Time Travel Books (not sci fi)

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the recommendations. I like time travel books too. A recent favorite was "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub
https://www.amazon.com/Emma-Straub-Novel-This-Tomorrow-ebook/dp/B0B69K62M6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701713329&sr=8-1

I was just about to recommend this, too. Great book. Come for the time travel element, stay for the incredibly poignant take on the daughter/father relationship.

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Anonymous wrote:The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

+1

Also, Blackout and All Clear by the same author. Love Connie Willis. I don't like sci fi, but love her time travel

Also To Say Nothing of the Dog, which is hilarious. Although Connie Willis's books have a "present" set in the near future where there is a lightly "sciency" conceit about how time travel works, they really are not scifi at all. She is equally focused on the historical settings and on the narrative/personal implications of time travel, which for me is just the right combo.

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I'm a huge fan of the Chronicles of St. Mary by Jodi Taylor. It's not about 'time travel' but observing historical events contemporaneously - meaning, scholars travel to a historical event at the time it is occuring to observe. It's really engaging!



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29661618-just-one-damned-thing-after-another?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=r5aYk6SNnj&rank=1

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Harry Potter fanfiction commonly includes "fix-it" time travel. The series itself contained a "Time Turner" device plot.

Fanfiction's not for everyone but I really like it. Time travel plots allow quite a bit of embroidery around known plot points.

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This is a middle grades chapter book, but it is so so so so heart warming, well-written, and thought provoking even for adults. Won the Newberry. “When you reach me.”

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This is how you lose the time war

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OP, I love this type of book too. You HAVE to read Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John- I read it all in one sitting, it was so good!

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Anonymous wrote:This is how you lose the time war

Oh good call; this is fabulous! Might count as sci fi though.

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11/22/63 by Stephen King. Great book. Not horror at all, time travel back to JFK assassination, sweet love story. There's a terrible TV adaptation--don't watch that, the book is much better.

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Making History by Stephen Fry -- gay romance and killing Hitler.

My Mother Was Never a Kid -- forget the author and it's YA but it's great. Time travel to NYC wartime 40s.

I also love Connie Willis good to see her getting love here.

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Its an old one, but Time and Again is so good and takes you back to old NYC

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Might be too sci-fi/fantasy/magical for the OP, but I just finished The First Bright Thing by JR Dawson, which involves time travel but is more about relationships and dealing with your own past.

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+1 on 11-22-63 - amazing.

I hated Time and Again but loved Sea of Tranquility.

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The wish by Lena Gibson.
I have not actually read this book. The other day I was looking through what was available on overdrive / libby at my library and saw this. It was just released earlier this month. I don't know if it is any good or not, I just read the synopsis and thought that it goes along with this thread. My library only has an audiobook version of it available. It is almost 12 hours long.

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Anonymous wrote:The one book I've read that employed this as a plot device was The Time Traveler's Wife, which I *really* disliked. The time traveling idea was neat, but the plot was muddled and confusing, the characters weren't remotely likeable, and there was way too much sex. I'm no prude and I love a good sex scene in a novel, but yeesh... this was way over the top.

That said, I thought the idea of time-traveling in itself could work well in the hands of a skilled author (other than sci-fi). Maybe I'll try some of the books you listed above.

I’m so glad you said this. I picked it up as an audio book to help me clean, and it’s so disappointing. Your post gave me permission to quit. I kept wondering if it got better.