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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2023 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge

2023 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge

For the 11th year running it's the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge!

This challenge is to read 6, 12, 24, or 48 new-to-you women authors in 12 months. For the 24 and 48 book levels you only have to read 12 new-to-you women authors. For the other slots you can pick previously read women authors or read multiple books by the same author etc. This will allow you to include series in your challenge!

As always, at least one of your author choices should be totally random. The review requirements are suggested but not required.

We have an All Women Authors page so you can easily find some new authors to read as well as several book lists so you'll never run out of options. Read on!

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.

 Adventurer = 6 books + 1 reviews
 Voyager = 12 books + 2 reviews
 Pathfinder = 24 books + 4 reviews
 Pioneer = 48 books + 8 reviews

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

Adele1967

Adele1967

Ally
An Ancient Peace
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
The Bronze Skies
The City in the Middle of the Night
City of Ashes
City of Bones
City of Fallen Angels
City of Glass
City of Heavenly Fire
City of Lost Souls
City of Pearl
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince
Clockwork Princess
Cloud's Rider
Crossing the Line
Dark Orbit
Dorothy Must Die Stories 1
Dorothy Must Die!
Even Though I Knew the End
The Exiled Fleet
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Fluency
Gideon the Ninth
Inheritance
The Jigsaw Assassin
Judge
Just Out of Jupiter's Reach
The Last Watch
The Man Who Walked Home
Matriarch
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
A Peace Divided
The Planet Savers
The Quiet Invasion
Remanence
Rider at the Gate
The Shipmaker
Undercity
Valence
The Vanished Seas
The Wicked Will Rise
The World Before
Administrator

Administrator

Camber of Culdi
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amaleigh

amaleigh

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Chiplefien

Chiplefien

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daxxh

daxxh

The High House
Keeper
The Last Wild Horses
The Old Drift
Things We Lost in the Fire
You Sexy Thing
DeirdriuWRS

DeirdriuWRS

Houses Under the Sea
Mexican Gothic
Odin's Child
The Song of Achilles
Spin the Dawn
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Dlw28

Dlw28

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
The Good, The Bad and The History
Heart of the Sun Warrior
Hell Bent
High Times in the Low Parliament
Hokuloa Road
Illuminations
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
The Light Pirate
Lost in the Moment and Found
Meru
The Mimicking of Known Successes
The Moonday Letters
Parable of the Talents
The Red Scholar's Wake
The Road to Roswell
The Stolen Heir
Stone Mad
The Terraformers
To Each This World
Translation State
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Unraveller
Void
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

All the Murmuring Bones
Babel
Bed-Knob and Broomstick
The Best of Elizabeth Bear
A Certain Hunger
The Conqueror's Child
The Core of the Sun
The Dark Between the Trees
The Employees
The Extractionist
The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds
Fever Dream
The Furies
Future Home of the Living God
Galactic Hellcats
A House With Good Bones
Hwarhath Stories:  Transgressive Tales by Aliens
Immunity Index
Iron Widow
The Jade Setter of Janloon
Knot of Shadows
Lapvona
The Last House on Needless Street
Little Eve
Looking Glass Sound
The Method
Motherlines
Motherthing
Nettle & Bone
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
North Wind
Our Wives Under the Sea
Phoenix Café
Probability Space
The Red Scholar's Wake
The Relentless Moon
The Road to Roswell
Saturnalia
Silver Nitrate
A Snake Falls to Earth
Spear
The Summer Prince
This Time Tomorrow
A Touch of Jen
Translation State
Walk to the End of the World
Wendy, Darling
White Cat, Black Dog
finminer

finminer

Babel
The Blue Sword
The Book Eaters
The Broken Kingdoms
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Deerskin
Downbelow Station
The Exile Waiting
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Gideon the Ninth
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Hero and the Crown
High Times in the Low Parliament
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Gods
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Remnant Population
River of Teeth
The Road to Roswell
Silver Nitrate
Some Desperate Glory
The Spare Man
Sunshine
System Collapse
The Terraformers
Throne of Glass
Translation State
Tread of Angels
The Unbroken
Untethered Sky
Upright Women Wanted
The Vampire Tapestry
What Moves the Dead
Witch King
The World We Make
Zoo City
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Fortuo

Fortuo

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Hneite

Hneite

All the Birds in the Sky
The Atlas Six
Babel
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Binti: The Complete Trilogy
Briar Rose
The Brothers Lionheart
The City of Brass
Crown of Renewal
A Deadly Education
The Door in the Hedge
Dread Nation
Dust
Echoes of Betrayal
The Female Man
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Five Children and It
Grail
Harrow the Ninth
The House of the Four Winds
Kings of the North
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Komarr
Lapvona
The Last Graduate
Light From Uncommon Stars
Limits of Power
Lost in the Moment and Found
Mio, My Son
Nettle & Bone
The New Moon's Arms
Nona the Ninth
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Oath of Fealty
Or What You Will
The Planet Savers
The Scourge Between Stars
A Song for a New Day
Spear
Temporary
The Tombs of Atuan
Trouble the Saints
The Two Doctors Górski
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
When Women Were Dragons
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
A Wizard of Earthsea
Wylding Hall
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

Akata Witch
The Night Circus
Redemption in Indigo
Sea of Tranquility
The Summer Prince
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Infinity_Outlaw

Infinity_Outlaw

The Jasmine Throne
Translation State
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Zoo City
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Lett

Lett

After Atlas
Arch-Conspirator
Atlas Alone
Before Mars
Bunny
The City of Dusk
Dreamsnake
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Hotel for the Lost
House of Hunger
Metaphase
Nautilus
Some Desperate Glory
Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Stardoc
The Steerswoman
Touch
Transition
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Witch King
The Witch's Heart
Yellow Jessamine
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Linguana

Linguana

The Bone Witch
Chilling Effect
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Godkiller
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
The Jasad Heir
The Magician's Daughter
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Under Fortunate Stars
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
When Women Were Dragons
MaggieK

MaggieK

Ash and Silver
Binti
Brown Girl in the Ring
Cold Welcome
Den of Wolves
Dust and Light
Final Heir
Harrow the Ninth
The Healer's War
Jade War
The Ripper Affair
Soul Taken
Touch
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Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Bone Swans:  Stories
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Jade City
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piibald

piibald

Babel
Binti
Godkiller
Jade City
The Magician's Daughter
A Marvellous Light
The Speed of Dark
The Terraformers
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Vagabonds!
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
When Women Were Dragons
pixel

pixel

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Babel
Nettle & Bone
The Sea of Trolls
A Snake Falls to Earth
Untethered Sky
Quaisior

Quaisior

The Anything Box
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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RenJ7

RenJ7

Among Others
Beggars In Spain
Circe
Doomsday Book
Experimental Film
Into the Drowning Deep
Light From Uncommon Stars
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Our Wives Under the Sea
Signal to Noise
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking
sara baggins

sara baggins

All Systems Red
Bellwether
Beloved
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Severance
Sistersong
ScoLgo

ScoLgo

Beholder's Eye
Bunny
Future Home of the Living God
The Last House on Needless Street
A Memory Called Empire
The Moonday Letters
Slinkyboy

Slinkyboy

Elysium
Generation Loss
Magic for Liars
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Stardance
A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking
TamRen03

TamRen03

Among Others
Beggars In Spain
The Bone Season
Circe
Doomsday Book
Gideon the Ninth
Jade City
The Left Hand of Darkness
Light From Uncommon Stars
Middlegame
The Once and Future Witches
Spinning Silver
thereddeath

thereddeath

All Systems Red
The Annual Migration of Clouds
The Archive Undying
Artificial Condition
Blood and Gold
Comfort Me With Apples
Compulsory
Exit Strategy
Fugitive Telemetry
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 2
Heaven Official's Blessing, Vol. 2
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Vol. 2
Interview with the Vampire
Network Effect
Piranesi
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Rogue Protocol
System Collapse
Translation State
A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Thomcat

Thomcat

The Book Eaters
The Bronze King
China Mountain Zhang
Deryni Rising
The Female Man
Heartstone
Utopian

Utopian

Gideon the Ninth
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
The Tangleroot Palace
A Thousand Ships
Weesam

Weesam

Ask for Andrea
The Best of Kage Baker
The Book Eaters
Cold Allies
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
The Dark Between the Trees
The Daughters of Izdihar
Delicious Monsters
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
The Employees
Godkiller
Heart of the Sun Warrior
Illuminations
The Jasmine Throne
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
The Keeper's Six
Meru
Mississippi Blues
The Oleander Sword
Sister Light, Sister Dark
The Surviving Sky
The Terraformers
A Venom Dark and Sweet
Where it Rains in Color
whargoul

whargoul

Among Others
Blackout
Cavalcade
Dinosaur Planet
A Door into Ocean
Empire of Bones