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Monthly Challenge: May 2023

Welcome to our first monthly Listopia Madness challenge. It is a relatively simple challenge. Every month you will get 3 listopia lists from me and 3 from the winners of the previous month. *Please note that if you do not respond in a reasonable amount of time that the 4th place person (and so on) will replace you until we get 3 lists.

How it works
📘You will read as many books as you want from as many of the lists provided as you want.
📘You will score each book using the point system provided below
📘You will keep a running tally of your total in your post (try to keep your books in one comment, if possible for easy tracking)
📘I will contact the 3 highest-scoring readers at the end of the month and they will each choose one listopia list to be included in the next month's challenge.

Challenge rules:
📘No graphic novels, poetry or cookbooks allowed.
📘Standard Rules Apply

Book Points


Listopia Lists
Tattoo on the cover
I Like Serial Killers
Best of Little Known Authors
Best Books of the Decade 2020s Provided by April 1st place winner: Ashley
Best Adult Vampire Books Provided by April 2nd place winner: Sammy (2 person tie)
Books with Sunglasses on the cover Provided by April 2nd place winner: Bernadette (2 person tie)
I Only Watched the Movie! Provided by April 3rd place winner: Angie

This month, you can earn bonuses for the following:
*1 bonus point if your book is on 2 of the lists in message 1
*1 bonus point if your book is on one of these lists & used in the Lunar Deities challenge (please provide a link to your post in the Lunar Deities challenge)
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & is used in the Lunar Deities Challenge.

Participants

Sammy 67
Ashley 29
Joyce 5
Christine 28
Ariel 2
Paco 4
Delitealex
Bernadette 33
Angie
Truitt_T 61

IN! :D

Total points: 67

1. The Betrayal of Trust - serial killers #847 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
2. Intensity - serial killers #45 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
3. The Passage - Adult Vampires #45 - 7 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
4. Black Arts - Adult Vampires #705 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
5. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics - best of 2020s #176 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
6. Reaper Man - best adult vampire #312 - 1 point + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
7. Dark Heir - best adult vampire #708 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
8. The Lost World - only watched the movie #576 - 1 point + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
9. The Winners - best of 2020s #189 - 5 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
10. Shadow Rites - Best adult vampires #1456) - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
11. Widowland - sunglasses #90 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
12. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - best adult vampires #95 & best of 2020s #319 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for 2 lists & + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
13. The Dictionary of Lost Words - best of 2020s #84 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
14. Hench - best of 2020s #908 - 3 points + 1 bonus point for using in Lunar Deities challenge
15. Heaven and Hell - only seen the movie #591 - 7 points + one bonus point for using in Lunar Deities


Lunar Deities post is HERE

May Listopia Lists | Total Points: 29

📗Tattoo on the Cover
📘I Like Serial Killers
📙Best of Little-Known Authors
📕Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📒Best Adult Vampire Books
📓Books with Sunglasses on the Cover
📔I Only Watched the Movie!

Read
📓#56 Happy Place, Read: 2-May-2023, 400pgs, 3pts + 1pt (Bonus: Lunar Deities)
📕#649 The Year of the Witching, Read: 2-May-2023, 363pgs, 3pts + 1pt (Bonus: Lunar Deities)
📕#73 Oona Out of Order, Read: 3-May-2023, 339pgs, 3pts + 1pt (Bonus: Lunar Deities)
📓#89 Widowland, Read: 11-May, 2023, 432pgs, 3pts + 1pt (Bonus: Lunar Deities)
📕#21 A ​Court of Silver Flames, Read: 12-May-2023, 757pgs, 7pts + 1pt (Bonus: Lunar Deities)
📗#105 Both Feet in the Grave, Read: 15-May-2023, 348pgs, 3pts + 1pt (Bonus: Lunar Deities)
📔#749 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Read: 18-May-2023, 291pgs, 1pt


📔#40 The Princess Bride

I am in again Hopefully I will do better this month as UNO has ended.

Listopia Lists
Tattoo on the cover: /list/show/3...
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Magic to the Bone
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I Like Serial Killers:

/list/show/1...
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Body of Evidence
Tryptyk pub 5/1/11
Whiskey Sour pub 5/12
A Killer's Mind
Vanish 5/14 audio edition
Dark Desires
The Whispering Room
Blood Game
(hide spoiler)]
Best of Little Known Authors: /list/show/7...
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Clovenhoof
The Awakening
Ignite 5/14/14 tbr
Haunted
Waking Up Dead
Darkhouse 5/1/11
Sterling
A Shade of Blood 5/17
Four Corners Dark 5/13
(hide spoiler)]
Best Book of the Decades 2020's
/list/show/1...
(view spoiler)[
Project Hail Mary
The City We Became
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Sentence
Spoiler Alert
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
The Space between Worlds
The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock
The Dead Romantics
(hide spoiler)]
Best Adult Vampire Books
/list/show/1...
(view spoiler)[
Necroscope
Midnight's Daughter
Dhampir
Raphael
Nightwalker
Blood Oath
Real Vampires Have Curves
Smoke and Shadows
Gil's All Fright Diner
(hide spoiler)]
Books with Sunglasses on the cover
/list/show/1...
(view spoiler)[
Undead and Undermined
Station Eternity
(hide spoiler)]
I only watched the movie
/list/show/4...
(view spoiler)[
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Murder on the Orient Express
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Jumper
The Puppet Masters
The Secret of the Old Clock
(hide spoiler)]

READ
# 402 I like Serial Killers
A Murder in Time 5/10/23 512 pgs (5 pts)

Listopia Lists - Grand Point Total ~ 28 Points

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Read 05.07.2023 ~ Lists: #5 on I like Serial Killers 5 Pts + #13 Tattoo on Cover 1 Pt and 1 bonus point for being used in Lunar Deities Challenge. Total of 7 points

Déjà Dead ~ Read 05.13.2023
Lists: #26 on I like Serial Killers 5 Pts + #709 I only Watched the Movie 1 pt and 1 bonus point for being used in Lunar Deities Challenge. Total of 7 points

The Strain ~ Read 05.16.2023
Lists: Best Adult Vampire Books #19 ~ 5 Pts + 1 bonus point for being used in Lunar Deities. Total of 6 points

Intensity ~ Read 05.18.2023
Lists: I like Serial Killers #45 ~ 3 Pts = 1 bonus point for being used in Lunar Deities. Total of 4 points

The Night Bird ~ Read 05.24.2023
List: I Like Serial Killers #677 ~ 3 Pts = 1 bonus point for being used in Lunar Deities. Total of 4 points

I Only Saw The Movie!

1. The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket - Read: May 13, 2023 - List: #738 - 1 point
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney - Read: May 13, 2023 - List: #268 - 1 point

It was fun last month so I'll try again!

Books:

Big Fish- #104 on list: I Only Watched the Movie!

I'm Glad My Mom Died- #39 on list: Best Books of the Decade 2020s

Points: 4

All the lists have been posted. Have fun!

I'm in

I enjoyed it last month and entered for the extra Zodiac points but will give it a go again this month.

Total Points: 33

On the Island/Tracey Garvis Graves - #34 Best of Little Known Authors - 334 pages - 3 point - 5/6/23

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter/Seth Grahame-Smith - #36 Best Adult Vampire Books - 336 pages - 3 points - 5/6/23

Since You've Been Gone/Morgan Matson - #68 Books with Sunglasses on the Cover - 449 pages - 3 points - 5/10/23

The World According to Garp/John Irving - #433 I Only Watched the Movie - 610 pages - 5 points - 5/14/23

The Devil Wears Prada/Lauren Weisberger - #2 I Only Watched the Movie - 384 pages - 3 points - 5/18/23

Pay It Forward/Catherine Ryan Hyde - #65 I Only Watched the Movie - 311 pages - 3 pages - 5/15/23

Memoirs of a Geisha/Arthur Golden - #44 I Only Watched the Movie - 503 pages - 5 points - 5/17/23

Red Dragon/Thomas Harris - #3 I Like Serial Killers; #131 I Only Watched the Movie - 348 pages - 3 points + 1 bonus point for 2 lists - 5/20/23

The Golden Compass/Philip Pullman - #66 I only Watched the Movie - 399 pages - 3 points - 5/21/23

Planet of the Apes/Pierre Boulle - #1,140 I Only Watched the Movie - 276 pages - 1 point - 5/26/23

I'm in again. :-)

This may have been asked before, but is there an easy way to search for a book on the lists other than scan through all the pages?

Christine wrote: "This may have been asked before, but is there an easy way to search for a book on the lists other than scan through all the pages?"

I wish. If you discover a way, I would love to know it.

Christine, I asked your question over in the moderator support group. Here are the suggestions that I got so far.

1. You could search for word on page and then run for each page � time-consuming but not so much as manually looking

2. Open the book's page and look for the Listopia list you want there


#2 is probably the quickest and easiest method. Go to the bottom of the book page. Look for "Lists featuring this book" Underneath the books, there is a link "All Lists featuring this book" - click on this. You can see every list that the book is on. As far as I can see, most books have 1-2, maybe 3 pages instead of the many pages a listopia list can have.

Donna wrote: "Christine, I asked your question over in the moderator support group. Here are the suggestions that I got so far.

1. You could search for word on page and then run for each page � time-consuming ..."

Thanks for that info. I didn't know about that second option! At first I thought you meant the Genre list. Ilike the option you mentioned might be way easier. I'm going to try that now. Thank you!

I'm in, Donna. May I use books I've already read this month, or start from here?
Thanks!

Total Points: 61

1. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick #694 I Only Saw the Movie - 3 page points, 1 bonus point ( Lunar Deities) 5/5 4 points

2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers #109 Best Books of the Decade: 2020s - 1 page point, 1 bonus point ( Lunar Deities) 5/8 2 points

3. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer #58 I Only Saw the Move - 5 page points, 2 bonus points ( also #524 Best Adult Vampire Books & Lunar Deities) 5/15 7 points

4. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris #3 I Love Serial Killers - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (also #1079 Best of Little-Known Authors & Lunar Deities) 5/17 5 points

5. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo #3011 Best of Little Known Authors - 1 page point, 2 bonus points (#82 Best Books of the Decade 2020s & Lunar Deities) 5/18 3 points

6. Spirit Sanguine by Lou Harper #1101 Best Adult Vampire Books - 1 page point 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/23 2 points

7. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer #152 I Only Saw the Movie - 5 page points, 2 bonus points (also #1336 Best Adult Vampire Books & Lunar Deities) 5/23 7 points

8. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan #103 Books With Sunglasses on the Cover - 5 page points, 2 bonus (#697 I Only Saw the Movie & Lunar Deities) 5/24 7 points

9. A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill #5792 Best of Little Known Authors - 3 page points, 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/25 4 points

10. Chiefs by Stuart Woods #869 I Like Serial Killers - 5 page points, 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/26 6 points

11. Taxes and TARDIS by N.R. Walker #531 Best of Little Known Authors - 1 page point, 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/26 2 points

12. Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly #60 Best Adult Vampire Books - 3 page points, 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/28 4 points

13. A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong #506 Best Books of the Decade: 2020s - 3 page points, 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/28 4 points

14. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik #19 Best Books of the Decade: 2020s - 3 page points, 1 bonus point (Lunar Deities) 5/31 4 points

I use #2 as my main search!

Some notes: It helps if you have voted for a book on the list, since a little green check mark will show up next to the list names. Also, make sure you try the books "default" page, as that usually has more list adds, rather than a different edition (this isn't ALWAYS true, since some of the lists have to do with covers)

Truitt_T wrote: "I'm in, Donna. May I use books I've already read this month, or start from here?
Thanks!"

Of course, you may use books you have already read this month.

Ashley wrote: "I use #2 as my main search!

Some notes: It helps if you have voted for a book on the list, since a little green check mark will show up next to the list names. Also, make sure you try the books "..."

Yes, Listopia are edition specific. That means one edition may be on the list and another may not.

I have a somewhat belated question:

Listopias are, as discussed, edition specific. But we do not have to read that specific edition, correct?

And I've been using the page count for the edition I'm reading - sometimes kindle, sometimes a print copy. Is that correct?

Thanks!

ETA: The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking page count for edition read must be correct. After all, the editions on two different Listopias might not be the same....

Truitt_T wrote: "I have a somewhat belated question:

Listopias are, as discussed, edition specific. But we do not have to read that specific edition, correct?

And I've been using the page count for the edition I'..."

You do not have to read the edition on the list. Use the page count for the edition you are reading.

Donna wrote: "Truitt_T wrote: "I have a somewhat belated question:

Listopias are, as discussed, edition specific. But we do not have to read that specific edition, correct?

And I've been using the page count f..."

Thank you! I just suddenly had the horrible though that I'd been doing this wrong, lol.

LOL! You're fine. I tried to make it an easy but fun challenge.

Donna wrote: "LOL! You're fine. I tried to make it an easy but fun challenge."

I love it - it's really fun. And I probably never would have come across it without your Easter Egg Challenge, so thank you, again!

I am so glad that you like it. A little secret... the Easter Egg challenge was started to bring attention to little-known challenges. I never expected people to like it as much as they did. I had to bring it back this year. Wait until next year. I have a really unique twist in mind. I can't wait until you guys see what I have in store for you!

Donna......that tease is as bad as a cliff hanger on a great book or tv series! Lol!

Angie � wrote: "Donna......that tease is as bad as a cliff hanger on a great book or tv series! Lol!"

I know, right? And we have so long to wait!

LOL! You know I love teasing you guys and you now have all year to think about it.

May Winners

1st place: Sammy
2nd place: Truitt_T
3rd place: Bernadette

I'm so behind with my updating. Work is kicking my butt and I'm about to be traveling for 2ish weeks. SHM. I will get this updated soon!