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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2021 Speculative Fiction Published This Year

2021 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 2021 (or first-published in the U.S. in 2021), 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 2021

(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 2021 – December 2021

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

 Astounding = 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 22 Murders of Madison May
Beyond
The Cottingley Cuckoo
A Desert Torn Asunder
Double Threat
Flame Riders
Grave Reservations
The Kingdoms
The Last House on Needless Street
Revelator
Seven Deaths of an Empire
The Wisdom of Crowds
devilinlaw

devilinlaw

Across the Green Grass Fields
Into the Dark
Light of the Jedi
The Rising Storm
Tempest Runner
A Test of Courage
Dlw28

Dlw28

Across the Green Grass Fields
Another Time, Another Place
Black Water Sister
Chaos on CatNet
The Chosen and the Beautiful
A Desolation Called Peace
Doors of Sleep
The Echo Wife
The Expert System's Champion
Fireheart Tiger
Fugitive Telemetry
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
Immunity Index
The Last Graduate
The Last Watch
Leviathan Falls
Lullaby for a Lost World
Maelstrom
Masquerade in Lodi
A Master of Djinn
One Day All This Will Be Yours
Paladin's Strength
The Past Is Red
Project Hail Mary
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Remote Control
The Scavenger Door
Shards of Earth
Soulstar
Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters
Thieves
Under the Whispering Door
We Could Be Heroes
What Abigail Did That Summer
The Witness for the Dead
ElizabethR

ElizabethR

The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Final Girl Support Group
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
The Ladies of the Secret Circus
Later
London Bridge is Falling Down
Notes from the Burning Age
Priest of Gallows
Son of the Storm
Under the Whispering Door
Victories Greater Than Death
Winter's Orbit
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Album of Dr. Moreau
The Body Scout
First Person Singular:  Stories
Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories
Fugitive Telemetry
Goddess of Filth
Klara and the Sun
The Memory Theater
The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror
Project Hail Mary
Trafik
The Unfinished Land
gallyangel

gallyangel

Baccano!, Vol. 16:  1932 Summer: Man in the Killer
Baccano!, Vol. 17:  1711 Whitesmile
A Desolation Called Peace
Durarara!! SH, Vol. 1
Durarara!! SH, Vol. 2
Fugitive Telemetry
The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya
Life Signs
Re: Zero, Vol. 15:  Starting Life in Another World
Re: Zero, Vol. 16: Starting Life in Another World
Re: Zero, Vol. 17:  Starting Life in Another World
Yokohama Station SF
Hneite

Hneite

Across the Green Grass Fields
The Best of World SF: Volume 1
Briarheart
Burning Girls and Other Stories
Cause for War
Dark Lullaby
A Desolation Called Peace
The Expert System's Champion
Fugitive Telemetry
Hard Reboot
The Hidden Palace
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
In the Watchful City
Klara and the Sun
The Only Living Girl on Earth
Persephone Station
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Rabbits
Remote Control
The Return of the Sorceress
Soulstar
Terminal Boredom:  Stories
Trafik
We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep
illegible_scribble

illegible_scribble

The 22 Murders of Madison May
The Absolute Book
Amid the Crowd of Stars
Another Time, Another Place
The Apollo Murders
The Assassins of Thasalon
Black Water Sister
Catalyst Gate
Chaos on CatNet
The Chase
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Currency of War
A Desolation Called Peace
Engines of Oblivion
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
How to Mars
Hummingbird Salamander
Immunity Index
The Last Graduate
The Last Watch
Machinehood
A Master of Djinn
Out Past The Stars
Paladin's Hope
Paladin's Strength
Project Hail Mary
The Scavenger Door
Shards of Earth
Skyward Inn
Soulstar
The Stranger Times
A Summoning of Demons
Termination Shock
Transgressions of Power
We Are Satellites
The Witness for the Dead
Interphase

Interphase

A Desolation Called Peace
Doors of Sleep
Fireheart Tiger
A Master of Djinn
The Memory Theater
Shards of Earth
intheslipstream

intheslipstream

6
5
4
3
2
1
Jain

Jain

Black Water Sister
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Defekt
A Desolation Called Peace
Fireheart Tiger
Fugitive Telemetry
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
In the Watchful City
The Jasmine Throne
The Kingdoms
A Master of Djinn
The Memory Theater
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Soulstar
These Lifeless Things
Winter's Orbit
The Witness for the Dead
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Laffer

Laffer

Angel of the Overpass
A Broken Darkness
Citadel
The Fallen
Fortress of Magi
Klara and the Sun
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Neptune
The Queen of the Cicadas
The Scavenger Door
Threader Origins
Voidbreaker
Linguana

Linguana

Comfort Me With Apples
A Desolation Called Peace
The Echo Wife
Firebreak
For the Wolf
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Jade Legacy
Light From Uncommon Stars
A Marvellous Light
A Master of Djinn
Noor
The Ones We're Meant to Find
The Past Is Red
Persephone Station
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Redemptor
Remote Control
The Second Rebel
Sorrowland
A Spindle Splintered
The Tangleroot Palace
Winter's Orbit
The Witness for the Dead
1
Mark5327

Mark5327

Earthlings:  A Novel
The Midnight Library
Remote Control
Ring Shout
Riot Baby
XX
Naomi_uk72

Naomi_uk72

Anna
Bloodsworn
Fireheart Tiger
Light Chaser
One Day All This Will Be Yours
Reaper of Souls
Remote Control
Sistersong
Son of the Storm
These Lifeless Things
When the Sparrow Falls
Winter's Orbit
piibald

piibald

The Album of Dr. Moreau
Any Way the Wind Blows
The Apollo Murders
The Assassins of Thasalon
Bear Head
A Desolation Called Peace
The Exiled Fleet
Fugitive Telemetry
The Future Is Yours
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
Klara and the Sun
The Last Graduate
The Last Watch
Leviathan Falls
Light From Uncommon Stars
A Master of Djinn
Notes from the Burning Age
Project Hail Mary
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Soulstar
Trafik
Winter's Orbit
The Witness for the Dead
risbom

risbom

6
5
4
3
2
1
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Barbarians of the Beyond
A Desolation Called Peace
First Person Singular:  Stories
Hummingbird Salamander
Klara and the Sun
Leviathan Falls
The Memory Theater
Perhaps the Stars
Purgatory Mount
Revelator
Within Without
1
thejessleigh

thejessleigh

The Final Girl Support Group
5
4
3
2
1
vegemiter

vegemiter

Black Water Sister
The Chosen and the Beautiful
A Desolation Called Peace
Fireheart Tiger
The Last Graduate
Light From Uncommon Stars
The Memory Theater
Notes from the Burning Age
On Fragile Waves
The Past Is Red
Remote Control
She Who Became the Sun
Weesam

Weesam

Bear Head
Black Water Sister
The Blacktongue Thief
The Bone Ship's Wake
The Book of Accidents
Chaos on CatNet
A Desolation Called Peace
Doors of Sleep
The Echo Wife
The Fall of Koli
For the Wolf
Fugitive Telemetry
The Hidden Palace
A History of What Comes Next
Hummingbird Salamander
Immunity Index
Inhibitor Phase
Inscape
The Last Graduate
Machinehood
A Master of Djinn
The Memory Theater
No Gods, No Monsters
Paladin's Hope
Paladin's Strength
Project Hail Mary
Purgatory Mount
Shards of Earth
Soulstar
Termination Shock
We Are Satellites
We Could Be Heroes
What Abigail Did That Summer
When the Sparrow Falls
Within Without
The Witness for the Dead