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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughtout the Decades - 2026

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughtout the Decades - 2026

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 one, but no more than 5, from each of the following time periods:

Pre-1950, 1950's, 1960's, 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 2026 – December 2026

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

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Adele1967

Adele1967

The Blighted Stars
Chain of Gold
Dead Hand Rule
A Deepness in the Sky
Earth
Embassytown
The Fountains of Paradise
Galactic Patrol
Gateway
The Stars My Destination
Starship Troopers
Wicked Problems
A Wrinkle in Time
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Ambrose

Ambrose

Dracula
Frankenstein:  or, The Modern Prometheus
Suffer the Children
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
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Breakfast in the Ruins
City of Illusions
Crescent City Rhapsody
The Dagger in Vichy
The Doll Who Ate His Mother
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Four for Tomorrow
Howard Who?
Islands
The Killing Moon
La Belle Sauvage
Mississippi Blues
A Monster Calls
The Mysterious Stranger:  A Romance
Planet of Exile
Rocannon's World
The Rose Field
Saint Death's Herald
The Secret Commonwealth
The Shattering Peace
Skeleton Crew
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
finminer

finminer

2312
Arslan
The Atrocity Archives
Between Planets
Blackout
The Clockwork Man
Darwin's Radio
Dhalgren
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Helliconia Spring
On Basilisk Station
Out of Space and Time: Volume II
The Pirates of Zan
Red Sun of Danger
Rite of Passage
The Rolling Stones (Space Family Stone)
The Shattering Peace
The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
The Uplift War
Wool
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

The 5th Wave
The Adventures of Alyx
The Battle for Earth
The City on the Edge of Forever
The Dead Moutaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Divergent
The Fires of Heaven
Frankenstein:  or, The Modern Prometheus
Katabasis
Picnic on Paradise
Piranesi
The Salmon of Doubt
Shatter Me
The Skylark of Space
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Witching Hour
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
lanawritenow

lanawritenow

10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

30
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
Weesam

Weesam

The Buried Giant
The Canterville Ghost
Gardens of the Moon
Grave Empire
Interesting Times
Lost in a Good Book
Return From the Stars
Till We Have Faces
The Wood Beyond the World
Wraiths of Time