Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
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- 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.
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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.
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
- 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
- The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett – Three possible versions of the lives of two characters
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig – A library in which every book provides an opportunity to live a different life
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton – Until someone can solve her murder, a woman will die over and over again
- All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda – The disappearances of two young women – a decade apart – told in reverse
- 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
- 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
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward
- 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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