Hi all! I'm looking for literary books that either have time travel or use time as a theme somehow.
Books I've read and loved that fit this a bit (even if loosely):
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
I'd really love something that includes fate, time travel, and a story that always has the same ending no matter how hard the characters try — sort of like Hadestown. Despite the tragedy, the candle is lit again.
Thank you!
by uniskornz
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Isaac Asimov’s [The End of Eternity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509784.The_End_of_Eternity) is a good one. It doesn’t have the “fate always ends up the same” element, but is a good story covering time travel and the manipulation of history.
11.22.63
All Our Wrong Today’s and The Firat Fidteen Lives of Harry August are my favorite for this genere
11/22/63 is 100% this. I personally hate-finished it because I wanted to see what happened, but if this is your type of thing, you should love it!
My favorite time travel book that I’ve ever read is The Time Traveler’s Wife. It’s such a beautiful story. Sweet and funny and haunting and amazing characters/relationships …
The Ministry of Time!
Outlander.
*Kindred* by Octavia Butler
*Life Begins on Friday* by Ioana Pârvulescu
It’s not quite time travel, but Forever War has some large jumps in time (due to relativistic speed travel) and deals with the consequence of experiencing society and life like that.
Ben Elton’s Time and Time again but it wasn’t a book I enjoyed.