#TopTenTuesday Books That Play With Time #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week it’s a freebie so we’re challenged to come up with our own topic. My list is all about Books That Play With Time – ‘sliding doors’, reverse chronology, time loop… If you’re reading this in the future, please don’t nick this idea.

  1. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
  2. The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas – A pioneer of time travel receives a newspaper article from the future about the murder of an unknown woman
  3. The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett – Three possible versions of the lives of two characters
  4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig – A library in which every book provides an opportunity to live a different life
  5. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton – Until someone can solve her murder, a woman will die over and over again
  6. All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda – The disappearances of two young women – a decade apart – told in reverse 
  7. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – Two parallel stories which begin from the same present moment but one runs forwards and the other backwards
  8. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – A man suffering from a rare condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future
  9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward
  10. The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey – A historical crime mystery in which the story unfolds in reverse

What other books do you know of that play with time?

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17 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Books That Play With Time #TuesdayBookBlog”

  2. Hmm, this week I’ve seen several TTT lists on time travel books. I’ve read 7, 8 and 9 from this list but I’m most interested in the TV adaptation for Life after Life

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    1. I read Life After Life years ago and really enjoyed it. If I saw a copy of The Midnight Library in a charity bookshop I might be tempted, although I’d probably come out with ten other books as well!

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