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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2017 Speculative Fiction Published This Year

2017 Speculative Fiction Published This Year

This challenge is intended as a way to help readers encourage themselves to read newly-published speculative fiction, as well as perhaps an opportunity to increase awareness for award nominations.

Books for this challenge should be first-published in 2017 (or first-published in the U.S. in 2017), and not be ones that you have read previously.

To assist with identifying books for this Challenge, you can use this search:

All Speculative Fiction Works Published in 2017

(note that these search results will include omnibuses, which consist of previously-published works and are not eligible for the Challenge)

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2017 – June 2018

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

 Campbell = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Clarke = 12 books + 4 reviews
 Nebula = 24 books + 8 reviews
 Hugo = 36 books + 12 reviews

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

Abalone

Abalone

Ararat
The Bear and The Nightingale
Behind Her Eyes
A Conjuring of Light
The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
The End of the Day
Exit West
Glass Predator
Kokoro
Miranda and Caliban
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Universal Harvester
Ann Walker

Ann Walker

All Our Wrong Todays
All Systems Red
Amberlough
Assassin's Fate
At the Table of Wolves
Autonomous
The Bedlam Stacks
Binti: Home
Blackthorne
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
The Book of Swords
The Boy on the Bridge
The Changeling
City of Miracles
A Conjuring of Light
Exit West
The Furthest Station
The Genius Plague
Gilded Cage
The Harbors of the Sun
In Other Lands
The Massacre of Mankind
Norse Mythology
Null States
Pale Guardian
Phasma
The Prey of Gods
Reincarnation Blues
The River Bank:  A sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
River of Teeth
Seven Surrenders
Six Wakes
Taste of Marrow
A Tyranny of Queens
Waking Gods
Wicked Wonders
Aretaa

Aretaa

Agents of Dreamland
All Systems Red
American War
Avengers of the Moon
The Bear and The Nightingale
Binti: Home
The Black Tides of Heaven
Blackwing
The Caledonian Gambit
Chalk
City of Miracles
The Collapsing Empire
The End of the Day
Exit West
Galactic Empires
Hunger Makes the Wolf
In Calabria
Jade City
Kings of the Wyld
Luna: Wolf Moon
Miranda and Caliban
The Moon and the Other
Passing Strange
Phantom Pains
The Prey of Gods
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
The Refrigerator Monologues
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
River of Teeth
Seven Surrenders
Six Wakes
Spoonbenders
The Stars Are Legion
The Stone Sky
Winter Tide
Arifel

Arifel

Amatka
Amberlough
An Excess Male
An Oath of Dogs
Beyond the Empire
Borne
The Brightest Fell
The City of Brass
City of Miracles
Cold Counsel
The Collapsing Empire
A Conjuring of Light
Defy the Stars
Dreadnought
From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars (A New Hope)
Hunger Makes the Wolf
Inferno Squad
Jade City
The Massacre of Mankind
Norse Mythology
Null States
Phantom Pains
Phasma
The Prey of Gods
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
The Ruin of Angels
Seven Surrenders
Six Wakes
Sovereign
The Stars Are Legion
The Stone Sky
The Tiger's Daughter
The Will to Battle
With Blood Upon the Sand
Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Arrenby

Arrenby

Agents of Dreamland
All Systems Red
Artemis
Binti: Home
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
Borne
The Boy on the Bridge
The Burning Page
The Changeling
The City of Brass
City of Miracles
A Conjuring of Light
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
The Emerald Circus
The End of the Day
The Furthest Station
The Girl in the Tower
The Hanging Tree
Luna: Wolf Moon
Mira's Last Dance
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Norse Mythology
Oathbringer
Passing Strange
Persepolis Rising
The Prisoner of Limnos
Raven Stratagem
The Refrigerator Monologues
Seven Surrenders
Six Wakes
The Stars Are Legion
Under the Pendulum Sun
Waking Gods
The Will to Battle
Winter Tide
With Blood Upon the Sand
dalex

dalex

Agents of Dreamland
An Unkindness of Ghosts
The Bear and The Nightingale
Behind Her Eyes
The Book of Etta
Borne
City of Circles
The Dark Dark:  Stories
The Essex Serpent
Fever Dream
The Genius Plague
Glass Town
The History of Bees
How Saints Die
The Last to See Me
The Plague Diaries
The Power
The Prey of Gods
Record of a Night Too Brief
The Ship
Soleri
The Stars Are Legion
Three Years with the Rat
The Wanderers
daxxh

daxxh

Acadie
All Systems Red
An Excess Male
An Oath of Dogs
Artemis
Binti: Home
The Bronze Skies
Buffalo Soldier
The Dark Net
Dear Cyborgs
Fata Morgana
Flashmob
Galactic Empires
The Ghost Line
Gwendy's Button Box
Infinity Engine
Killing Is My Business
The Last Good Man
Lightning in the Blood
Lincoln in the Bardo
Lotus Blue
The Man in the Tree
Norse Mythology
The People's Police
Phasma
Proof of Concept
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
Rebel Rising
River of Teeth
The Ruin of Angels
Sea of Rust
Six Wakes
Sleeping Beauties
Standard Hollywood Depravity
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
devilinlaw

devilinlaw

Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Empire's End
Inferno Squad
Norse Mythology
Phantom Pains
Rebel Rising
Thrawn
4
3
2
1
divinenanny

divinenanny

All Systems Red
Binti: Home
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Collapsing Empire
In Calabria
Killing Gravity
Norse Mythology
River of Teeth
The Stone Sky
Under the Pendulum Sun
Waking Gods
Winter Tide
Dlw28

Dlw28

Artemis
Binti: Home
City of Miracles
The Collapsing Empire
A Conjuring of Light
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
For We Are Many
Luna: Wolf Moon
Raven Stratagem
Six Wakes
The Stars Are Legion
The Stone Sky
ElizabethR

ElizabethR

Age of Swords
Among the Fallen
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
Bannerless
Battle Hill Bolero
Breath of Fire
Call of Fire
The Cold Eye
Crossroads of Canopy
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie
Destiny's Conflict
The Dragon's Legacy
The Fortune Teller
Game of Shadows
The Harbors of the Sun
In Other Lands
The Last Sacrifice
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Owl and the Electric Samurai
Relics
The Remnant
The Ship Beyond Time
Winter of the Gods
Winter Tide
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Agents of Dreamland
All Our Wrong Todays
All Systems Red
Amatka
Amberlough
American War
The Bear and The Nightingale
Binti: Home
The Book of Joan
Borne
City of Miracles
The Collapsing Empire
Fire.
The Glass Town Game
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
Lincoln in the Bardo
Mightier than the Sword
The Mountains of Parnassus
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017
New York 2140
Norse Mythology
Passing Strange
Raven Stratagem
The Refrigerator Monologues
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
The River Bank:  A sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
Seven Surrenders
Six Wakes
Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom
Spoonbenders
The Stone Sky
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Tropic of Kansas
The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories
The Vine That Ate the South
Walkaway
gallyangel

gallyangel

Artemis
Bakemonogatari, Part 2:  Monster Tale
Bakemonogatari, Part 3:  Monster Tale
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
Beren and Lúthien
Desperate Hours
Durarara!! 6
Durarara!! 7
Durarara!! 8
The Ghost in the Shell:  Five New Short Stories
The Massacre of Mankind
Nekomonogatari (Black)
Nisemonogatari, Part 1:  Fake Tale
Nisemonogatari, Part 2
Persepolis Rising
Provenance
Re: Zero, Vol. 3:  Starting Life in Another World
Re: Zero, Vol. 5:  Starting Life in Another World
Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch
The Stone Sky
Sword Art Online 10: Alicization Running
Sword Art Online 11: Alicization Turning
Sword Art Online 12: Alicization Rising
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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10
9
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4
3
2
1
illegible_scribble

illegible_scribble

All Good Things
And the Rest Is History
Archangel
Artemis
Bannerless
Behind Her Eyes
Breach of Containment
The Brightest Fell
The Bronze Skies
The Caledonian Gambit
City of Miracles
Cold Welcome
The Collapsing Empire
The Delirium Brief
The Fortress at the End of Time
The Gates of Tagmeth
The Genius Plague
The Hanging Tree
In Evil Times
The Last Good Man
The Lost Plot
The Man in the Tree
Noumenon
Provenance
The Punch Escrow
A Red Peace
Retrograde
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Shadow Sun Seven
Six Wakes
The Skill of Our Hands
The Stars Are Legion
Tomorrow's Kin
Transformation
Waking Gods
The Wanderers
Infinity_Outlaw

Infinity_Outlaw

Agents of Dreamland
All Systems Red
Amatka
Artemis
Autonomous
Barbary Station
Beren and Lúthien
Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Book of Joan
Bookburners
Brother's Ruin
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Final Girls
A Human Stain
Killing Gravity
Landscape with Invisible Hand
The Lost Plot
Nexus Uprising
Provenance
River of Teeth
Six Wakes
The Stars Are Legion
Strange the Dreamer
Jain

Jain

All Systems Red
All the Crooked Saints
Amatka
Amberlough
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
An Excess Male
And Then There Were (N – One)
Barbary Station
The Bear and The Nightingale
The Bedlam Stacks
Binti: Home
The Black Tides of Heaven
Brother's Ruin
Buffalo Soldier
City of Miracles
Clockwork Boys
The Collapsing Empire
Dreadnought
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Girl in the Tower
In Other Lands
Kings of the Wyld
A Long Day in Lychford
Pale Guardian
Passing Strange
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
River of Teeth
Six Wakes
A Skinful of Shadows
The Stone Sky
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Thick as Thieves
Under the Pendulum Sun
Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent
The Wrong Stars
km098

km098

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Laffer

Laffer

Afterlife
Archangel
The Argus Deceit
Ash and Quill
At the Table of Wolves
The Berlin Project
Black Mad Wheel
Caine's Mutiny
The Caledonian Gambit
The Changeling
Cold Counsel
Cold Summer
The Collapsing Empire
Corpselight
The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross
The Delirium Brief
Dichronauts
Eagle and Empire
Empire Games
Fields of Fire
Food of the Gods
Luna: Wolf Moon
The Massacre of Mankind
Necessary Monsters
Netherspace
Paradox Bound
Pilot X
Raven Stratagem
The Rift
Rituals
Run Program
Sea of Rust
Shattered Minds
Six Wakes
The Space Between the Stars
A Tyranny of Queens
Linguana

Linguana

All Systems Red
The Bear and The Nightingale
Binti: Home
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
A Conjuring of Light
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
The Five Daughters of the Moon
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Girl in the Tower
Heartstone
In Other Lands
Phantom Pains
Raven Stratagem
The Refrigerator Monologues
Six Wakes
The Stone Sky
Strange the Dreamer
Winterglass
Wintersong
4
3
2
1
Llyren

Llyren

All Systems Red
An Unkindness of Magicians
The Bear and The Nightingale
Binti: Home
The Collapsing Empire
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Etched in Bone
Final Girls
The Heart of What Was Lost
The Language of Thorns:  Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Mira's Last Dance
Passing Strange
Penric's Fox
Phantom Pains
A Pocketful of Crows
The Prisoner of Limnos
Raven Stratagem
The Refrigerator Monologues
River of Teeth
Sleeping with Monsters:  Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Taste of Marrow
Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent
MMOGC

MMOGC

Ararat
Avengers of the Moon
Behind Her Eyes
The Berlin Project
The Boy on the Bridge
City of Miracles
Cold Welcome
The Collapsing Empire
A Conjuring of Light
Crossroads of Canopy
Death's Mistress
Empire's End
The End of the Day
Gauntlet
Gilded Cage
Heartstone
The House of Binding Thorns
Kings of the Wyld
Luna: Wolf Moon
Miranda and Caliban
The Night Ocean
Phantom Pains
Red Sister
The Return
Silence Fallen
Sins of Empire
Six Wakes
Skullsworn
Star's End
Thrawn
Tyrant's Throne
Vanguard
Waking Gods
The Wanderers
Winter of the Gods
Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Agents of Dreamland
Binti: Home
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29
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27
26
25
24
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11
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9
8
7
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5
4
3
2
1
Naomi_uk72

Naomi_uk72

Agents of Dreamland
All Good Things
All Systems Red
Ararat
At the Speed of Light
Binti: Home
Brimstone
Brother's Ruin
Buffalo Soldier
Chalk
The Changeling
Cold Counsel
A Conjuring of Light
The Court of Broken Knives
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Eagle and Empire
Final Girls
The Fortress at the End of Time
Gilded Cage
Godblind
The Guns Above
The Heart of What Was Lost
Heartstone
The House of Binding Thorns
Killing Gravity
Lightning in the Blood
The Memoirist
New York 2140
Passing Strange
Proof of Concept
Red Sister
River of Teeth
The Stars Are Legion
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Windsinger
The Witchwood Crown
piibald

piibald

Age of Assassins
Age of Swords
All Systems Red
Amatka
Artemis
Assassin's Fate
Behind Her Eyes
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
The Boy on the Bridge
Exit West
Gluttony Bay: A Sin du Jour Affair
In Calabria
Kings of the Wyld
Lincoln in the Bardo
Mightier than the Sword
Oathbringer
Persepolis Rising
Phantom Pains
The Prisoner of Limnos
Six Wakes
Skullsworn
Strange Dogs
Tyrant's Throne
Universal Harvester
robotwitch

robotwitch

6
5
4
3
2
1
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Acadie
Amatka
The Asylum of Dr. Caligari
Autonomous
Borne
Convergence
Infinity Wars
Ka:  Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Luna: Wolf Moon
A Man of Shadows
The Man with the Speckled Eyes:  The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Four
Men Without Women
The Moon and the Other
New York 2140
Norse Mythology
Persepolis Rising
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
The Real-Town Murders
Seven Surrenders
Six Wakes
Spoonbenders
The Stone Sky
Tool of War
The Will to Battle
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
SheSpeculates

SheSpeculates

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
slightlyfoxed

slightlyfoxed

Agents of Dreamland
All Systems Red
Amberlough
Arabella and the Battle of Venus
Artemis
Autonomous
Battle Hill Bolero
The Bear and The Nightingale
Binti: Home
The Collapsing Empire
A Conjuring of Light
A Court of Wings and Ruin
A Crown of Wishes
Dark Deeds
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Etched in Bone
The Furthest Station
The Ghost Line
Golden Age and Other Stories
The Hanging Tree
Heartstone
Heroine Worship
Jade City
Norse Mythology
One Dark Throne
Persepolis Rising
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
River of Teeth
Shadowhouse Fall
Six Wakes
A Song for Quiet
Spoonbenders
The Stone Sky
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Windwitch
StephenMcGinness

StephenMcGinness

Buffalo Soldier
Chasing Shadows:  Visions of Our Coming Transparent World
The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross
The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack
The Emerald Circus
A Lot Like Christmas:  Stories
Places in the Darkness
Sanctuary
Seventh Decimate
Sins of Empire
Tomorrow's Kin
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

All Our Wrong Todays
The Black Wolves of Boston
Borne
Bound
The Boy on the Bridge
Brimstone
The Burning World
Chalk
City of Miracles
Damnation
Department Zero
Etched in Bone
Flashmob
Gather Her Round
The House of Binding Thorns
Mormama
New York 2140
The Night Ocean
Norse Mythology
Orbital Cloud
The People's Police
Phantom Pains
Portal of a Thousand Worlds
The Prey of Gods
The Return
The Seven
Spaceman of Bohemia
Spoonbenders
The Stone Sky
Thunderbird
Very Important Corpses
Waking Gods
Walkaway
Wild Chamber
With Blood Upon the Sand
Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Zerthimon

Zerthimon

Binti: Home
5
4
3
2
1