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Listopia Madness - September 2025
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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
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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Listopia Madness
Duration: September 1 - 30, 2025
September 2025 Lists | Total Points: 85
📗 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
Books Read:
📒344| Children of Time |609 pgs | 5p + 6bp | BK - ST - 📚
📗467 | The Husband's Secret |421 pgs |3p + 2bp | BK - DNO
📕804 | A Half-Built Garden |347 pgs |3p + 6bp | BK - ES - 📚
📒8225 | Yours For the Taking |336 pgs |3p + 6bp | BK - SP - 📚
📕409📒710 | A Psalm for the Wild-Built |151 pgs |1p + 7bp | BK - SP - 📚
📗1215|The Survivors |384 pgs |3p + 2bp | BK - SP
📕29📒1313 | Authority |369 pgs |3p + 3bp | BK - ST
📕889 | Love and Other Pranks |408 pgs |3p + 6bp | BK - ST - 📚
📒7858 | The Future |423 pgs |3p + 6bp | BK - SP -📚
📕46📒1086 | Acceptance |353 pgs |3p + 3bp | BK - SP
📕776📒2265 | Absolution |528 pgs |5p + 3bp | BK - SP
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Total Points: 9Can't Wait Sci Fi/Fantasy
The Knight and the Moth - 9/10 - 3pts
The Enchanted Greenhouse - 9/28 - 3pts
Best Sci Fi & Fantasy Books
The Martian - 9/19 - 3pts
Best Weird Fiction Books
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: 85
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 & sunset
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
8. A Murder Is Announced 📗#747 - 1 point + 2 points for I spy & sunset
9. Whose Body? 📗#1769 - 1 point + 2 points for I spy & sunset
10. They Do It With Mirrors 📗#873 - 1 point + 2 points for I spy & Sunset
11. The Lord of the Rings 📒#27 - 10 points + 2 points for I spy & Toys
12. Time for the Stars 📒#848 - 1 point + 2 points for I Spy & sunset
13. Wild Magic 📒#728 - 3 points + 2 points for I spy & Sunset
14. The Human Son 📔#277 - 3 points + 2 points for I Spy & Sunset
15. The Last Day 📔#479 - 3 points + 2 points for I Spy & sunset
16. The Husband's Secret 📗#529 - 3 points + 2 points for I spy & sunset
17. Planet of the Apes 📒#167 - 1 point + 2 points for I spy & sunset
18. The Postman Always Rings Twice 📗#125 - 1 point + 2 points for sunset & I spy
Running total- 81I 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, Spy, Fairy, BR 5+2+4=11
Termination Shock 📒395, Spy, Spell, BR 7+3+4=14
Flybot 📒7834, Spy, Spell 3+2=5
Lessons in Magic and Disaster 📒8027, Spy, Spell 3+2=5
Fear the Flames 📒8150, Fairy, Toys 3+2=5
Seven Empty Houses 📕1060, Spy, Spell 1+2=3
A Half-Built Garden 📕804, Escape, Spell, BR 3+2+4=9
The Shattering Peace 📒7992, Spy, Spell 3+2=5
Named of the Dragon 📒8095, Fairy, Spell 3+2=5
The Cloud Roads 📒2319, Fairy, Spell 1+2=3
Yours for the Taking 📒8222, Spy, Spell, BR 3+2+4=9
Duma Key 📘79, Toy, Spy 5+2=7
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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?
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!
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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: 251.
: 3 points2.
: 1 point3.
: 3 points4.
: 3 points5.
: 3 points6.
: 1 point7.
: 3 points8.
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: 3 points10.
: 3 points11.
: 1 point
These links aren't working for me...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
Ohhh, I see you read Duma Key Jenny! Was it your first read? what did you think? I absolutely LOVE that book!"
I don't know why this one was never on my radar before this. I loved it, and I will be rereading it at some point.
It's my favourite King after The Talisman and one of those books I just really didn't want to end.I think I'm about due a re-read too!
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2nd place: Jenny
3rd place: Ellen
TBR Busters listopia list
October lists will be provided by both Sammy & Angie. Yes, there will be two lists because these two went and tied.
November list will be provided by Jenny
December list will be provided by Ellen
I swear we didn't do it on purpose again! 😆
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Children of Time (other topics)Yours for the Taking (other topics)
Absolution (other topics)
The Husband's Secret (other topics)
A Half-Built Garden (other topics)
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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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