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Monthly Challenge: September 2025

Welcome to our 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 poetry or cookbooks allowed.
📘Standard Rules Apply

Book Points


Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.


Listopia Lists
Beach Reads - Mysteries & Thrillers
The Definitive Horror Book List
Best Shapeshifter/Werewolf books
Best Weird Fiction Books Provided by August 1st place winner: Angie
Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2020 Provided by August 2nd place winner: Sammy
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Provided by August 3rd place winner: Jenny


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September Bonuses



*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 any one of the challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on one of these lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & used in any of the challenges listed below
*3 bonus points if your books is on 2 lists & used in multiple challenges listed below
*4 bonus points if you buddy read a book on any list with at least 1 other person (Sign up here)

Challenges Accepted for Bonus points
DNO - What's in the Box?
Summer Song Shuffle
I Spy!
Bookopoly
The Narrative Nexus
Escape Room Challenge
Sinister Toys & Haunted Objects
Me Challenge
Sunset SpellOut challenge
Mystery Maven's Magical Manipulation of Mirth and Mayhem!
Fairy Tale Retellings

Q&A
Q: Can we read a different book in the series than the book on the list?
A: Not for this challenge. We are focused on the listopia for this challenge.

Q: Can we use a different edition than the one on the list?
A: Yes, it is the same book so the edition you use does not matter.

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I'm in.

IN!!

📗 Beach Reads - Mysteries & Thrillers
📘 The Definitive Horror Book List
📙 Best Shapeshifter/Werewolf books
📕 Best Weird Fiction Books
📔 Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2020
📒 Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

Total points: 45


1. Children of Time 📒#348 - 5 points + 2 points for Toys & I Spy + 4 points for BR
2. Termination Shock 📒#395 - 7 points + 2 points for I Spy & Sunset + 4 point for BR
3. Death of the Author 📒#297 - 3 points + 2 points for I Spy & Sunset
4. The Information 📗#772 & 📕#230 - 3 points + 3 points for 2 lists, I Spy & Sunset
5. Sleeping Murder 📗#1663 - 1 point + 2 points for I spy & Toys
6. At the Mountains of Madness 📗#1588 & 📕#226 - 1 point + 3 points for 2 lists, I Spy & sunset
7. The Woman in Black 📘#101 - 1 point + 2 points for I Spy & Sunset

Running total-

I Spy!
Escape Room Challenge
Sinister Toys & Haunted Objects
Sunset SpellOut challenge
Fairy Tale Retellings

📗 Beach Reads - Mysteries & Thrillers
📘 The Definitive Horror Book List
📙 Best Shapeshifter/Werewolf books
📕 Best Weird Fiction Books
📔 Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2020
📒 Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

Children of Time 📒348, Symbol, Fairy, BR 5+2+4=11

📢 Listopia Madness Announcement

Listopia Madness will not be continuing next month. Participation has been a little too quiet for this one, so we’ll be putting it on pause.

But don’t worry—I haven’t forgotten about all of you clever Listopia lovers! Starting in October, there will be a Listopia Bonus folded into our TBR Busters challenge.

As a special treat, the winners from September’s Listopia Madness will each get to choose a bonus Listopia for the rest of the year:

🥇 1st Place Winner → October
🥈 2nd Place Winner → November
🥉 3rd Place Winner → December

So make sure you finish strong this month—your Listopia brilliance might guide the rest of us through the year!

😭

Must try to finish 1st or 2nd, as if all goes according to plan, december will be a pretty much non-reading month for me this year 😆

Well, you usually do finish first, right?

Actually, recently not so much!

You have been a bit busy with other things though. Understandable.

Just a smidge! We have a couple that came for a viewing last week coming back for another look on saturday. Fingers crossed they'll put in an offer and we can be done with all the faff.

I would dearly love to move before Christmas, and technically, the England average selling time would already put us at early January. But both that couple and ourselves are no-chain, so I really, really hope they can get it through a little quicker!

All lists have been posted. Happy Reading!

Donna wrote: "All lists have been posted. Happy Reading!"

Many thank yous

Sammy wrote: "Just a smidge! We have a couple that came for a viewing last week coming back for another look on saturday. Fingers crossed they'll put in an offer and we can be done with all the faff.

I would de..."

Still keeping my fingers crossed for you, and reminding you to make a sacrifice to the gods of real estate.

Points: 7

1. : 3 points
2. : 1 point
3. : 3 points

In!

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Best Weird Fiction Books Provided by August 1st place winner: Angie
Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2020 Provided by August 2nd place winner: Sammy
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Provided by August 3rd place winner: Jenny