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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Clear the Shelves

Clear the Shelves

Do you ever purchase books with the intention of reading them immediately... but then they end up gathering dust on your bookshelves for months or even years?

If so, take this challenge and clear 15 books from your bookshelves in 2015.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2015 – December 2015
Books to Read: 15
Reviews to Write: 5

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

Allie

2001: A Space Odyssey
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
The Forever Machine
The Martian
The Mirror Empire
Sabriel
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Amberjune

Amberjune

American Gods
City of Bones
The Darkness That Comes Before
A Discovery of Witches
Ender's Game
The Giver
The Name of the Wind
Paladin of Souls
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
Ship of Magic
4
3
2
1
Anoplophora

Anoplophora

Assassin's Quest
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
Beloved
City of Illusions
Hogfather
The Left Hand of Darkness
Planet of Exile
Possession
Rocannon's World
Royal Assassin
Witch World
The Word for World is Forest
3
2
1
Arrenby

Arrenby

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Calde of the Long Sun
City of Bones
The Falling Woman
Invader
Memory of Water
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Price of Spring
Revelation Space
The Riddle-Master's Game
Some of Your Blood
Station Eleven
The Way of Kings
Winterlong
Words of Radiance
Badseedgirl

Badseedgirl

Blood Red Road
The Caves of Steel
The City & the City
The Electric Church
From Hell
Gone Girl
Heart-Shaped Box
Inkheart
The Man in the High Castle
Neuromancer
A Spell for Chameleon
The Time Traders
The Traveling Vampire Show
The Unscratchables
Wintersmith
bazhsw

bazhsw

1Q84
20th Century Ghosts
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Ancillary Justice
Countdown
Dragonquest
Forever Peace
The Girl With All the Gifts
Glamour in Glass
Heart-Shaped Box
The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
Memory of Water
The Night Circus
The Strange Library
This Shared Dream
Bookkeeper

Bookkeeper

Authority
The Croning
A Darker Shade of Magic
Dauntless
Dead of Night
The Eterna Files
Fool's Quest
Fortune's Pawn
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
A Head Full of Ghosts
The Martian
NOS4A2
Old Man's War
Superposition
Three Parts Dead
booksabound

booksabound

The Bees
The Broken Kingdoms
The Chains That You Refuse
Conservation of Shadows
The Death of the Necromancer
The Element of Fire
Elysium
God's War
The Golem and the Jinni
Hild
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Infidel
The Kingdom of Gods
Rapture
Shoggoths in Bloom (collection)
booksofafeather

booksofafeather

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
The Martian
Picoverse
Thief's Magic
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
charlesdee

charlesdee

A Calculated Life
The Caves of Steel
The Cyberiad
Gateway
The Hall of Singing Caryatids
In the Time of the Blue Ball
The King in Yellow
Pandemonium
Perdido Street Station
The Star Diaries
The Status Civilization
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Ubik
The Uninvited
1
controuble

controuble

Cold Fire
Cold Magic
Cold Steel
Curtsies & Conspiracies
Etiquette & Espionage
Gideon
Kindred Rites: A Tale of Wild Magic
Lock In
Night Calls: A Tale of Dark Magic
Perilous Shield
The Seven-Petaled Shield
Spiral Path: A Tale of Ritual Magic
Sword-Bound
Unbound
Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
daxxh

daxxh

Altered Carbon
Deepsix
Earth Ascendant
Earthman, Come Home
A Life for the Stars
The Martian
Pebble in the Sky
Powers
The Saturn Game
Saturn Returns
Ship Breaker
The Stars, Like Dust
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Tor Double #14: The Saturn Game / Iceborn
The Way of Kings
Dlw28

Dlw28

The Book of Strange New Things
Caliban's War
Cibola Burn
Diving Into the Wreck
Echo
Extremes
Memory of Water
Natural History
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Radiance
The Red: First Light
Shadow and Bone
Skirmishes
Station Eleven
Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above
dustydigger

dustydigger

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
A Case of Conscience
The Claw of the Conciliator
A Discovery of Witches
The Ghost Brigades
The Gripping Hand
Heechee Rendezvous
A Madness Of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift
Moving Pictures
The Naming of the Beasts
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
The Sirens of Titan
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Thomas the Rhymer
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
ellukkapullukka

ellukkapullukka

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

Engelbrecht

The Arbitrary Placement of Walls (collection)
The Best of Judith Merril
Blue Bamboo: Tales of Fantasy and Romance
The Disappearance
The Dreaming Dragons
Fury
The Lights in the Sky are Stars
Mercury
Naked Lunch
Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
The Plot Against America
Secret Rendezvous
This Island Earth
The Toys of Princes
A Woman of the Iron People
ersandoval

ersandoval

The Alchemist of Souls
Annihilation
Bitter Greens
Bitter Seeds
Blightborn
City of Stairs
Flesh and Spirit
The Girl With All the Gifts
The God Engines
Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
The New Moon's Arms
Rogues
Soft Apocalypse
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Theft of Swords
GiantPanda

GiantPanda

Ash: A Secret History
Bodyguard of Lightning
A Cavern of Black Ice
The Diamond Age
The Dragonbone Chair
A Game of Thrones
Gardens of the Moon
Harvest of Stars
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Jhereg
The Mists of Avalon
The Name of the Wind
Rhapsody: Child of Blood
Speaks the Nightbird
Wizard's First Rule
HRO

HRO

The Beautiful Land
Dark Space
Farthing
Fevre Dream
Let the Right One In
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time
Native Tongue
A Plague of Angels
The Sparrow
Spin
The Telling
Time and Again
Wheel of the Infinite
White Noise
1
infinitetbr

infinitetbr

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

Jain

The Element of Fire
The Face in the Frost
Foucault's Pendulum
The Golem and the Jinni
The Lions of Al-Rassan
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Privilege of the Sword
Snake Agent
Tea with the Black Dragon
Tigana
Watchtower
4
3
2
1
justifiedsinner

justifiedsinner

Ack-Ack Macaque
Ascendant Sun
A Clash of Kings
Countdown City
Dying Inside
Engineman
The Last Policeman
Life After Life
The Martian
The Moon and the Sun
Parable of the Talents
Redemption Ark
Saturn
The Terminal Experiment
Under the Skin
KateZ

KateZ

The Golem and the Jinni
Lock In
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
keksitty

keksitty

The Broken Kingdoms
Dreadnought
The Engines of God
Flesh and Spirit
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Hammered
Kushiel's Dart
My Soul to Keep
The Sparrow
Sporting Chance
Steal Across the Sky
Vicious Circle
Zoo City
2
1
LeeSHawke

LeeSHawke

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

MaggieK

A Deepness in the Sky
The Drawing of the Dark
Excession
Fahrenheit 451
Forge of Darkness
In the Night Garden
Kraken
The Lathe of Heaven
Look to Windward
Lost in a Good Book
Only Forward
Remnant Population
A Scanner Darkly
The Snow Queen
A Thousand Words for Stranger
ManyMoons

ManyMoons

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Ender's Game
Entities: The Selected Novels of Eric Frank Russell
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
Hard Magic
Mirror Dance
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Od Magic
On Basilisk Station
Polaris
Sentinels from Space
Solaris
Stranger in a Strange Land
The War of the Worlds
Witches Abroad
mellyn

mellyn

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

mjmahoney

2312
The Amber Spyglass
Ancillary Sword
Changeless
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
The Farthest Shore
A Feast for Crows
Glamour in Glass
The Good Fairies of New York
Good Omens
The Night Circus
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Throne of the Crescent Moon
The Wise Man's Fear
1
MMOGC

MMOGC

Baptism of Fire
California Bones
Dark Eden
Full Fathom Five
The Kingmakers
The Kiss of Deception
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Maplecroft
Murder of Crows
The Raven Boys
Rosemary and Rue
Thorn Jack
The Time of Contempt
Two Serpents Rise
The Windup Girl
nightxade

nightxade

A Darker Shade of Magic
The Deaths of Tao
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Good House
The Kingdom of Gods
Midsummer Night
Old Man's War
The Serpent Sea
Shadow Dawn
Steelheart
Sunshine
The Sword of Shannara
The Thousand Names
The Tombs of Atuan
vN: The First Machine Dynasty
Pabkins

Pabkins

Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon
Words of Radiance
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
paula_s

paula_s

Alif the Unseen
Countdown City
Dark Eden
The Diamond Age
Fool Moon
His Majesty's Dragon
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Last Colony
Malice
The Ringworld Engineers
The Robots of Dawn
Saturn's Children
The Time Ships
Who Fears Death
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
pehpa

pehpa

The Garden of Rama
Starship Troopers
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
pizzakarin

pizzakarin

The Alchemy of Stone
Brasyl
Homunculus
Kindred
The Last Colony
Leviathan
Only Forward
Player Piano
The Prestige
Redemption in Indigo
Rollback
The Scar
Synners
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
reedtate

reedtate

Between Planets
Concrete Island
Cugel's Saga
The Dying Earth
The Eyes of the Overworld
Flowers for Algernon
Holy Fire
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Old Man's War
Perdido Street Station
The Puppet Masters
Rhialto the Marvellous
The Sirens of Titan
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Rhondak101

Rhondak101

The Affinity Bridge
Ancillary Justice
The Bookman
Brown Harvest
Empire State
Far North
The Forever War
The High Crusade
Motherlines
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Queen City Jazz
Rusalka
Slan
Station Eleven
War for the Oaks
seattleotaku

seattleotaku

Babel-17
The Body Snatchers
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Colors of Space
The Door Through Space
Dragonsdawn
The Forever War
I Am Legend
Little Brother
Merlin's Mirror
Operation Time Search
The Postman
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Stepford Wives
1
spoltz

spoltz

Boy, Snow, Bird
Cosmic Engineers
The Far-Out Worlds of A.E. Van Vogt
Four for Tomorrow
Gilgamesh the King
Herland
Nerves
Nova
Ready Player One
Rite of Passage
Shakespeare's Planet
The Silmarillion
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Time and Again
Web of the Witch World
Strixbrevis

Strixbrevis

Ancillary Justice
Boneshaker
A City Stained Red
God's War
King Maker
The Kingdom of Gods
Little Brother
A Madness Of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift
The Mirror Empire
The Serpent Sea
The Shambling Guide to New York City
Skinwalker
The Time Traveler's Wife
2
1
Sushicat

Sushicat

Brisingr
Changes
Coraline
Ghost Story
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Moon Over Soho
Mort
On the Beach
The Shadow Rising
Side Jobs
The Sparrow
Stranger in a Strange Land
3
2
1
Teanka

Teanka

Wool
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

City of Stairs
Dangerous Visions
The Graveyard Book
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Three Parts Dead
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
thetwonky

thetwonky

Axis
Brightness Reef
The Butterfly Kid
Fifty Degrees Below
Forty Signs of Rain
Heaven's Reach
Infinity's Shore
The Ragged Astronauts
Sixty Days and Counting
Spin
Vortex
4
3
2
1
wecowo

wecowo

All You Need is Kill
Counter-Clock World
A Dance with Dragons
The Engines of God
A Feast for Crows
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
The Masks of Time
Mockingbird
The Physiognomy
Promise of Blood
Quicksilver
The Republic of Thieves
The Snow Queen
The Time Ships
We All Died at Breakaway Station
Weesam

Weesam

Among Others
Chindi
The Deaths of Tao
Die and Stay Dead
The Disestablishment of Paradise
Double Star
Dreams and Shadows
Empire State
Lagoon
Old Man's War
Red Mars
The Stress of Her Regard
Three Parts Dead
Valour and Vanity
vN: The First Machine Dynasty