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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2025 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

2025 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

The 2025 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.

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.

 Geoff Ryman = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Nicola Griffith = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Samual R. Delaney = 10 books + 3 reviews
 Joanna Russ = 14 books + 6 reviews

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Adele1967

Adele1967

And the Mighty Will Fall
Bitter Waters
Carmilla
Dreadful Company
The Eyre Affair
The Ghosts of Trappist
Grave Importance
Hold Fast Through the Fire
House of Hunger
Metal From Heaven
A Pale Light in the Black
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
Strange Practice
Titan
Ambrose

Ambrose

3
2
1
Astra Lorca Randall

Astra Lorca Randall

3
2
1
Cobaltsquid

Cobaltsquid

6
5
4
3
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Drowned Country
Fevered Star
The Jasmine Throne
Mirrored Heavens
The Oleander Sword
The Power
Silver in the Wood
The Spear Cuts Through Water
6
5
4
3
2
1
geebs787

geebs787

6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Black Water Sister
The Book Eaters
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Dispossessed
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak
Gliff: A Novel
Glitterati
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
The Midnight Library
Paladin's Hope
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Vagabonds!
1
justiceofkalr

justiceofkalr

But Not Too Bold
Faithbreaker
Magic's Promise
Murder By Memory
Parable of the Sower
A Pirate's Life for Tea
Sunbringer
Tea You at the Altar
6
5
4
3
2
1
lanawritenow

lanawritenow

The River Has Roots
2
1
Linguana

Linguana

The Scapegracers
The Scratch Daughters
The Tusks of Extinction
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

The Chimes
The Collapsing Empire
The Dispossessed
The Last Emperox
This Is How You Lose the Time War
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
piibald

piibald

Bloom
Don't Let the Forest In
Faithbreaker
The Incandescent
Luck in the Shadows
The PowerBook
Rakesfall
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Sorcery and Small Magics
The Space Between Worlds
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Summer Sons
Tell Me I'm Worthless
The West Passage
pixel

pixel

Bury Your Gays
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
Dread Nation
Haunt Sweet Home
The Husbands
The Library of the Dead
Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer
Wolfsong
6
5
4
3
2
1
pyschocandy

pyschocandy

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

slightlyfoxed

A Marvellous Light
A Restless Truth
System Collapse
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
spoltz

spoltz

Brothersong
Bury Your Gays
Heartsong
The Paradox Hotel
Ravensong
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Wolfsong
6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

A Botanical Daughter
Bury Your Gays
Don't Let the Forest In
Escape Velocity
Evocation
The Last Hour Between Worlds
A Market of Dreams and Destiny
Navigational Entanglements
The Principle of Moments
The Stars Too Fondly
The Sunforge
Toward Eternity
We Came to Welcome You
Welcome to Forever