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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughtout the Decades - 2025

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughtout the Decades - 2025

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 2025 – December 2025

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 Anything Box
Blue Mars
Deadline
A Door into Ocean
Dorsai!
The Eyre Affair
Feed
First Among Sequels
Green Mars
Guns of the Dawn
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Lathe of Heaven
Little Fuzzy
Lost in a Good Book
One of our Thursdays is Missing
Red Mars
Ribbon Dance
The Shattered Chain
The Small Assassin
Something Rotten
Tea with the Black Dragon
Uller Uprising
The Warrior
The Well of Lost Plots
6
5
4
3
2
1
Ambrose

Ambrose

The Alchemist
The Maze Runner
Pet Sematary
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
Astra Lorca Randall

Astra Lorca Randall

10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
bec

bec

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Doomsday Book
Gideon the Ninth
Howl's Moving Castle
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Komarr
The Lathe of Heaven
The Little Prince
Lone Women
The Martian Chronicles
Pedro Páramo
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Sourdough
The Towers of February
A Wrinkle in Time
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Alien Clay
The Best of Larry Niven
Catherine the Ghost
Drowned Country
Earthlight
Galapagos
Giant Bones
The Institute
The Jasmine Throne
The Oleander Sword
The Power
Silver in the Wood
X,Y,Z,T: Dimensions of Science Fiction
Y:  The Last Man, Book 1
6
5
4
3
2
1
finminer

finminer

Alien Clay
Arslan
The Butterfly Kid
Dorsai!
Excession
Fahrenheit 451
The Familiar
Foundation's Edge
Gateway
Halting State
King's Dragon
The Last Watch
The Mote in God's Eye
The Sea and Summer
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Synthajoy
Too Like the Lightning
The Urth of the New Sun
What Happened to the Corbetts
The Witches of Karres
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Aces High
Black Wine
Catseye
City of the Chasch
The Claw of the Conciliator
Dark Eden
The Dark is Rising
The Dispossessed
The Door Through Space
The Dragon and the George
Enchanted Pilgrimage
Fight Club
I, Robot
The Illustrated Man
Iraq + 100:  Stories From a Century After the Invasion
Japanese Fairy Tales
The Legion of Space
Lullaby
Matter
The Night of the Long Knives
Paladin's Grace
Puzzleheart
Starship Troopers
The State of the Art
Storm Front
Use of Weapons
Water Moon
3
2
1
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine
Cave of Stars
The Expert System's Brother
The Expert System's Champion
Phantastes:  A Fairie Romance for Men and Women
Why Call Them Back From Heaven?
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Banner of Souls
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Far-Seer
The Icarus Needle
Men, Martians and Machines
The Opener of the Way
Out of Their Minds
The Shadow Hunter
The Technicolor Time Machine