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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 one book, 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 2022 – December 2022

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
 The Adventurer = 15 books + 2 reviews
 The Serious Explorer = 20 books + 3 reviews
 The 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

Across the Green Grass Fields
An Ember in the Ashes
The Demolished Man
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Door Through Space
Earth Abides
Eon
Eternity
The Faded Sun:  Kesrith
The Faded Sun:  Kutath
The Faded Sun:  Shon'jir
The Farthest Shore
Glinda of Oz
Herland
The Hero and the Crown
In the Company of Others
Midnight Robber
Mission of Gravity
Oathblood
Persepolis Rising
A Reaper at the Gates
The Relentless Moon
River of Gods
Slow River
Snow Crash
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
A Torch Against the Night
Wicked:  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
A Wizard of Earthsea
daxxh

daxxh

Aurora
Cemetery World
A Clash of Cymbals (The Triumph of Time)
Dead Space
Gladiator
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Relic
Slow Fall to Dawn
Tor Double #9: The Ugly Little Boy / The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff
Under the Dome
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Being There
The Borrowers Avenged
The Brass Bottle
Certain Dark Things
The Dead Hours of Night
The Emissary
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Jade Legacy
The Margarets
Miss Hargreaves
Mordew
Needful Things
Nightmare Alley
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Snow White Learns Witchcraft
The Song of Synth
Termination Shock
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
War for the Oaks
The Women of Weird Tales
Hneite

Hneite

Akata Witch
A Borrowed Man
Bring the Jubilee
Captain Proton:  Defender of the Earth
The Centauri Device
City of Illusions
Clockwork Boys
Cyteen
Have Tech, Will Travel
The House With a Clock in its Walls
In Service of the Pharaoh
Kindred
The Lovers
MaddAddam
Metropolis
Miracle Workers
Perhaps the Stars
The Phoenix Endangered
The Phoenix Transformed
The Phoenix Unchained
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Search for Spock
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Station Eleven
Subterranean
Time Out of Joint
Titan
'Twixt Dog and Wolf
Voyage
Vulcan's Forge
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

All Clear
American Gods
Among Others
The Calculating Stars
The City & the City
A Desolation Called Peace
Double Star
Downbelow Station
Dreamsnake
The Forever Machine
Forever Peace
The Fountains of Paradise
Gateway
The Gods Themselves
Green Mars
The Humanoids
A Memory Called Empire
Network Effect
Paladin of Souls
Speaker for the Dead
Spin
Stand on Zanzibar
Startide Rising
The Three-Body Problem
To Say Nothing of the Dog
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
The Uplift War
The Wanderer
The War of the Worlds
The World of Null-A
isaacfun

isaacfun

Fiasco
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Foundation and Empire
Gateway
Maze of Death
Neuromancer
Never Let Me Go
Non-Stop
Rendezvous with Rama
The Three-Body Problem
jontlaw

jontlaw

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
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Angelmaker
Chronic City
Killdozer!
The People of the Wind
A Plague of Demons
Soldier of the Mist
The Ultimate Egoist
3
2
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

Dune
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Animal Farm:  A Fairy Story
Artemis
Blue Remembered Earth
By the Sword
A Children's Bible
Cycle of Fire
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A Heritage of Stars
Inter Ice Age 4
Joyland
Jupiter
Mastodonia
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Oathblood
Players at the Game of People
Polystom
The Ship of Ishtar
The Stainless Steel Rat for President
The Starless Crown
The World Swappers