2025 Reading Challenge discussion

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Our most open-ended challenge is back for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from the previous years, or to start fresh with new goals and new lists.

Goodreads features a number of user-created lists which can be found here.

In addition to the featured and popular lists on the main page, you can see lists your friends have voted on or 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 can mix it up any way you like.


Posting a link to your chosen lists is not required, but it does help others find the list you are referring to 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 - 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: [a href="URL HERE"]Name of list here[/a]
3. Replace the []s with <>s and paste the URL in place of URL HERE.

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
Adriana | 2/10
Agnieszka | 0/25
Alex | 0/12
Alison | 11/30
Aly | 0/50
Amanda | 7/22
Amanda [R] | 5/20
Amber | 1/5
Andrea | 5/34
Anissa | 0/5
Ann | 5/15
Anna | 25/60
Ashley | 1/40
Blagica | 0/30
Brianna | 7/15
Candiss | 4/16
Carri | 0/25
Cassandra | 1/30
Chaitra | 8/15
Chalmation | 14/28
Chantal | 1/20
Charity | 18/40
Cheri | 5/10
Christa | 0/100
Claire | 0/10
Clare | 4/12
cobean. | 1/15
Courtney | 0/5
Cynthia | 0/9
Debra | 0/20
Diana S | 0/25
Dominique | 0/20
Eggp | 10/20
Elaine | 0/50
Erika | 0/30
Erin | 6/20
Gail | 4/25
Gem | 0/16
Heather | 17/20
Holly | 4/10
Ida | 1/2
Ilona | 3/5
Jacki* | 0/25
Janet | 13/30
Jenn | 1/40
Jennifer | 0/55
Jessica | 0/62
Jill | 1/20
Jordyn | 0/5
Julie | 0/5
Kara | 0/15
Karen | ?
Karina | 0/15
Karishma | 0/25
Kate | 0/25
Kate [K_Hodgeyyy] | 0/12
Katherine | 0/50
Kathryn | 0/50
Katy (Queen of the trash nerds) | 0/15
Kelly | 9/20
Kelly B | 2/13
Kelsi | 0/25
Kirsty | 0/20
Korey | 0/8
Kristina | 0/10
Kylie | 0/12
Lauri | ?
Lindsay | 10/12
Lorelei | 4/15
Lynette | 1/36
Marie | 0/12
Maureen | 0/20
Maxine | 9/40
Meagan | 0/20
Melanie [melaniebopp] | 0/17
Melanie [twilightmama101] | 5/25
Melissa | 6/20
Mie | 13/20
Mindy | 0/10
Miriam | 18/70
Monique | 0/25
MyzanM | 0/25
Natalie | 1/30
Nik | 3/12
Nikinnia | 0/31
Ninaastrid | 5/7
Q | 0/10
Sam F | 0/40
Samantha | ?
Shelly | 0/3
Sherry | 0/9
Stefani - SpelingExpirt | 0/20
Stephanie | 7/10
Sue | 0/40
Susan C | 0/12
Susy | 1/2
Tammy | 0/30
Tanaz | 0/12
Tina | 8/50
Vernice | 0/25
Vicki | 5/50
Wei | 0/40
Winter | 1/11
Yanni | 0/12

This might sound silly, but deciding which lists I'm going to choose for this challenge is one of my favorite things to do in this group every year.

I've been on a Listopia binge (and loving it) for the last half hour. :)

I had "one of those days" at work, but I love the Listopia challenge so much that I'm doing a little happy dance at my desk right now. :D

I'm definitely in. I will read 16 books from the following lists, focusing mostly on books I already own:


-- A. In the Spirit of The Toast
1. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
2. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
3. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - Margaret Atwood
4. Baba Yaga's Assistant - Marika McCoola & Emily Carrol (unowned)
5. Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Velma Wallis
6. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay (unowned)
7. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
9. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness - Sy Montgomery

-- B. SF Masterworks
1. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (reread from decades ago)
2. The Body Snatchers - Jack Finney

-- C. Asian Fantasy & Science Fiction
1. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Neal Stephenson
2. The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin (unowned)

-- D. Literary Historical Fiction
1. Ransom - David Malouf
2. The Homesman - Glendon Swarthout
3. House of Names - Colm Tóibín (unowned)
4. Human Acts - Han Kang (unowned)


Read: 14/16 (17 listed)

Yay! Glad to hear we could brighten your day a little bit.

I'm in for 22 books!

Female Psychological Thrillers/Suspense
[ X ] 1. The Girl on the Train
[ X ] 2. Into the Darkest Corner
[ X ] 3. Those Girls
[ X ] 4. Pretty Girls
[ X ] 5. Luckiest Girl Alive
[ X ] 6. The Grownup
[ X ] 7. The Deepest Secret
[ X ] 8. The Girl Before
[ X ] 9. The Couple Next Door
[ X ] 10. The Winter People


2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year
[ X ] 1. The Nightingale
[ X ] 2. All the Light We Cannot See
[ X ] 3. A Man Called Ove
[ X ] 4. Big Little Lies
[ X ] 5. After You

Best Adult Female Friendship Books

[ X ] 1. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
[ X ] 2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The "Can't Wait" Books of 2017
[ X ] 1. Always
[ X ] 2. Every Last Lie
[ X ] 3. Everything You Want Me to Be

Most Anticipated Romances of 2016
[ X ] 1. Beautiful Oblivion
[ X ] 2. The Crown


Read: 22/22

Thanks!
Alison

I would like to participate. I will read 10 books from each of the following lists:


Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017

✔ 1. The Underground Railroad
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What Women Born in the 1970's Have Read So Far in 2016

✔ 1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
✔ 2. Heartless
✔ 3. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✔ 5. Flight Behavior
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6/20

Please add me in for 25
5/25
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Goodreads_Picks_for_Tournament_of_Books_2017
[X] 1. The Ex
[X] 2. Britt-Marie Was Here
[X] 3. The Nest
[X] 4. A Great Reckoning


What To Read Next
[X] 1. Her Royal Spyness
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I'm in.

0/16

Sixteen books using the following lists:

Best Nonfiction (non-biography)

Read Them Twice... at Least

Best Southern Literature

Best School Assigned Books

I would like to join in on this challenge. Lists/books TBD.

I would like to join with 40 books from the following lists.

Goal 36/40

Women and Mental Illness

1. Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall 1/18/17
2. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult 4/9/17
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson5/13/17
4. Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow 9/16/17
5. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 10/22/17
6. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart 11/11/17

YA Novels of 2016

1. When We Collided by Emery Lord 1/6/17
2. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch 1/15/17
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 2/1/17
4. The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout 2/4/17
5. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 2/19/17
6. Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell 2/28/17
7. The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson 3/7/17
8. P.S. I Like You by Kasie West 3/9/17
9. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton 4/1/17
10. The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry 8/26/17
11. Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw 9/17/17

YA Novels of 2015

1. This Raging Light by Estelle Laure 1/9/17
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses 6/1/17
3. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh 11/11/17
4. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 12/10/17
5.

2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year

1. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty 1/22/17
2. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 1/30/17
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 3/23/17
4. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 4/2/17
5. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell 4/23/17
6. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen 6/24/17
7. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 9/2/17
8. Champion by Marie Lu 9/13/17
9. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 9/3/17
10. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 9/24/17
11. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson 10/19/17
12. We Are Water by Wally Lamb 10/28/17
13. The Selection by Kiera Cass 11/18/17

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1. Never Let Me Go 2/27/17
2. Kafka on the Shore 11/24/17
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Count me in!
This sounds really interesting! I'm off to peruse...

The Listopia Challenge
Goal: 50 books
Start Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2017

3 / 50

Memoirs by Women
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Glass Castle
The Year of Magical Thinking
Girl Interrupted
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Awesome Women of the Ancient World
Dreaming the Eagle
The Penelopiad
Pilate's Wife
The Secret Magdalene
The Dovekeepers

Best Female Writers of Zombie Fiction
The First Days
Hollow land
Allison Hewitt is Trapped
Ashes (Bick)
This is Not a Test

Best Historical Mysteries
The Alienist
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
Pompeii
The Club Dumas
Labyrinth

All Things Hawaiian
The Last Aloha
Unfamiliar Fishes
The Descendants
Boi No Good
The Menehune Murders

The Procrastinator's Library
Ivanhoe
The Maltese Falcon
Mrs. Dalloway
Dr. Zhivago
Catch 22

There Ought to Be a Band
The Raven Boys
American Gods
Kafka on the Shore
Midnight's Children
The Night Circus

What to Read Next
Uglies
Eragon
Coraline
The Lost Symbol
The Bad Beginning 4/16/17

Best Strong Female Fantasy Novels
Graceling
Throne of Glass
Alanna
Moon Called
Magic Bites 2/28/17

Best Traveling Vicariously
Eat, Pray, Love
Chocolat
Under the Tuscan Sun
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4/13/17
A Year in Provence

The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Goal: Read 11 books spread out over 5 lists.

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels:

1. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
2.

1/2

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction:

1. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
2. Nittenåttifire, George Orwell

2/2


Books Turned Into Disney Movies:

1. Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
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1/2

Crash Course in Slavic Literature:

1. Solaris, Stanisław Lem
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1/3

Best Horror Novels:

1. Salem's Lot, Stephen King
2.

1/2

Total: 6/11

The Listopia Challenge

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
16/40


Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017

1. A Gentleman in Moscow - DONE
2. The Girls - DONE
3. Before the Fall - DONE -DNF
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YA Novels of 2016

1. Crooked Kingdom - DONE
2. A Court of Mist and Fury - DONE
3. Truthwitch - DONE DNF
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5.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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#POC in Romance/UF

1. Slave to sensation - Done
2. Burn for Me - DONE
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In the Spirit of The Toast

1. Burial Rites - DONE -
2. Uprooted - DONE -
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LGBT Sci-fi/Fantasy YA

1. Graceling - DONE
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The Best of Adult Urban Fantasy

1. The Warlord Wants Forever - DONE
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Favorite books from my childhood

1. The Giver - Done
2. Matilda - DONE
3. Charlotte's Web - DONE
4. Quidditch Through the Ages - DONE
5.

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Delicious Reads Possible Book Club Picks 2016

1-Winter
2-Crossing to Safety
3- The Nightingale
4-Ready Player One
5-A Monster Calls

YA Novels of 2016

1- This Is Where It Ends
2- The Rose & the Dagger
3- Stars Above
4- The Sun Is Also a Star
5- The Diabolic

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017

1- The Girls
2- Before the Fall
3- The Woman in Cabin 10
4- All the Missing Girls
5- Truly Madly Guilty

Best Twists

1- In the Woods
2- Midwives
3- Red Queen
4- Fingersmith
5- Shutter Island

I have quite a few TBR's on the Best book ever list
Please sign me up for 20!

COMPLETE ✔️
Listopia challenge - 20/20
Duration: 1st January - 31st December 2017
Last update: 15 Jul 2017

✅ 1. Divergent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 2. Dracula ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 3. The Help ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 4. Brave New World ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 5. Ender's Game ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 6. The Catcher in the Rye ⭐️⭐️
✅ 7. Watership Down ⭐️⭐️⭐️(⭐️)
✅ 8. The Handmaid's Tale ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 9.. The Five People You Meet in Heaven ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⭐️⭐️
✅ 11. Charlotte's Web ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 12. The Call of the Wild ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 13. The Alchemist ⭐️⭐️
✅ 14. Brisingr ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 15. The Remains of the Day ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 16. The Lightning Thief ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 17. Persuasion ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 18. Girl in Translation ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 19. Lolita ⭐️⭐️
✅ 20. Of Mice and Men ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am in for 25 but maybe I'll add to it if I get through these!- COMPLETED

25/25

Best Books of the 20th Century
1. The Hobbit
2. The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Two Towers
4. The Return of the King
5. Love in the Time of Cholera
6. The Handmaid's Tale
7. A Game of Thrones
8. The Bad Beginning
9. The Bourne Identity

There Ought to be a Band
1. Heartless
2. We Were Liars
3. Les Misérables

Best Historical Fiction
1. Drums of Autumn
2. Fall of Giants
3. The Nightingale
4. Winter of the World
5. Edge of Eternity
6. The Pillars of the Earth

What to Read Next
1. The Friday Night Knitting Club
2. American Gods
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Ender's Game
5. City of Bones
6. Can You Keep a Secret?
7. Room

I haven't participated in this challenge before, but everyone's enthusiasm is contagious! And I do love book lists! I'm moving to the Bay Area in just a few days, so I'm going to choose 5 books from the San Francisco Bay Area Fiction list, and I'm always trying to read things everyone "should" read, so I'll choose 5 books from the Books that Everyone Should Read at Least Once list.

8/10 completed

San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
1. Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin (3 stars)
2. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (3 stars)
3. Sourdough by Robin Sloan (3 stars)
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Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once
1. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (4 stars)
2. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (3 stars)
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (2 stars)
4. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (3 stars)
5. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (5 stars)

The Listopia Challenge
There Ought to be a Band
1. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
2. The Elephant Tree - R. D. Ronald
3. Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
4.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

What Women Born in the 90's Have Read in 2016
1. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things - Jenny Lawson
2. The Raven Boys - Maggie Steifvater
3. Paper Girls Vol.1 - Brian K Vaughan
4. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
5. Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Villainy Tale - Ameriie

Most Beautiful YA Covers of 2016
1. The Fray Theory: Resonance - Nelou Keramati
2. What's a Soulmate? - Lindsey Ouimet
3. Everyone We've Been - Sarah Everett

i skipped this challenge this year so i'm in for 2017! 30 books

Listopia Challenge

01/01/17 - 31/12/17

Completed!!!

Hugo Award Books
1) The Three-Body Problem by Lix Cixin - 12/02/17
2) Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre - 07/08/17
3) The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon - 13/09/17
4) The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin - 30/04/17
5) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin - 20/07/17

Canada
1) A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews - 25/01/17
2) The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny - 31/05/17
3) The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood - 27/08/17
4) The Tent Peg by Aritha Van Herk - 13/10/17
5) The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - 10/06/17

Best Fantasy of 2010's
1) Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - 29/01/17
2) Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas - 19/02/17
3) Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 25/02/17
4) Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas - 13/03/17
5) Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan - 26/07/17

Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2017
1) The Stars Are Legion are Kameron Hurley - 23/03/17
2) Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon - 22/07/17
3) All Systems Red by Martha Wells - 09/08/17
4) Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan - 03/07/17
5) Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs - 19/03/17


Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners and Nominees
1) Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay - 10/03/17
2) Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis - 20/10/17
3) Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson - 27/06/17
4) Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 09/10/17
5) Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien - 09/04/17

I'm in for 5!

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. The Diary of a Young Girl
2. Night
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Iliad and the Odyssey (both are on the list but separately)
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns

I'm in. I would like to keep working with my 2016 list.

I loved this challenge this year. I have even found it beneficial over the last couple of weeks to pick out what books I want to finish the year with in order to complete it. Really excited to have it again :)

All of my books are TBD. I like filling it out as I read and then sifting through my TBR near the end of the year to finish it out.


Books White People Need To Read
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Notable Atheist Books

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2016: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2016

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Best Feminist Books

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Books that made you cry!

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Best Twists

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Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

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Total: 0/62

I would like to join for 12

I will begin with these lists -
The Complete Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

1 The House of the Spirits #58
2 The Great Gatsby #4
3 Jane Eyre

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

1 American Gods #78
2 Anansi Boys #1175
3 The Final Empire #144
4 The Handmaid's Tale #23
5 City of Bones #306
6 Insurgent #521
7 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe #528
8 Allegiant # 875
9 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children #1102
10 The Well of Ascension #506
11 The Hero of Ages #482
12 Life, the Universe and Everything #861

15/12

Welcome everyone! I might raid some of your lists, but I think I'm zeroing in on the ones I want.

Aly, how many books do you want to read from that list?

I'll be reading 20 books from the following list:

Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

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I'll join this with a goal of 30 books.

Radcliffes 100 Best Novels

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...


The Jungle
All the King's Men
The Beautiful and Damned
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The French Lieutenant's Woman


BBC Top 200 Books

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

The Story of Tracy Beaker
The Dare Game
Wyrd Sisters
Witches Abroad
Thief of Time
Memoirs of a Geisha
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Master and Margarita
Naughts & Crosses
The Beach
The Green Mile
The Horse Whisperer
The Truth

100 Best Novels - Modern Library

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

The Heart of the Matter
Henderson the Rain King
The Ginger Man
Something Wicked This Way Comes
A Bend in the River
Fifth Business
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Death of the Heart
Scoop
The Door Into Summer

I'll go for 50

Meeting my 2016 reading challenge was way too easy. So for 2017 I'm going to really challenge myself. I'm going to read 60 books from one single list.

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

1. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
✅ 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 09/09/2017 ★★☆☆☆
✅ 3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 03/07/2017 ★★☆☆☆
✅ 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 01/28/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling 03/20/2017 ★★★★★
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
✅ 7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 07/27/2017 ★★★☆☆
8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
✅ 9. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 02/04/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 09/20/2017 ★★★☆☆

✅ 11. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 05/08/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 12. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 05/30/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 13. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 04/20/2017 ★★★☆☆
14. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
✅ 15. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 10/09/2017 ★★★★☆
16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
✅ 17. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 03/26/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 18. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 03/03/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 19. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 03/12/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 20. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 04/11/2017 ★★★★☆

21. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
✅ 22. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 02/21/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 01/03/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 24. The Iliad by Homer 04/03/2017 ★★★★☆
25. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
26. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
27. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
✅ 28. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 03/18/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 29. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 01/08/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 30. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 01/28/2017 ★★★★☆

✅ 31. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 02/02/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 32. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 06/16/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 33. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 08/12/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 34. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 08/14/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 35. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 09/29/2017 ★★★★☆
36. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
37. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
38. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
39. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
✅ 40. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 01/12/2017 ★★★★☆

✅ 41. Ulysses by James Joyce 03/08/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 42. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 05/03/2017 ★★★★☆
43. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
✅ 44. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 09/30/2017 ★☆☆☆☆
45. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
46. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
✅ 47. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 06/28/2017 ★★☆☆☆
✅ 48. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 08/21/2017 ★☆☆☆☆
49. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
✅ 50. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 03/07/2017 ★☆☆☆☆

51. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
52. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
53. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
54. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
✅ 55. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling 04/27/2017 ★★★★★
56. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
✅ 57. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 02/07/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 58. Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 04/12/2017 ★★☆☆☆
✅ 59. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 01/20/2017 ★★☆☆☆
60. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

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The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Best Books of the Decades: 2010's

1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Completed 9/01/17 Rating 4 stars
2. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Completed 11/3/17 Rating 4 stars
3. Room by Emma Donoghue Completed 1/8/17 Rating 4 stars
4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Completed 13/9/17 Rating 3 stars

Best Books of the Decades: 2000's

5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Completed 7/6/17 Rating 5 stars
6. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Completed 20/8/17 Rating 4 stars
7. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Completed 9/9/17 Rating 3 stars
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Completed 12/10/17 Rating 3 stars

Best Books of the Decades: 1990's

9. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Completed 27/01/17 Rating 3 stars
10. Stardust by Neil Gaiman Completed 6/5/17 Rating 4 stars
11. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Completed 18/7/17 Rating 4 stars
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Favorite Magical Realism Novels

13. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Completed 22/10/17 Rating 3 stars
14. Big Fish by Daniel Wallace Completed 3/11/17 Rating 4 stars
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The Great American Novel

17. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote Completed 3/4/17 Rating 5 stars
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Completed 25/8/17 Rating 4 stars
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I'm in for 20, thank you. Lists to follow!

Listopia Challenge, January 1 - December 31
Goal: 20/20, 100.00%

Radium Age Sci-Fi: 100 Best - 5/5
01. R.U.R. - 04 Jan 2017, 3/5
02. The Machine Stops - 17 Jan 2017, 3/5
03. The Colour Out of Space - 28 Feb 2017, 3/5
04. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) - 14 Mar 2017, 2/5
05. We - 08 Jun 2017, 3/5


Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 5/5
01. Villette - 29 Apr 2017, 4/5
02. The World According to Garp - 06 May 2017, 4/5
03. The Blind Assassin - 12 Jun 2017, 5/5
04. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) - 01 Jul 2017, 4/5
05. Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) - 05 Jul 2017, 4/5


Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 10/10
01. Farthing (Small Change, #1) - 19 Jan 2017, 4/5
02. The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories - 24 Jan 2017, 4/5
03. Memoirs of Hadrian - 08 Feb 2017, 5/5
04. Ethan Frome - 16 Feb 2017, 4/5
05. The Garden Party: And Other Stories - 27 Apr 2017, 3/5
06. Out - 31 May 2017, 4/5
07. The House of Mirth - 24 Jun 2017, 3/5
08. Ice - 06 Jul 2017, 4/5
09. Orlando - 17 Sep 2017, 4/5
10. 84, Charing Cross Road - 13 Oct 2017, 4/5

I updated my first post, #24.

Best Children's Books Ever

1. Charlotte's Web...done
2.Where the Sidewalk Ends...done
3.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...done
4.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone...done
5.Winnie-the-Pooh
6.Matilda
7.The Chronicles of Narnia...done
8.Oh, The Places You'll Go!...done
9.Are You My Mother?...done
10.The Secret Garden...done
11.Horton Hears a Who!...done
12.Stellaluna...done
13.The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
14.The Polar Express...done
15.The Little Prince...done
16.A Wrinkle in Time
17.Anne of Green Gables
18.James and the Giant Peach...done
19.Guess How Much I Love You
20.A Light in the Attic
21.African Safari with Ted and Raymond
22.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
23.The Ugly Duckling
24.The Paper Bag Princess
25.The Complete Tales
26.Pippi Longstocking...done
27.Blueberries for Sal
28.The Hobbit
29.The Phantom Tollbooth
30.A Little Princess
31.Little Bear
32.The Snowy Day
33.The Boxcar Children
34.Heidi
35.Peter Pan
36.The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
37.The Runaway Bunny
38.Fox in Socks
39.The Story of Ferdinand
40.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
41.Olivia
42.Chrysanthemum
43.The Mouse and the Motorcycle
44.Horton Hatches the Egg
45.Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
46.The Gruffalo
47.Tikki Tikki Tembo
48.The Complete Fairy Tales
49.Hop On Pop
50.Make Way for Ducklings
51.Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
52.The Napping House


Best books of the 4th Century

1.Confessions
2.City of God
3.The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine

Will try for the following:

In the Spirit of Toast

1. Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
6. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
7. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Magical Realism
1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
3. The Witches of Eastwick
4. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
5. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
7. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Best Memoir/ Biography/ Autobiography
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
2. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
4. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox
5. Night by Elie Wiesel
6. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

Books White People Need to Read
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
3. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
4. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
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Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners & Nominees
1. 419 by Will Ferguson
2. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
3. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
4. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
5.

Try again with Best Non-fiction
1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
2. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
3. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
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It was fun putting these together.

I'll go for the following 28 books:

28/28
COMPLETE

Best Time Travel Fiction
1. 11/22/63 Finished 8/6/17
2. Return of the Rose Finished 12/31/17
3. Towards Yesterday Finished 2/1/17
4. The End of Eternity Finished 7/17/17

Best Crime Mystery Books
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Finished 5/16/17
6. The Cuckoo's Calling Finished 5/29/17
7. On the Road to Death's Door Finished 7/22/17

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
8. Station Eleven Finished 4/27/17
9. Red Rising Finished 2/13/17
10. Golden Son Finished 2/25/17
11. Morning Star Finished 3/30/17

Best School-Assigned Books
12. The Fellowship of the Ring Finished 10/2/17
13. The Story of Doctor Dolittle Finished 1/8/17
14. Jane Eyre Finished 11/11/17

Best for Book Clubs
15. The Prince of Tides Finished 9/15/17
16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Finished 4/1/17
17. Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World Finished 11/12/17

The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
18. One Second After Finished 1/8/17
19. Of Mice and Men Finished 5/1/17
20. Slaughterhouse-Five Finished 1/4/17

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
21. Treasure Island Finished 1/2/17
22. House of the Seven Gables Finished 12/21/17
23. The Monk Finished 12/14/17
Best Books Ever
24. Death on the Nile Finished 4/26/17
25. The Two Towers Finished 10/10/17
26. The Return of the King Finished 10/16/17
27. Peter Pan Finished 6/2/17
28. The Handmaid's Tale Finished 5/8/17

I would like to join this challenge with 22 books.

17/22 completed

Books that Everyone Should Read at Least Once

1. Watership Down - Richard Adams - finished 30/04/2017
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling - finished 16/01/2017
3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
4. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - finished 30/03/2017
5. American Gods - Neil Gaiman - finished 11/01/2017
6. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - finished 08/09/2017
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - finished 21/09/2017
8. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver - finished 25/10/2017
9. The Road - Cormac McCarthy - finished 30/06/2017
10. The Return of the King - JRR Tolkein - finished 23/01/2017
11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - finished 01/04/2017
12. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - finished 24/02/2017
13. Life of Pi - Yann Martel - finished 02/11/2017
14. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - finished 29/09/2017
15. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
16. The Stand - Stephen King
17. Perfume - Patrick Süskind - finished 26/08/2017
18. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - finished 13/06/2017
19. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
20. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
21. Emma - Jane Austen - finished 17/10/2017
22. Divergent - Veronica Roth - finished 11/08/2017

I'm in for this one I will read 20 from this list

Female Psychological Thrillers/Suspense

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

1. I See You
2. Big Little Lies
3. The Ice Princess
4. Room
5. The Husband's Secret
6. Valentina
7. Behind Closed Doors
8. The Book of You
9. The Good Girl
10. What She Knew
11. You
12. See Jane Run
13. In a Dark, Dark Wood
14. Sister Sister
15. The Girl Who Lied
16. Silent Child
17. Unlikely Killer
18. Before I Fall
19. Only Daughter
20. Remember Me

★✩★✩★✩★ Listopia Challenge - 2017 ★✩★✩★✩★ 1st Jan - 31st Dec 2017.

Best Series (view spoiler)[
1. Castle in the Air 24/2/17
2. Bleach, Volume 20 25/3/17
3. Bleach, Volume 21 25/3/17
4. A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 4-6 11/2/17
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 28/3/17
6. Mad About the Boy 20/3/17
7. Inkdeath 20/4/17
8. Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries 1/4/17
9. House of Many Ways 20/5/17
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Best Zombie Books (view spoiler)[
1. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead 24/3/17
2. Uprising 29/3/17
3. Legacies 8/4/17
4. Sons of Reagan 23/4/17
5. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 30/4/17
6. Until the End of the World 3/5/17
7. Tim2 16/5/17
8. Tim 3: Sliced, Diced and Cubed 17/5/17
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Both Virgins! (view spoiler)[
1. Beauty in Autumn 10/5/17
2. Liberty for Paul 9/5/17
3. Beauty in Spring 16/5/17
4. The Convenient Mail Order Bride 12/5/17
5. The Mistaken Mail Order Bride 12/5/17
6. The Accidental Mail Order Bride 13/5/17
7. The Bargain Mail Order Bride 13/5/17
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I Only Watched the Movie! (view spoiler)[
1. Jumanji 7/1/17
2. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 7/3/17
3. Bridge to Terabithia 24/3/17
4. The Great Gatsby 30/3/17
5. To Kill a Mockingbird 10/4/17
6. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 6/5/17
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 9/5/17
8. The Princess Diaries 15/5/17
9. The Secret Life of Bees 15/5/17
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Mr. Men and Little Miss (view spoiler)[
1. Mr. Jelly 21/5/17
2. Mr. Noisy 21/5/17
3. Little Miss Fickle 21/5/17
4. Mr. Mean 21/5/17
5. Mr. Chatterbox 21/5/17
6. Mr. Impossible 21/5/17
7. Mr. Dizzy 21/5/17
8. Little Miss Fun 21/5/17
9. Little Miss Brainy 21/5/17
10. Mr. Greedy 21/5/17
11. Mr. Nosey 21/5/17
12. Mr. Clumsy 21/5/17
13. Mr. Quiet 21/5/17
14. Mr. Funny 21/5/17
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I'm game - the problem is there are so many lists to chose from -

I think I will read from this list -There are 3,720 books on this list - I think I will try to read 40 of them, for a start

Best Children's Books

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THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Books Read: 25/25
Lists Completed: 5/5

Best Series
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (1/28/17)
The Selection by Kiera Cass (3/4/17)
Naked in Death by J.D. Robb (2/5/17)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (3/28/17)
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (2/10/17)

The Best Epic Fantasy
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (4/11/17)
Graceling by Kristin Cashore (3/30/17)
Redwall by Brian Jacques (3/24/17)
The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan (4/25/17)
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (4/16/17)

Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (11/3/17)
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (4/18/17)
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (3/30/17)
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (5/3/17)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (10/9/17)

Best Paranormal Urban Fantasy Books
Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh (1/22/17)
Marked by P.C. Cast (1/29/17)
Skinwalker by Faith Hunter (4/21/17)
Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep (3/10/17)
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (1/9/17)

Best Strong Female Fantasy Novels
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (4/14/17)
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (2/11/17)
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas (1/7/17)
One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (2/3/17)
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (1/10/17)

2017 Listopia Challenge

I think I will start with 5 since I am excited to try a variety of challenges again this year. :)

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Please sign me up for 5 books from the Books that everyone should read at least once list

1) 1984
2) The Hobbit
3) The Little Prince
4) The Great Gatsby
5) The Giver
6) The Fellowship of the Ring
7) Slaughterhouse-Five
8) Frankenstein
9) The Handmaid's Tale

9/5

Welcome everyone!

Jennifer, how many books is that total?

I'm in.
I'm tackling the Listopia List of "One Hundred Books to Read in A Lifetime" list, which actually has about 6200 books on it. So I made a shelf and added the first part of the list.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

My goal is 10 of the list by the end of 2017.

1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Completed 1/3/2017
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Completed 1/14/2017
3. Where the Sidewalk Ends: 1/24/2017
4. The Lorax: Completed 2/1/2017
5. James and the Giant Peach: 1/5/2017
6. Love you Forever: 2/28/2017
7: Wrinkle in Time: 4/8/2017
8: Crime and Punishment: 5/19/2017
9: Christmas Carol: 6/6/2017

That's great, Holly! I don't often use books from past the first or second page, so that's totally fine.

I'm in for 12 from the following lists
9/12

1001 books you must read before you Die
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez

BBC Top 200 books
Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. Milne
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison
*One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough


Top 10 for the reading Challengers
Cinder Marissa Meyer
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion

How many books would you like to read, Clare?