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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2026 Second Best

2026 Second Best

Read books that have been nominated for any of the 29 awards on the WWEnd site, but have not won any of them. Embrace the challenge & read one from each list to hit the top level of 29!

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2026 – December 2026

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

 Novice = 6 books + 1 reviews
 Apprentice = 12 books + 2 reviews
 Journeyman = 18 books + 3 reviews
 Master = 29 books + 6 reviews

Note: You must be a logged in member of WWEnd to join this challenge. Join WWEnd
Adele1967

Adele1967

Crossover
5
4
3
2
1
Ambrose

Ambrose

Suffer the Children
5
4
3
2
1
bec

bec

Cog
Foundryside
Her Body and Other Parties
Parable of the Sower
Royal Assassin
When Women Were Dragons
dalex

dalex

The Bone Shard Daughter
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Empire of Sand
Greenteeth
Infinity Gate
Legends & Lattes
Private Rites
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A Restless Truth
Shark Heart
Thistlefoot
daxxh

daxxh

Bear Head
Black House
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Death of the Author
Have Space Suit - Will Travel
The Ophiuchi Hotline
Picks & Shovels
5
4
3
2
1
DeirdriuWRS

DeirdriuWRS

An Unkindness of Ghosts
The Belles
The Black Tides of Heaven
Camp Damascus
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
The Eyes Are the Best Part
Gideon the Ninth
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Jade War
Moving Target (Marque and Reprisal)
The Museum of Human History
The Poppy War
Siren Queen
Star Daughter
Valour
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

A Corner of White
Crescent City Rhapsody
The Doll Who Ate His Mother
Europe at Dawn
He Who Drowned the World
Islands
The Killing Moon
La Belle Sauvage
Merlin's Booke
The Secret Commonwealth
2
1
finminer

finminer

Absolution
The Atrocity Archives
The Bewitching
Bone Dance
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Cuckoo's Egg
Deserted Cities of the Heart
Dhalgren
Doorways in the Sand
The Fuller Memorandum
Hard Landing
Helliconia Summer
Ivory
The Jennifer Morgue
The Last Days of New Paris
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Mission Child
Parasite
Ragamuffin
Red Sun of Danger
The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
Too Like the Lightning
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Aru Shah and the End of Time
The Garden of Stones
The Ministry for the Future
The Outsider
Picnic on Paradise
Shark Heart
Slashed Beauties
The Smoke That Thunders
Starling House
The Time Traveler's Wife
Warbreaker
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
lanawritenow

lanawritenow

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
5
4
3
2
1
lisagarrity

lisagarrity

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Ancestral Night
Aurora
Bones of the Earth
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact
The Children of the Sky
Deathless Divide
The Devils
The Dog Stars
Far From the Light of Heaven
The Final Girl Support Group
Foundryside
Grave Empire
Hammajang Luck
Hammerfall
The Iron Dragon's Mother
Project Hanuman
Rakesfall
Red Moon
The Red Scholar's Wake
Rust in the Root
Six Wakes
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
When Gravity Fails
The Year of the Ladybird
3
2
1
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

The Ministry of Time
On Stranger Tides
The Stand
26
25
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Slinkyboy

Slinkyboy

Bookshops & Bonedust
The Girl in the Glass
Wilder Girls
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Asunder
Billy Summers
Boys in the Valley
The Buried Giant
Camp Damascus
Dark Sands
Gardens of the Moon
House of the Rain King
Letters to Our Robot Son
Smothermoss
Space Oddity
Withered Hill