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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Choose Your Own Adventure Reading Challenge 2018

Choose Your Own Adventure Reading Challenge 2018

For this challenge, read four (or multiples of four) books that contain a common plot element or other point of commonality. This would be a narrower focus than books that share a subgenre tag. How you interpret the challenge--and what commonality is shared by the books you choose--is completely up to you.

Check out the Five Books About... article feature on tor.com for some topic ideas. 

Some other examples and ideas to consider:

  • mythical creatures (mermaids, dragons, unicorns, etc.)
  • weird westerns
  • crime/detective
  • nautical/pirates
  • linguistics/language
  • ecology/climate
  • historical fantasies set in the same period
  • authors who only wrote one book
  • authors with the same first name
  • authors with zero award noms
  • same color cover art
  • science--physics, astronomy, chemistry, etc.
  • mathematics--arithmetic, probability theory, etc.
  • philosophy--axiology, metaphysics, ethics, etc.
  • altered states--drugs, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.
  • aesthetics--art, music, books, theater, etc.
  • entertainment--games, movies, athletics, etc.

Have fun and good luck!

*Disclaimer: This challenge has absolutely nothing to do with the Choose Your Own Adventure book series... except the cover art.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2018 – December 2018

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

 Foley = 4 books + 2 reviews
 Brightfield = 8 books + 4 reviews
 Packard = 12 books + 6 reviews
 Montgomery = 16 books + 8 reviews

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

Abalone

Abalone

After Long Silence (The Enigma Score)
Black Mad Wheel
Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
The Devil of Echo Lake
Diamond Star
Elvissey
Glimpses
The Gradual
The Infinity Concerto
The Memory of Whiteness
Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
The Serpent Mage
Signal to Noise
Space Opera
Troll Bridge: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
War for the Oaks
dalex

dalex

Borne
Clade
The History of Bees
1
daxxh

daxxh

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The House of the Seven Gables
The King in Yellow
Terror By Night:  Classic Ghost and Horror Stories
The Turn of the Screw
Wieland, or, The Transformation
The Yellow Wallpaper
MaggieK

MaggieK

1Q84
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Dreaming Place
Foundryside
The Girl in the Tower
The Power
Shatterpoint
Winter Tide
pauljames

pauljames

The Darkest Part of the Woods
The Dragon Reborn
Green Mars
House of Chains
Out Are the Lights
The Penultimate Truth
The Queen of the Damned
Revival
Roadside Picnic
Shadowheart
The Sirens of Titan
The Vision
The Whispering Room
Words of Radiance
2
1
rretzler

rretzler

Annihilation
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Hyperion
The Three-Body Problem
thereddeath

thereddeath

4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Alien Morning
The Beauty of Destruction
Binary / System
Eifelheim
Landscape with Invisible Hand
The Listeners
Mindbridge
Rollback
Ship of Fools
Solar Express
The Stargazer's Embassy
Substrate Phantoms
Tomorrow's Kin
Unpronounceable
War Dogs
The Wrong Stars