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I will shoot for two from each list below. Specific books to be determined throughout the year.

LIST #1: Best Science Fiction
1.
2.

LIST #2: Best Homeschooling Books
1.
2.

LIST #3: Best Books about Mathematics
1.
2.

LIST #4: Reformed Doctrine & Theology
1.
2.

Completed: 0/8

Since I really want to commit this coming year, I'm joining! :) I've got five lists, and will read 3 from each.

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. 1984
3. The Diary of a Young Girl

Books That Made You Cry!.
1. The Book Thief
2. The Kite Runner
3. My Sister's Keeper

Books With Unforgettable Characters.
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Hobbit
3. The Giver

Must Read Classics.
1. Jane Eyre
2. Little Women
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray


Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA).
1. The Night Circus
2. 1Q84
3. The Peach Keeper

Goal: 15 books
Done: 0/15

Kate wrote: "Rereads are okay for this, right?"

I'm so sorry Kate, I only just noticed this question!! Rereads are totally fine here. Just be sure to read the whole book and not just skim it. ;)

Participants!


Amie: 0/40 (4 lists)
Alexandra: 0/18 (6 lists)
Amanda: 3/8 (4 lists)
Amy: 0/3? (1 list)
Ana: 0/49 (8 lists)
April Lyn: 0/15 (3 lists)
Ashley: 0/20 (4 lists)
Audrey: 1/25 (5 lists)
Bibiophile: 0/4 (1 list)
Bridget: 0/15 (3 lists)
Candiss: 1/25 (3 lists)
Carrie G: 1/5 (1 list)
Carrie S: 0/10 (10 lists)
Johanna: 0/20 (2 lists)
Joni: 0/15 (3 lists)
Kara: 1/20 (4 lists)
Karina: ? (2 lists)
Kate: 0/50 (10 lists)
Kattibrie: 1/10 (1 list)
Kelsi: 2/30 (6 lists)
Kme_17: 0/60 (6 lists)
Lilac: 1/10 (1 list)
Lisa: 2/10 (2 lists)
Morgan: 0/25 (5 lists)
Neisha: 0/12 (3 lists)
Rebecca: 0/16 (2 lists)
Rebecca: 0/36 (3 lists)
Regan: 0/15 (3 lists)
Shelley: 0/9 (3 lists)
Squirrel: 0/15 (4 lists)
Tearsa: 0/17 (5 lists)
Teresa: 0/14 (4 lists)
Toni: 0/10 (2 lists)
Tracy: 0/20 (5 lists)
Trevor: 0/12 (2 lists)
Tricia: 2/30 (2 lists)
Vani: 1/15 (5 lists)
Zara: 0/6 (4 lists)

Here's the list! A couple things:

1. If you have a ? beside your name, please let me know how many books you want as your goal, and I will update as soon as I can.
2. If I got your goal wrong or missed you, tell me so I can add you to the list!
3. If you want to change your goal in any way (up, down, drop out altogether), that isn't a problem! Just let me know either here or in a personal message to me.

GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY! And have a great end of 2012. :)

And anyone who still wants in, go ahead and post a goal. :D

List 1: Books You Wish More People Knew About
I think I'm going to try for 10 from here

I'd like to try the following:

Total: 4 lists, 15 books

Best Feminist Fiction

1. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
2. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree, Jr.
3. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
4. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin
5. House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

Must Read Classics

1. Faust - Goethe
2. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
3. The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
4. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
5. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

1. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay - Michael Chabon
3. Empire Falls - Richard Russo

Booker Prize Winners

1. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Trevor, I changed my lists around earlier today, and it looks like I just missed your posting participants' goals. I've changed from 20 to 25 total books, still using 3 lists (although one list is different now yet still contains all the books I'd previously had on the list it replaced.)

Eep, I still need to find my listopias to use. The holidays have been really busy here. My dad died on the 23rd, my son's out of school until the 7th and I've been busy working a lot so my ŷ������ challenge preparations have been on hold a little bit. I'll try to sort through things this coming week.

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Eep, I still need to find my listopias to use. The holidays have been really busy here. My dad died on the 23rd, my son's out of school until the 7th and I've been busy working a lot so my Goodread..."

No problem Teresa! Take your time - I know the holidays can be a stressful busy time of year so I totally understand!!

Hmm...kind of want to add on Squirrel's Pulitzer Prize list to my challenge. I've only read 11 of the 85, and I'm kind of embarrassed about that.

Trevor wrote: "Welcome, Squirrel!"

Thanks!

Kara wrote: Hmm...kind of want to add on Squirrel's Pulitzer Prize list to my challenge. I've only read 11 of the 85, and I'm kind of embarrassed about that.

Bwaha, pretty much how I felt when I was scrolling through that list, although I've read an even more pitiful number.

Haha, you're embarrased about only having read 11! Lol I've read the number you have, minus 10!

trevor, thank you!

i found more lists and need to change it around. do i just post it here when i finish?

Neisha wrote: "trevor, thank you!

i found more lists and need to change it around. do i just post it here when i finish?"

Sure, Neisha. Post an updated goal when you've got it all figured out. No rush. :)

Trevor wrote: "Neisha wrote: "trevor, thank you!

i found more lists and need to change it around. do i just post it here when i finish?"

Sure, Neisha. Post an updated goal when you've got it all figured out. N..."

Thanks! I've got it finalized now.

Best Epic Fantasy
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Best Paranormal/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Books You Wish More People Knew About
Eternal Darkness, Blood King by Gadriel Demartinos
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Angelfall by Susan Ee

I never finished my 2012 Listopia Challenge (not even close lol), so I'm going to just repost my old list and start over fresh!

Listopia Challenge
0/36 Books

1. Best Steampunk Books ~ Top 12 I Haven't Read
1. Leviathan
2. The Golden Compass
3. Boneshaker
4. Clockwork Angel
5. Perdido Street Station
6. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
7. The Time Machine
8. Behemoth
9. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
10. Howl's Moving Castle
11. The Subtle Knife
12. The Amber Spyglass

2. Best Cozy Mystery Series ~ Top 12 I Haven't Read
1. Her Royal Spyness
2. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
3. Murder is Binding
4. Catering to Nobody
5. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
6. What's a Ghoul to Do?
7. The Trouble With Magic
8. I Scream, You Scream
9. The Quiche of Death
10. Aunt Dimity's Death
11. Real Murders
12. On What Grounds

3. Best Utopian and Dystopian Fiction ~ Top 12 I Haven't Read
1. 1984
2. The Giver
3. Brave New World
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. The Handmaid's Tale
6. Animal Farm
7. Lord of the Flies
8. Divergent
9. Uglies
10. The Road
11. Ender's Game
12. A Wrinkle in Time

I'll do five books from each list:

Best Epic Fantasy
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/50...

Best Historical Fiction
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/15...

Trevor,

I am new to this, so I only have 1 list, not 5. I will be reading four books from Witchy Mysteries.

Updated!

Sorry, Biblophile! My mistake. :)

Welcome Lisa!

I added a list, so I'm going to repost here:


LIST ONE: Translated Speculative Fiction
(At 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
(At 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?
(At 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

LIST FOUR: Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
(Goal: Read five new-to-you authors)
1. Kindred
2. Shards of Honour
3. Foreigner
4. The Children of Men
5. In the Garden of Iden

COMPLETED: 0/20

I'm going to give this a try this year...starting out small though. I hope to read 5 from each list.

List One: Best Erotica.
1. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James Finished 2/1/13
2. Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James Finished 2/5/13
3. Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James Finished 2/7/13
4. Bared To You by Sylvia Day Finished 4/4/13
5. Voyeur by Lacey AlexanderFinished 3/23/13

List Two: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

List Three: 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up.
(Plan to read these to the kids)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

5/15 Complete

I am going to try to knock out a lot of books from the "1001" list. It is so intimidating, and I have barely touched it! Not sure which books I will select from the lists yet. Will fill it in as I go.

List One: Booker Prize Winners (0/5 + 2 from before = 2 Total)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

List Two: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (10/25 + 35 from before = 45 Total)
1. Veronika Decides to Die
2. Cat's Cradle
3. The Yellow Wallpaper
4. The Time Machine
5. A Modest Proposal
6. The Pit and the Pendulum
7. The Purloined Letter
8. The Fall of the House of Usher
9. On the Road
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray
...
24.
25.

List 3: Best Historical Fiction (0/5 + 16 from before = 16 total)

List 4: Best Time Travel Fiction (0/5 + 8 from before = 8 total)

Decided to add two more lists.

10/40 Completed

I'm going to participate in this one. In an effort to read more of a variety of genres and authors, I'm going to read one book from ten different lists. I'll choose the books at a later date, but here are the lists I'm going to focus on:

Best Non-Fiction (non-biography) http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13...

Favorite Magical Realist Novels
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/14...

Best Time Travel Fiction
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

Singular Topic Books
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/83...

Because I like to torture myself a bit: The Most Begun (Read But Unfinished) Book
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/49...

Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/88...

Best Steampunk Books
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/61...

Best Indian Books
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/40...

Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10...

Best Native American Literature
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12...

Completed: 0/10

i think i have only 49 books not 74 how it is written in the participants list

Finished my 1st book from the Best Epic Fantasy List:

1. The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks 5/5 stars
I agree with the list! (It's #69 on the list)
Completed: Jan 10, 2013

Challenge Total: 1/10 Complete

Finished my very first one!

5. In the Garden of Iden, 1/16, **

COMPLETED: 1/20

Listopia Challenge 2013
Duration: Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2013

List One: Favorite Magical Realist Novels

1. The Sugar Queen - DONE
2. The Peach Keeper - DONE

(Wanted to read, but did not get to):
3. The Night Circus
4. Practical Magic

List Two: Biographies of Significant Historical Women
**DID NOT READ THIS**
1. Marie Curie: A Life

List Three: Best Cover Art 2011 Non YA
1. - DONE
2. - DONE

(Originally wanted to read, but did not get to):
1Q84
The Dovekeepers

List Four: Best Historical Fiction
**DID NOT READ. Will attempt to read these in 2014**
1. Lonesome Dove
2. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
3. The Thorn Birds
4. The Mists of Avalon
5. Outlander
6. The Good Earth
7. The Hundred Secret Senses

List Five: Best YA Realistic Novels
**All Complete!! Originally started with 5, but ended up with 17 complete**
1. Anna and the French Kiss
2. The Truth About Forever
3. If I Stay
4. Where She Went
5. Lola and the Boy Next Door
6. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
7. What Happened to Goodbye
8. Jellicoe Road
9. Saving Francesca
10. Dairy Queen
11. The Piper's Son
12. Looking for Alibrandi
13. Someone Like You
14. The Off Season
15. Front and Center
16. Please Ignore Vera Dietz
17. Just One Day

Number of Lists: 5
Total Books: 21 Read

I've finished The Giver from my Books With Unforgettable Characters List.
I'm so happy I added that one.
5/5!

14 books to go!

I'll join in. I had started working on this on my own. I'll set a goal of reading 10 from 4 lists.

Completed: 26/40

Best Romantic Suspense
1. Standing in the Shadows - Shannon McKenna - 2/16/13
2. Black Ice - Anne Stuart - 2/17/13
3. Cold As Ice - Anne Stuart - 3/24/13
4. Ice Blue - Anne Stuart - 3/31/13
5. Divine Evil - Nora Roberts - 4/28/13
6. Deadly Heat - Cynthia Eden - 6/9/13
7. Ice Storm - Anne Stuart - 6/23/13
8. Out Of Control - Shannon McKenna - 8/16/13
9. Undertow - Cherry Adair - 10/1/13
10. Smoke in Mirrors - Jayne Ann Krentz - 11/29/13



Best Romance Series
1. Squeeze Play - Kate Angell - 3/13/13
2. Rock Chick - Kristen Ashley - 7/28/13
3. Beg for Mercy - Jami Alden - 8/18/13
4. Simply Irresistible - Rachel Gibson - 11/22/13
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.



Best Paranormal Romance Series
1. Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 7/5/13
2. Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane - 8/8/13
3. Captivated - Nora Roberts - 8/31/13
4. How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks - 10/13/13
5. Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione - 10/28/13
6. Tall, Dark & Dead - Tate Hallaway - 11/10/13
7.
8.
9.
10.



I Love A Man In Uniform
1. Behind Closed Doors - Shannon McKenna - 1/13/13
2. Against the Law - Kat Martin - 5/22/13
3. Edge of Sight - Roxanne St. Claire - 5/27/13
4. Naked Truth - Amy J. Fetzer - 6/9/13
5. Nauti Boy - Lora Leigh - 7/30/13
6. The Darkest Hour - Maya Banks - 9/14/13
7.
8.
9.
10.

Updating with the books I've selected, plus two of them checked off:

LIST #1: Best Science Fiction
1. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick

LIST #2: Best Homeschooling Books
1. The Way They Learn, by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
2. Handbook of Nature Study, by Anna Botsford Comstock

LIST #3: Best Books about Mathematics
1. The Calculus Wars, by Jason Socrates Bardi
2. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One, by Paul J. Nahin

LIST #4: Reformed Doctrine & Theology
1. Communion with God, by John Owen
2. What Is Faith?, by J. Gresham Machen

Completed: 2/8

The selections are subject to change, but at least I have a tentative list now.

I just wanted the moderator of this challenge to know that I updated my original post (#29). I changed my lists as well as listed the books I am currently reading or have finished. I also committed to reading 25 books (5 from each of the lists). Thanks.

Finished #17 on the Best Epic Fantasy list:

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

2/10 Completed

LIST #1: Best Science Fiction
1. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick

LIST #2: Best Homeschooling Books
1. The Way They Learn, by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
2. Handbook of Nature Study, by Anna Botsford Comstock

LIST #3: Best Books about Mathematics
1. The Calculus Wars, by Jason Socrates Bardi
2. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One, by Paul J. Nahin

LIST #4: Reformed Doctrine & Theology
1. Communion with God, by John Owen
2. What Is Faith?, by J. Gresham Machen

Completed: 3/8

OK, I said I'll use this list NPR's 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy books but I didn't set my goal. I'm gonna go for at least 10 from it.

1. Flowers for Algernon - finished 25.01, 4/5
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I've already finished one! :)

I really think I want to give this a try

Best Crime and Mystery Books
1)Presumed Innocent
2)Red Dragon
3)The Talented Mr. Ripley

Books You Wish More People Knew About
1)The Thief
2)Truly, Madly, Deeply April 8
3)A Certain Slant of Light

Books Everyone has read but Me
1)Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2)Middlesex
3)The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Live April 10

I've finished my first list book.

From List 2 - Quality Dark Fiction:
The Gate to Women's Country **** (1/29/13)

1/25

So, at the end of January I am 2/30
List One: Books about Paris
1.A Tale of Two Cities

List Three: Best Gothic Books of All Time
1. Interview with the Vampire-1/1/13

I've decided to drop my second list so I'm at 1/10.

UPDATED FOR JANUARY. Great job everyone! Keep it up. :)

Participation List!
I'm taking over this challenge (:
Let me know if there is anything wrong.

Adriana: 0/14 (2 lists)
Amie: 0/40 (4 lists)
Alexandra: 0/18 (6 lists)
Amanda: 3/8 (4 lists)
Amy: 0/3? (1 list)
Ana: 0/49 (8 lists)
April Lyn: 0/15 (3 lists)
Ashley: 0/20 (4 lists)
Audrey: 1/25 (5 lists)
Bibiophile: 0/4 (1 list)
Bridget: 3/15 (3 lists)
Candiss: 1/25 (3 lists)
Carrie G: 1/5 (1 list)
Carrie S: 0/10 (10 lists)
Johanna: 0/20 (2 lists)
Joni: 0/15 (3 lists)
Kara: 3/20 (4 lists)
Karina: ? (2 lists)
Kate: 0/50 (10 lists)
Kattibrie: 1/10 (1 list)
Kelsi: 2/30 (6 lists)
Kme_17: 0/60 (6 lists)
Lilac: 1/10 (1 list)
Lisa: 3/10 (2 lists)
Morgan: 0/25 (5 lists)
Neisha: 0/12 (3 lists)
Rebecca: 0/16 (2 lists)
Rebecca: 0/36 (3 lists)
Regan: 0/15 (3 lists)
Shelley: 0/9 (3 lists)
Squirrel: 0/15 (4 lists)
Tearsa: 0/17 (5 lists)
Teresa: 1/14 (4 lists)
Toni: 0/10 (2 lists)
Tracy: 0/20 (5 lists)
Trevor: 0/12 (2 lists)
Tricia: 2/30 (2 lists)
Vani: 1/15 (5 lists)
Zara: 0/6 (4 lists)

Updated- 2/15/13

Three down!

LIST ONE: Translated Speculative Fiction
(At the end of 2012: read 13 of the top 100)
1. Solaris, finished 1/30
2. Blindness
3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
4. Invisible Cities
5. Night Watch

LIST TWO: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
(At 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, finished 2/4
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz

LIST THREE: You Read a Book About What?
(At 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

LIST FOUR: Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
(Goal: Read five new-to-you authors)
1. Kindred
2. Shards of Honour
3. Foreigner
4. The Children of Men
5. In the Garden of Iden, 1/16

COMPLETED: 3/20

Awesome job Kara! I think I may have to join this challenge too (:

I've read 3/15 so far...doing better than I thought I would. :)

Bridget wrote: "I've read 3/15 so far...doing better than I thought I would. :)"

Awesome Bridget!

Well, 1/14 so far but I have been focusing on other books for the moment.

I haven't even finished 1 book for this challenge yet, but I do have one on deck to hopefully have finished by the end of the month!

I don't know what it is, but I didn't do good with this challenge last year either, hmmm. I'm going to have to put this challenge on the front burner for March and see if I can get a couple knocked out.

Finished # 138 on the Best Historical Fiction list:

Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

3/10 Complete

Ashley wrote: "I haven't even finished 1 book for this challenge yet, but I do have one on deck to hopefully have finished by the end of the month!

I don't know what it is, but I didn't do good with this challen..."

Don't worry about it. Good luck in March!

Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/65...



paranormal academys, boarding schools, schools and camps

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/17...



2 lists 14 books!

If I find any other great lists I'll add them on here.

Now that I've had a chance to venture more into the listopia lists, I'm definitely in.

PROGRESS: 18/25

Going to go with 5 from each of the following:

Falling In Love with my Best Friend/Best Friend's Brother/Brother's Best Friend, etc. COMPLETED
1. 2/19/13 Sweet Sofie by Elizabeth Reyes
2. 3/2/13 Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
3. 3/23/13 Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
4. 4/20/13Taking Chances by Molly McAdams
5. 7/22/13 The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles

Humorous Romance Books COMPLETED

1. 3/14/13 Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
2. 4/11/13 The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
3. 5/2/13 Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
4. 5/25/13 Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. 5/29/13 Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

and 10 from:
First books of some good Cozy series
1. If You Can't Stand the Heatby Robin Allen
2. Knit One, Kill Twoby Maggie Sefton
3. I Scream, You Scream Wendy Lyn Watson
Need 7 more


plus I added one other list in message 110 - 5 from the Best Hockey Romance books list (completed that one on 4/19/2013)
I will read 5 from: THIS LIST IS COMPLETE!!

Best Hockey Romance


1. 2/2/13 Offside
2. 3/1/13 Taking Shots
3. 3/13/13 Empty Net
4. 4/15/13 Simply Irresistible
5. 4/19/13 See Jane Score