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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2024 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

2024 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

The 2024 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. 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 2024 – December 2024

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

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

Adele1967

Adele1967

Ash
Disturbed by Her Song
The Heritage of Hastur
In the Vanishers' Palace
Nona the Ninth
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
The Ruin of Angels
Spear
A Spindle Splintered
Translation State
The World Wreckers
3
2
1
DeirdriuWRS

DeirdriuWRS

The Bone Season
Diavola
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Houses Under the Sea
Middlegame
The Shore of Women
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Book of Love
Chaos Terminal
The Death I Gave Him
The Privilege of the Happy Ending
River of Stars
Saint Death's Daughter
The Saint of Bright Doors
Some Desperate Glory
Teranesia
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Hneite

Hneite

Ancillary Sword
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
The Cabin at the End of the World
Condomnauts
Fledgling
Nimona
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Saint of Bright Doors
She Who Became the Sun
Siren Queen
Sorrowland
The Tainted Cup
Victories Greater Than Death
The Water Outlaws
lanawritenow

lanawritenow

The Dead Take the A Train
Faebound
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart:  And Other Stories
A Fire Born of Exile
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Song of the Huntress
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

3
2
1
piibald

piibald

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Bad Cree
Bitter
The Book of Love
Briefly, A Delicious Life
Bury Your Gays
Chain-Gang All-Stars
The Emperor and the Endless Palace
Fledgling
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
Sunbringer
pixel

pixel

Ash
Boss Witch
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Extra Witchy
The Only Purple House in Town
The Salt Grows Heavy
Season of Skulls
Sisters of the Vast Black
Some Desperate Glory
Starling House
Translation State
Troubled Waters
Witch King
Witch Please
pyschocandy

pyschocandy

Affinity
Dhalgren
The Doors of Eden
The Female Man
Frontier
The Gilda Stories
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Jasmine Throne
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Mars House
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
The Spare Man
Under the Whispering Door
When Women Were Dragons
Slinkyboy

Slinkyboy

Bad Cree
The Drowning Girl
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
spoltz

spoltz

The Archive Undying
Bang Bang Bodhisattva
Bookshops & Bonedust
Deadbeat Druid
Fevered Star
Foundryside
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
The Light Brigade
Mammoths at the Gates
The Saint of Bright Doors
Some Desperate Glory
The Thick and the Lean
Trailer Park Trickster
White Trash Warlock
thereddeath

thereddeath

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 3
Guardian, Vol. 1
1
Weesam

Weesam

The Archive Undying
Bang Bang Bodhisattva
Cursebreakers
Dead Collections
The Death I Gave Him
A Fire Born of Exile
Grave Expectations
Missing, Presumed Dead
A Power Unbound
The Salvation Gambit
A Second Chance for Yesterday
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Tell Me I'm Worthless
The Undetectables