With the clocks shifting ahead an hour on Sunday, you might feel like your sense of time is off. Fortunately, there are two lists of time travel-related reading. We’ll get that hour back somehow!
At The Hub, Sarah Debraski has a great list of mostly YA time travel stories, including Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (which involves a time loop) and The Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (in which time stands still). At Secrets & Sharing Soda, Katie expands a little to MG, bringing in titles like The Time Trilogy by Madeleine L’Engle (love!).
When I was in middle school, one of my favorite time travel books was Both Sides of Time by Caroline B. Cooney. It had everything I liked–romance, the Victorian era, feminism, vague fantasy/sci-fi elements, and mysteries. When I found out there were sequels, I freaked. (The last one didn’t thrill me, sadly.)
For very mature YA readers (probably junior/senior high schoolers) I’d also recommend The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I assumed it would be kind of schlocky, but a friend gave it to me with enormous enthusiasm, and I found myself really enjoying it as well.
And of course, if you’d rather watch something about time travel, you need to check out Doctor Who. Immediately.
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I’m currently reading About Time by Adam Frank (Free Press, 2011). Not a YA book. It’s non-fiction and takes a serious look at our ever-changing concepts of time and gives a very nice run-down on modern cosmology and big bang theorizing. A very nice book. It gives time-travellers and other commuters something to think about.
That sounds fantastic. I don’t do as much nonfiction as I’d like, so definitely going to check out About Time.