2025 Reading Challenge discussion

A couple of my listopias have the same book on them. Am I allowed to count the same book for each listopia or just for one?

Beth Winston- I want to participate in this challenge. I am going for 25 from 1001 books to read before you die and Books Everyone Should Read once.

www.goodreads.com/list/show/952.1001_...
1.In Cold Blood
2. Northanger Abbey
3. Aesop's Fables
4. The Fall of the House of Usher
5.The House of the 7 gables
6. 1984
7. The Pilgrim's Progress
8. Jane Eyre
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. Wuthering Heights
11. Of Mice and Men
12. The Scarlett Letter
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Uncle Tom's Cabin
15. Don Quiote
/www.goodreads.com/list/show/264.Books...

16. Animal Farm
17. The Kite Runner
18. The Fault in our Stars
19. The Canterbury Tales
20. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
21. The Screwtape Letters
22. Paradise Lost
23. Room
24. Salem's Lot
25. The Kitchen House

Updated message 28 with the books I plan to read.

Beth (Ducky) wrote: "A couple of my listopias have the same book on them. Am I allowed to count the same book for each listopia or just for one?"

You can count books just once for the same challenge, so just one list. You can count books across different challenges though.

I'm in for 30 books! 10 each from the Newbery Winner and Honor lists, as well as I'm starting the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Newbery Medal Award Winners
5/10
1. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - 4/4/16
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - 2/29/16
3. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - 6/14/16
4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
5. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan - 2/17/16
6. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
7. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
8. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - 3/27/16
9. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
10. Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Newbery Medal Honors
5/10
1. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - 3/22/16
2. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale - 5/3/16
3. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater - 7/10/16
4. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
5. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
6. El Deafo by Cece Bell - 5/16/16
7. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
8. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
9. The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
10. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer - 6/10/16

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
5/10
1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - 7/20/16
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 2/13/16
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 3/27/16
6. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - 7/30/16
7. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
10. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - 8/25/16

No guarantees Kadijah, but I think i might be good on 36 books ;)If I manage to stay away from Listopia that is ^^

So I'm going to go for 15 books from 3 lists:

Must Read Classics:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
1. The Count of Monte Cristo - read April 2016
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Les Misérables
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. The Scarlet Letter

Kadijah's best books (as the challenge leader, I trust her taste!):
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
1. Jacob Have I Loved
2. A Wrinkle in Time - read Feb 2016
3. Dune - read Oct 2016
4. Howl's Moving Castle - read March 2016
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Quality Dark Fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. The Elephant Tree
2. Interview with the Vampire read August 2016
3. The Zombie Room
4. The Handmaid's Tale - read November 2016
5. Coraline - read May 2016

I am in for 12 books from 2 lists

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. The Secret Garden
3. A Christmas Carol
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. Pippi Longstocking
6. The Catcher in the Rye

Must Read Classics
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Animal Farm
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Persuasion
5. Emma
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin

I'm in for 15 in this one, from 5 different lists (1 book from list #1, 2 books from list #2 etc.) EDIT 75hours later after browsing through Listopia I decided to add 15 more books and 5 more lists - so my FINAL goal will be 30 books from 10 lists.

0/1 from LIST #1
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

1. The Kite Runner

0/2 from LIST #2
Best Japanese Books

2. Norwegian Wood
3. Confessions of a Mask

0/3 from LIST #3
Best Existential Fiction

4. The Plague
5. Nausea
6. The Master and Margarita

0/4 from LIST #4
Best Hardboiled PI Noir

7. The Long Goodbye
8. The Postman Always Rings Twice
9. The Killer Inside Me
10. Kiss Me, Deadly

0/5 from LIST #5
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

11. The Hound of the Baskervilles
12. Bonjour tristesse
13. The Tartar Steppe
14. Manhattan Transfer
15. The General of the Dead Army

0/5 from LIST #6
Let's Shake It Up a Bit (a great list that deals with books that transcended boundaries)

16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
17. Tropic of Cancer
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19. The Cement Garden
20. Amerika

0/4 from LIST #7
Most Depressing Book of all time

21. The Bell Jar
22. The Hours
23. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
24. Othello

0/3 from LIST #8
Time Magazine's All Time 100 Novels/a>

25. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
26. Herzog
27. Portnoy's Complaint

0/2 from LIST #9
The Great American Novel

28. Ragtime
29. The Naked and the Dead

0/1 from LIST #10
The 800 page Gorillaz

30. 2666

i have a question I am doing the books picked by your challenge readers challenge can i add that list to this challenge and do 2 other lists?

Listopia Challenge
0/20 Completed:

List 1 (4 books): Books that Everyone Should Read A Leas Once
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List 2 (4 books): Award Winners Since 1990
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List 3 (4 books): Must Read Classics
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List 4 (4 books): Best Hardboiled PI Noir
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List 5 (4 books): Best Books by Women
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Beth (Ducky) wrote: "A couple of my listopias have the same book on them. Am I allowed to count the same book for each listopia or just for one?"

I have the same issue. I picked 8 for each of my lists, but I knew there would be a lot of overlap. I cut my goal to 20. We do not encourage using the same book twice in the same challenge, but you can use the same book in multiple challenges.

I am not sure if my question got over looked (but I am short it happens) but i have a question I am doing the books picked by your challenge readers challenge can i add that list to this challenge and do 2 other lists?

Blagica wrote: "i have a question I am doing the books picked by your challenge readers challenge can i add that list to this challenge and do 2 other lists?"


I don't see why not. I think a few others have done the same.

thank you very much!

Welcome everyone to the challenge! So far, we have 40 participants.

Count me in.
Read: 3/10 books

Best Young Adult Books - 5 books
✘1. Vampire Academy ✯✯✯✯ 3/31/16
✘2. Uglies ✯✯✯ 4/30/16
3. Divergent
4. The Lightning Thief
5. City of Bones


Best Books of the Decade: 2000s - 5 books
1. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
✘2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America ✯✯✯ 3/4/16
3. Me Talk Pretty One Day
4. American Gods
5. The Help

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016

I try to read two books each lists and one bonus so seven total.


Brainpicking's Best Science and Technology Books
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists
Wonders of the Universe (Wonders of Brian Cox #2)

You Read a Book about What?
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Spook

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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I'll join! I still need to look for the lists I'll use, but it will be 5 books from 3 lists.

Edit: My lists so far.

Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels - 3/5
✓1. Moon Called ★★★★ Aug. 31
✓2. Uprooted ★★★★ Jul. 18
3. Graceling
4. Bitten
✓5. Shiver ★★ Sep. 11

Best Non-Fiction (non biography) - 2/5
1. Eat, Pray, Love
2. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
3. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
✓4. He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys - Greg Behrendt ★★ Feb. 29
✓5. The Rape of Nanking - DNF, not for me right now

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About (of all types) - 2/5
1. Horns
✓2. Thirteen Reasons Why ★★★ May 11
✓3. The Shack ★★★★ Aug. 29
4. Animal Farm
5. City of Ashes

This is what I've come up with so far.

I'm in! I'd like to choose four books from each of the following lists:

50 Best Social Psychology Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
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Best Price & Prejudice Sequels/Variations/Adaptations OR Jane Austen Books/Sequels/Bios and More
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9... OR https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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Writing Books for Writers
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
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My goal and lists are finished Kadijah, went from 5 to 36 :P

I'm going to do 12 books

Dark erotica

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

1) Captive Samantha Jacobey

Signing up for 15!

The Listopia Challenge 2016
Duration: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2016
Completed: 0/15


List 1: Best Spy Novels
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List 2: Best Historical Fiction
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List 3: Can't Wait Books of 2016
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List 4: Best Epic Fantasy
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I'm continuing this challenge from last year. Same lists as last year with the new books from the lists that were marked "to read" during the year. 25 books total.

Yearly Challenge: Listopia Continued

Best Young Adult Books

Graceling
The Little Prince
Just Listen
The Catcher in the Rye
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
The Truth About Forever
Go Ask Alice
This Lullaby

0/8

Everyone's Read It But Me

Interview with the Vampire
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Catcher in the Rye
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Atonement
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
My Sister's Keeper
It
Son of a Witch
Catch-22
I Know This Much Is True

4/11

Everyone's Read It But Me

The Little Prince
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Thousand Splendid Suns
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
Atlas Shrugged
The Poisonwood Bible

3/12

Please sign me up for 25, I'll post my other list later:

Most Interesting Science Non-Fictions Books Read in 2016:

1) Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby
2) How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

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More lists and novels to come...

So many great lists...hard to pick...

sign me up for 12 lists and 52 books

List #1 Best Kick-Ass Female Character from YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Graceling
2. A Great and Terrible Beauty
3. The Host (reread)
4. Clockwork Angel

List #2 Best Book Boyfriends
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Beautiful Disaster (reread)
2. Vampire Academy (reread)
3. Love Unscripted
4. The Vincent Boys
5. Taking Chances
6. Crash (reread)

List #3 Books You Wish People Knew About
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. The Zombie Room
2. The Ghost and the Goth
3. Nobody's Princess
4. Prophecy of the Sisters
5. Finding Sky
6. Incarnate

List #4 The Best Fairytales and Retellings
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1. Fairest
2. Beastly
3. Avalon High
4. Ophelia

List #5 College Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Easy (reread)
2. The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
3. Clash
4. Callum & Harper
5. The Secret of Ella and Micha
6. The Redemption of Callie & Kayden

List #6 Best Adult Vampire Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Dracula
2. Interview with the Vampire
3. Let the Right One In
4. Dead Until Dark

List #7 Books that made you cry!
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. The Time Traveler's Wife
2. A Child Called "It" (reread)
3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4. Gone with the Wind (reread)

List #8 Favorite books from my childhood (rereads)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. Charlotte's Web
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. Little Women
4.James and the Giant Peach
5. Black Beauty
6. Peter Pan

List #9 The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
1. American Psycho
2. Lord of the Flies
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Flowers in the Attic

List #10 Intense and "Angsty" Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
1. Slammed
2. Point of Retreat
3. The Vincent Brothers
4. Love Unrehearsed

List #11 YA Debuts 2015
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
1. My Heart and Other Black Holes
2. The Wrath and the Dawn
3. The Night We Said Yes
4. The Creeping

List #12 Best Zombie Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
1. Rot & Ruin
2. Cell
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Dust & Decay

The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet

1. The Turn of the Screw
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Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

1. A Canticle for Leibowitz
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. Shards of Honor
4. Graceling
5. Half Bad
6. Alif the Unseen
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray
8. The Winner's Curse
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Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

My goal is 80 from this list

I've added the list Kickass Women in Superhero Comics to my challenge, and increased the goal to 25!

Listopia

I'm going to use this challenge to help me find books for other challenges.

Best young adult realistic novels
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Best books of the 20th century
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I only watched the movie
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Best book boyfriends
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Total 20

I'm planning to do this again this year but haven't picked out the books or genre yet....

I hope you don't mind me joining in! I am brand new to Goodreads & love the idea of this challenge. Please sign me up for 25 books across four lists. Going to relive my childhood! :)

^ Going to up this to 26 books.

List One; Big Fat Books Worth The Effort
1. Schindlers List - Thomas Keneally - DONE
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List Two; Books Turned Into Disney Movies
1. The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen - DONE
2. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - DONE
3. Winnie The Pooh - A A Milne - DONE
4. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson - DONE
5. Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie - DONE
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List Three; 1001 Childrens Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1. Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans - DONE
2. Heidi - Johanna Spyri - DONE
3. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - DONE
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List Four; Best Young Adult Books
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This sounds like fun. I'd like to join this challenge. I will be doing 15 books from the following lists:

List 1: BBC Top 200 Books
1. Wuthering Hights by Emily Bronte
2. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell

List 2: The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written
1. Sharp Objects by Gillian Welch
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
3. Dark Places by Gillian Welch

List 3: Best Post Apocalyptic Fiction"
1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
2. The Children of Men by P D James
3. The Gunslinger by Stephen King

List 4: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1. The Martian by Andy Weir
2. Robopocalyps by Daniel Wilson
3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King

List 5:Best Feminist Fiction
1.The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2. ROOM by Emma Donoghue
3. Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

COMPLETED!

Updated message #29 with The Green Mile - Stephen King

1/15

I'd like to join please:

Quirky Southern Fiction

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Garden Spells
3. Where the Heart Is
4. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
5. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

2015: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year

1. The Girl on the Train
2. All the Light We Cannot See
3. The Nightingale
4. Orphan Train
5. Big Little Lies

2014: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year

1. Eleanor & Park
2. What Alice Forgot
3. Fangirl
4. Landline
5. One Plus One

I'm in for 60 books from 9 listopias

Quirky Southern Fiction: 8 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once: 13 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Best Young Adult Books: 10 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: 9 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written: 4 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2455

Best Book Boyfriends: 6 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

The Worst Books of All Time: 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Best Paranormal Romance Series: 4 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Couldn't Put The Book Down: 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

I'm in for 30.


List 1: Best Books Ever
1. The Book Thief
2. Les Misérables
3. The Alchemist
4. Dracula
5. A Tale of Two Cities
Dark Lover

List 2: Favorite Historical Romance Novels
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Mine Till Midnight
3. Seduce Me at Sunrise
4. Married By Morning
5. The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie
The Secret
Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage

List 3: Musically Inclined Heroes Heroines In Romance
1. Thoughtless
2.On Dublin Street
3.Love's Rhythm
4.Rock Addiction
5.Effortless

List 4: Best Book Boyfriends
1. Unleashed
2. Fallen Crest High 01.01.16
3. Fallen Crest Family
4. Fallen Crest Public
5. Fallen Fourth Down

List 5: Funny as Hell
1. Tangled
2. About a Dragon
3. Skin Deep
4. A Demon and His Witch
5. Christmas from Hell

List 6: My Laugh Out Loud Romantic Books
1. The Mane Event
2. What a Dragon Should Know
3. To Woo A Warrior
4. Holding Out
5. In Bed with a Highlander

I'll join in for 20 and add details here in the next week or so.

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. East of Eden
3. The Name of the Rose
4. Shōgun
5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
6. A Suitable Boy
7. The Mill on the Floss
8. The Final Empire
9. Tai-Pan

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. The Bell Jar

I'll join for 24

1. 2015: What Women Born in 1970s have read so far this year

✔ a. Everything I Never Told You
✔ b. The Good Girl
✔ c. Lock In
✔ d. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian


2. Printz Award Winners and Honor Books
✔ a. I Am the Messenger
✔ b. I'll Give You the Sun
c. On the Jellicoe Road/ The Scorpio Races
✔ d. Monster


3. Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies and Duologies
a. The Eye of the World
b. The Way of Kings
c. Words of Radiance
d. The Lies of Locke Lamora


4. Interesting Well Written Books not by Dead/Old White Men
✔ a. Beloved
b. Half of a Yellow Sun
c. Villette
d. The Awakening


5. Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
a. Mansfield Park
✔ b. Dune
c. The Brothers Karamazov
d. David Copperfield


6. Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
✔ a. The Chrysalids
✔ b. The Postman
✔ c. Across the Universe
d. The Scorch Trials

Completed Goodnight Mister Tom from BBC Top 200 list

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Message 84 updated.

The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen

1/25

In another group I am in, I am the group read moderator. I only became active in the group's group reads in 2014 and the group has been doing group reads since 2012. This challenge gives me the perfect opportunity to catch up on some of the group reads I've missed. The group has a list of all the group read books and members are encouraged to vote on their favorites. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
For this challenge I wold like to try for 10 books from this list.

1.) A Morbid Taste for Bones
2.) The Mask of Ra

Updated message 74

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I'm in for 20 books from 1 list

Yearly Challenge
THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2016

Rules :
Choose your list (or multiple lists!) and the number 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!

I'm going to do 20 from 1 list

Books: 1/20

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

1. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett - #548 (2/1/2016)
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Hi everyone -- silly question, but is there an easy way to search lists to see if a book is on it? I ask since some of the lists I'm looking at have hundreds of books, and I'm reading books and then checking to see if they're on the lists for the time being as opposed to picking directly from them.

Thanks for any tips that you might have! :)

Jessica wrote: "Hi everyone -- silly question, but is there an easy way to search lists to see if a book is on it? I ask since some of the lists I'm looking at have hundreds of books, and I'm reading books and the..."

I type in a search for the book and on the book's page it lists the listopias it is on.

Updated message 7. 1/36

Jodi wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi everyone -- silly question, but is there an easy way to search lists to see if a book is on it? I ask since some of the lists I'm looking at have hundreds of books, and I'm readi..."

I didn't even notice that was there. Thank you so much! Makes life much easier :)

Jessica wrote: "Jodi wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi everyone -- silly question, but is there an easy way to search lists to see if a book is on it? I ask since some of the lists I'm looking at have hundreds of books, ..."


You are welcome! I am glad it can help you.

I'm in for 12 books across 3 lists.

5/12 read.

Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once

1. The Great Gatsby
2. Of Mice and Men
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. The Return of the King

"Can't Wait" Books of 2016

1. Lady Midnight
2. The Crown
3. The Last Star
4. Stars Above

Best YA Books

1. Eragon
2. The Hobbit
3. Uglies
4. A Great and Terrible Beauty