Anonymous
Post 12/25/2023 19:47     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2023 21:36     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2023 20:30     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
Anonymous wrote:This is how you lose the time war



Oh good call; this is fabulous! Might count as sci fi though.
Anonymous
Post 12/23/2023 21:29     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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!
Anonymous
Post 12/23/2023 21:05     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
This is how you lose the time war

Anonymous
Post 12/23/2023 20:36     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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.”
Anonymous
Post 12/21/2023 00:26     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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.

Anonymous
Post 12/19/2023 19:31     Subject: Re:Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2023 10:53     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2023 09:39     Subject: Re:Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2023 22:40     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
Anonymous wrote:I’ve read almost every book on this thread and I’ll check out the ones I haven’t read yet.

I’m not a real sci-fi fan, but got hooked on time travel with Jack Finnney’s Time and Again when I was in college. I have a new book on hold on Libby called The Good Part in which a 26-year-old makes a wish to get to the more settled part of her life and is suddenly 49-something.


Yes! Jack Finney! I believe he has a couple books, the other one might be Time After Time. Anyway, loved those books.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2023 22:36     Subject: Re:Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
I LOVED Post Birthday World. More like Sliding Doors. So good.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2023 09:50     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
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
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 00:03     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2023 23:09     Subject: Time Travel Books (not sci fi)
Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer