#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?

Top Ten Tuesday Time CLocks

 

My Five Favourite November 2023 Reads

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I read eleven books in November, thanks to the #NetGalleyNovember reading challenge which always produces results! Here are the five I liked best. Links from each title will take you to my full review.

You can find a list of all the books I’ve read so far in 2023 here.  If we’re not already friends on Goodreads, send me a friend request or follow my reviews.

My thanks to Head of Zeus, Headline, The Borough Press and Canongate for providing me with review copies, including via NetGalley.

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou (Head of Zeus) – Set in 1950s London, a compelling, authentic and moving story based on a real life murder case

Rebellion by Simon Scarrow (Headline) – First century Roman Britain is the setting for the 22nd outing of Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro – vividly drawn characters, thrilling action scenes and authentic period detail

Mrs Whistler by Matthew Pamplin (The Borough Press) – The story of artist James MacNeill Whistler – a man so convinced of his own genius that he embarks on an ill-advised libel action against art critic, John Ruskin – and Maud, Whistler’s model, muse and lover

Things in Jars by Jess Kidd  (Canongate) – An intriguing historical crime mystery full of eccentricity, imagination and melodrama

The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn (Orion) – Emotional dual time story of love and loss set on the Scilly Isles (full review to follow)

What were the best books you read last month? Have you read any of my picks?

My Five Favourite Reads (10)