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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2017 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

2017 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

The 2017 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge seeks to promote diversity and expand horizons amongst readers and writers of speculative fiction.

Read and review books that either:

  1. Are written by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors,
  2. Explore LGBTQ themes, or
  3. Feature LGBTQ characters.

Author repeats are admissable.

Remember that we have the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Resource List here on WWEnd. It is our own resource for finding great LGBTQ books. The books on the list primarily feature Lambda Literary and Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees.

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.

 Gertrude Stein = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Walt Whitman = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Sappho = 9 books + 3 reviews
 Oscar Wilde = 12 books + 6 reviews

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

Ann Walker

Ann Walker

An Accident of Stars
A Closed and Common Orbit
A Conjuring of Light
Conspiracy of Ravens
The Edge of the Abyss
In Other Lands
Passing Strange
Planetfall
The Prey of Gods
Seven Surrenders
The Stars Change
A Tyranny of Queens
Arrenby

Arrenby

City of Miracles
The City of Woven Streets
A Closed and Common Orbit
A Conjuring of Light
The Devourers
The End of the Day
The Hanging Tree
Passing Strange
Seven Surrenders
The Stars Are Legion
Winter Tide
With Blood Upon the Sand
CoolCurry

CoolCurry

Passing Strange
Phantom Pains
Raven Stratagem
The Root
Shattered Minds
The Stars Are Legion
A Tyranny of Queens
5
4
3
2
1
dalex

dalex

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
City of Circles
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters
The Girl in the Road
The Gracekeepers
Los Nefilim
Occupy Me
The Opposite House
The Prey of Gods
The Red Tree
Smoketown
The Sunlight Pilgrims
daxxh

daxxh

An Oath of Dogs
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
A Closed and Common Orbit
Raven Stratagem
River of Teeth
Tales of the Quintana Roo
digitaltempest

digitaltempest

Conspiracy of Ravens
Palimpsest
Under the Poppy
Dlw28

Dlw28

The Black Tides of Heaven
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Full Fathom Five
The Gracekeepers
Luna: Wolf Moon
Provenance
Raven Stratagem
The Red Threads of Fortune
Rule 34
Seven Surrenders
The Stars Are Legion
Swordspoint
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Agents of Dreamland
Amatka
Amberlough
The Canterville Ghost
The Evil Wizard Smallbone
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
Ninefox Gambit
Odd John:  A Story Between Jest and Earnest
Passing Strange
Raven Stratagem
A Taste of Honey
Unicorn Mountain
Groovy Acolyte

Groovy Acolyte

Brothers of Earth
Dissension
Fist of the Spider Woman:  Tales of Fear and Queer Desire
God's War
Hunter of Worlds
Kushiel's Dart
Infinity_Outlaw

Infinity_Outlaw

Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Full Fathom Five
Grasshopper Jungle
Ninefox Gambit
The Stars Are Legion
Jackarandose

Jackarandose

Abaddon's Gate
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
Kushiel's Dart
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Steel Remains
Jessica Tran

Jessica Tran

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

JessLibrarian

Christmas Days:  12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
River of Teeth
Taste of Marrow
When the Moon Was Ours
Winter Tide
1
joycast

joycast

Ascension
Ash
Carmilla
The Passion of New Eve
The Song of Achilles
Spaceman Blues:  A Love Song
6
5
4
3
2
1
km098

km098

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

Linguana

The Black Tides of Heaven
In Other Lands
Kissing the Witch:  Old Tales in New Skins
Labyrinth Lost
The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist
Palimpsest
Phantom Pains
The Red Threads of Fortune
The Song of Achilles
mjmahoney

mjmahoney

Down Among the Sticks and Bones
The Fifth Season
Passing Strange
River of Teeth
The Stars Are Legion
Waiting on a Bright Moon
Naomi_uk72

Naomi_uk72

Ancillary Justice
China Mountain Zhang
Conspiracy of Ravens
Downbelow Station
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Merchanter's Luck
Naked Lunch
Passing Strange
Rimrunners
The Salt Roads
Slow River
The Stars Are Legion
nea

nea

After Atlas
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Mercy
Ancillary Sword
A Closed and Common Orbit
Every Heart a Doorway
The Fifth Season
Ninefox Gambit
The Obelisk Gate
Planetfall
The Stars Are Legion
The Stone Sky
Rhondak101

Rhondak101

Ash: A Secret History
Autobiography of Red
The Fortunate Fall
Halting State
London Falling
Red Doc >
Rusalka
Six of Crows
1
robyn

robyn

Ascension
Every Heart a Doorway
When the Moon Was Ours
3
2
1
Sable Aradia

Sable Aradia

The Book of Skulls
Cuckoo's Egg
Downbelow Station
The Faded Sun:  Kesrith
The Faded Sun:  Kutath
The Faded Sun:  Shon'jir
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Merchanter's Luck
Star Songs of an Old Primate
slightlyfoxed

slightlyfoxed

The Abyss Surrounds Us
Ash
A Conjuring of Light
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Every Heart a Doorway
Full Fathom Five
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ninefox Gambit
Raven Stratagem
River of Teeth
A Taste of Honey
Wonders of the Invisible World
Slinkyboy

Slinkyboy

All the Birds in the Sky
Hestia
Karen Memory
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Skull of Truth
Venus Plus X
spoltz

spoltz

Affinity
All the Birds in the Sky
Ethan of Athos
Fledgling
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis
Gossamer Axe
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ninefox Gambit
The Skull of Truth
Smoke and Shadows
Swordspoint
Titan
thereddeath

thereddeath

Press Start to Play
2
1
transubstantial

transubstantial

3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Blood Oranges
The Cage of Zeus
Carmilla
Larque on the Wing
Lizard Radio
Los Nefilim
Orlando
The Root
Solitaire
The Summer Isles
The Wild Swans
The Wolf at the Door
Zerthimon

Zerthimon

3
2
1