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The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 2014 - December 2014

It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from 2013, or to update with new goals and new lists. :)

ŷ������ features a number of user created lists which can be found here: Listopia.

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 amount 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 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 *): <*a href="/search?utf8... Science Fiction Books<*/a> turns into this: Best Science Fiction Books

PARTICIPANTS


Adriana 3/35
Alison 3/10
Amie 0/15
Angelique 5/8 +6
Ashleigh 1/12
Ashley (m54) 0/6
Ashley (m21) 0/10
Audrey 0/20
Brian 0/16
Brianna 1/12
Brianna (m248) 9/80
Candiss 17/20
Carrie 0/10
Cassandra 2/6
Cathy 0/10
Chris 11/15
Christine 0/40
Claire (m110) 0/21
Courtney 10/12
Craig 0/10
Daisy 0/6
Daphne 20/36
Deborah 0/15
Diana S 0/?
Donna 0/?
Elsbeth 19/20
Erika 31/40
Finley Jayne 0/10
Gazrielle 0/15
Jacqueline 0/20
Jannene 6/11
Jennifer 0/?
Joanne♥~Bookworm Extraordinaire 20/20
Jodi 11/25
Johanna 0/14
Joni 0/10
Julia 0/5
Kara 0/15
Karena 6/20
Karina 0/20
Karma 20/20 Congratulations Karma. Well done on achieving your goal
Kathryn 15/20
Kathy 0/14
Kelly 0/4
Kellyanne 0/20
Kelsi 0/9
Kimberly 2/12
Kme_17 0/10
Lacee 0/35
Laura 0/17
Laura Jane 0/15
Lianne 0/12
Lilac 0/18
Lisa (m47) 3/5
Lisa (m48) 0/25
Lorelei 4/10
Madelyn 0/5
Maria 0/10
Marina 9/10
Mary-ann 13/20
Mave 0/40
Megan 0/25
Meimei 27/45
Melissa 0/20
Mhairi 0/10
Nay 0/30
Nidia 0/?
Pigletto 0/20
Rachael 0/12
Sara 0/24
Sarah 0/25
Sibyl 0/24
SilverRaindrops 6/55
Starfleetbrat 0/6
❤Stephanie ღ♥�� Mrs Acheron Parthenopaeus ღ♥�� 1/12
Talia 0/10
Zara 0/3

I am so glad this one is back! I didn't do it last year and really enjoyed looking at people's lists. I hope the every year challenge is back too because I want another go at that one. I will let you know my lists when I get my reports done.

I'm so glad this challenge is being continued!

Please put me down for 20.


List 1: 1001 Books to Read Before You Die


1. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (1001) (12/03/14)
2. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (1001) (08/23/14)
3. The Third Man - Graham Green (1001) (07/13/14)
4. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (1001) (12/15/14)
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1001) (04/12/14)
6. Under the Skin - Michel Faber (1001) (04/19/14)
7. Candide - Voltaire (1001) (03/21/14)
8. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll (1001) (04/14/14)
9. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (1001) (05/17/14)
10. The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1001) (08/20/14)
11. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens


List 2: Japanese Literature


1. Seven Japanese Tales - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (reread for review) (01/14/14)
2. Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto (04/29/14)
3. Popular Hits of the Showa Era - Ryū Murakami (07/21/14)
4. The Goddess Chronicle - Natsuo Kirino (06/30/14)


List 3: Best Books of the 21st Century


1. Houdini Heart - Ki Longfellow (02/19/14)
2. Wolf Totem - Jiang Rong (07/31/14)
3. Please Look After Mom - Shin Kyung-sook (05/02/14)
4. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall (04/25/14)
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman (08/16/14)



Total read: 20/20

Fairy Tales Retold

List 1 - 17 books



Food on the Cover

List 2 - 8 books



Must Read Classics

List 3 - 10 books



(Alice and the sequel count for two)

Yay, it's back! I'll go list-hunting!

I'm in for 3.
Completed: 0/3

Here are my lists:

List: The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written x3

He Chose the Nails by Max Lucado completed April
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall

I've added everyone. Welcome one and all to this challenge. Good luck with your goals.

/list/show/1...
Great Books of Southern Fiction

I'll join please :)

We �� YA Books! Top 100 Must Read Books - 2 books
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Joni and Gazrielle I've added you both. Welcome and good luck.

I'm in on this one, too! I have wanted to master "the quick read" for a while, so once a month I'll be reading from one of three listopias compiling the best books under 200 pages or 50k (children's books don't count).

Duration: January-December 2014
Completed: 1/12

Best Books Under 200 Pages
Great Short Short Books
Quick Reads

Showing completed books only
1. Night

Gazeille that was one of the lists I was looking at too.

Rachel, I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

I didn't participate in the 2013 Listopia challenge so I'm going to give it a go in 2014. Not sure yet how many to go for - I suppose that depends on how many challenges I decide to go for. Will set a goal in the New Year but definitely count me in!

Jodi wrote: "Gazeille that was one of the lists I was looking at too."

Awesome, it's a great list!

Zara - I expanded my list to 20 last night. I discovered a list that had several books I wanted to read all clustered together invitingly, and I couldn't resist.

The ŷ������ 100 list is actually a listopia so I'll be carrying on with that list for 2014. I hope to read another 18 books, most of which I've already picked. :)

List here
Lord of the Flies
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
And Then There Were None
The Stand
The Road
The Pillars of the Earth
American Gods
Fight Club
Slaughterhouse-Five
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Odyssey
Ulysses
Catch-22
The Help

Completed - 0/18

I had a 2 of the same book in my list so thats 15.

Completed:

Can I carry over the ŷ������ 100 Challenge from 2013 to this challenge or will the ŷ������ 100 Challenge be returning in 2014?

I will continue with the ŷ������ 100 Challenge for Listopia from 2013. My goal will be 10.

I'll do 40 total:

Pulitzer Winners Fiction & Novels
1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
5. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The Most Begun "Read But Not Finished" Book Ever
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
4. The Plague by Albert Camus
5. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
3. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
6. Nana by Emile Zola
7. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
8. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
9. The Shining by Stephen King
10. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
11. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
12. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
13. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
15. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
16. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
17. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
18. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
19. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
20. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
21. The Time Machine by HG Wells
22. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
23. Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
24. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
25. Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
26. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
27. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
28. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Conner
29. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
30. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

31/40

I am going to do five books from Five lists. I hope I can post the lists properly.



List 1: What Women Born in the 70s Have Read So Far This Year

��1. Eleanor & Park
��2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
��3. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
��4. The Night Circus
��5. The Paris Wife

List 2: Best Book Boyfriends

1. The Edge of Never
2. Walking Disaster
��3. The Fault in Our Stars
4. Graceling
5. The Iron King

List 3: Best Books Ever

��1. The Alchemist
2. Lolita
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. Les Misérables

List 4: Best Non-Fiction (Non Biography)

1. In Cold Blood
2. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
��3. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran
��5. The Rape of Nanking

List 5: Trippy Books

��1. Coraline
2. House of Leaves
3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
4. The Master and Margarita
��5. John Dies at the End


So here is my list. I am really nervous to take on Les Miserable but I do have a year! I should be able to get it done in that time.

I'm in. ill start with 20 books and see what happens

1. ~ 1/11/14: /list/show/4...
2. ~ 1/11/14: /list/show/6...
3. ~ 1/16/14: /list/show/2...
4. ~ 1/20/14: /list/show/2...
5. ~ 1/31/14: /list/show/1...
6. ~ 2/8/14: /list/show/1...
7. ~ 2/9/14: /list/show/2...
8. ~ 2/16/13: /list/show/3...
9. ~ pgs, 2/28/14:/list/show/2...
10. ~ 3/2/14: /list/show/5...
11. ~ 3/2/14: /list/show/1...
12. ~ 3/12/14: /list/show/6...
13. ~ 3/19/14: /list/show/3...
14. ~ 3/26/14: /list/show/1...
15. ~ 4/12/14: /list/show/8...
16. ~ 4/20/14: /list/show/2...
17. ~ 5/11/14: /list/show/1...
18. ~ /list/show/4...
19. ~ /list/show/2...
20. ~ /list/show/1...

I think I have everyone added. Welcome all and good luck on your goals.

Brianna I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

Thanks for adding me. I am going to continue with the ŷ������ 100 challenge. My goal will be 6.



1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God
3. Where The Sidewalk Ends
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. The Kite Runner
6. Interpreter of Maladies

This is my favorite, favorite challenge. I was a little too ambitious with 20 in 2013, so I'm going for 15. Will post lists soon.

Hi Kara. I've added you. Welcome and good luck.

I'll start with 6 from the ŷ������ 100 Fiction Listopia.

I'll do 12 from this challenge - I need probably an hour to search through books so I'll figure up my list later :)

/list/show/264.Books_That_Everyone_Should_Read_At_Least_Once
1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

<*a href="/">/list/show/4...
1. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
4. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

<*a href="/">/list/show/1...
1. Matched (Matched #1) by Ally Condie
2. Crossed (Matched #2) By Ally Condie
3. Reached (Matched #3) by Ally Condie

Im doing the same thing! Nidia wrote: I am going to continue with the ŷ������ 100 challenge.


I am going to keep going on the same list that I worked on for 2013. Sign me up for 10. Here is the list removing the books that I have already read

TOP 100 BOOKS CHALLENGE

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Alice in Wonderland (Alice, #1) by Lewis Carroll
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Odyssey by Homer
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Interview With the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles, #1) by Anne Rice
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Alison, Ashleigh and Cassandra I have added you all. Welcome and good luck.

Ashleigh wrote: "/list/show/2...
1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. The Diar..."

Ashleigh, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is one of my top 3 favourite reads from this year!

Please sign me up for 10 books.

List 1: Best Science Fiction Books - 3 books


List 2: Best Fantasy Books - 3 books


List 3: Fairy Tales Retold - 4 books

Talia I've added you. Welcome and good luck.

I love this challenge! I didn't do very well this year, but I'll start with 5 from these 3 lists and see how it goes!

The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 2014 - December 2014

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Amie wrote: "I love this challenge! I didn't do very well this year, but I'll start with 5 from these 3 lists and see how it goes!

The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 2014 - December 2014

Humorous Romanc..."

I've added you Amie. Welcome and good luck

0/20

10 books from Best Books of the 20th Century

10 books from Best Books of the 21st Century

I've decided now to go for 25 and I have chosen the list Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

Pigletto I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

Sarah I have updated your goal.

Thanks Zara!

There are too many great lists to choose from!

i will give it a go

The Listopia Challenge - 2014
Duration: 1st January - 31st December
12/12

Top 100 most popular PNR/UF series

1. Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian (16/01/14)
2. How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks (06/02/14)
3. Enraptured by Elisabeth Naughton (08/03/14)
4. Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison (13/02/14)

2014 Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy (January - June)

1. The King by J.R Ward (08/04/14)
2. Wulfe Untamed by Pamela Palmer (22/04/14)
3. Dark Bites by Sherrilyn Kenyon (30/03/14)
4. The Impatient Lord by Michelle M. Pillow (18/06/14)

2014 Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy (July - December)

1. Smiley by Laurann Dohner (08/11/14)
2. Darkness by Laurann Dohner (25/09/14)
3. Dark Skye by Kresley Cole (12/08/14)
4. Son of No One by Sherrilyn Kenyon (18/10/14)

COMPLETED

Count me in.

I will do 5 from Favorite Historical Romance Novels

1/14-12/14

10/20
Best Young Adult Books
1. The Uglies 2-19-14
2. Inkheart
3. Princess Academy
4. Graveyard Book 1-12-14
5. Book of A Thousand Days 3-3-14
6. Goose Girl 4-5-14
7. Blue Bloods 4-15-14
8. Tithe
9. Esperanza Rising 4-27-14
10. Catherine, Called Birdy 4-26-14

YA Dystopia Novels
1. Shatter Me 1-28-14
2. Starters
3. Adoration of Jenna Fox 2-5-14
4. Darkest Minds
5. Obsidian 1-16-14

Hidden Gems YA Fantasy Novels
1. Dragonfly
2. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
3. The Cabinet of Wonders
4. Meridian
5. Gregor and the Prophecy of the Bane

The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 2014 - December 2014
Goal: Top 5 of 4 lists 6/20

It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from 2013, or to update with new goals and new lists. :)

ŷ������ features a number of user created lists which can be found here: Listopia.

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 amount 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!

Best Books of the 20th Century
1 To Kill a Mockingbird
2 1984
3 The Lord of the Rings
4 The Catcher in the Rye
5 The Great Gatsby

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1 City of Ashes
2 Hush, Hush
3 City of Glass
4 Marked
5 Shiver

Best Young Adult Books
1 The Hunger Games
2 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3 Twilight
4 The Lightning Thief
5 The Giver

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1 To Kill a Mockingbird
2 1984
3 Pride and Prejudice
4 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
5 The Diary of a Young Girl

Melissa I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

By the way, I think the counting of how many books have been read starts on the 1st January 2014 not now. Is that right Kara?

Oh sorry, they're just ones I have already read - should I make it out of 14 instead?