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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

The WABAC Machine Reading Challenge

The WABAC Machine Reading Challenge

Join Sherman and Mr. Peabody and set the dial for at least 100 years ago.

For this challenge, read science fiction, fantasy, and horror published in 1922 or before. There's a lot out there, and if you read Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle as a kid, it is worth revisiting. On the pulp side, there is the early Edgar Rice Burroughs. For sheer weirdness, try L. Frank Baum. And the 19th and early 20th century remains the high point for horror fiction --M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen. Choose a classic or search out a hidden gem.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2022 – December 2022

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

 Sherman = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Mr. Peabody = 6 books + 2 reviews
 John Carter = 9 books + 3 reviews
 Captain Nemo = 12 books + 6 reviews

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

Cate Rinteln

Cate Rinteln

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Canterville Ghost
The Castle of Otranto:  A Story - Translated by William Marshal, Gent.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
charlesdee

charlesdee

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

Engelbrecht

The Brass Bottle
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
The Women of Weird Tales
finminer

finminer

Dracula
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1
Hneite

Hneite

The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Canterville Ghost
A Christmas Carol
The Enchanted Type-Writer
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Green Mansions
The Invisible Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Lost World
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Trips to the Moon
'Twixt Dog and Wolf
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

The Absolute at Large
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Of One Blood:  Or, The Hidden Self
The Phantom of the Opera
A Princess of Mars
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
The Time Ship:  A Chrononautical Journey
The War of the Worlds
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
Zuleika Dobson
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

3
2
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

3
2
1
Thomcat

Thomcat

The Heads of Cerberus
A Princess of Mars
The Wind in the Willows
Weesam

Weesam

Allan Quatermain
Allan's Wife and Other Tales
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Hauntings:  Fantastic Stories
The Land of Mist
Maiwa's Revenge
Manfroné; or, The One-Handed Monk
Marie
Of One Blood:  Or, The Hidden Self
Paris in the Twentieth Century
The Ship of Ishtar
'Twixt Dog and Wolf