Stories about time travel

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Past meeting future, second chances at lost moments, lives lived out of order. Books that play with time itself — and use the trick to say something true.

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The 14 books on this stack

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  • Ashley Poston 2023 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A love story that hurts · travelling in time

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    So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon.

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  • Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2021

    Why it's on the stack

    Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · it restores your faith in people

    It shares this with 2 more books on this stack

    Toshikazu Kawaguchi's heart-warming Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time?

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  • Kaliane Bradley 2024

    Why it's on the stack

    Love hurts sometimes · love and laughs in equal parts

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    In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on.

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  • Emily St. John Mandel 1999 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · travelling in time

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    He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

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  • Isaac Asimov 1955 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · a big story that sweeps you along

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    The best time-travel story since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, by the Grand Master of science fiction, the story of Andrew Harlan, Technician and Eternal.

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  • Michael Crichton 1999 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    You can't put it down · travelling in time

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    A new thriller by the best-selling author combines suspense with the latest in scientific knowledge.

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  • Stephen King 1925 3 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    You need to know how it ends · travelling in time

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history?

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  • Audrey Niffenegger 2003 2 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Love hurts sometimes · a farewell that moves you

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    Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the…

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  • Octavia E. Butler 1979

    Why it's on the stack

    You can't put it down · fierce and defiant

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    Kindred (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Octavia Butler Making the reading experience fun!

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  • Connie Willis 1992 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    It hurts, and then it heals · it leaves you shaken

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    For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction.

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  • Blake Crouch 2019 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    You'll finish it in two nights · it won't tell you everything at once

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    At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

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