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Listverse. Com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists
Listverse. Com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: Fascinating Facts and Shocking Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History, and More | Jamie Frater
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Features lists that cover a broad range of subjects including bizarre births, weird jobs, crazy diets, strange phobias, historical oddities, religious scandals, ridiculous criminal acts, and weird superstitions.
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#Top25of21

My top 25 books of the 21st century so far. I had to leave so many great books off the list that I‘m probably going to make this “part 1” and do a Top 50…

BarbaraBB Great list! I should have added an Everett too! 3mo
Billypar Very nice list! Atonement and Bel Canto were such incredible, sad books 💔 Life of Pi is one that sticks with me: I remember feeling fully immersed in that story 🐅 3mo
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#top25of21st
I have feeling someone has already started a thread about this and I missed it, but with the NY Times recent list of 100 best books of this century, it seems like a good opportunity to try and figure out my own. So if anyone wants to join in, I'd love to see what your favorites are. I chose 25 instead of 100 and just novels since I have a hard time comparing nonfiction or story collections, but feel free to make your own rules!

Billypar Reddit thread with the NYT list (#s 3, 23, and 25 are on it): https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/1e1h8cc/lets_talk_about_nyts_best_b... 4mo
LiteraryinPA Thanks for sharing your personal list! 4mo
Ruthiella I don‘t know if I could whittle it down? 😂 Ishiguro would be on it for sure, but I‘d pick “Never Let Me Go” and for Mitchell, “Cloud Atlas”. 4mo
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Suet624 There are so many that I like on this list but numbers 18 through 21 are my absolute favorites, especially Marra‘s book. I guess I would add Fresh Water for Flowers. 🙂 4mo
TheBookHippie Gah … okay I‘ll work on it!! I agree with your 14&25 4mo
TheBookHippie Oh 13 too! 4mo
BkClubCare Wow - I have 3 of these on my Aug bookspin bingo card 4mo
plemmdog I loved #10 and #19! 4mo
Billypar @Ruthiella Never Let Me Go is on my to be read shelf, so hopefully I'll get to that soon. I pulled about 35 initial candidates from my shelves, but whatever number you set, it always leads to tough choices. 4mo
Billypar @Suet624 I need to bump FWFF up on my TBR based on everything I've heard. And I'd like to read more from Marra based on how powerful Constellation was. 4mo
Billypar @TheBookHippie Chabon's Kavalier & Clay is on the NYT list and is also great, but I feel like Yiddish Policeman's Union gets overlooked among his novels. I still need to read the newest releases from Obreht and Ward. 4mo
Billypar @BkClubCare If it works out that you get Drive Your Plow... I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. One of the most unique murder mysteries I've read, and it's got some great dark humor. 4mo
Billypar @plemmdog The voices of the narrators in both of those novels are so distinctive, I can almost conjure them in my head now. I never wanted to put either one down while I was reading. 4mo
TheBookHippie @Billypar I agree!! 4mo
BkClubCare @Billypar - Looking forward to it; starting it next 🤩 4mo
BarbaraBB Great list. Did you choose them from The NY Times list? 4mo
Billypar @BarbaraBB No, I was just finding favorites from my shelf. There are three from NYT's - A Brief History 7 Killings, Bel Canto, and Sing, Unburied, Sing. It's got lots of good ones, but I've only read a little more than 1/3. 4mo
Reggie I love that you have Bunny and Fever Dream in there. 🖤🖤🖤 4mo
Billypar @Reggie If weirdness was like paint, I think my entire list has a thin coat, but those are two where it collected and pooled 😆🖤 4mo
vivastory Fantastic list! 👏 🤘 3mo
Christine This is a really great list!! 3mo
sarahbarnes So many great ones on here - and a few that are high up on my TBR. 3mo
Billypar @sarahbarnes I feel like nothing on my TBR gets read unless I see the book recommended multiple times, so I like how these lists help with prioritizing. 3mo
merelybookish Fabulous picks! I think Bunny would make mine as well. I think often my 'best' books become the ones I don't forgot. And I have not forgotten Bunny! 3mo
Billypar @merelybookish Yeah, that's a good standard to use. I'm pretty sure Bunny won't ever stop hopping around my brain! 3mo
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Great book of weird lists!

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I got this book from eBay via a MasterCard gift card that I got for my birthday! I‘m currently on page 98!

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#currentlyreading 1 reread and 1 borrowed.

CindyE09 Just read Eowyn Ivy‘s last book To The Bright Edge of the Wold, and now I really want to read Snow Child. Hope you enjoy it! 6y
Conservio Thanks for all the recent love! 6y
BookishGirl06 @Conservio you‘re welcome 6y
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I have a feeling that Melania Trump engages in pseudonecrophilia.

umbrellagirl Ew! Why is that a thing?!?!? 7y
umbrellagirl Also 😆😆 7y
FantasyChick None of my comments to this are Litsy appropriate 😂😂 7y
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12 People Who Died While Performing (continued)

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12 People Who Died While Performing (Part 1)

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12 People Who Died While Performing

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12 People Who Died While Performing

LauraJ Well, technically he was on a break. 7y
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AmyG Ha! 7y
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Famous Last Words:

"No, you certainly can't." --John F. Kennedy, in reply to Nellie Connelly, wife of Gov. John Connelly, who commented, "You certainly can't say that the people of Dallas haven't given you a nice welcome, Mr. President."

Bklover Wow! 7y
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Famous Last Words:

"Now, why did I do that?" --General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1813

"Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper: "French Fries!"
--James French, a convicted murderer, who was sentenced to death by the electric chair.

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Famous Last Words:

"Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose." --Queen Antoinette after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine.

"I should never have switched from scotch to martinis." --Humphrey Bogart

"Go on! Get out! Last words are for fool's who haven't said enough!" --Karl Marx, when asked by his housekeeper if he had any last words

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10 Bizarre Death-Related Facts. (I would rather drown than be married to a Republican).

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In that case, if I were to be executed by hanging, my final words would be, "Look, ladies! I'm well-hung!"

Thank you. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitresses.

DGRachel 🤣🤣 7y
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sprainedbrain 🤣🤣🤣 7y
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10 Truly Bizarre Deaths

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10 Truly Bizarre Deaths

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10 Painful Rites of Passage

Suet624 That‘s just crazy. 7y
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10 Painful Rites of Passage

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Checking out some new reading challenges for 2018, thought I‘d share this extensive list. http://www.girlxoxo.com/the-master-list-of-2018-reading-challenges/

jolena_75 I‘m doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge, I‘m excited about it. I‘ve never done a challenge before. (edited) 7y
Jinjer 😳👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 7y
AceOnRoam Oh no. Too tempting. Must. Not. Look. Maybe just a little peek...😉 7y
Julsmarshall I‘m doing Popsugar too, @jolena_75 And I always do BookRiot so I imagine I will again. 7y
jolena_75 @Julsmarshall I‘ll go check out BookRiot and see what it is. Is it similar to Popsugar? 7y
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Yeah I'm a #listlover. They help me stay organized. #fallintobooks

WarpedSweetness Are those Shopkins stickers? 7y
LibrarianRyan @WarpedSweetness stand up notes I believe. $1 isle at Target a few months ago. (edited) 7y
WarpedSweetness @LibrarianRyan I love section of Target. I'm.not allowed over there unsupervised anymore. Lll 7y
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LibrarianRyan @WarpedSweetness my guy says the same thing. 7y
WarpedSweetness @LibrarianRyan What the hell happened in my comment? Ugh, that's awful. Every time we go to Target my fiancee polices my inspection of the $1. "Babe, I don't think we need ten little buckets" lol 7y
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