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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2023 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

2023 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

The 2023 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 admissible.

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 (now defunct) Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees. Another list put together by one of our members is on her blog, and it features a well-researched list of authors self-identifying on the LGBTQIA spectrum. It can be found here.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2023 – December 2023

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 = 10 books + 3 reviews
 Oscar Wilde = 14 books + 6 reviews

Note: You must be a logged in member of WWEnd to join this challenge. Join WWEnd

Adele1967

Adele1967

The City in the Middle of the Night
Even Though I Knew the End
The Fifth Sacred Thing
The Midnight Bargain
The Shipmaker
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
bazhsw

bazhsw

Ammonite
China Mountain Zhang
A Door into Ocean
The Female Man
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Many-Colored Land
The Sparrow
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
bokai

bokai

14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Dlw28

Dlw28

Defekt
Hell Bent: A Novel
Hopeland
Lark Ascending
The Light Pirate
Meru
The Moonday Letters
Parable of the Talents
The Red Scholar's Wake
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Unraveller
Victory City
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Atheist in the Attic
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

The Atlas Six
The Female Man
Harrow the Ninth
Involution Ocean
Light From Uncommon Stars
Nona the Ninth
A Song for a New Day
Spear
The Two Doctors Górski
When Women Were Dragons
Wylding Hall
3
2
1
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

Briefly, A Delicious Life:  A Novel
Generation Loss
Several People are Typing
Wilder Girls
2
1
Linguana

Linguana

The Black Tides of Heaven
Even Though I Knew the End
In the Lives of Puppets
Paladin's Hope
The Red Scholar's Wake
The Sandman: A Game of You
Siren Queen
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
2
1
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Jade City
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
pauljames

pauljames

Exquisite Corpse
5
4
3
2
1
piibald

piibald

Moominvalley in November
Pet
Rust in the Root
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
pixel

pixel

Call Down the Hawk
Into the Riverlands
Mister Impossible
3
2
1
Quaisior

Quaisior

3
2
1
spoltz

spoltz

The Book Eaters
The Circus Infinite
Into the Riverlands
The Paradox Hotel
Watchtower
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Blood and Gold
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Exit Strategy
Fugitive Telemetry
Network Effect
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Rogue Protocol
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

The Book Eaters
The Dawnhounds
The Endless Song
Even Though I Knew the End
Furious Heaven
In the Lives of Puppets
The Ivory Tomb
The Jasmine Throne
The Oleander Sword
The Origin of Storms
The Red Scholar's Wake
A Restless Truth
The Terraformers
The Warden