. Dodger
5. Nothing
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Newbery Winners - 10 books
1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. Number the Stars
3. The Westing Game
4. The Graveyard Book
5. Sarah, Plain and Tall
6. The One and Only Ivan
7. Dead End in Norvelt
8. Julie of the Wolves Completed 7/9
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Newbery Honors - 10 books
1. Hatchet Completed 5/25
2. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (reread)
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Best Graphic Novels - 10 books
1. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Completed 6/11
2. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
3. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
4. Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice Completed 1/9
5. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal Completed 4/1
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The Listopia Challenge

Goal: Read 40 books spread out over 8 lists.

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels:

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Big Fat Books Worth the Effort:

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Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction:

1. The Maze Runner, James Dashner
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Books Turned Into Disney Movies:

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Crash Course in Slavic Literature:

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Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once:

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Best Horror Novels:

1. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
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SF Masterworks:

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Total: 2/40

The Listopia Challenge

Please sign me up for 30, I'll sort my lists out soon.


The Listopia Challenge, January 1 - December 31
Goal: 30/30, 100.00%

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 5/5
01. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 10 May 2016, 2/5
02. The Grapes of Wrath - 24 May 2016, 4/5
03. The Name of the Rose - 30 Jun 2016, 4/5
04. Middlesex - 27 Jul 2016, 4/5
05. The Passage (The Passage, #1) - 04 Aug 2016, 3/5


Best Detective/Mystery Series - 5/5
01. The Thin Man - 05 Jan 2016, 4/5
02. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 24 Jan 2016, 3/5
03. Mystic River - 02 Apr 2016, 4/5
04. The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) - 26 Apr 2016, 3/5
05. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) - 18 May 2016, 4/5


Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror - 5/5
01. The Terror - 15 Mar 2016, 4/5
02. The Halloween Tree - 14 Apr 2016, 3/5
03. The Other - 31 May 2016, 4/5
04. Lord of the Flies - 04 Jul 2016, 4/5
05. Hell House - 13 Jul 2016, 3/5


Must Read Classics - 5/5
01. The Little Prince - 06 Jan 2016, 2/5
02. Fahrenheit 451 - 05 Feb 2016, 4/5
03. The Martian Chronicles - 17 Mar 2016, 4/5
04. The Metamorphosis - 03 Apr 2016, 3/5
05. Siddhartha - 18 May 2016, 1/5


Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 10/10
01. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) - 27 Jan 2016, 5/5
02. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories - 22 Feb 2016, 4/5
03. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1) - 08 Mar 2016, 2/5
04. To the Lighthouse - 12 Apr 2016, 4/5
05. To Kill A Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird, #1) - 27 May 2016, 5/5
06. The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4) - 10 Jun 2016, 4/5
07. The Handmaid's Tale - 05 Jul 2016, 5/5
08. A God in Ruins - 01 Aug 2016, 3/5
09. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels - 21 Aug 2016, 5/5
10. The House of the Spirits - 10 Sep 2016, 5/5

I'm absolutely signing up for this, just have to have a nice maniacal Listopia browsing session before I set my goals.

I am definitely joining this one! My goal is 50 from the following 7 lists.


Goal 33/50

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1. The Little Prince 1/31/16
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's 2/23/16
3. The Secret History 3/8/16
4. The Hobbit 7/2/16
5. To Kill a Mockingbird 8/3/16
6. Slaughterhouse-Five 8/8/16
7. The Cider House Rules
8. In Cold Blood
9. Catch-22

What Women Born in the 1970s Have Read so Far This Year

1. The Martian 1/9/16
2. The Rosie Project 1/12/16
3. The Husband's Secret 2/3/16
4. Landline 4/3/16
5. Days of Blood & Starlight 4/30/16
6. Fangirl 5/7/16
7. The Magicians 5/21/16
8. The Girl You Left Behind 6/4/16
9. What Alice Forgot 7/15/16
10. Where They Found Her 7/18/16
11. Go Set a Watchman 8/6/16
12. The Paris Wife 8/31/16
13. Grey 10/31/16
14. All the Light We Cannot See
15. If I Stay
16. The Girl on the Train
17. On the Jellicoe Road
18. Dark Places
19. Sharp Objects
20. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
21. The Miniaturist
22. After You
23. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
24. An Abundance of Katherines
25. The Girl Who Played with Fire
26. 11/22/63
27. Carry On
28. Throne of Glass
29. Dreams of Gods & Monsters
30. The Name of the Wind
31. Station Eleven

The Definitive Horror Book List

1. The Mist 7/6/16
2. The Vampire Lestat 8/20/16
3. Skeleton Crew 8/31/16
4. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
5. Horns
6. 'Salem's Lot
7. Misery


Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List

1. A Separate Peace 7/6/16
2. The Shadow of the Wind 7/27/16
3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 10/29/16
4. Daughter of Fortune 11/20/16

Books Turned into Disney Movies

1. The Princess Diaries 1/13/16
2. Mary Poppins 2/4/16
3. The Little Mermaid
4. The Watcher in the Woods

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

1. Because of Winn-Dixie 1/12/16
2. Pippi Longstocking 1/30/16
3. The Cricket in Times Square 7/2/16
4. A Wrinkle in Time
5. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction

1. The Scorch Trials 1/27/16
2. City of Bones
3. The Selection
4. Ready Player One

Best ADULT Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance

1. Dark Lover 2/8/16
2. Midnight's Daughter
3. Working for the Devil
4. Dead Witch Walking
5. Darkfever

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016

12/25

Best Crime & Mystery Books
/list/show/1...
1.The Count of Monte Cristo 07/21/16
2.Rules of Prey]
3.Tell No One
4.Gone for Good 04/21/16
5.Caught

TO DIE FOR 2000 - 2015 STAND-ALONES
/list/show/1...
1.My Sister's Keeper
2.The Sweet Gum Tree
3.Outlander 05/10/16
4.Warm Bodies 02/10/16
5.The Goldfinch 01/28/16


Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
/list/show/3...
1.A Prayer for Owen Meany 04/06/16
2.Dragonfly in Amber
3.The Thirteenth Tale 03/17/16
4.Voyager
5.The Passage 11/30/16

Werewolves, Vampires, Angels, Faeries, and Ghosts! OH MY!
/list/show/1...
1.City of Ashes
2.City of Glass
3.Soulless 06/01/16
4.Changeless
5.Angelfall 03/29/16

Bests book ever
/list/show/1...
1.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2.City of Fallen Angels
3.Never Let Me Go 02/26/16
4.Infinite Jest
5.Room 03/04/16

I'm signing up for 12 books - 4 lists, 3 books from each. In keeping with one of my personal goals to read books that have been on my TBR list for over a year, all books for this challenge will be currently on my TBR list (preference given to those on it over a year).

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2014
1. Everything I Never Told You read 1/7/2016
2. Boy, Snow, Bird read 1/21/2016
3. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End read 2/20/2016

What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2015
1. Yes Please read 1/8/2016
2. After You read 1/25/2016
3. Necessary Lies read 2/26/2016

No Young Adult Best Chic Lit Reads
1. Little Lady, Big Apple read 1/3/2016
2. Where We Belong read 3/6/2016
3. What Alice Forgot read 9/17/2016

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
1. A Dirty Job read 1/1/2016
2. World Without End read 2/2/2016
3. The Thirteenth Tale read 5/6/2016

12/12
Challenge completed!

I'm in for 15, but I'll pick my books later. I want to creep on Karina's and Candiss's lists first which is basically what I do every year, haha.

Right now, I'm considering:
Best Feminist Fiction read 44 of top 100
New Speculative Fiction Stars read 17 of top 100
Quality Dark Fiction read 45 of top 100
Best Non-fiction (non biography) read 32 of top 100
Hugo 2016 Eligible Works read 6 of the top 100
Must Read Classics read 56 of the top 100

Read some great stuff for this challenge last year!

Please count me in for 10. I'll pick and post later!

Oh, Kara - I'm running off with that Hugo eligible list. That's a near perfect overlap with the upper strata of my kindle TBR, anyway. :3

Overall, I try to choose lists that contain a good combination of both books already in my TBR and hitherto unknown ones that draw my eye. Currently looking at these:

Best Weird Fiction Books
Oceanic marine science fiction
Forensics - If It Doesn't Walk We Bring Out the Chalk
Hugo 2016 Eligible Works

Kickass Women in Superhero Comics

And signing up for 25 books total, drawn from all lists combined. Might add more lists.

I'm joining in for 20 books this year.
These lists are Major Life Goals for me, so I will be working on them for years to come, but this year:

23/20

Books Everyone Should Read Once (top 500).
24/20
Listopia
8. The Little Prince
10. The Catcher in the Rye
16. The Book Thief
19. The Kite Runner
23. Little Women
37. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
56. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
73. The Fellowship of the Ring
76. Macbeth
78. The Time Traveler's Wife
79. Lolita
99. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
101. Great Expectations
108. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
129. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
151. Water for Elephants
156. Persuasion
220. Divergent
276. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
291. How to Win Friends and Influence People
301. V for Vendetta
382. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
397. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

1001 Books to Read Before You Die
10/10
Listopia
Alice in Wonderland
Great Expectations
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Little Women
Lolita
Persuasion
The Catcher in the Rye
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Modern Library's List (Editor and Reader's Choices) and Radcliff's Rival List
4/8
Listopia
Lolita
The Catcher in the Rye
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Penguin Classics
2/8
Penguin Classics Listopia
Persuasion
Little Women

Horray! I love this challenge! I'm going to go big this year and sign up for 45, please.

Favorite Magical Realism Novels
01. Among Others by Jo Walton
02. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
03. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
04. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
05. Affinity by Sarah Waters

Hugo 2016 Eligible Works
01. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
02. Bitch Planet, Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick
03. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium by Kieron Gillen
04. Speak Easy by Catherynne M. Valente
05. A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab

Badass Short Story Collections
01. Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
02. Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories by Karen Russell
03. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
04. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
05. A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ramona Ausubel

Best Graphic Novels
01. Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
02. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson
03. Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max by Noelle Stevenson
04. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
05. Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill
06. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
07. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
08. Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales
09. Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann
10. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

1001 Books to Read Before You Die
01. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
02. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
03. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
04. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
05. The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Books Everyone Should Read Once
01. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
02. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
03. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
04. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
05. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Best Feminist Books
01. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
02. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
03. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
04. How to Be Both by Ali Smith
05. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow

Best Books of the 19th Century
01. Persuasion by Jane Austen
02. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
03. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
04. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
05. Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

23/45

I've got my lists picked out (many thanks to everyone for the inspiration.):



Must Read Classics

Books Turned Into Disney Movies

Everyone’s Read it but Me

1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

Favorite Historical Romance Novels

I'll be reading one book from each list, so 5 books.

Sara wrote: "I would like to sign up. Not sure of the lists or the number of books yet..."

That's fine Sara. I will put you in as TBD.

Updated my goal is message 8 to 50.

Might come back and change these later.

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016

LIST ONE:
Favorite Historical Romance Novels

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LIST TWO:
Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy Books

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LIST THREE:
Best Books of the 21st Century

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I will join! Reading from 5 lists, 5 books each.
Listopia Challenge
Lists Completed: 5/5
Books Completed: 25/25
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2016

Best Young Adult Books
1. (3/10/16)
2. (3/12/16)
3. (1/14/16)
4. (3/14/16)
5. (5/12/16)

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. (11/4/16)
2. (2/7/16)
3. (4/1/16)
4. (7/27/16)
5. (5/15/16)

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
1. (4/26/16)
2. (6/17/16)
3. (10/23/16)
4. (10/8/16)
5. (2/20/16)

Books That Blew Me Away...
1. (12/6/16)
2. (5/5/16)
3. (6/3016)
4. (3/26/16)
5. (12/12/16)

Everyone's Read It But Me
1. (8/29/16)
2. (8/13/16)
3. (7/17/16)
4. (6/22/16)
5. (7/7/16)

Signing up for 30 books picking lists later


Best strong female fantasy novels



Best steampunk books
Best Science fiction of the 21st century
best graphic novels
cozy mysteries
Best YA Books
Most interesting magic system
Scifi with female protagonist
1. On Basilisk Station #8 1/19

Kara wrote: "I'm in for 15, but I'll pick my books later. I want to creep on Karina's and Candiss's lists first which is basically what I do every year, haha.
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Haha, Kara! :D I was already planning to use one list you're also considering - Quality Dark Fiction - because so much of what I read is on that list. I was originally intending to use a list of translations, too, but the Around the World in Books challenge has me covered, so there's no need to double up the whole list.

I just updated my sign-up post (msg #4) with my lists. :)

Updated post 6 to 40 books.

I'm in!
I want to read a total of 20 books over 4 lists, 5 from each list, no rereads.
9/20

Kickass Women in Superhero Comics ��
1. Death: The High Cost of Living ��
2. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal ��
3. Hawkeye, Vol. 3: L.A. Woman ��
4. Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More ��
5. Cinderella, Vol. 1: From Fabletown with Love ��



YA Romance Between Friends
1. Lola and the Boy Next Door ��
2. Just Listen
3. Isla and the Happily Ever After
4. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight ��
5. Fangirl ��



YA Novels of 2015
1. Saint Anything
2. Sweet
3. Tonight the Streets Are Ours
4. Dumplin'
5. The Night We Said Yes



Best Books of the Decade: 2010's
1. Born at Midnight
2. Attachments
3. Cinder
4. The Elite ��
5. The Last Boyfriend

Completed 10/10

Best Non-Fiction (non biography): /list/show/1...

Into the Wild
The World Without Us
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

Hugo 2016 Eligible Works: /list/show/8...

The Autumn Republic
The Dead Lands
Six of Crows

Best Canadian Literature: /list/show/2...

Still Life
Three Day Road
Anne of Green Gables

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016

Sign me up for 15 books. 5 from 3 different lists.

Must Read Classics
1. Animal Farm - George Orwell ��
2. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank ��
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ��
4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ��
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I Only Watched the Movie
1. The Green Mile - Stephen King ��
2. Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers ��
3. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding ��
4. The Shining by Stephen King ��
5. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane ��

Best Feminist Books
1. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf ��
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ��
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ��
4. How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran ��
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Read: 13/15

Everyone is up to date!

Kadijah Michelle,

Just a heads-up. The link to your personal list in the first post isn't working, because the colon after the https is missing. (If you hover on the link, it shows https// instead of .)

I manually added the colon, and it works fine.

My lists/goals are updated. Message #19.

It's amazing how many books I had read on some of the lists. I'm excited to maybe complete one. I'll try for 30 from the following lists:

37/30 completed

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
4. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Great Women Authors

1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
3. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
4. Katherine by Anya Seton
5. Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
6. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
7. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
8. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

Best Non-Fiction

1. The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
3. Animal Vegetable Miracle
4. The Happiness Project
5. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

The Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
6. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
7. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
8. Candide by Voltaire

Best Books of the 21st Century

1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
5. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
6. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
7. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
8. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
10. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

I updated my list to 20.
(Message 27)

OMG, I really am getting the challenge bug this year. I can't really say how many yet, ut I will fill in as I progress. My overall goal this year is read a llot more fiction and to own more fiction in real book form. So for me I'll pick a list, them how many from the list, link it here and note when complete as I go. Whwww! That was long lol.

I did horribly last year on this challenge, so I want a retry.

I'm picking 15 books from 3 lists:
Big Fat Books Worth The Effort, thank you Eggp for the suggestion

1 - Weaveworld
2 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3 - The Time Traveler's Wife
4 - Into the Wilderness
5 - Anna Karenina

Causes of Ugly Crying, thank you Jodi for the suggestion
1 - The Fault in Our Stars
2 - Little Women
3 - Thirteen Reasons Why
4 - The Edge of Never
5 - The Book Thief

Books that Make you Laugh, to compensate the ugly crying
1 - The Martian
2 - Dead Until Dark
3 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
4 - Catch-22
5 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

15/15

I'm in for 10 books! I haven't decided the list yet

You are welcome Angelique! I love seeing all of the different lists in this challenge. I almost picked the "Big Fat Books Worth The Effort" too. There are so many good lists to pick from. It will be fun to compare if we read any of the same books.

I reserve the right to edit this, but for now, this is what I'm thinking:

LIST ONE: Quality Dark Fiction
(at the end of 2015: read 45 of the top 100)
1. Let the Right One In
2. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
3. House of Leaves
4. The Shining
5. A Clockwork Orange

LIST TWO: Hugo 2016 Eligible Works
(at the end of 2015: read 6 of the top 100)
1. The Fifth Season
2. A Darker Shade of Magic
3. Aurora
4. The Grace of Kings
5. Sorcerer to the Crown

LIST THREE: Best Non-Fiction (non-biography)
(at the end of 2015: read 32 of the top 100)
1. A People's History of the United States
2. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
3. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
4. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
5. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

COMPLETED: 0/15

I'm in for this one.

List One: Rory's Book Club

1. The Diary of a Young Girl
8. The Bell Jar Finished 3/14/2016
10. Lord of the Flies Finished 8/7/2016
11. Little Women Finished 3/26/2016
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Finished 3/22/2016
35. Atonement Finished 10/18/2016
43. Middlesex Finished 8/25/2016
62. Gone with the Wind
157. Tuesdays with Morrie Finished 9/9/2016
166. A Quiet Storm

7/10

List Two: Best Books of the 20th Century

8. The Diary of a Young Girl
16. Gone with the Wind
17. Lord of the Flies Finished 8/7/2016
19. The Giver
28. The Handmaid's Tale Finished 3/17/2016
38. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Finished 3/22/2016
47. The Alchemist Finished 7/24/2016
48. The Poisonwood Bible
85. Invisible Man Finished 5/12/2016
98. Cat's Cradle

5/10

List Three: Best Feminist Books

1. The Handmaid's Tale Finished 3/17/2016
3. The Bell Jar Finished 3/14/2016
4. A Room of One's Own Finished 3/13/2016
5. Jane Eyre Finished 6/3/2016
7. The Color Purple Finished 5/16/2016
16. Speak Finished 4/21/2016
23. Gone with the Wind
25. The Help Finished 3/18/2016
47. The Joy Luck Club Finished 10/4/2016
62. Wide Sargasso Sea

8/10

List Four: Books That Everyone Should Read Once

12. Jane Eyre Finished 6/3/2016
16. Lord of the Flies Finished 8/7/2016
17. The Book Thief Finished 5/7/2016
21. The Giver
24. Little Women Finished 3/26/2016
28. Gone with the Wind
45. The Alchemist Finished 7/24/2016
65. Tuesdays with Morrie Finished 9/9/2016
80. The Handmaid's Tale Finished 3/17/2016
96. The Poisonwood Bible

7/10

Total Books: 17/25

Candiss wrote: "Kadijah Michelle,

Just a heads-up. The link to your personal list in the first post isn't working, because the colon after the https is missing. (If you hover on the link, it shows https// instead..."

Both links were acting up. Thanks for catching that. I started typing things in a Google Doc and transferring because I have trouble in the comment blocks. With the copy and pasting links and other things. Hopefully it won't happen again.

Sign me up for 15!

Locus Award Winners
Hyperion
The Mists of Avalon
Anansi Boys

BBC Top 200
Rebecca
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Green Mile

Must-Read Classics
The Divine Comedy
The Woman in White
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Anna Karenina
The Poisonwood Bible
The Odyssey

Quality Dark Fiction
Oryx and Crake
The Road
V for Vendetta

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I'm gonna do this again. I don't know what I'm going to do tthough. Probably continue with the Boxalls Books. put me down for 5 for now

Official Challenge: The Listopia Challenge:

Best Books of the 21st Century

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
3. Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice
4. The Husband's Secret
5. 11/22/63
6. An Untamed State
7. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
8. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
9. Pompeii
10. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
12. A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
13. The Walking Dead, Vol. 01: Days Gone Bye
14. Doctor Sleep
15. Fates and Furies
16. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
17. These Things Hidden
18. NOS4A2
19. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
20. Still Alice

20/20

Best Crime and Mystery Books

1. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2. Room
3. Night Film
4. The Weight of Blood
5. 1st to Die
6. Naked in Death
7. The Life We Bury
8. The Woodcutter
9. Ordinary Grace
10. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

10/10

Funny Women Memoirs

1. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
2. Uganda Be Kidding Me
3. How to Be a Woman
4. I Know I Am, But What Are You?
5. Why Not Me?

5/5

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

1. The Orphan Master's Son
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. All the Light We Cannot See

3/3

The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written

1. Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
2. Dracula
3. American Psycho

3/3

Causes of Ugly Crying

1. Life After Life
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
3. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

3/3

Everyone's Read It But Me

1. The Graveyard Book
2. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
3. Night
4. The Last Lecture
5. Pride and Prejudice

5/5

Quality Dark Fiction

1. A Christmas Carol
2. The Shining
3. Never Let Me Go
4. A Monster Calls
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

5/5

What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2015

1. Bad Feminist
2. Twelve Years a Slave
3. Americanah
4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
5. Landline

5/5

Total: 59/59 - COMPLETED!

Somehow now As I see all those amazing lists, I'm doubting very much that I will keep to just one list, will change my goal later :P

I know what you mean, Winter! I saw Kara's Quality Dark Fiction list and had to add it.

This year is going to be the year, I focus on keeping to the goals I've set myself.

Best Young Adult Books
1. Evermore by Alyson Noel
2. The Selection by Kiera Cass
3. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
4. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
5. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
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Best Book Boyfriends
1. The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
2. Splintered by A.G. Howard
3. Friend-Zoned by Belle Aurora
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
5. This Girl by Colleen Hoover
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0/5

Best Strong Female Fantasy Novels
1. Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2. The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
3. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
4. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
5. Significance by Shelly Crane
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Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1. To All the Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
2. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
3. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
4. Inescapable by Amy A. Bartol
5. The Legend of the Firewalker by Steve Bevil
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Here's my four lists. I'm still deciding which books to read.

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1. A Little Life
2. Fates and Furies
3. Did You Ever Have a Family
4. Get in Trouble
5. Satin Island

Hugo 2016 Eligible Works - 0/5
1. Aurora
2. The Girl with Ghost Eyes
3. Archivist Wasp
4. Planetfall
5. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century - 0/5
1. Animal Farm
2. Mrs. Dalloway
3. Brave New World
4. Charlotte's Web
5. Lord of the Flies

Haunted Houses - 0/10
1. The Shining
2. The Haunting of Hill House
3. Hell House
4. The Woman in Black
5. The Amityville Horror
6. The Turn of the Screw
7. Rebecca
8. Pet Sematary
9. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
10. The Secret Of Crickley Hall

I am totally down to join this challenge. I'm going for 15, from three lists.

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Listopia Challenge
Start date: 1/1/16
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