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*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
D&D Adventures
Book Quest Adventure
Book of the Year Tournament
Arrows of Fortune
HOB's 2025 Bingo
Snowball Fight
Title Dominoes- February
Symbols of Luck & Fortune
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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C 6
Claire
Bernadette 29
Angie 71
Erin
Sammy 97
Jessica 48
Anastasia 36
Layne
Carrie 0
Teddie 11
Maria 29
Teresa 0
bamaace83 0
Maria 6
Jenny 88
Heli 24
Ashley 24
Ellen 27
CassieCruel
Risa
Heather 3
Total Points: 6A Charming Hope | 3 pts (Romances that Gradually Build; Symbols of Luck, Book Quest Adventures)
Emergency Contact | 3 pts (Romances that Gradually Build; Symbols of Luck, Book Quest Adventures)
📗All-Time Awesome Books📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
🍀Symbols of Luck & Fortune Bonus
🔎Book Quest
👯Buddy Read
29 points
1. Oryx and Crake; 2/5, 389 pages;📗# 1,838 - 3 points + 1🍀 = 4 points
2. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl/Jesse Andrews; 2/11, 295 pages; 📗#3,453 - 1 point + 2🔎🍀 = 3 points
3. The Upside of Unrequited/Becky Albertalli; 2/15; 336 pages; 📗#1,413 - 3 points + 2🔎🍀= 5 points
4. The Astonishing Color of After/Emily X.R. Pan; 2/20; 480 pages; 📗4,542; 3 points + 2🔎🍀+ 4👯= 9 points
5. No. 23 Burlington Square/Jenni Keer; 2/20; 426 pages; 📗#288; 3 points + 2🔎🍀= 5 points
6. A Pocket Full of Rye/Agatha Christie - 2/26; 256 pages; 📘#591, 📗#4,225; 2 points + 1 bonus = 3 points
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Listopia Madness
Duration: February 1-28, 2025
Febuary 2025 Lists | Total Points: 71
📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Books Read:
📗1221📘483 | Mr. Mercedes | 538 pgs | 5p + 3bp | SF - BQ
📔843 | Onyx Storm | 758 pgs | 7p + 2bp | SF - BQ - 📚
📗8819 | People We Meet on Vacation | 400 pgs | 3p + 2bp | SF - BQ
📗3284📔609|Just One Damned Thing After Another | 480 pgss | 3p + 3bp |SF - BG
📗8892 | Kushiel's Dart | 1040 pgs |10p + 6bp| SF - BQ - 📚
📘2157 📔265 | Bonded in Death | 368 pgs | 3p + 3bp | SF - BQ
📗2175📔143|Never Never |586 pgs | 5p + 3bp | SF - BQ
📕#443 | Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | 354 pgs | 3p+ 6bp | SF - BQ - 📚
Challenges Accepted for Bonus points:
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My Spot🗺️ Foreign Lands
🗡️ Killer Thrillers
😺 All-Time Awesome
Completed
1. Christine by Stephen King, #1007 on list, 2/12/25 🗡️
3 page points (411 pages).
Lists - Killer Thrillers
*1 bonus point if your book is on one of these lists & used in any one of the challenges listed below - Book Quest Adventure
*2 bonus points if your book is on 2 lists & used in any of the challenges listed below
2. All Your Twisted Secrets -- 5938 on All time Awesome Books, finished 2/15/25
3. Crocodile on the Sandbank 2-18-25 / 3251 on All-Time Awesome Books
4. The Guest List 2-23-25 / #874 Killer Thrillers Listopia
5. Spinning Silver 2705 All-Time Awesome Books 2/25/25
6. Full Dark, No Stars 3532 All-Time Awesome Books 2/25/25
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9.
10.
IN!📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Total points: 97
1. A Suitable Boy 📙#320 - 10 points + 1 point for BQ
2. Altered Carbon📗#5145 - 5 points
3. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 📕#443 - 3 points + 1 point for BQ + 4 points for BR
4. Lord Edgware Dies 📗#4876 & 📘#2010 - 1 point + 1 point for 2 lists
5. An Autumn Crush📕#347 - 3 points + 1 point for BQ
6. The Martian 📙#417 & 📘#2021 - 3 points + 1 point for 2 lists
7. The Paying Guests📗#5792 - 5 points + 1 point for BQ
8. The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal 📔#609 - 3 points
9. The Potato Factory 📔#577 - 7 points
10. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow📗#925 - 3 points + 1 point for BQ
11. Kushiel's Dart 📗#8773 - 10 points + 1 point for BQ + 4 points for BR
12. The Maid📗#5354 - 3 points
13. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves📗#2823- 3 points + 1 point for BQ
14. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 📗#924 - 3 points
15. Montana Sky📗#2439 - 3 points
16. A Pint of Murder📘#2220 - 1 point
17. A Conjuring of Light📕#296 & 📗#625 - 5 points + 2 points for 2 lists & BQ
18. Upgrade📗#1059 - 3 points
19. To All the Boys I've Loved Before 📗#872 - 3 points
20. Ethan Frome📗#5318 - 1 point
RECS:Once Were Warriors - foreign lands (just be warned it is NOT a sweet, easy read. Tissues required.)
Celestial Bodies - foreign lands
Daughter of the Empire (and the rest of the trilogy) - Killer Thrillers (although these are fantasy books, not sure why they're on this list, lol)
Orphan X - killer thrillers & All-time Awesome
The Fellowship of the Ring - killer thrillers (really? Why?!? 😆)
Sexing the Cherry - killer thrillers (honestly, this list makes no sense!)
The Rosie Project - killer thrillers (!!! I think this book was added on opposites day...) - Also on All-time Awesome list
Pines - killer thrillers & All-time Awesome
The Collector - killer thrillers
The Blackhouse - killer thrillers
The Winter King - All-time Awesome
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - All-time Awesome
The Power of One - All-time Awesome
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - All-time Awesome (not recommended if you don't have a strong stomach! 😆)
84, Charing Cross Road - All-time Awesome
Recursion - All-time Awesome
The Sisters Brothers - All-time Awesome
Orlando - All-time Awesome
The Uncommon Reader - All-time Awesome
Just a few for starters, and we only have half the lists so far! 😆
I have a heap of books ready to go, but feel free to chuck some recs this way too!
Hi, Donna 😁 I'm guessing we aren't allowed to use books we've added to the list ourselves?
The idea generally is not to add books until afterwards to keep it fair for everyone. Donna likes to throw some very random lists at us at times to try and get us to broaden our reading horizons (some of them are ...interesting ... 😆 She's gone pretty easy on us with these lists!)
But there are still 3 more lists to come (usually they're up late on the 1st or on the 2nd), so some more chances for what you're looking for on those.
Unless 3 or more people update their books and overtake me this month, the list I have picked out has a handful of MM on it too.
If you like TJ Klune, I've spotted almost all his books on the three lists that are up currently.
Sammy wrote: "The idea generally is not to add books until afterwards to keep it fair for everyone. Donna likes to throw some very random lists at us at times to try and get us to broaden our reading horizons (..."
Thanks Sammy! I am slowly plodding through All-Time Awesome Books. Unfortunately I forgot to note down the list number for the first few MM I found so will have to go back again 😂 I am voting for them all so if anyone else is looking for MM, feel free to friend me so you can see all my votes.
Lol! I have been there, so feel your pain 😆
Listopia Madness- February 2025📗 All-Time Awesome Books
📘 Killer Thrillers
📙 Foreign Lands
📕 Romances That Gradually Build
📔 I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒 Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
👯Buddy Read
🗣 HBO 2025 Bingo
🧙 D&D Adventures
🏞 Book Quest Adventure
🏹 Arrows of Fortune
🍀 Luck anf Fortune
✅ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 📗 #2652 🍀 🏞
Pages: 533 pages
Read: 6-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7 Pts
✅ Power Plays & Straight A's by Eden Finley 📗 #5909 📒 #1106
Read: 21-Feb ⭐⭐⭐ 2 Pts
✅ Wolfsong by T.J. Klune 📗 #5029 🍀 🏞 👯
Pages: 517
Read: 9-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 9 Pts
✅ Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price 📗 #8038
Read: 21-Feb ⭐⭐⭐ 1 Pt
✅ Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender 📗 🏞 🧙
Pages: 362
Read: 6-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 Pts
✅ Unhinged by Onley James 📗 #5446 📒 #641
Pages: 306
Read: 23-Feb ⭐⭐⭐ 5 Pts
✅ Leo Loves Aries by Anyta Sunday 📗 #5550 📒 #746
Read: 21-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐2 Pts
✅ Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune 📗 #105 🍀 🏹 page 2
Pages: 390
Read: 23-Feb ⭐⭐⭐ 5 Pts
A Ferry of Bones & Gold 📒 #1125 🍀 Pt
Wed to the Barbarian 📒 #2961 🍀 Pt
✅ Wives of War 📒 #2687 🏞 🧙
Pages: 350
Read: 12-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐5 Pts
✅ Rocket Science 📒 #1535
Pages: 324
Read 25-Feb ⭐⭐⭐ 4 Pts
✅ Free Hand 📒 #1223
Read: 15-Feb ⭐⭐⭐ 1 Pt
✅ Unnatural by Alessandra Hazard 📒 #1180
Read: 9-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 Pt
✅ Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman 📗 #807 🏞
Read: 27-Feb ⭐⭐⭐2 Pts
✅ Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews 📒 #1453
Read: 27-Feb ⭐⭐⭐⭐1 Pt
Points: 48
Listopia Madness- February 2025Lists:
📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Total points: 36
Books:
1. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle read 02/02/2025 5 stars 378p #836 Killer thrillers list =3 points
2. Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly read 07/02/2025 5 stars 400p #1349 Awesome books list =3 points
3. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum read 12/02/2025 4 stars #851 Killer thrillers list #912 Awesome books list 610p =6 points
4. Passions in Death by J.D. Robb read 13/02/2025 5 stars 359 p #12 Killer thrillers #84 awesome books = 4 points +1 BQ
5. The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters read 14/02/2025 5 stars #5768 all time awesome books 512p = 5 points +1 BQ
6. You by Caroline Kepnes read 11/02/2025 2 stars 464p #2145 all time awesome books list = 3 points +1 BQ
7. A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny read 17/02/2025 3 stars 429p #2078 Killer thriller list =3 points
8. Frost at Christmas by R.D. Wingfield read 21/02/2025 5 stars 384 p #2220 killer thriller list =3 points
9. Rules of Prey by John Sandford read 24/02/2025 5 stars 479 pages #1239 awesome books list =3 points
Listopia Madness- February 2025Total points: 0
Books:
Listopia Madness- February 2025
I'll Read Whatever You Write
Gaudy Night #25 | 501 p | read 2.14.25used in Book Quest
points: 5
The Silver Pigs #301 | 329p | read 2.23.25points: 3
Her Name Is Knight #59 | 389p | read 2.21.25points: 3
Total points: 11
All-Time Awesome Books
Killer Thrillers
Foreign Lands
Slow Build Romances I'll Read Whatever You Write
KU 
The Somerset Slayings 17 Replay 84 The Sacred Well Murders 163 The Terminal List 197 Lock In 482 The Name of the Rose Pachinko The Unbearable Lightness of Being Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door The Mercy of Gods Dust Child Eon Drowning Demon Copperhead The Winter King
Silvia Moreno-GarciaTruly, DeviousListopia Madness - February 2025Lists:
📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Total points: 29
Books:
1. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (329 pg) 📗 📒 3 + 1 = 4
2. Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (375 pg) 📗 3
3. A Promised Land by Barack Obama (768 pg) 📗7
4. Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson (416 pg) 📗 📒 3 + 1 = 4
5. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (514 pg) 📗5
6. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (320 pg) 📗3
7. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (465 pg) 📗 3
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Total points: 0
Books:
Listopia Madness - February 2025Total points: 0
Books:
Listopia Madness - February 2025📗 All-Time Awesome Books
📘 Killer Thrillers
📙 Foreign Lands
📕 Romances That Gradually Build
📔 I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒 Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Total points: 6
Books read:
1. Brieven van Skye by Jessica Brockmole (5/2) | 📗#7806
HOB's 2025 Bingo & Symbols of Luck & Fortune
1 + 2 = 3 points
2. Love Me Louder by Christina Lee (20/2) | 📒#2720
Title Dominoes- February & Symbols of Luck & Fortune
1 + 2 = 3 points
D&D AdventuresBook Quest Adventure
Book of the Year Tournament
Arrows of Fortune
Title Dominoes- February
Symbols of Luck & Fortune
📗 All-Time Awesome Books
📘 Killer Thrillers
📙 Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Running total 88
1. This Is Why We Lied 408pgs 📔454, symbols 3+1=4
2. Last Stop 204pgs, 📔978, D&D, symbols 1+2=3
3. Song of the Forever Rains 423pgs, 📒964, Quest, Symbols 3+2+4(BR)=9
4. The Examiner 480pgs, 📔1026, D&D, Symbols 3+2=5
5. Cinder 400pgs, 📒2012, 📗522, Quest, Symbols 3+3=6
6. Wolves of the Calla 960pgs, 📗5935, 📔672, Quest, Symbols 10+3=13
7. The House in the Cerulean Sea 398pgs, 📕366,
📒2832, Quest, Symbols 3+3+4 (BR)=10
8. Kushiel's Dart 929pgs, 📗8892, Quest, Symbols 10+2+4 (BR)=16
9. Onyx Storm 527pgs, 📔843, quest, symbols 5+2+4 (BR)=11
10. The Black Bird Oracle 444pgs, 📔934, 📗149. quest, symbols 3+2=5
11. Nine Princes in Amber 📗8819, symbols 1+1=2
12. A Haunting on the Hill 326pgs, 📔512 symbols 3+1=4
Listopia Madness - February 2025Total Points: 24
📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Books:
1. Homeland - 2/4 - 324 pages, 📗#3951 - 3 points
2. Good Girl, Bad Blood - 2/12 - 432 pages, 📗#1274, 📒 #246 - 3 + 1 = 4 points
3. One Plus One - 2/14 - 369 pages, 📗 #2299 - 3 points
4. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - 2/15 - 318 pages, 📗 #833, 📘 #404 - 3 + 1 = 4 points
5. Listen for the Lie - 2/21 - 338 pages, 📗 #115 📘 #9 - 3 + = 4 points
6. None of This Is True - 2/24 - 384 pages, 📗#246, 📘#82 - 3 + 1 = 4 points
7. Every Heart a Doorway - 2/26 - 175 pages, 📔#485 - 1 point
8. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - 2/27 - 151 pages, 📗#497 - 1 point
Jessica wrote: "Listopia Madness- February 2025List: All-Time Awesome Books
1. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 2591 26
Book Quest Adventure
HOB's 2025 B..."
My list is up if you want to check if there's anything else for you there.
Not the kind of list I'd normally pick, but it worked for other challenges this month 😆
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📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
🍀Symbols of Luck & Fortune Bonus
👯Buddy Read
Books Read:
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle 📗#6696, 158pgs = 1pt
The Astonishing Color of After 📗#4542 👯, 462pgs = 7pts
Love and Other Words📗#6728, 432pgs = 3pts
Convenience Store Woman📗#4116📙#732, 163pgs = 2pts
Onyx Storm 📔#1021 👯, 527pgs = 9pts
Frankenstein 📗#279📘#2110, 269pgs = 2pts
Total points: 27Books Read: 9
1.
: 5 points2.
: 3 points3.
: 3 points4.
: 1 point5.
: 5 points6.
: 3 points7.
: 3 points8.
: 3 points9.
: 3 points
My SpotPotentials:
Lessons in Faking
Water for Elephants
A Dance with the Fae Prince
The Predator
Chase the Dark
The Never King
Slaughterhouse Five
If we were villains
Me before you
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
Dance of Thieves
King of Scars
American Psycho
A Reaper at the Gates
Legendborn
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A Discovery of Witches
Psycho Shifters
Soulless
*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)
📗All-Time Awesome Books
📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
Books read:4
Points: 16
1. Two Can Keep a Secret-2/8/25 (329pgs)=3pts + 📗#2356 + Symbols of Luck=4pts
2. From Dead to Worse-2/9/25 (368pgs)=3pts + 📗#1331 + Symbols of Luck=4pts
3. As Good As Dead-2/17/25 (500pgs)=3pts + 📘 #1129 + Symbols of Luck=4pts
4. The Hating Game-2/24/25 (387pgs)=3pts + 📗#1602 + Symbols of Luck=4pts
Challenges Accepted for Bonus points
D&D Adventures
Book Quest Adventure
Book of the Year Tournament
Arrows of Fortune
HOB's 2025 Bingo
Snowball Fight
Title Dominoes- February
Symbols of Luck & Fortune
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2nd: Jenny 88
3rd: Angie 71
📗All-Time Awesome Books📘Killer Thrillers
📙Foreign Lands
📕Romances That Gradually Build
📔I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes (Kim Harrison #361, Read-
) by Kim Harrison📒Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
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Monthly Challenge: February 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
All-Time Awesome Books
Killer Thrillers
Foreign Lands
Romances That Gradually Build Provided by January 1st place winner: Sammy
I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes Provided by January 2nd place winner: Jenny
Top Books for Kindle Unlimited Provided by January 3rd place winner: Angie
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