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The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January - December 2013

It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from 2012, or to update with new goals and new lists. :)

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ 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="http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19... ">Best Science Fiction Books<*/a> turns into this: Best Science Fiction Books

I'm definitely carrying my challenge over since I didn't complete it in 2012!


Total Goal: 17

List 1: Best Science Fiction Books
Goal: 9 more (I read 11 previous to 2013)

List 2: Booklist for Trans Youth
Goal: 8 more (I read 12 previous to 2013)

Yay, I loved hunting for lists earlier this year and can't wait to do it again.

First off, I'll definately read 10 books from Can't Wait Books of 2013 and I'll pick another list or two later.

EDIT - Just found a list that I'll have to read off! It's called I Only Watched The Movie and I've only read 8 books off the list, with another 34 that I only saw the movie of (mostly when I was really young) so I'll try to read another 10. :-)

I keep changing my lists, but I'll have them finalized by January 1st!


List 1: Translated Speculative Fiction
Goal: read 9 more (I have previously read 19.)

List 2: Quality Dark Fiction
Goal: read 12 more (I have previously read 58.)

List 3:  Amnesia and Memory Loss Fiction
Goal:  read 4 more (I have previously read 3.)


Total goal: 25 books
Books read: 0/25

I was debating signing up for this challenge as well but I'm sure I'll be able to make a lot of crossovers and it's just too interesting to pass up. I'm going to spend all of my free time reading next year! And I am perfectly okay with that.

I'm stealing your science fiction list Trevor =P

My goal is to read three books from each list with no crossovers from any of my other challenges. No re-reads and anything I've already read in the past does not count towards my challenge.

EDIT: Picked out my books!

List 1: Best Science Fiction

1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
2. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
3. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

List 2:Books You Wish More People Knew About

1. The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting
2. The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
3. The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor

List 3: The Best Urban Fantasy

1. City of Glass - Cassandra Clare
2. Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost
3. Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison

List 4: Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction

1. Divergent - Veronica Roth
2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
3. Matched - Ally Condie

List 5: Best Horror Novels

1. The Shining - Stephen King
2. Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

List 6: Quality Dark Fiction

1. Great Tales of Horror - H.P. Lovecraft (Read Call of Cthulu)
2. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
3. The Elephant Tree - R.D. Ronald

I'm pretty sure this is what I'm going with, but I'll solidify in the next couple of weeks.

LIST ONE: Translated Speculative Fiction

LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
(I did this one in 2012 too, but I'm not finished yet, and I want to get there.)

LIST THREE: You Read a Book About What?

Listopia Challenge
Duration: 1/1/13 - 12/31/13
3/20 Complete

Best Series (Will complete one series)
1)City of Bones - 4/5/13, 4 stars
2)City of Ashes
3)City of Glass
4)City of Fallen Angels
5)City of Lost Souls

Favorite Comfort Reads
1)Rebecca
2)A Little Princess
3)The Princess Bride - 4/10/13, 5 stars
4)The BFG
5)Outlander

Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
1)Memoirs of a Geisha - 3/27/13, 5 stars
2)The Poisonwood Bible
3)Middlesex
4)A Thousand Splendid Suns
5)Of Mice and Men

Best Books to Read When the Snow is Falling
1)Blackberry Winter
2)Winter Garden
3)The Forgotten Garden
4)The Kitchen House
5)The Distant Hours

Wow I'm seeing a lot of great lists I never heard of before!! I might just have to change my lists... haha. ;P

I'm so in for this one!

List One: Books about Paris

List Two: Best Nonfiction Non Biography

List Three: Best Gothic Books of All Time

List Four: 100 Horror Books to read After You Die

List Five: Best Feminist Nonfiction Reads

List Six: Best American History Books

Goal: Read 5 books from each list.
Total: 0/30

How do you get the links to look all nice and proper? :) I thought I was computer literate, but guess not.

Kelsi wrote: "How do you get the links to look all nice and proper? :) I thought I was computer literate, but guess not."

haha, that's okay Kelsi!

this is what it looks like:
< a href="THE LINK ADDRESS" >WHATEVER YOU WANT THE TITLE TO BE CALLED< /a >

but remove the spaces inside the <>, if you know what I mean

Kelsi, you can also click the "(some html is ok)" link at the top right corner of the comment box (next to the "add book/author" link.) There are various useful html bits there to copy/paste and edit in your own text. Second from the top is "link." :)

Got it! Thanks guys!

I love the listopia challenge! So clad it´s back. :)

I will continue with my list of this year and add the I Only Watched the Movie so I can continue the challenge I had for myself this year, just didn´t know about this list!

List 1. Best Series

List 2. I Only Watched the Movie

Goal: Read 15 books from List 1 and 5 from List 2.

0/20

-Eragon 4
(-Fallen 2)
-Shadow Falls 5
-Nightshade 3
-Glimmerglass 3

Two choices, for now - 10 of the unread books from each of these lists:

Hugo Award Winners
You Read a Book about What?

I'm in - I'll use this list: my link text as I'm already working on it, but I'm not yet sure how many books I'll want to read...

I definitely want to try this challenge again. It will be nice to have 12 months instead of four to complete it in :)

In order to increase my knowledge of history & world events, I'd like to read 5 more books from: Non-Fiction Disaster Books

Also, to make me a better wife/friend/coworker, I'm going to read 5 more books from: Christian Living for Women

And because every girl needs a little fun in her life, I'm going to read 5 more books from: Favorite Chick Lit

Sign me up for this one also. So far my lists will be;

1. BOOKS THAT GOT YOU HOOKED
2.YOU READ A BOOK ABOUT WHAT?
1//Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 05/10/13

5 each

I'm going to go for two lists


Best American History Books

Favorite Magical Realist Novels

Goal: 5 books from each list for a total of 10
Completed: 0/10

I'm in for this one and will be going for 4 books off of 5 lists. I need help though! I cant seem to figure out how to post the link to the list :( I assume it has to do with html but its not working for me!

I'm in! So far ill think ill read 5 books from each of these:
GOAL: 25
COMPLETED: 0/25

List One: Books about Paris
List Two: Best Historical Fiction
List Three: Best Crime and Mystery Books
List Four: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
List Five: Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13...

I want to read 3 series from this list. :)

Tracy wrote: "I'm in for this one and will be going for 4 books off of 5 lists. I need help though! I cant seem to figure out how to post the link to the list :( I assume it has to do with html but its not worki..."

the html code is (backspace the asterisks)

<*a href="LINK GOES HERE">Name of list here<*/a*>

This sounds fun! I'm in!

List 1: Best Feminist Fiction

Completed 0/4

1. Mrs. Dalloway
2. Beloved
3. The Scarlet Letter
4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo


Best LGBTQIA Literature

Completed 0/4

1. Middlesex
2. Tipping the Velvet
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Teen Historical Fiction

Completed 0/2

1. The Book Thief
2. The Luxe

Stories for Book Lovers

Completed 0/4

1. The Book Thief
2. The Thirteenth Tale
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Time Traveler's Wife


Best Steampunk Books

Completed 0/3

1. Leviathan
2. Incarceron
3. The Girl in the Steel Corset

Hooray! This is so awesome! It's very hard to not get carried away with this challenge!

Tearsa wrote: "It's very hard to not get carried away with this challenge!"

That's for sure! I had a hard time limiting myself. ;)

Alexandra wrote: "Tracy wrote: "I'm in for this one and will be going for 4 books off of 5 lists. I need help though! I cant seem to figure out how to post the link to the list :( I assume it has to do with html but..."

Thanks! I think I was missing a few of the < > symbols. I'll try again tonight to post my lists!

Just realised all the html was already explained further up... :/ Oh well! Figured it out now, here are my lists! I will read 4 books from each

Best Southern Books

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Must Read Classics

Best For Book Clubs

Best Books Ever

No big deal Tracy! Welcome to the challenge. :)

Yea, finally got it. I will do:

List 1:Witchy Mysteries -- I will read four (4):

3/4
A Cast Off Coven
Hexes and Hemlines...done 1/7/12
The Seventh Witch..done 3/26/13
In a Witch's Wardrobe..done 3/24/13

Listopia Challenge
Duration: 1/1/2013-12/31/2013
Complete: 1/25

I have changed my mind on both the number of books and the lists I am going to choose to read from. Here is the updated list. I am going to try for 5 books from all five of the following lists.

List one: Downton Abbey-esque Books

List Two: Best Christian Historical Fiction

List Three: Newbery Medal Honor Books
1. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (#58)

List Four: American Civil War Books
1. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman by Sarah Morgan Dawson (#26)

List Five: Remarkable Historical Women in Fiction
1. I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles Read 1/4/2013 4.5 Stars (#38)

I'm going to edit the first post of this challenge to include some instructions on adding links! For now...:

the html code is (backspace the asterisks)

<*a href="LINK GOES HERE">Name of list here<*/a*>

also, above the comment box there is a button that says (some html is ok) and adding a link should be the second instruction. :)

Definitely in for this one. I have bookmarked a bunch of Listopia lists that I want to read from! Will update later.

I'm in but I need to take a little more time going over the lists. This is a fun challenge. :)

I'm in. I just need to sort out the link and what books I wish to read and from what lists and then I shall re-post these. Thanks

Here is my list (I hope) finally!!!

I will be aiming for 6. It's a small number but I want to see how I go as I am part of a number of other challenges. May I add to this list if I want to?

List 1: Best Dystopian and Post-Apocolyptic Fiction
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Finished: 13th January 2013)

Completed 1/1

List 2: Books That Make You Laugh
Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella

Completed 0/1

List 3: Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the Past 30 Years
1. Caeser's Women by Colleen McCullough
2. Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas
3. Life Mask by Emma Donoghue

Completed 0/3

List 4. Best Jodi Picoult Books
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Completed 0/1
Total Completed 0/6

Zara wrote: "I will be aiming for 6. It's a small number but I want to see how I go as I am part of a number of other challenges. May I add to this list if I want to?"

Of course! You can increase or decrease your challenge however you want to throughout the year. :)

Audrey wrote: "I would love to join this challenge.
I haven't decided on the total number of books yet, but I have chosen 5 lists. I am going to choose between 2-10 books from each list depending on how quickly I..."

I loved Redeeming Love & Daughter of Fortune. They were both VERY good!

I'm in for this challenge too.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/81...

The first 5 on the list.

Completed: 1/5
Eternal Darkness, Blood King

Thank You April Lyn for the recommendations. I recently purchased Daughter of Fortune and it looks very interesting. I will be reading it for several of my challenges this year. So I am excited to start reading it soon. Been reading lots of children's books (with son) of late so excited to start something a bit more complex. LOL :)

i didn't manage this challenge very well in 2012 so i will try again with more lists:))
i'll continue with 'best' lists

The Listopia Challenge 2013

Best series (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13...) 0/5
intersted in
1.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2.City of Bones
3.Eragon
4.The Fellowship of the Ring
5.A Game of Thrones
6.Outlander
7.Ender's Game
8.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9.The Eyre Affair
10.The Maze Runner

Best horror novels (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13...) 0/3

Best for book clubs (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19...) 0/5

Best books ever (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1....) 0/10

Best chicklit (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/77...) 0/5

Classics library (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/34...) 0/10
interested in
1.Crime and Punishment
2.The Metamorphosis -
3.Murder on the Orient Express
4.Mrs. Dalloway
5.The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
6.Ulysses
7.Mary Poppins -
8.The Fellowship of the Ring
9.A Study in Scarlet -
10.The Two Towers
11.The Return of the King
12.The Hobbit
13.The Silmarillion
14.A Christmas Carol
15.Mansfield Park
16.Northanger Abbey
17.Persuasion
18..Agnes Grey
19.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Best science fiction
(http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19...) 0/3
1.Ender's Game

Best fantasy books (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/36...) 0/5

Best romance novels of all time (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12...) 0/3

I'm in and I'm already carried away.

I'm going to shoot for 5 books each from 10 lists. Rereads are okay for this, right?

Favorite Books From My Childhood (Because we all need a little reminder of the past now and again...)

1. Winnie The Pooh 2. Amelia Bedelia 3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 4. Ella Enchanted 5. The Witches

Favorite Comfort Reads (Because sometimes I long for simple pleasures.)

1. A Wrinkle in Time 2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 3. The Hobbit 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 5. The Enchanted April

I Only Watched the Movie (Because I don't want to be one of those people, even though I sometimes am.)

1. Catch Me If You Can 2. Stuart Little 3. Chocolat 4. Nanny McPhee 5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

You Read A Book About What (Because Random Knowledge is fun.)

1. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 2. The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 4. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World 5. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction (Because I just love this genre.)

1. Fahrenheit 451 2. Divergent 3. The Handmaid's Tale 4. V for Vendetta 5. The Maze Runner

Books About Paris (My most favorite city.)

1.A Moveable Feast 2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 3. A Year in the Merde 4. French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure 5. Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl

Best Non Fiction Non Biography (Because I want to seem smarter.)

1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2. Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking 3. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 5. The World Without Us

Best Feminist Non Fiction Reads (Because the world can't be pink ALL the time...)

1. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women 2. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women 3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 4. Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture 5. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Chick Lit (For my inner romantic.)

1. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Twenties Girl
3. The Secret Life of Bees 4. Size 12 is Not Fat 5. Love the One You're With

Must Read Classics (Because despite myself I've missed some.)

1. Lolita 2. The Grapes of Wrath 3. East of Eden 4. The Sound and the Fury 5. The Woman in White

Trevor wrote: "The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January - December 2013

It's back! After popular demand, the Listopia challenge is returning for another year! Feel free to carry on your goal from 2012, or to upd..."


Is it OK to start this challenge before the start date or do we have to wait until the set date to begin? I ask because a number of books I want to read I source from the library and as such they have time limits on how long I can have them for at any one time.

Zara wrote: "Is it OK to start this challenge before the start date or do we have to wait until the set date to begin? I ask because a number of books I want to read I source from the library and as such they have time limits on how long I can have them for at any one time."

You can start early, however, only books finished in 2013 will count towards the challenge. This will apply to all challenges here. As long as a book is finished in the time frame, it counts. So if you start a book for the challenge early just be aware of that! :)

Trevor wrote: "Zara wrote: "Is it OK to start this challenge before the start date or do we have to wait until the set date to begin? I ask because a number of books I want to read I source from the library and a..."

Thanks Trevor. That will be grand.

I will create a participants list this weekend in preparation for January! Happy holidays everybody. :)

I will try this, too. I'm still choosing the lists and books to read.

Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once.
10 from this list
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Most Begun Read But Unfinished. 6 from this list
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I will try this one to

2/6 lists

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography : "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/28... 6/10

1Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
2Eat, Pray, Love
3Up Till Now
4A Lotus Grows in the Mud
5Notes from a Small Island
6 Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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Lesser Known Authors "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19...
1The Peach Keeper
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Best Crime & Mystery Books "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11...
1Body Double
2Vanish
3The Silent Girl
4Dirty Blonde
5Voice of the Violin
6Devil Bones
7What Came Before He Shot Her
8The Neighbor
9Bring Up the Bodies
10A is for Alibi



Medicine and Literature"http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21... 5/10



1The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
2Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery
3At Home: A Short History of Private Life
4The Memory Keeper's Daughter
5The Private Patient
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Hungry readers"http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/26... 0/10
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Best Books of the Decade: 2000s http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5.... 10/10
1Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2In a Sunburned Country
3Never Let Me Go
4Digging to America
5Ya Yas in Bloom
6The Judging Eye
7Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
8I am America
9Lisey's Story
10The Murder of King Tut

The Listopia Challenge
Duration: January - December 2013
Completed: 12/15

The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
1. Catching Fire 01.02.13
2. Mockingjay 01.03.13
3. Room 01.25.13
4. Forbidden 05.04.13
5.

Intense and Angsty Romance
1. Fifty Shades Darker 07.24.13
2. Fifty Shades Freed 07.31.13
3. Captive in the Dark 08.15.13
4. Seduced in the Dark 08.20.13
5.

Best Lesbian Fiction
1. L World 02.07.13
2 Pages for You 04.04.13
3. After Mrs Hamilton 05.29.13
4. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 06.30.13
5.

Finalized! I picked the first five books I haven't read on each list.

LIST ONE: Translated Speculative Fiction
(By the end of 2012: read 13 of the top 100)
1. Solaris
2. Blindness
3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
4. Invisible Cities
5. Night Watch


LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
(By the end of 2012: read 45 of the top 100)
1. Hyperion
2. The Time Machine
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (reread)
4. Cat’s Cradle
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz

LIST THREE: You Read a Book About What?(By the end of 2012: read 4 of the top 100)
1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2. Salt: A World History
3. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
4. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
5. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

COMPLETED: 0/15

Ooh, what a great list! And a lot of it will probably double with our Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ 100 challenge in case you want to cross-challenge. :)