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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Award-Nominated Short Fiction Read in 2019

Award-Nominated Short Fiction Read in 2019

This challenge is for those who wish to read all of the year's award-nominated short fiction, or to delve into award-nominated short fiction from the past.

Following are links to some of the finalist listings for various awards at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Listings for other awards can be found there as well.

Hugo Awards
Nebula Awards
Sturgeon Awards

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

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

 Novice = 12 books + 2 reviews
 Apprentice = 25 books + 4 reviews
 Journeyman = 36 books + 6 reviews
 Master = 50 books + 8 reviews

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

daxxh

The Arrival of Missives
Bears Discover Fire
Beneath the Sugar Sky
The Black God's Drums
Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
The Only Harmless Great Thing
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat
A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
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Dlw28

Bears Discover Fire
Cat Pictures Please
In an Absent Dream
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
Looking Through Lace
The Lost Sisters
STET
What I Didn't See
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers
A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
Wooden Feathers
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

An Agent of Utopia
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
Arvies
Bridesicle
A Cabin on the Coast
The Cloak and the Staff
The Death of Dr. Island
Divining Light
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Enemy Mine
Every Heart a Doorway
Exhalation
The Eyeflash Miracles
Fake Plastic Trees
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Gambler
Going Deep
The Green Book
Grotto of the Dancing Deer
Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela
How Interesting: A Tiny Man
I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said
I Remember the Future
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
The Jaguar House, in Shadow
The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Lost Dorsai
Map of Seventeen
A Memory of Wind
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
The Mouse Queen
Non-Zero Probabilities
Pishaach
Ponies
The Pusher
The Road of Needles
Sandkings
The Saturn Game
Seven American Nights
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
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The Sultan of the Clouds
That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
Unicorn Variation
Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage
Waxy
The Way of Cross and Dragon
The Women of Nell Gwynne's
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Hneite

Alice Payne Arrives
All the Flavors: A Tale of Guan Yu, Chinese God of War in America
All the Love in the World
Allamagoosa
Bears Discover Fire
Beneath the Sugar Sky
The Black God's Drums
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
The Builders
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
Coraline
The Court Magician
Damage
The Dead
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Every Heart a Doorway
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain
Flowers for Algernon
For Want of a Nail
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
The Green Book
How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps
The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window
The Last Days of New Paris
The Last Novelist: (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
Louise's Ghost
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
Maneki Neko
On a Red Station, Drifting
The Paper Menagerie
Ponies
The Red Threads of Fortune
The Regular
River of Teeth
The Shape of My Name
Shoe and Marriage
Slow Bullets
The Specialist's Hat
STET
The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat
Things with Beards
The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill
Travels with the Snow Queen
The Urashima Effect
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
When It Ends, He Catches Her
A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
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An Agent of Utopia
And Yet
Articulated Restraint
A Birthday
Blurred Lives
A Colder War
The Court Magician
Fabulous Beasts
Finders
Gone
A Gun for Dinosaur
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
Icefall
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
In the Late Cretaceous
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
Last Summer at Mars Hill
Legions in Time
Lifeboat on a Burning Sea
The Lincoln Train
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed
Missile Gap
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
No Planets Strike
Palely Loitering
The Pusher
The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society
The Rule of Three
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
Sleeping Dogs
The Soul Behind the Face
The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion
A Stab of the Knife
STET
The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births
The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat
The Thing About Ghost Stories
The Thing In the Walls Wants Your Small Change
The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
Thirty-Three Percent Joe
Time Gypsy
Traveller's Rest
The Very Slow Time Machine
When We Were Starless
Who Goes There?
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers
The Wind Over the World
A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
Wooden Feathers
Jenlee

Jenlee

Ancient Engines
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur
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The Best Christmas Ever
The Bonedrake's Penance
The Breath of War
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand
Covenant
Fandom for Robots
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Goodnight Stars
The Husband Stitch
A Kiss With Teeth
The Last Novelist: (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
The Magician and Laplace's Demon
Makeisha in Time
Ponies
Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy
This Chance Planet
Toad Words
The Truth About Owls
The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family
We Are the Cloud
When It Ends, He Catches Her
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Rhondak101

Rhondak101

The Alchemist
All Systems Red
All the Flavors: A Tale of Guan Yu, Chinese God of War in America
And Then There Were (N – One)
Artificial Condition
Baby Doll
Beneath the Sugar Sky
Binti
The Black God's Drums
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Each to Each
Exit Strategy
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
The Green Book
Immersion
Julian: A Christmas Story
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
Maneki Neko
Mono no Aware
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
The Paper Menagerie
Passing Strange
The Regular
Rogue Protocol
A Salvaging of Ghosts
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
Spice Pogrom
A Taste of Honey
The Tea Master and the Detective
The Truth About Owls
The Waves
teenidle

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And Then There Were (N – One)
Beneath the Sugar Sky
Binti
Binti: Home
Binti: The Night Masquerade
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Each to Each
Extracurricular Activities
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
The Last Novelist: (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
The New Mother
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
Overtime
Passing Strange
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
STET
A Taste of Honey
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
When It Ends, He Catches Her
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Weesam

(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan
Childfinder
The Choice
The Copenhagen Interpretation
The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue
Eater-of-Bone
Emergence
Fandom for Robots
The Future Is Blue
The Game of Smash and Recovery
Ghostweight
The Grinnell Method
Gypsy
Herd Immunity
A Hotel in Antarctica
Immersion
In Her Eyes
In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind
The Irish Astronaut
A Letter from the Emperor
The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Mystic Falls
Nahiku West
The New Mother
The Old Equations
One of Our Bastards Is Missing
The Peak of Eternal Light
Scattered Along the River of Heaven
Seasons of Glass and Iron
The Secret Life of Bots
Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer
A Series of Steaks
Sidewalks
The Sultan of the Clouds
They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass
Things with Beards
The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill
The Urashima Effect
The Visitor from Taured
We Who Live in the Heart
The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future
The Weight of the Sunrise
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
The Wildfires of Antarctica
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