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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughout the Decades

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughout the Decades

Are you ready to expand your reading horizons and dig deep into the dusty corners of the Speculative Fiction Universe? Then this is the challenge for you!

Read at least two books, but no more than 5, from each of the following time periods:

Pre-1950, 1950's, 1960s, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, 2010's and the 2020's.

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.

 Tipping your Toe In = 10 books + 1 reviews
 Adventurer = 15 books + 2 reviews
 Serious Explorer = 20 books + 3 reviews
 Compulsive Completionist = 30 books + 6 reviews

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

Adele1967

Adele1967

The Bloody Sun
Brave New World
The City in the Middle of the Night
City of Pearl
Cloud's Rider
Cross the Stars
Crossing the Line
Dark Orbit
The Diamond Age
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Fluency
Fugitive Telemetry
Harrow the Ninth
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Inheritance
The Jigsaw Assassin
Judge
Matriarch
Only Begotten Daughter
The Planet Savers
The Quiet Invasion
Ready Player One
Rider at the Gate
Star of Danger
The Sword of Aldones
Valence
The Vanished Seas
The Winds of Darkover
The World Before
The World Wreckers
Ambrose

Ambrose

Animal Farm:  A Fairy Story
Blockade Billy
The Colorado Kid
Comfort Me With Apples
Dare
Envoy to the Dog Star / Shock Wave
Expecting Someone Taller
Fight Club
Gone Girl
Gwendy's Button Box
The Haunting of Hill House
Hell Hound
The Hobbit
The Horse and His Boy
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Killer Crabs
Let's Go Play at the Adams'
Night of the Crabs
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
The Origin of the Crabs
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Seraphina
The Time Machine
Water Rites
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4
3
2
1
ClareH

ClareH

American Gods
Boneshaker
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Childhood's End
Divergent
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Doomsday Book
The Drowned World
Ender's Game
The Fall of Hyperion
The Fifth Season
Floating Worlds
Foundation
Frankenstein:  or, The Modern Prometheus
Harrow the Ninth
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hyperion
Kindred
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Long Tomorrow
The Man in the High Castle
The Martian Chronicles
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Neuromancer
Parable of the Sower
Redshirts:  A Novel with Three Codas
Ringworld
Snow Crash
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Atheist in the Attic
Chocky
The Dark Country
David and the Phoenix
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Employees
Erewhon:  Over the Range
Fardwor, Russia
Fever Dream
Hearts in Atlantis
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Hwarhath Stories:  Transgressive Tales by Aliens
Into the Unknown: The Evolution of Science Fiction from Frances Godwin to H. G. Wells
John Dies at the End
The Last House on Needless Street
Little Eve
The Method
Motherlines
Nebula Award Stories Seven
North Wind
Phoenix Café
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:  Written by Himself
Probability Space
Sweet Dreams
This Time Tomorrow
Time's Arrow
The Twenty-One Balloons
Upgrade
Utopia Avenue
Walk to the End of the World
finminer

finminer

Armor
Bones of the Earth
The Book Eaters
The Burning World (The Drought)
The Exile Waiting
Forever Free
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Hero and the Crown
In the Ocean of Night
The Mountain in the Sea
Old Man's War
The Quiet Pools
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Red Rising
The Ringworld Engineers
Stardust
Up the Line
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Who Goes There?
The World We Make
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Fortuo

Fortuo

10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Babel
Binti: The Complete Trilogy
Briar Rose
The Door in the Hedge
Dust
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Fairy Tale
Five Children and It
Foundation
Fury
Grail
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Komarr
Lapvona
Man Plus
Mistborn:  The Final Empire
Nevermore
Orphans of the Sky
Perelandra
The Rising of the Shield Hero, Vol. 1
The Sky is Falling / Badge of Infamy
Small Gods
A Song for a New Day
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
Survival Quest
There Will Be Time
Thud!
To Change the Past
The Wind From Nowhere
A Wizard of Earthsea
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

Barrayar
The Edible Woman
The Falling Woman
The Fervor
The Girls
The Good House
The Lathe of Heaven
The Road Through the Wall
Sargasso of Space
The Snow Queen
Lett

Lett

The Bloody Chamber
The Centauri Device
Daughter of the Empire
The Dead Moutaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre
Dreamsnake
Gateway
Jhereg
The Snow Queen
Sundiver
The Tar-Aiym Krang
thereddeath

thereddeath

Blood and Gold
Dune
Fugitive Telemetry
Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Horse and His Boy
Interview with the Vampire
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Jungle Book
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Network Effect
The Silmarillion
The Turn of the Screw
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15
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13
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10
9
8
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5
4
3
2
1