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Monthly Challenge: January 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. As this is the first month, I will be choosing all 6 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
📘Winter
📘Light and Dark, Black and White
📘Best Young Adult Books
📘Best Characters who are in their 20s
📘Best Unappreciated Books
📘Books that should be made into Movies

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Interesting... I think I'll bite. Not sure if my reading will line up with the lists, but we'll see, lol.

Total points: 69

1. One Summer: America, 1927 - 2/1/23 - Best unappreciated books #619 - 3 points
2. Homegoing - 3/1/23 - Books that should be movies #4963 - 3 points
3. The Concrete Island - 4/1/23 - Best Unappreciated books #721 - 1 point
4. Taliesin - 5/1/23 - Best unappreciated books #1003 - 5 points
5. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth - 8/1/23 - Best YA Books #668 - 3 points
6. Jamaica Inn - 8/1/23 - Winter #972 - 3 points
7. Midnight Crossroad - 9/1/23 - Best characters in their 20s #278 - 3 stars
8. Eye of the Needle - 11/1/23 - best Unappreciated books #992 - 3 points
9. The Princess Diarist - 11/1/23 - Best Unappreciated Books #372 - 1 point
10. Oliver Twist - Best YA books #200 - 12/1/23 - 1 point
11. The Carpet People - 14/1/23 - Best YA books #3379 - 1 point
12. Americanah - 14/1/23 - best Unappreciated books #1424 - 3 points
13. A Tale for the Time Being - 18/1/23 - Books that should be movies #5951 - 3 points
14. Recursion - 19/1/23 - Books that should be movies #2531 - 3 points
15. Water for Elephants - 20/1/23 - Best YA Books (!?) #244 - 3 points
16. Dragons of Autumn Twilight - 20/1/23 - Light & Dark #623 - 3 points
17. The Starless Sea - 21/1/23 - winter #177 - 3 points
18. Post Captain - 22/1/23 - Books that should be movies #8057 - 5 points
19. H. M. S. Surprise - 23/1/23 - Books that should be movies #7172 - 3 points
20. Small Things Like These - 23/1/23 - winter #118 - 1 point
21. A Face Like Glass - 25/1/23 - Best YA books #1853 - 3 points
22. Only Time Will Tell - 25/1/23 - Books that should be movies #2385 - 3 points
23. Serpent & Dove - 26/1/23 - Best YA books #1689 - 5 points
24. Dissolution - 27/1/23 - Books that should be movies #977 - 3 points
25. Desolation Island - 27/1/23 - Books that should be movies #6443 - 3 points

I'm excited to try this one!

I'm in.

This sounds fun! I’m in🤓.

Are those the lists we can use to start planning?

Alissa wrote: "This sounds fun! I’m in🤓.

Are those the lists we can use to start planning?"

Yes

Listopia Madness

📘Winter
1. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
2. Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey
📘Light and Dark, Black and White
📘Best Young Adult Books
1. The Hate You Give
📘Best Characters Who Are In Their 20s
1. Geekerella
📘Best Unappreciated Books
📘Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern pgs

Books Read:
Points:

I'll give this a roll!
Book Points
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Listopia Lists
📘Winter
📘Light and Dark, Black and White
📘Best Young Adult Books
📘Best Characters who are in their 20s
📘Best Unappreciated Books
📘Books that should be made into Movies

Lauri’s Spot!
HoB Listopia Madness
January 2023

Totally forgot that I wanted to try this out! Will update ASAP.

Listopia Madness 2023: January - 3 points

Listopia Lists
📘Winter
📘Light and Dark, Black and White
📘Best Young Adult Books
📘Best Characters who are in their 20s

📘Best Unappreciated Books
✔️I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Read: 18-Jan-2023, 328pgs, 3pts

📘Books that should be made into Movies

Donna! These 2 lists go to someones votes on the list. Is that intentional?

📘Best Characters who are in their 20s
📘Best Unappreciated Books

Ashley wrote: "Donna! These 2 lists go to someones votes on the list. Is that intentional?

📘Best Characters who are in their 20s
📘Best Unappreciated Books"

No, but thank you. They are fixed now ; )

I find it highly amusing to scroll through the YA list and see thousands of entries that are definitely not YA :D

Well, you just reminded me that this existed Sammy! I'm thinking I'll have to try again next month... I don't think I have the patience to go back through the lists before my vacation! Gah!

You're welcome, lol.

I suspect most people have forgotten. happens all the time with challenges. It's the reason I've set up a private group for myself with different threads for all the challenges I'm doing. makes life so much easier!
Each time I finish a book, I just follow the links to my challenge posts and update them :)

Oh this is GENIUS! I may copy you. I told myself I was going to do LESS challenges this year, so I didn't feel crazy... but so far, it's not going well....

hahahah! Yeah, I tell myself that all the time... At one point I was doing so many, it was taking me over an hour to update them all every time. I decided that was a good time to scale back a bit. I about halved them, but I'm still doing rather a lot... :D

OCD tip: If you do challenges in more than one group, you can set up different folders for each one. It doesn't really matter in the end, but having everything tidied away in the right folder makes me happy, lol.

I also add any useful challenge info as comments in the induvidual challenge threads, just to have everything on one page (as with challenges, the rules can be on page 1, and your post on page 23, and going back and forth to check stuff can be a pain, lol)

You are making my OCD happy. I have been just using a multi sheet SS in Google sheets, because I love SS, but I still find I forget to add something and it gets lost!

How are we doing? Is everyone getting some reading done? Don't forget to update your points. The end of the month is coming up fast!

I am a bit late to this one but I found one I read this month on the lists

Listopia Madness 2023: January
total points: 1

Winter - 1 pt
1. And Then There Were None 247 pgs 1/12/23

It's never too late ; )

Make sure to update your points today! I will be contacting the 3 winners tomorrow to get your listopia list for February.

Top 3 scorers

Sammy: 69
Heather: 13
Ashley: 3