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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2019 Speculative Fiction Published This Year

2019 Speculative Fiction Published This Year

This challenge is intended as a way to help readers encourage themselves to read newly-published speculative fiction, as well as perhaps an opportunity to increase awareness for award nominations.

Books for this challenge should be first-published in 2019 (or first-published in the U.S. in 2019), and not be ones that you have read previously.

To assist with identifying books for this Challenge, you can use this search:

All Speculative Fiction Works Published in 2019

(note that these search results will include omnibuses, which consist of previously-published works and are not eligible for the Challenge)

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2019 – June 2020

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Campbell = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Clarke = 12 books + 4 reviews
 Nebula = 24 books + 8 reviews
 Hugo = 36 books + 12 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

Abalone

Abalone

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Amnesty
Beneath the World, A Sea
Black City Dragon
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
Cage of Souls
Gather the Fortunes
Ghosts of Gotham
Gideon the Ninth
The Gilded Wolves
Gingerbread
A Hawk in the Woods
The Hod King
If, Then
The Ingenious
The Iron Codex
The Lonely Hour
Nest of the Monarch
The Night Window
The Pandora Room
The Red-Stained Wings
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
Vultures
Westside
Ann Walker

Ann Walker

Alice Payne Rides
Atlas Alone
The Binding
The Bird King
Destroy All Monsters
The Dreamers
Famous Men Who Never Lived
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Golden State
Grave Importance
If, Then
Inspection
The Luminous Dead
Master & Apprentice
Medusa in the Graveyard
A Memory Called Empire
Miranda in Milan
The Outside
A People's Future of the United States
Permafrost
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Prisoner of Midnight
Queen's Shadow
Recursion
The Ruin of Kings
The Secret Commonwealth
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
Song of the Abyss
Storm of Locusts
Tears of the Trufflepig
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Tiamat's Wrath
The Unbound Empire
Velocity Weapon
The Wolf in the Whale
Arifel

Arifel

The Afterward
Amnesty
Ancestral Night
Atlas Alone
David Mogo, Godhunter
Descendant of the Crane
Do You Dream of Terra Two?
Dragon Pearl
Five Unicorn Flush
Gideon the Ninth
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Half-God of Rainfall
The Heart of the Circle
The Ingenious
Jade War
The Light Brigade
Magic for Liars
A Memory Called Empire
Nocturna
Pimp My Airship
The Raven Tower
The Red-Stained Wings
The Resurrectionist of Caligo
The Rosewater Insurrection
Shadowblade
Ship of Smoke and Steel
Song of the Abyss
That Ain't Witchcraft
Tiamat's Wrath
The True Queen
The Unkindest Tide
Unraveling
We Set the Dark on Fire
The Winter of the Witch
The Wolf in the Whale
Wolf Light
Arrenby

Arrenby

Dragon Pearl
In an Absent Dream
The Kingdom of Copper
Luna: Moon Rising
The Winter of the Witch
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daxxh

daxxh

Alliance Rising
Antediluvian
Atlas Alone
Catfishing on CatNet
Edges
Emergency Skin
Fleet of Knives
The Institute
Longer
Luna: Moon Rising
Made Things
Medusa in the Graveyard
A Memory Called Empire
The Raven Tower
Shadow Captain
Sisters of the Vast Black
Summer Frost
The Supernova Era
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Turning Darkness Into Light
Velocity Weapon
Vigilance
Walking to Aldebaran
Dlw28

Dlw28

Alice Payne Rides
Alliance Rising
Ancestral Night
Atlas Alone
Auberon
Bannerless
The Binding
Children of Ruin
The City in the Middle of the Night
Dragon Pearl
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Fleet of Knives
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Golden State
Here and Now and Then
Hexarchate Stories
Hope for the Best
In an Absent Dream
The Light Brigade
Luna: Moon Rising
Medusa in the Graveyard
A Memory Called Empire
New Suns:  Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
The October Man
Permafrost
The Raven Tower
Reentry
Shadow Captain
Swordheart
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Tiamat's Wrath
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Unraveling
Vigilance
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
The Wicked King
ElizabethR

ElizabethR

The Afterward
Ash Kickers
The Binding
The Bird King
Circle of the Moon
The Deepest Blue
Differently Morphous
Eye Spy
Gates of the Dead
The Kingdom of Copper
The Last Supper Before Ragnarok
Myths and Mortals
Phoenix Falling
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Raven Tower
The Ruin of Kings
The Shadowglass
Smoke and Summons
Soulkeeper
That Ain't Witchcraft
Tides of the Titans
Where Oblivion Lives
The Winter of the Witch
The Wolf in the Whale
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Atlas Alone
A Brightness Long Ago
Dragon Pearl
Exhalation:  Stories
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
FKA USA
Frankissstein: A Love Story
Future Tense Fiction:  Stories of Tomorrow
Ghost Wall
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Jade War
Lent
Machines Like Me
Magic for Liars
Mars
Miranda in Milan
The Monster of Elendhaven
Monster, She Wrote:  The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror
Orange World and Other Stories
Permafrost
Quichotte
Radicalized
The Raven Tower
Song for the Unraveling of the World
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea:  Stories
Storm of Locusts
Tears of the Trufflepig
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Testaments
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Today I Am Carey
Vigilance
The Winter of the Witch
The Wolf in the Whale
frankyash

frankyash

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Finder
The Grand Dark
Hollow Kingdom
Inspection
The Institute
Last Ones Left Alive
The Luminous Dead
The Testaments
The Toll
The Twisted Ones
Wakenhyrst
gallyangel

gallyangel

Alita: Battle Angel
Baccano!, Vol. 10: 1934 Peter Pan in Chains: Finale
Baccano!, Vol. 11:  1705 The Ironic Light Orchestra
Durarara!! 12
Durarara!! 13
The Enterprise War
Koimonogatari:  Love Tale
Koyomimonogatari, Part 1:  Calendar Tale
Koyomimonogatari, Part 2:  Calendar Tale
The Magnificent Nine
Owarimonogatari, Part 1: End Tale
Re: Zero, Vol. 10:  Starting Life in Another World
Re: Zero, Vol. 11:  Starting Life in Another World
Re: Zero, Vol. 9:  Starting Life in Another World
A Song for a New Day
Sword Art Online 16: Alicization Exploding
Sword Art Online 17: Alicization Awakening
Sword Art Online Progressive 06
Tiamat's Wrath
True Tenchi Muyo! Vol. 3
Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale
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GiantPanda

GiantPanda

Minor Mage
Perihelion Summer
The Winter of the Witch
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Gonzalo516

Gonzalo516

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Hneite

Hneite

Any Way the Wind Blows
Articulated Restraint
Beyond the El
Blue Morphos in the Garden
Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy
Deriving Life
How to Move Spheres and Influence People
Knowledgeable Creatures
The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir
Long is the Way
Mama Bruise
Masque of the Red Death
Model Minority
Old Media
One/Zero
Painless
Radicalized
Radicalized
Skinner Box
The Song
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Unauthorized Bread
Vigilance
Walking to Aldebaran
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illegible_scribble

illegible_scribble

Alliance Rising
An Illusion of Thieves
Ancestral Night
Arkad's World
Atlas Alone
By Demons Possessed
The City in the Middle of the Night
Delta-V
Do You Dream of Terra Two?
Doing Time
Edges
Finder
Fleet of Knives
Golden State
Here and Now and Then
Hope for the Best
In Dreaming Bound
The Last Astronaut
The Light Brigade
The Luminous Dead
A Memory Called Empire
Middlegame
No Way
The Outside
The Raven Tower
Reentry
The Renegat
The Secret Chapter
Spaceside
Starship Repo
Terminal Uprising
The True Queen
Turning Darkness Into Light
The Twisted Ones
The Unkindest Tide
Vessel
Infinity_Outlaw

Infinity_Outlaw

The Afterward
Alliance Rising
The Ascent to Godhood
Dragon Pearl
Gideon the Ninth
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
The Impossible Contract
In an Absent Dream
The Light Brigade
The Luminous Dead
Made Things
Magic for Liars
A Memory Called Empire
Monster, She Wrote:  The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction
Permafrost
The Raven Tower
Seven Blades in Black
Sisters of the Vast Black
The Starless Sea
The Testaments
This Is How You Lose the Time War
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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Jain

Jain

Amnesty
Ancestral Night
The Binding
The Bird King
Catfishing on CatNet
The Deep
Deeplight
Descendant of the Crane
Dragon Pearl
Exhalation:  Stories
Gideon the Ninth
The Gilded Wolves
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Hexarchate Stories
In an Absent Dream
The Ingenious
The Kingdom of Copper
The Light Brigade
The Lights Go Out in Lychford
The Luminous Dead
A Memory Called Empire
Prisoner of Midnight
The Raven Tower
Serpent Rose
Silver in the Wood
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea:  Stories
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
This Is How You Lose the Time War
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
The True Queen
Turning Darkness Into Light
The Twisted Ones
Wakenhyrst
Where Oblivion Lives
The Wicked King
The Winter of the Witch
Laffer

Laffer

Aftershocks
Arkad's World
The Bayern Agenda
Broken Shadow
The Chaos Function
Deep Past
Doctor Who: Scratchman
Famous Men Who Never Lived
Finder
Fleet of Knives
Infinite Detail
Invisible Ecologies
The Iron Dragon's Mother
The Lesson
The Light Brigade
The Luminous Dead
Marked
Medusa in the Graveyard
A Memory Called Empire
Octavia Gone
The Revenant Express
Shadow Captain
Waste Tide
The Widening Gyre
Linguana

Linguana

The Bird King
Call Down the Hawk
Descendant of the Crane
Desdemona and the Deep
Destroy All Monsters
Gideon the Ninth
Gingerbread
Girls of Paper and Fire
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Jade War
King of Scars
The Light Brigade
Magic for Liars
A Memory Called Empire
Middlegame
Ninth House
The Queen of Nothing
Sorcery of Thorns
Starsight
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
This Is How You Lose the Time War
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
The Twisted Ones
The Wicked King
mikeylikzit

mikeylikzit

The City in the Middle of the Night
Edges
The Light Brigade
Perihelion Summer
Salvation Lost
Shadow Captain
Tiamat's Wrath
Wanderers
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Momosnyx

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Naomi_uk72

Naomi_uk72

Ancestral Night
Atlas Alone
Bloodchild
The Bone Ships
Brightfall
Empire of Grass
Fleet of Knives
Ghoster
Ghosts of Gotham
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Green Man's Foe
The Gutter Prayer
The House of Sacrifice
Kingdom of Souls
A Little Hatred
Made Things
Myths and Mortals
Smoke and Summons
Starship Alchemon
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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piibald

piibald

Articulated Restraint
Auberon
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
A Brightness Long Ago
Children of Ruin
Dead Moon
Ghost Wall
Gingerbread
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Light Brigade
A Little Hatred
A Memory Called Empire
The Rage of Dragons
Salt Slow
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Tiamat's Wrath
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Vigilance
Walking to Aldebaran
Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You
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Prem

Prem

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PylesofBooks

PylesofBooks

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Ark
The Bone Ships
Children of Ruin
Dead Astronauts
The Deep
Emergency Skin
Empress of Forever
Exhalation:  Stories
Fleet of Knives
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
The Last Conversation
Longer
Perihelion Summer
Permafrost
Randomize
Song for the Unraveling of the World
Summer Frost
The Test
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Velocity Weapon
Vigilance
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
You Have Arrived at Your Destination
Schlendrian

Schlendrian

Alliance Rising
Children of Ruin
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Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Alliance Rising
The Bird King
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
A Brightness Long Ago
Dead Astronauts
Luna: Moon Rising
The Raven Tower
Shadow Captain
Storm of Locusts
The Supernova Era
Tears of the Trufflepig
Tiamat's Wrath
slightlyfoxed

slightlyfoxed

In an Absent Dream
Interference
Storm of Locusts
Thornbound
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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tbritz13

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thejessleigh

thejessleigh

Catfishing on CatNet
Ghost Wall
Gods of Jade and Shadow
In the Shadow of Spindrift House
Lent
The Light Brigade
Magic for Liars
Ninth House
Radicalized
The Raven Tower
Rules For Vanishing
Silver in the Wood
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Toll
Unraveling
Violet
Wanderers
We Set the Dark on Fire
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thereddeath

thereddeath

The Monster of Elendhaven
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Weesam

Weesam

Ancestral Night
Atlas Alone
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
A Brightness Long Ago
Children of Ruin
The City in the Middle of the Night
Delta-V
Edges
Empress of Forever
The Fall of Io
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Fallen
The Future of Another Timeline
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Golden State
The Gossamer Mage
The Heavens
Here and Now and Then
Inspection
Luna: Moon Rising
Magic for Liars
Middlegame
Perihelion Summer
Radicalized
Recursion
The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man
The Rosewater Insurrection
The Rosewater Redemption
Storm of Locusts
The Supernova Era
Tiamat's Wrath
The True Queen
Turning Darkness Into Light
Unraveling
Wanderers
Wild Country