2025 Reading Challenge discussion

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Listopia is back for yet 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.

Happy Reading!

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. You must choose a goal for the challenge.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update.

The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!

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

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {redacted}. Thank you!


Participants:
Alison - 19/30
Amanda - 0/18
Amber - 0/12
Anastasia - 1/25
Ann - 11/12
Anne - 28/45
Beverly - 16/20
Bobbi - 8/30
Brittany - 6/20
Carol - 17/27
Cassie - 0/20
Chalmation - 11/15
Clare - 2/12
Courtney - 0/30
CrazyAsACupcake - 0/20
Crystal - 0/10
Dominique - 0/30
Gloria - 0/34
Heather - 1/20
Ilona - 6/10
Janet - 17/30
Jennifer - 31/150
Johanne - 2/30
Jordynn - 0/10
Julie - 1/5
June - 0/50
Kara - 0/12
Kylie - 4/12
Leena - 0/10
Leona - 0/20
Leticia - 0/10
Library Queen - 1/40
Lilac - 0/6
Linda - 1/25
Lindsay - 0/12
Lindsey - 0/30
Lisa - 0/10
Margie - 33/36
Mave - 0/40
Meghan L - 5/10
Mikaela - 24/30
Mirliz - 0/12
Nat - 0/20
Navi - 2/15
Nell - 13/25
Rachel (Pink coloured DP) - 5/30
ReadingWithLisaMarie - 0/30
Rebecca - 0/30
Rina - 1/50
Rona - 1/10
Sarah - 0/60
Sean - 40/50
Susan C - 0/12
Suzanne - 7/50
Tari - 0/7 (No goal declared; assumed goal 7)
Trisha - 3/20
Ushashi - 9/10
Vanessa - 0/15
Zeejane (Sara) - 5/25

Goal Completed:
Alyana - 10/10
Audrey - 50/50
Carmen - 39/30
Claire - 3/3
Elaine - 50/50
Marleen - 10/10
oshizu - 40/40
Rachael - 10/10
Rachel (Herself in DP) - 10/10
SarahKat - 6/6
Sunny - 23/23
Tricia - 25/25
Ziggy - 15/15

Last updated on 11th November, 2021.
Please note that the updates are made during the MYT (GMT+8) timezone.

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I’ll get the ball rolling here ;) Signing up for 20 books.

Progress: 3/20 books; 3 Listopias.

LIST ONE: Modern Gothic
1. The Thirteenth Tale
2. Rebecca
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
4. The Woman in Black
5. The Haunting of Hill House
6. The Haunting of Maddy Clare
7. The Broken Girls

LIST TWO: The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
1. A Song of Ice and Fire
2. The Stormlight Archive - 1 done
3. The Dark Tower - 2 done

LIST THREE: TBD

im in too.

Sign me up for 40 books, please, Trisha.

LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2021

Progress: 40/40 books, 3/3 listopias (Completed 10 Nov 2021)

✅LIST 1: Women in Translation: 14/14
✔️1. The Vegetarian (S Korea)
✔️2. The Pine Islands (Japan, German)
✔️3. Out (Japan)
✔️4. Hurricane Season (Spanish, Mexico)
✔️5. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (Ukraine)
✔️6. Spring Garden (Japan)
✔️7. Last Rituals (Iceland)
✔️8. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (German)
✔️9. Tainaron: Mail from Another City (Finnish, fantasy)
✔️10. Umami (Spanish, Mexico)
✔️11. The Baghdad Clock (Arabic, Iraq)
✔️12. Things We Lost in the Fire (Spanish, Argentina)
✔️13. Near to the Wild Heart (Brazil)
✔️14. The Easy Life in Kamusari (Japan)
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🌲Pachinko (S. Korea)
🌲There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job (Japan)

✅LIST 2: SFF Written by WOC and Non-Binary POC: 13/13
✔️1. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
✔️2. Midnight Robber
✔️3. Wild Seed
✔️4. The Broken Kingdoms
✔️5. Mind of My Mind
✔️6. Clay's Ark
✔️7. The Kingdom of Gods
✔️8. Patternmaster
✔️9. The Awakened Kingdom
✔️10. Dragon Pearl
✔️11. The Killing Moon
✔️12. The Shadowed Sun
✔️13. The Empress of Salt and Fortune
🌲Jade City

✅LIST 3: #Diverse Detectives: 13/13
✔️1. Blanche on the Lam (African-American)
✔️2. Bloody Waters (Cuban-American detective)
✔️3. Summer of the Big Bachi (Japanese-American sleuth)
✔️4. Resurrection Bay (deaf, Australia)
✔️5. When Death Comes Stealing (African-American)
✔️6. A Dark Horse (lesbian detective)
✔️7. The Unquiet Dead (Muslim detective)
✔️8. Bloody Shame
✔️9. Death of a Red Heroine
✔️10. Devil's Gonna Get Him
✔️11. Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
✔️12. Blanche Cleans Up
✔️13. Blanche Passes Go

My planning post

Leena wrote: "im in too."

Hi Leena, welcome! You will need to declare your goal at this stage - just the number of books and lists that you want to read as part of this challenge. You can set up a tentative goal for now if you’re unsure and can request your challenge leader (that’s me!) to update it if you want to increase/decrease your goal in the future.

Please read the first post of this thread for more details. :)

oshizu wrote: "Sign me up for 40 books, please, Trisha..."

Welcome, oshizu! Copying WiT Listopia from your post (haha, thank you!); I will be reading quite a few books from that list as part of the Read Women challenge. :)

Please sign me up for 10 books picked from 2 listopias.

* The Best Shakespeare Plays
1. Coriolanus finished 21 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Macbeth finished 23 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Othello finished 4 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Titus Andronicus finished 30 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. King John finished 16 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

* 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. The Catcher in the Rye finished 15 February, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Far from the Madding Crowd finished 1 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. Robinson Crusoe finished 7 April, ⭐⭐⭐
4. The Scarlet Letter finished 16 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
5. Treasure Island finished 6 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐


COMPLETED: 10/10

Sign me up for 10 please Trisha.

Hola!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 42/30
My lists:
❎1001 books you must read before you die 23/12
1. The Bell Jar✔
2. Siddhartha✔
3. Never Let Me Go✔
4. Song of Solomon✔
5. El tambor de hojalata✔
6. The Grass Is Singing✔
7. The Jungle✔
8. Snow✔
9. Disgrace✔
10. Sin destino✔
11. The Piano Teacher✔
12. Half of a Yellow Sun✔
13. July's People✔
14. The Blind Owl✔
15. Possession✔
16. The Woman in White✔
17. Desayuno en Tiffany's✔
18. Cold Comfort Farm✔
19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich✔
20. Middlemarch✔
21. Las penas del joven Werther✔
22. The Things They Carried✔
23. Hambre✔

❎100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX 19/18
1. Rayuela✔
2. Pedro Páramo✔
3. Sobre héroes y tumbas✔
4. Los detectives salvajes✔
5. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba✔
6. La Ciudad y Los Perros✔
7. La invención de Morel✔
8. La Colmena✔
9. El siglo de las luces✔
10. El Señor Presidente✔
11. El astillero✔
12. El Llano en llamas✔
13. La sombra del ciprés es alargada✔
14. Tirano Banderas✔
15. Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía✔
16. Fragmentos de Apocalipsis✔
17. La muerte de Artemio Cruz✔
18. Hijo de hombre✔
19. Don Juan✔

Message 5 updated.

Please sign me up.for 10 from 3 lists
1. HISTORICAL ROMANCE
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
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2.MYSTERIES
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2246
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3.CONTEMPORARY Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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Actual books TBD

Hi Trisha! I’d like to sign up for 10 books from two Listopia’s.

Progress 10/10.

Sci Fi and Fantasy Must Reads
✅ The Gunslinger
✅ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
✅ The Final Empire
✅ Assassin's Apprentice
✅ A Game of Thrones
✅ The Martian
✅ The Colour of Magic (reread)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
✅ The Time Machine
✅ 1984
✅ Rebecca

Alyana Pearl wrote: "Sign me up for 10 please Trisha. I can still update my list right..."

Yes Alyana, you can update your list(s) throughout the time period of the challenge, however, you need to set up a goal (which you’ve already done - good job!) and let your challenge leader know if you decide to increase or decrease your goal in the future. So happy to have you here! :)

Rachael wrote: "Please sign me up for 10 books picked from 3 listopias. The Best Shakespeare Plays..."

I didn’t know you were a Shakespeare fan too. I adore him! :)

Carmen wrote: "Hola!
Count me in, please..."

Welcome, Carmen! The Bell Jar is in my 2021 TBR as well. :)

Marleen wrote: "Hi Trisha! I’d like to sign up for 10 books from two Listopia’s..."

I don’t know why I kept clicking on your lists even though I’d read your footnote. Btw, welcome, Marleen! :)

Zeejane (Sara) wrote: "Question: Do we need to read in order from the lists (your example states top 5/top 100), or can we jump around on a list? Thanks!"

Zeejane, yes, you can jump or dance around in a list. ;)

I'm in for 30.

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Progress: 0/30
Progress: 0/30

List 1: NPR's Best Books of 2016
1. What is Not Yours is Not Yours


List 2: Rogues & Outlaws & Bad Boys, Oh My
1. My Favorite Witch


List 3: 2020 Adult Romance Books
1. Well Played
2. One Last Chance
3. The Honey-Don't List
4. A Touch of Stone and Snow

I will sign up for 10 books from 2 listopias (possibly 5 from each).

Progress (9/10)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
4. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown (5/1/2021)
2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (6/1/2021)
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
5.

Trisha wrote: "Rachael wrote: "Please sign me up for 10 books picked from 3 listopias. The Best Shakespeare Plays..."

I didn’t know you were a Shakespeare fan too. I adore him! :)"

I'm trying to read his complete works in my lifetime. In previous years, I have done the An Author's Work challenge to get some done. This year, I decided to read them for the listopia challenge

Trisha, please sign me up for 10 books. :)

Progress: 5/10

Best of 21st Century Non-Fiction
1. Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
2. A Short History of Nearly Everything
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Best Books of 2020
1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
2. The Vanishing Half
3. The Midnight Library
4. The House in the Cerulean Sea
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Sign me up for 30! Thanks! *subject to change*
0/30 Books

The Definitive Horror Book List 0/4
1. The Stand by Stephen King
2. Thinner
3. The Magpies (The Magpies, #1)
4. Sookie Stackhouse: #1 Dead Until Dark

I Like Serial Killers 0/3
1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
2. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
3. Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)

Best Books of 2020 0/7
1. The Vanishing Half
2. My Dark Vanessa
3. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
4. Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
5. Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
6. One to Watch
7. Cemetery Boys

Best Crime & Mystery Books 0/5
1. The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
2. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17)
3. Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
4. Endless Night
5. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)

Best Series 0/5
1. Divergent (Divergent, #1)
2. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
4. Fifty Shades Freed
5. A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)

The Best Agatha Christie Books 0/6
1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
2. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
3. Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
4. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
5. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #30)
6. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)

I'm in ( Reserved)

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Goal: Three list, and 10 from each

Progress: 5/30




Historical Fiction 2021

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






History Published in Year: 2021


✔ 1. The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt By Audrey Clare Farley 6/7 5 stars
✔ 2. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest By Mark Synnott 6/22 4 stars
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https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...


Mystery & Thriller 2021

✔ 1)Survive the Night By Riley Sager 7/7 4 stars
✔ 2) The Maidens By Alex Michaelides 5 stars 7/13
✔ 3) The Night She Disappeared By Lisa Jewell 10/1 5 stars
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https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Hi Trish. Please put me down for 43 books. Thanks!
Changed goal July 3rd.

Lists: 4/4
Books: 23/23

Completed

📌List 1: Best Mysteries from the 1960s: 4/4

📕The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
📕The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
📕The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
📕The Cat Who Turned On and Off

📌List 2: Cosy Mystery 1st Book of a Series: 16/16

📕The Thin Woman
📕By Book or By Crook
📕Murder on a Girls' Night Out
📕Lending a Paw
📕Case Pending
📕Strangled Prose
📕Grey Mask
📕Fool's Puzzle
📕Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter
📕All the Great Pretenders
📕Murder by Impulse
📕Peaches and Scream
📕The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse
📕Murder Past Due
📕A Man Lay Dead
📕Evans Above

📌List 3: Edgar Winners: 2/2

📕When the Bough Breaks
📕Friday The Rabbi Slept Late


📌List 4: Pulitzer Prize Winners Fiction:1/1

📕The Edge of Sadness (1962)

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

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Goodreads Choice Awards 2020

Darling Rose Gold
The Cousins
The Chain
Into the Fire
The Silent Wife
Eight Perfect Murders
Invisible Girl
The Kinder Poison
My Dark Vanessa
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Can't Wait Books 2019

The Starless Sea
The Dragon Republic
Middlegame
The Kingdom of Copper
Serpent & Dove
Girls with Sharp Sticks
A Memory Called Empire
Skyward
Heroine
Gideon the Ninth

Can't Wait Books 2020

Harrow the Ninth
The Burning God
The Devil and the Dark Water
Ready Player Two
The Thorn of Emberlain
One by One
House of Earth and Blood
One of Us Is Next
Mexican Gothic
Blood & Honey

I love this challenge...in fact I've had my titles picked out for several months already!! From each list I will read the first five titles on my TBR list or if I don't already have 5, fill in with whatever appeals to me. I think I had 5 on each list. Completed 20/20

WHAT WOMEN BORN IN THE 1970'S READ IN 2017:

1. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty FINISHED 12/9
2. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch FINISHED 1/26
3. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman FINISHED 4/7
4. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood FINISHED 3/24
5. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty FINISHED 10/17

BEST HORROR NOVELS:

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker FINISHED 3/15
2. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice FINISHED 6/16
3. World War Z by Max Brooks FINISHED 12/12
4. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris FINISHED 7/13
5. Swan Song by Robert McCarron FINISHED 12/20

POPSUGAR 2020:

1. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black FINISHED 2/2
2. Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan FINISHED 7/5
3. Beauty by Robin McKinley FINISHED 1/15
4. Stiff by Mary Roach FINISHED 3/17
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris FINISHED 4/2

FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS;

1. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Quin FINISHED 5/15
2. Dawn by Octavia Butler FINISHED 3/8
3. The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S. Tepper FiNISHED 4/27
4. The V Girl by Mya Robarts FINISHED 12/21
5. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy FINISHED 11/6

I will set a goal of 10. Five from 2 lists.

5/10

You Read a Book About What?
4/5 From the Top 100
1. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
3. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
4. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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YA Short Stories & Collections
1/5 From the top 100
1. A Tyranny of Petticoats
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I am in again this year. Same list...

50 books from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

I started 2021 with 179/1318
I am currently at 227/1318
Goal: 229/1318

1/50 - Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett - 1/4/21
2/50 - The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić - 1/5/21
3/50 - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - 1/13/21
4/50 - Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 1/14/21
5/50 - The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth - 1/19/21
6/50 - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - 1/21/21
7/50 - Main Street by Sinclair Lewis - 2/5/21
8/50 - Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler - 2/9/21
9/50 - Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg - 2/11/21
10/50 - Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 2/17/21
11/50 - Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz - 3/4/21
12/50 - Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 3/9/21
13/50 - Alamut by Vladimir Bartol - 4/18/21
14/50 - Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino - 4/27/21
15/50 - Legend by David Gemmell - 5/4/21
16/50 - Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary - 5/18/21
17/50 - The Once and Future King by T.H. White - 5/24/21
18/50 - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - 6/22/21
19/50 - Falling Man by Don DeLillo - 6/25/221
20/50 - Choke by Chuck Palahniuk - 6/28/21
21/50 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 7/2/21
22/50 - Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor - 7/8/21
23/50 - In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - 7/18/21
24/50 - Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey - 7/25/21
25/50 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - 7/29/21
26/50 - Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel - 7/31/21
27/50 - Dispatches by Michael Herr - 8/8/21
28/50 - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - 8/13/21
29/50 - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - 8/16/21
30/50 - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 8/19/21
31/50 - A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz - 8/29/21
32/50 - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters - 9/8/21
33/50 - The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 9/21/21
34/50 - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - 9/26/21
35/50 - Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis - 10/4/21
36/50 - In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 10/6/21
37/50 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - 10/17/21
38/50 - Cataract by Mykhaylo Osadchy - 10/20/21
39/50 - At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien - 10/23/21
40/50 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - 11/7/21
41/50 - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 11/16/21
42/50 - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 11/24/21
43/50 - Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - 11/26/21
44/50 - The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - 11/27/21
45/50 - Persuasion by Jane Austen - 12/01/21
46/50 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - 12/13/21
47/50 - The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard - 12/23/21
48/50 - Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas - 12/28/21

Pease sign me up for 34 books from 11 lists:

1. History of Shopping Reading List - 2
2. Dresses and Fashion -- 3
3. Microhistory: Social Histories - 4
4. Threads of Love - 3
5. Best Fairy Tales & Retellings - 3
6. Book with a Book on the Cover - 3
7. Women's fiction for Foodies - 4
8. Contemplative Creative Practices - 3
9. Women's Biographies 2018 - 3
10. Thoughtful Reads -3
11. 2020 Nonfiction by African-American Writers - 3

I'm in! I'll aim for three lists, a total of 12 books.

Progress: 4 / 12

Shoes and Footwear - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Shoe Lust: Schuh-Lust Desire de Chaussures by Pepin van Roojen
2. Vintage Shoes: Collecting and Wearing Twentieth-Century Designer Footwear by Caroline Cox
3. Shoe Innovations: A Visual Celebration of 60 Styles by Caroline Cox


Dark Academia - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
2. Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines

Yellowest Books Ever
''https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

I would like to sign up for 25 books. (changed to 27 ---
24 pre-1700s + 3 from 1900s)

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

It is my goal this year to finish all the books in the pre-1700 category of the (1315) list. I've read 3 and have 24 remaining.

* 1. Aithiopika by Heliodorus of Emesa - finished 1/19/21
* 2. Amadis of Gaul by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (in 3 volumes) - finished 10/19/21
* 3. Chaireas and Kallirhoe by Chariton - finished 10/3/21
* 4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - finished 5/24/21
* 5. Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England by John Lyly - finished 4/4/21
* 6. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - finished 11/30/21
* 7. La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas - finished 9/29/21
* 8. Monkey: A Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en translated by David Kherdian - finished 11/24/21
* 9. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn - finished 9/13/21
* 10. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (with footnotes and maps) by Luo Guanzhong - finished 11/18/21
* 11. The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen - finished 10/18/21
* 12. The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (in 2 volumes) - finished 12/15/21
* 13. The Golden Ass by Apuleius - finished 4/9/21
* 14. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous - finished 4/5/21
* 15. The Lusiads by Luís de Camões - finished 10/5/21
* 16. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette - finished 4/18/21
* 17. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - finished 10/16/21
* 18. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous - finished 9/1/21
* 19. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; Also Called The Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - 16 by Anonymous - finished v. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, & XVI - finished 12/20/21
* 20. The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - finished 9/23/21
* 21. The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe - finished 4/10/21
* 22. The Water Margin by Shi Nai'an - finished 12/9/21
* 23. Thomas Of Reading by Thomas Deloney - finished 4/16/21
* 24. Tales of the White Knight - Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell - finished 2/2/21
* 25. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - finished 4/17/21
* 26. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - finished 5/10/21
* 27.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - finished 8/23/21

I'm in for 15.

15/15
Complete

Best Books Ever
1. War and Peace
2. Deception Point
3. Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot #22)

Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
4. The Stand
5. The Island of Dr. Moreau
6. We

Books You Could Not Put Down
7. Sphere
8. Where the Crawdads Sing
9. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot #24)

Thrillers You Must Read
10. Timeline
11. The Dead Zone
12. Firestarter

Best Books of the 20th Century
13. Different Seasons
14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
15. Digital Fortress

Hi Trisha,
I'd like to change my 20 to a 30 please.
Thank you.

Hi All,

This is my first yearly challenge. I'm excited :) I couldn't figure out how to post the links...

LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2021

Progress: 0/18 books, 0/3 listopias

Best Fantasy (Fiction)
1. #3 The Name of the Wind
2. #4 The Way of Kings
3. #6 Eye of the World
4. #7 The Final Empire
5. #13 Wizards Frist Rule
6. #28 Graceling

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1. #2 Hush, Hush
2. #5 Marked
3. #7 Shiver
4. #10 Matched
5. #13 Cinder
6. #21 The Selection

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. #11 The Book Thief
2. #17 Kite Runner
3. #31 Night
4. #32 The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. #35 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6. #36 Tolkien on Fiary- Stories

Happy Reading!!!!

I’d like to join for a total of 12 books from 4 lists

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
NYTimes fiction best sellers 2020
Good reads choice 2020
Best dystopian and post apocalyptic books

Listopia 2021

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2021
Challenge Completed: July 28, 2021

Goal: 50 Books

Best Books of 2020

1. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano 1-3-21
2. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman 1-20-21
3. The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren 1-21-21
4. Thick as Thieves by Sandra Brown 1-30-21
5. Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik 3-3-21
6. The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling 3-2-21
7. Sweep with Me by Ilona Andrews 7-1-21

Favorite Gay Couples

1. Secrets, Skin and Leather by Sean Michael 1-7-21
2. Borrowing Blue by Lucy Lennox 1-8-21
3. Nothing Special by A.E. Via 1-13-21
4. Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban 1-14-21
5. Love Comes Silently by Andrew Grey 1-17-21
6. Touch Me Gently by J.R. Loveless 1-17-21
7. The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott 1-18-21
8. Timing by Mary Calmes 1-27-21
9. Blackbird in the Reeds by Sam Burns 1-27-21
10. With Caution by J.L. Langley 1-28-21
11. The Last Thing He Needs by J.H. Knight 1-28-21
12. My Fair Captain by J.L. Langley 1-29-21
13. In Pieces by Alexa Land 1-31-21
14. The Englor Affair by J.L. Langley 2-13-21
15. Russian Prey by Sandrine Gasq-Dion 2-16-21
16. Elements of Retrofit by N.R. Walker 2-4-21
17. Snow Falling by Davidson King 2-18-21
18. A Marked Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion 2-21-21
19. The Nik of Time by Sandrine Gasq-Dion 2-15-21
20. Deal Maker by Lily Morton 3-31-21
21. The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings by Lily Morton 4-1-21
22. A Novel Murder by K.C. Wells 4-17-21
23. Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox 4-23-21
24. How to Vex a Vampire by Alice Winters 4-29-21
25. Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian 5-5-21
26. Wolfsong by T.J. Klune 5-20-21
27. Red Dirt Heart by N.R. Walker 5-24-21
28. Embracing His Syn by A.E. Via 5-27-21
29. Here Comes Trouble by A.E. Via 5-29-21
30. Principles of Spookology by S.E. Harmon 6-6-21
31. Mind Magic by Poppy Dennison 6-9-21
32. Spooky Business by S.E. Harmon 6-12-21
33. With Abandon by J.L. Langley 6-12-21
34. In the Wreckage by Hailey Turner 6-14-21
35. Imagines by N.R. Walker 6-16-21
36. Taxes and Tardis by N.R. Walker 6-27-21
37. Switched by N.R. Walker 7-3-21
38. Kairos by Mary Calmes 7-9-21
39. When the Dust Settles by Mary Calmes 7-10-21
40. Him by Sarina Bowen 7-13-21
41. Love Language by Reese Morrison 7-28-21

Space Opera with Female Protagonists and a Bit of Romance

1. Rules of Redemption by T.A. White 3-3-21
2. Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik 3-3-21

I'm in for 30.

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Progress: 17/30

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

Oliver Twist
Oscar and Lucinda
At Swim-Two-Birds
Robinson Crusoe 3/23/21 ***
Disgrace 1/30/21 ****
The Man With the Golden Arm
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Rainbow

Must Read Classics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Point Counter Point
The Mysterious Island 6/11/21 ****
Second Foundation 5/7/21 ***
We the Living
The Portrait of a Lady 3/16/21 ****
Oedipus Rex 1/6/21 ****
Hunger 1/13/21 ****

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Reader's Picks
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

The Bostonians
Master and Commander
Rip Van Winkle1/2/21 ****
Sarah, Plain and Tall 1/5/21 ***
Who Moved My Cheese?
A Doll's House 1/8/21 ***
Measure for Measure 3/31/21 ****
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 5/1/21 ****
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 5/22/21 *****
Cat & Mouse 4/13/21 ***
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Martian
It Can't Happen Here 6/22/21 ****
Mary Ann in Autumn 1/25/21 ****
The Days of Anna Madrigal 2/4/21 ****

Hello! I would like to join for 30 books; 6 lists :)

List One- Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon ✔️
2. Emma - Jane Austen ✔️
3. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls ✔️
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J K Rowling ✔️
5. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton ✔️


List Two - First Book of a Cozy Mystery Series
1. Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien ✔️
2. Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake by Sarah Graves ✔️
3. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith ✔️
4. Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs ✔️
5.


List Three- Books White People Need to Read
1. You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson ✔️
2.The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ✔️
3. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum ✔️
4. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo ✔️
5.


List Four- Female Leads From Around the World
1. Front Desk by Kelly Yang ✔️
2. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok ✔️
3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ✔️
4. The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki ✔️
5. Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi ✔️


List Five- Anticipated 2020 Books
1. The World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil ✔️
2. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans ✔️
3. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen ✔️
4. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie ✔️
5.


List Six- Great Foodie Fiction
1. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen ✔️
2. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel ✔️
3. Chocolat - Joanne Harris ✔️
4. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris - Jenny Colgan ✔️
5. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa ✔️

Rebecca wrote: "I'm in for 30..."

Welcome, Rebecca! I'm going to sneak into your The Definitive Horror Book List from time to time to see if you have a book that can tempt me too - I love LOVE horror! :D

Ushashi wrote: "I will sign up for 10 books from 2 listopias (possibly 5 from each)..."

Welcome, Ushashi! Those two lists are really good!
And btw, Mexican Gothic won the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror! :)

Ilona wrote: "Trisha, please sign me up for 10 books. :)"

Welcome, Ilona! When do you plan to read The Vanishing half; we can have a buddy read of it. :)

Courtney wrote: "Sign me up for 30! Thanks..."

Courtney, welcome to Listopia! I love all your lists, I really do! And we are going to be reading so many of the same books this year. :D

Rachel wrote: "I'm in ( Reserved)..."

Welcome, Rachel! All the best for your challenge! :)

Sunny wrote: "Hi Trish. Please put me down for 43 books. Thanks..."

Hey Sunny, welcome! And I see some awesome book choices there! :)

Beverly wrote: "I love this challenge...in fact I've had my titles picked out for several months already..."

Welcome, Beverly! FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS list sounds so good! All the best to you! :)

Meghan L wrote: "I will set a goal of 10. Five from 2 lists."

Welcome, Meghan! Good luck with your challenge! :)

Sean wrote: "I am in again this year. Same list..."

Welcome, Sean! Those are some tremendous figures! Good luck with your challenge! :)

Gloria wrote: "Pease sign me up for 34 books from 11 lists..."

Such great list choices there, Gloria! Good luck! :)

Kylie wrote: "I'm in! I'll aim for three lists, a total of 12 books.

I'll add my lists shortly."

Welcome, Kylie! Good luck with choosing your lists! :)