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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2023 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

2023 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

The 2023 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge seeks to promote diversity and expand horizons amongst readers and writers of speculative fiction.

Read and review books that either:

  1. Are written by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors,
  2. Explore LGBTQ themes, or
  3. Feature LGBTQ characters.

Author repeats are admissible.

Remember that we have the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Resource List here on WWEnd. It is our own resource for finding great LGBTQ books. The books on the list primarily feature Lambda Literary and (now defunct) Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees. Another list put together by one of our members is on her blog, and it features a well-researched list of authors self-identifying on the LGBTQIA spectrum. It can be found here.

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.

 Gertrude Stein = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Walt Whitman = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Sappho = 10 books + 3 reviews
 Oscar Wilde = 14 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

Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
The City in the Middle of the Night
Even Though I Knew the End
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Gideon the Ninth
Harrow the Ninth
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Just Out of Jupiter's Reach
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
The Shipmaker
bazhsw

bazhsw

2312
Ammonite
Briar Rose
China Mountain Zhang
Dhalgren
A Door into Ocean
The Female Man
God's War
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Many-Colored Land
Palimpsest
Slow River
The Sparrow
Witchmark
bokai

bokai

14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Dlw28

Dlw28

Defekt
Hell Bent
Hopeland
In the Lives of Puppets
Lark Ascending
The Light Pirate
Meru
The Moonday Letters
Parable of the Talents
The Red Scholar's Wake
The Terraformers
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Unraveller
Victory City
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Atheist in the Attic
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Conqueror's Child
Driftglass
The Furies
Galactic Hellcats
Hwarhath Stories:  Transgressive Tales by Aliens
Motherlines
North Wind
Phoenix Café
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others
Translation State
The Two Doctors Górski
Walk to the End of the World
Fortuo

Fortuo

3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

The Atlas Six
Briar Rose
The Bruising of Qilwa
Even Though I Knew the End
The Female Man
Light From Uncommon Stars
The New Moon's Arms
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances
Silver in the Wood
A Song for a New Day
Spear
The Two Doctors Górski
When Women Were Dragons
Wylding Hall
imnotsusan

imnotsusan

Briefly, A Delicious Life
The Glittering World
Lone Women
Linguana

Linguana

The Black Tides of Heaven
Even Though I Knew the End
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Into the Riverlands
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Paladin's Hope
The Red Scholar's Wake
The Sandman: A Game of You
Siren Queen
Some Desperate Glory
Soulstar
Under the Whispering Door
Was
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Jade City
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
pauljames

pauljames

Exquisite Corpse
Nova
4
3
2
1
piibald

piibald

Godkiller
He Who Drowned the World
In the Lives of Puppets
Jade War
A Marvellous Light
Moominvalley in November
Pet
Rust in the Root
Seven of Infinities
The Terraformers
Vagabonds!
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
When Women Were Dragons
pixel

pixel

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Babel
Call Down the Hawk
Greywaren
Into the Riverlands
Knock Knock, Open Wide
Legends & Lattes
Mammoths at the Gates
Mister Impossible
A Snake Falls to Earth
The Spare Man
A Taste of Honey
Under the Whispering Door
The World We Make
Quaisior

Quaisior

Bookshops & Bonedust
Legends & Lattes
System Collapse
RenJ7

RenJ7

Gideon the Ninth
Kushiel's Dart
The Left Hand of Darkness
spoltz

spoltz

The Book Eaters
The Circus Infinite
In the Lives of Puppets
Into the Riverlands
Jade City
The Jasmine Throne
Kafka on the Shore
Legends & Lattes
The Paradox Hotel
Siren Queen
The Space Between Worlds
The Tempering of Men
Watchtower
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
thereddeath

thereddeath

Against the Day
All Systems Red
The Archive Undying
Artificial Condition
Blood and Gold
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Exit Strategy
Fugitive Telemetry
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 2
Heaven Official's Blessing, Vol. 2
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Vol. 2
Network Effect
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Rogue Protocol
Thomcat

Thomcat

China Mountain Zhang
The Female Man
Finna
Weesam

Weesam

The Book Eaters
The Dawnhounds
The Endless Song
Even Though I Knew the End
Furious Heaven
In the Lives of Puppets
The Ivory Tomb
The Jasmine Throne
The Oleander Sword
The Origin of Storms
The Red Scholar's Wake
A Restless Truth
The Terraformers
The Warden