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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Pick & Mix Challenge 2023

Pick & Mix Challenge 2023

This challenge is for people who don't quite match up with more specific challenges. So whether you are a super busy person who can barely find time to read a dozen random books a year, or someone with a yen to read the entire opus of an author, this is the place for you. Happy reading!

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2023 – December 2023

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

 a scoop = 10 books + 0 reviews
 a carton = 20 books + 0 reviews
 a luxury choc box = 40 books + 0 reviews
 the whole sweet shop = 80 books + 0 reviews

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daxxh

daxxh

The Chronocar
The Constant Rabbit
Deep Wheel Orcadia
Fairy Tale
Lone Women
The Machine Stops: And Other Stories
Mercury Rising
Recursion
Sisters of the Lost Nation
System Collapse
dustydigger

dustydigger

Alien Bootlegger
All You Zombies –: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein
Archangel's Light
Archangel's Resurrection
Artifact Space
Aurora Rising
Beowulf
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Black Easter
Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams
Born of Man and Woman
Brand of the Werewolf
Captain's Share
The Carrow Haunt
Children of Time
The Chosen of Vishnu
A Christmas Carol
The Courts of Chaos
The Cruel Prince
David Starr, Space Ranger
The Day After Judgment
Dead Spots
The Death of Malygris
Destiny Doll
Dhalgren
The Door to Saturn
Double Share
The Eater of Souls
Eye of Cat
The Fellowship of the Ring
Full Share
Fuzzies and Other People
Grendel
The Guns of Avalon
Half Share
The Hand of Oberon
The Howling Man
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
The King in Yellow
The Land of Mist
Lost on Venus
A Master of Djinn
A Meeting With Medusa
Meteor Menace
Minimum Wage Magic
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
Nightfall
Nightflyers
Nine Princes in Amber
Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith
Omnilingual
Out of the Silent Planet
Part-Time Gods
Pictures Don't Lie
The Polar Treasure
Proxima Centauri
Quarter Share
The Ravenous Dead
Redline the Stars
The Restorer
The Return of the King
Roads
The Salem Horror
Sandkings
A Second Chance
Sign of the Unicorn
Slan
Snake Agent
Someplace to Be Flying
That Hideous Strength
Tithe
The Twisted Dead
The Two Towers
Uprooted
Who?
The Wind From Nowhere
The Wizard's Butler
The Year When Stardust Fell
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

A Certain Hunger
The Furies
Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens
Immobility
The Last House on Needless Street
The Mountain in the Sea
The Shamshine Blind
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
This Time Tomorrow
The Weird and the Eerie
Fortuo

Fortuo

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Hneite

Hneite

The Antares Maelstrom
The Atlas Six
Babel
Babel-17
Binti: The Complete Trilogy
The Brothers Lionheart
Chill
The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
The City of Brass
A Deadly Education
The Devil You Know
The Door in the Hedge
Dread Nation
Dust
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Fairy Tale
The Female Man
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Five Children and It
Foundation
Foundation and Chaos
Foundation and Empire
Foundation's Fear
Foundation's Triumph
Fury
Gardens of the Moon
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Grail
Harrow the Ninth
Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth
A House-Boat on the Styx
Involution Ocean
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Vol. 1
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Komarr
Lapvona
The Last Graduate
The Librarians and The Lost Lamp
Light From Uncommon Stars
The Man in the Maze
Men Like Gods
Mio, My Son
Mistborn: The Final Empire
More Than Human
The Mountain in the Sea
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Nettle & Bone
Nevermore
The Nine Billion Names of God
Nona the Ninth
Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band is Playing & leviathan '99
Or What You Will
Perelandra
The Planet Savers
The Rising of the Shield Hero, Vol. 1
Second Foundation
Serenity
The Sky is Falling / Badge of Infamy
Small Gods
A Song for a New Day
Spear
Spook Country
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Temporary
That Hideous Strength
There Will Be Time
Thud!
To Change the Past
The Tombs of Atuan
Trouble the Saints
The Two Doctors Górski
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
The Well of Ascension
When Women Were Dragons
The Wind From Nowhere
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Wizard of Oz
kwaidan66

kwaidan66

The Accidental War
All My Sins Remembered
Bones of the Earth
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
The Ceremonies
Chthon
Dark Gods
Dead Silence
Deception Well
Farewell Horizontal
The Fountains of Paradise
Great Sky River
How to Sell a Haunted House
Idoru
The Last House on Needless Street
Last Summer at Mars Hill: and Other Short Stories
The Left Hand of Darkness
Man Plus
The Many-Colored Land
Mockymen
The Mountain in the Sea
Rose/House
The Silence of the Girls
Silver Nitrate
The Sky People
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Those Across the River
The Underground Railroad
Velocity Weapon
Virtual Light
Who Made Stevie Crye?
The Word for World is Forest
Wylding Hall
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Lett

Lett

Bear Head
Binti: The Night Masquerade
The Bone Maker
The Bone Shard Daughter
The Caves of Steel
Children of Ruin
Cyteen
Dogs of War
The Doors of Eden
Dreamsnake
The Expert System's Champion
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
The Malice
Metaphase
Nautilus
The Obsidian Tower
The Seven
The Steerswoman
Touch
Under Fortunate Stars
Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
The Vagrant
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lisagarrity

lisagarrity

After the Apocalypse: Stories
Autonomous
Backpacking Through Bedlam
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
Beware of the Mouse
The Cartographers
The Cats We Meet Along the Way
Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction
The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction
Contraband from Otherspace
Death Warmed Over
Doing Time
The Echo of Old Books
Empty Graves
Fairy Tales
The Final Girl Support Group
The Final Reflection
Four-Day Planet and Lone Star Planet
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
The Future of Another Timeline
The Game Beyond
The Gathering Edge
The Ghost Sequences
A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters
The Glass Bead Game
Heir of Uncertain Magic
Hummingbird Salamander
If I Were An Evil Overlord
Into the Drowning Deep
The Kaiju Preservation Society
A Longer Fall
Lost Places
Lucifer's Hammer
The Mimicking of Known Successes
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
The Mouse on Wall Street
The Mouse That Saved The West
My Favorite Horror Story
My Favorite Science Fiction Story
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Nimona
No Room for Man
North American Lake Monsters
Observer
The Owl Service
The Palace Job
Paladin's Faith
Questionable Practices: Stories
Razzmatazz
The River Bank: A sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
The Russian Cage
Salvage Right
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit
Silver Nitrate
Siren Queen
Spring's Arcana
Starter Villain
Steampunk'd
A Stitch in Time
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
System Collapse
The Terraformers
The This
The Time of tThe Ghosts
The Time Traders
Tuf Voyaging
Under the Skin
Venomous Lumpsucker
The Wonder Engine
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume IV
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Momosnyx

Momosnyx

A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Different Seasons
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Firestarter
Inside Man
Jade City
The Last Astronaut
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
The New Space Opera
Pet Sematary
Prosper's Demon
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
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PJohnGregson

PJohnGregson

Conjure Wife
Darker Than You Think
The Drowned World
Galactic Patrol
Lest Darkness Fall
The Man Who Sold the Moon (collection)
Revolt in 2100
Slan
Universe
Witch World
ScoLgo

ScoLgo

20 Years Later
Babel
Between Two Thorns
Boy's Life
Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was
Celestis
Chanur's Homecoming
Chanur's Legacy
Chanur's Venture
Children of Time
The Courier
The Digging Leviathan
The Dispossessed
Fahrenheit 451
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Foundation's Edge
Ghostwritten
Hopeland
Jack of Shadows
John Dies at the End
The Kif Strike Back
The Many-Colored Land
The Mongoliad: Book One
The Mountain in the Sea
Perhaps the Stars
The Pride of Chanur
The Raven Tower
Revelation Space
Second Foundation
Seven Surrenders
The Seventh Bride
Shardik
The Steps of the Sun
Sweet Dreams
Theory of Bastards
Titanium Noir
Too Like the Lightning
The Troupe
The Will to Battle
strongaf

strongaf

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
The Changeling
City of Blades
City of Stairs
A Civil Campaign
Cryoburn
A Darker Shade of Magic
The Deep
The Destroyer of Worlds
Diplomatic Immunity
Dune Messiah
A Gathering of Shadows
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Komarr
Memory
A Memory Called Empire
Mexican Gothic
Semiosis
The Stand
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thereddeath

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TonkaToys

TonkaToys

The Alloy of Law
Anansi Boys
Embers of War
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Klara and the Sun
The Last Town
Never Let Me Go
Randomize
Smoke and Summons
Spellbreaker
Weesam

Weesam

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Air War
An Inheritance of Magic
Antimatter Blues
The Art of Destiny
Ascension
Backpacking Through Bedlam
Be the Serpent
Beyond the Reach of Earth
Black River Orchard
Blade of Dream
Blood of the Chosen
The Blue, Beautiful World
The Bone Shard War
The Book That Wouldn't Burn
The Choice
The Circumference of the World
City of Last Chances
Conquest
The Cradle of Ice
Critical Mass
The Curator
A Day of Fallen Night
Dead Country
Descendant Machine
The Destroyer of Worlds
Dual Memory
Emperor of Ruin
Expect Me Tomorrow
The Ferryman
For Love of Magic
For the First Time, Again
Gods of the Wyrdwood
Haunted by the Past
Heir of Uncertain Magic
Heirs of the Blade
Hell Bent
Hopeland
A House With Good Bones
The Infinite
Infinity Gate
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
Legends & Lattes
Light Bringer
Lords of Uncreation
March's End
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
Mr. Breakfast
My Brother's Keeper
Not of This World
Paradise-1
The Poisoner's Ring
The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
A Rip Through Time
The Road to Roswell
Salute the Dark
The Scarab Path
The Sea Watch
Seal of the Worm
Season of Skulls
Silver Nitrate
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath
The Sky Vault
Starling House
Starter Villain
The Strange
Swashbucklers
System Collapse
The Transcendent
Tsalmoth
A Turn of the Tide
A Twist of Fate
Unraveller
Vampire Weekend
Vampires of El Norte
Village in the Sky
War Master's Gate
What Song the Sirens Sang
Wild Massive
Witch King