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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2025 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

2025 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge

The 2025 LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge seeks to promote diversity and expand horizons amongst readers and writers of speculative fiction.

Read and review books that either:

  1. Are written by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors,
  2. Explore LGBTQ+ themes, or
  3. Feature LGBTQ+ characters.

Author repeats are admissible.

Remember that we have the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Resource List here on WWEnd. It is our own resource for finding great LGBTQ+ books. The books on the list primarily feature Lambda Literary and (now defunct) Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2025 – December 2025

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

 Geoff Ryman = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Nicola Griffith = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Samual R. Delaney = 10 books + 3 reviews
 Joanna Russ = 14 books + 6 reviews

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Adele1967

Adele1967

6
5
4
3
2
1
Ambrose

Ambrose

3
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
justiceofkalr

justiceofkalr

14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
lanawritenow

lanawritenow

3
2
1
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
piibald

piibald

Bloom
Don't Let the Forest In
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Summer Sons
1
spoltz

spoltz

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

American Ghoul
A Botanical Daughter
Don't Let the Forest In
Escape Velocity
Evocation
A Market of Dreams and Destiny
Navigational Entanglements
The Phoenix Keeper
The Principle of Moments
The Stars Too Fondly
The Sunforge
Toward Eternity
We Came to Welcome You
Welcome to Forever