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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughout the Decades - 2024

Exploring Speculative Fiction Throughout the Decades - 2024

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, 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 2024 – December 2024

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

Alliance
Chain-Gang All-Stars
A Closed and Common Orbit
Confluence
Consider Phlebas
Darkover Landfall
The Forlorn Hope
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Linesman
The Long Tomorrow
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
March to the Sea
March to the Stars
March Upcountry
Nona the Ninth
A Passage of Stars
The Player of Games
The Price of Ransom
Revolution's Shore
Rolling Hot
Rosemary and Rue
The Ship Errant
Some Desperate Glory
The Spell Sword
Starliner
Station Eternity
The Turn of the Screw
We All Died at Breakaway Station
We Few
The World Wreckers
Ambrose

Ambrose

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Bees
Bloom
The Book Thief
Camp Damascus
The City of Ember
Duma Key
The Gunslinger
Into the Void
Joyland
Kundo Wakes Up
Nettle & Bone
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Probability Moon
Probability Sun
Reincarnation Blues
Salt Slow
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
daxxh

daxxh

The 34th Rule
The Abyss Beyond Dreams
Dying Inside
The Empress of Mars
The First Men in the Moon
Icehenge
Lords of Uncreation
Red Planet
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Time Traders
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Book of Love
Flying Cups and Saucers:  Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
How Are the Mighty Fallen
It
Market Forces
The Memoirs of a Survivor
Nebula Award Stories Nine
NOS4A2
The Other Side of the Mountain
River of Stars
Saint Death's Daughter
Shadow Captain
Starter Villain
Termush
Treacle Walker
Under Heaven
Wild Seed
Yargo
The Year of the Witching
The Years of the City
finminer

finminer

Accelerando
Artemis
Beggars In Spain
Cryptonomicon
Damnation Alley
The Dark Between the Stars
The Enemy Stars
Farthing
The Forge of God
The Golden Fleece
Grass
Immortality, Inc.
Involution Ocean
The Lost World
No Enemy But Time
The Olympian Affair
The Prestige
The Puppet Masters
A Scanner Darkly
The Shadow of the Torturer
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Slaughterhouse-Five
Stand on Zanzibar
Starling House
Stranger in a Strange Land
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
The Uninvited
Valley of the Flame
Zoo City
1
Hneite

Hneite

Anathem
The Candy House
The Crack in Space:  aka Cantata-140
A Darkling Plain
The Day of the Triffids
Eric
The Eye of the World
The Farthest Shore
The Great Hunt
Infernal Devices
The Last Policeman
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Martian Time-Slip
Myth Conceptions
Myth Directions
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Outpost
Ozma of Oz
Roadside Picnic
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Sirens of Titan
Sirius:  A Fantasy Of Love And Discord
The Swords of Lankhmar
System Collapse
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
The Terminal Man
Tress of the Emerald Sea
We Can Build You
Wool
Lett

Lett

Beggars in Spain
Cyteen
Daughter of the Empire
The Dead Moutaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre
Dreamsnake
Gateway
Metaphase
Nautilus
The Snow Queen
The Stars, Like Dust
Sundiver
The Tar-Aiym Krang
Transition
2
1
lisagarrity

lisagarrity

Airside
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Ammonite
Ancient Shores
Bug Jack Barron
City
Dreaming in Smoke
The Emerald City of Oz
The Female Man
The Forgotten Planet
Full Share
The Ghost Brigades
Growing Up Weightless
Hour of the Horde
Hyperion
Ivory
Legends & Lattes
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
Pavane
Provenance
Rendezvous with Rama
Revelation Space
Sacred Locomotive Flies
Sands of Mars
Spacemen, Go Home
Spirits That Walk in Shadow
Tarzan of the Apes
This is the Way the World Ends
What Mad Universe
A Wreath of Stars
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Babel
The City of Brass
The Dark Forest
The Dark is Rising
Legends & Lattes
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
4
3
2
1
niriop

niriop

Angry Candy
Bring the Jubilee
Citizen in Space
Earth Abides
The Haunting of Hill House
Invisible Cities
Lair
Prime Evil
Shards of Space
The Spear
Pam

Pam

Ammonite
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
The Galaxy Game
Nine Princes in Amber
Those Beyond the Wall
Trading in Danger
4
3
2
1
PJohnGregson

PJohnGregson

Altered Carbon
Ancillary Justice
The Curse of Chalion
Doctor Faustus
Doomsday Book
Downbelow Station
The Lathe of Heaven
Solaris
Uncle Silas
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
pyschocandy

pyschocandy

2001:  A Space Odyssey
Babel-17
Children of Memory
Contact
The Day of the Triffids
Dhalgren
The Dispossessed
The Sparrow
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Animal Money
Chasm City
A Choice of Gods
The Entropy Effect
The Maze of the Enchanter
A Private Cosmos
S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy
A Short, Sharp Shock
Titanium Noir
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

The Shadow of the Torturer
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Androne
Beachhead
The Dark Light Years
Earthlight
End of Watch
Finders Keepers
The Great Explosion
A Haunting on the Hill
The Magicians
Medicine Road
Oceanspace
Out of the Silent Planet
The Purchase of the North Pole
Saurus
Skyfall
Soul Music
Three to Conquer
Triplet
Varney, the Vampyre
Zodiac