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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Author! Author! 2017

Author! Author! 2017

This challenge is for those wishing to delve further into a favorite author, or pursue a new discovery, by reading several books by a single author during 2017.

The "Experienced" reading level represents a commitment to read four books one author. As you move up the reading levels, each level should consist of another four books by that same author or four by another author. You can choose to read four, eight, twelve, or sixteen books by one author, or read four (or a multiple of four) by more than one author. For example, if you choose the "Virtuoso" reading level, you could choose sixteen books by C. J. Cherryh, or eight by Cherryh and eight by Frank Herbert, or four each by Cherryh, Herbert, Le Guin, and Gibson. Rereads of old favorites are also fair game for this challenge.

Reading multiple books by the same author within a fairly short timeframe can give you insights into that author's themes, style, or obsessions not apparent from an individual book. Consider sharing your insights on the forum thread dedicated to this challenge!

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2017 – December 2017

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Experienced = 4 books + 1 reviews
 Aficionado = 8 books + 2 reviews
 Connoisseur = 12 books + 3 reviews
 Virtuoso = 16 books + 4 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

Abalone

Abalone

Blood Maidens
Children of Earth and Sky
Daemons are Forever
Demon Deathchase
From Hell With Love
The Kindred of Darkness
Lord of Emperors
Magistrates of Hell
The Man with the Golden Torc
Raiser of Gales
Sailing to Sarantium
The Spy Who Haunted Me
Tale of the Dead Town
Traveling with the Dead
Vampire Hunter D
Ysabel
Arrenby

Arrenby

A Feast of Sorrows:  Stories
Finnegan's Field
Mira's Last Dance
Penric's Fox
The Prisoner of Limnos
Sourdough and Other Stories
6
5
4
3
2
1
Badseedgirl

Badseedgirl

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Mr Mercedes
Pet Sematary
Roadwork
The Running Man
Salem's Lot
The Talisman
Thinner
The Wind Through the Keyhole
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
charlesdee

charlesdee

The Bloody Chamber
The Invention of Angela Carter:  A Biography
The Lathe of Heaven
The Magic Toyshop
Malafrena
The Passion of New Eve
A Wizard of Earthsea
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016:  with a Journal of a Writer's Week
dalex

dalex

Dreaming in Smoke
Lethe
Maul
Occupy Me
daxxh

daxxh

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Blockade Billy
Cell
Different Seasons
Dreamcatcher
Full Dark, No Stars
Gwendy's Button Box
Joyland
Just After Sunset
Rage
The Running Man
Sleeping Beauties
Dlw28

Dlw28

Intruder
Peacemaker
Protector
Tracker
ElizabethR

ElizabethR

Afterparty
All the Bells on Earth
Earthquake Weather
Expiration Date
The Facts of Life
Harrison Squared
Land of Dreams
Last Call
The Last Coin
On Stranger Tides
Pandemonium
The Paper Grail
Raising Stony Mayhall
The Silent Land
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
The Year of the Ladybird
jontlaw

jontlaw

The Crack in Space:  aka Cantata-140
Eye in the Sky
The Man in the High Castle
Now Wait for Last Year
The Penultimate Truth
The Simulacra
Ubik
The Zap Gun
justifiedsinner

justifiedsinner

A Feast for Crows
Soldier of Arete
Soldier of the Mist
A Storm of Swords
4
3
2
1
kabouter

kabouter

Cell
Destiny's Road
The First Men in the Moon
The Integral Trees
Rainbow Mars (collection)
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children
The Smoke Ring
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
4
3
2
1
km098

km098

16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
kristibpatterson

kristibpatterson

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
A Clash of Kings
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
A Feast for Crows
A Game of Thrones
A Storm of Swords
Laffer

Laffer

After Long Silence (The Enigma Score)
The Clan Corporate
The Companions
The Delirium Brief
Empire Games
The Family Tree
The Hidden Family
The Merchants' War
The Nightmare Stacks
The Revenants
The Revolution Business
The Trade of Queens
Mervi2012

Mervi2012

The Ginger Star
The Hounds of Skaith
Karen Memory
Range of Ghosts
The Reavers of Skaith
Shattered Pillars
Steles of the Sky
The Sword of Rhiannon
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Burning Chrome
Burning Chrome
Dogfight
Johnny Mnemonic
piibald

piibald

Bellwether
Children of Earth and Sky
Crosstalk
Giant Bones
In Calabria
The Innkeeper's Song
The Line Between
Passage
River of Stars
A Song for Arbonne
The Summer Tree
Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
Rhondak101

Rhondak101

Above Ker-Is and Other Stories
The Children of Llyr
Prince of Annwn
Witch House
Sable Aradia

Sable Aradia

Downbelow Station
The Drawing of the Three
The Faded Sun:  Kesrith
The Faded Sun:  Kutath
The Faded Sun:  Shon'jir
Foreigner
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
The Gunslinger
Merchanter's Luck
The Paladin
The Waste Lands
Wizard and Glass
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

An Alien Heat
Breakfast in the Ruins
The End Of All Songs
Galactic Effectuator
Golden Girl and Other Stories
The Hollow Lands
The Land Leviathan
Marune:  Alastor 933
Maske: Thaery
The Moon Moth and Other Stories
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Showboat World
The Steel Tsar
Trullion:  Alastor 2262
The Warlord of the Air
Wyst:  Alastor 1716
seattleotaku

seattleotaku

A Case of Conscience
The Chronicles of Corum (The Prince in the Scarlet Robe)
Cities in Flight
A Clash of Cymbals (The Triumph of Time)
The Dragon in the Sword
Earthman, Come Home
The Jewel in the Skull
The King of the Swords
The Knight of the Swords
A Life for the Stars
The Mad God's Amulet
Phoenix in Obsidian (The Silver Warriors)
The Queen of the Swords
The Runestaff
The Sword of the Dawn
They Shall Have Stars
Slinkyboy

Slinkyboy

Between Planets
Castle in the Air
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Enchanted Glass
Homeland
House of Many Ways
Howl's Moving Castle
Pirate Cinema
The Rapture of the Nerds
Red Planet
Space Cadet
Starman Jones
thereddeath

thereddeath

4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Buried Deep
Duplicate Effort
Golden Fleece
The Infinitive of Go
A Maze of Stars
Meeting at Infinity
Paloma
Recovery Man
The Sheep Look Up
The Shockwave Rider
The Tides of Time
Timescoop
Web of Everywhere
WWW: Wake
WWW: Watch
WWW: Wonder