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Just One Damned Thing After Another | Jodi Taylor

#TimeTravelTop5 @Centique @Ruthiella

I really like time travel stories. I've read a lot. Here are only a few of my favourites.

Top picture is The Chronicles of St Mary's series and its spin-off series featuring the Time Police

Ruthiella I kept seeing The Night Watch in online Time Travel Novel lists. I‘m reading the Discworld books now in order, after cherry picking but have almost 30 books to go before I get there! 😅 (edited) 3w

julesG @Ruthiella I keep forgetting that it's a time travel novel 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 3w

IriDas This is how you lose the time war is in my permanent top five books list. 🥰 🫶 💓 3w

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Centique I loved This is how you lose the Time War too! I am going to definitely pick up DODO and Just One Damned Thing. Have you read Connie Willis? Just One Damned Thing sounds a little like her historian series which starts with

The Doomsday Book

julesG @Centique I DNF'd Doomsday Book. Mainly for the historical/linguistic inaccuracies within the first few chapters of the time travel. I have a background in medieval history and linguistics. With my basic knowledge of the language(s) spoken in England at the time, plus the MCs training, the premise of a language barrier didn't make sense to me. And I've DNF'd books for smaller things. Petty, I know. But there are lots of other books waiting for me. 3w

julesG @Centique Just One Damned Thing is 99c on Kindle at the moment. 3w

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Life After Life: A Novel | Kate Atkinson

My #TimeTravelTop5

1. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
2. Kindred - Octavia Butler
3. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
4. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
5. Version Control - Dexter Palmer

I had to use the internet to remind me of what I have read that fit. There were some titles I‘ve read but don‘t like b/c romance was the focus - not my cuppa.

Do you have a favorite time travel book? Post ‘em or let me know in the comments! 😃

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Liz_M The tagged really made me think about how ingrained gender roles and racial stereotypes are in our society. It made quite an impression and i won't re-read it because i don't want to find out if it's awful. 😂

Woman on the Edge of Time

Ruthiella @Liz_M It‘s so tricky reading SciFi written in the past. What was ground breaking then definitely can feel out of touch now. I‘ve never read anything from Piercey. I will put it on the list but definitely approach it with a grain of salt. 😅 3w

Centique Ohhhh I loved Life After Life. I havent heard of Version Control - have to try it. 3w

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Ruthiella @Centique I read it for The Tournament of Books short list years ago. It was such a great surprise and why I like using book prize lists as a potential discovery method! 3w

Readerann I agree about Version Control. It was a pleasant surprise! 3w

Ruthiella It was! I liked his follow up too, but not as much. My expectations were maybe too high.

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel

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The Time Traveler's Wife

Ruthiella @PaperbackPirate I remember that book made such a splash when it came out! 1w

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Come Back, Lucy | Pamela Sykes

It was this tv show in the late 70s that made me love time travel - being able to visit your grandparents as children in the early 1900s! Time travel novels for me can be escapist fantasy or dystopian sci fi - sometimes a delight, sometimes a disaster - and my tastes have moved from fantasy towards dystopia lately #timetraveltop5 @Ruthiella
1 - The Time Travellers Wife
2 - Outlander
3 - Doomsday Book
4 - Black Out/All Clear
5 - Kindred

Centique If you have some time travel faves, feel free to make a list too! @Dragon @LeahBergen @Ruthiella 3w

Centique And then there are the kids time travel books like

Tom's Midnight Garden

Luke-XVX I recently re-bought Toms Midnight Garden. I remember reading the school libraries copy a lot 3w

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AlaMich I also recommend this one by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. It‘s a bit of a chunkster but worth it.

Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

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LeahBergen I have a copy of the tagged book! I must get to it soon! 3w

julesG @AlaMich the audiobook of D.O.D.O. is good 3w

AlaMich @julesG I know! I listened and read the print edition. Have you read the sequel?

Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O.

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julesG @AlaMich Yes. Like you, book+audiobook. 3w

Centique @Luke-XVX I remember it being so good, I must re-read it! 3w

Centique @AlaMich @julesG I have that on my TBR but I must move it up! I will look for the audiobook. 3w

Centique @LeahBergen oh wow! I only found out it was also a book yesterday. I will look for a copy too 😍 3w

Dragon I also liked

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Centique @Dragon ooh that looks really good too! I have such a good TBR of time travel books now 🙌 3w

Dragon I think you‘re going to enjoy it. I just finished another time travel book that I enjoyed

The Third Rule of Time Travel

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