People have been raving about Montimore’s debut, calling it intelligent and provocative, and I am looking forward to checking this time travel book out. So begins the rest of her life, in which Oona has the tricky task of navigating any random age that comes up, with the setback of not having had the necessary life experiences in the right order. On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, Oona Lockhart is catapulted into the future (aged 51), where she finds out that she will leap to a different age on her birthday, forwards or backwards in time.

Oona Out Of Order– Margarita Montimore Oona Out Of Order This is a vivid book that puts the Syrian conflict, and the refugee experience, front and centre.Ĥ. In the 1200s, Rawiya disguises herself as a boy and joins a map-maker on a journey that follows the same path as Nour’s. But Syria is not the country that her mother remembers, and they are forced to flee across countries. In 2011, Nour has moved to Syria with her mother and her sisters, to be nearer to family after the death of her father. This is a story about two young women’s lives, and how they parallel one another, and intertwine, across the span of eight hundred years. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar The Map Of Salt And Stars When he falls in love with a French teacher at his school, he has to decide just how he’s going to go about getting himself an ordinary life.ģ. He’s done it all, hanging out with everyone from Shakespeare to Captain Cook, and now he’s just tired. In How To Stop Time, Tom Hazard is a teacher with a secret he’s been alive for hundreds of years. I’d go so far as to call him a master of speculative fiction. The best thing about Matt Haig’s novels are that you never know quite what you’re going to get. How To Stop Time – Matt Haig How To Stop Time

Kindred is more than a time travel story it examines the African-American experience, and the wounds that have never healed. She is connected to Rufus, through time, and goes on to watch him grow through multiple time travel episodes. We’re jumping right in with a modern classic time travel book, but if you haven’t experienced Butler’s work then do you even like sci-fi?ĭana, a young woman in 1970s California, finds herself thrown 150 years back into the pre-civil war USA, where she saves the life of a young white boy, Rufus. Here are some of the best time travel books you should be reading. Some of these are straight up time travel, and some of them mess with time in a more subtle way, but all of them are great. Everyone knows the best sci-fi trope of all is time travel, so I thought I’d put together a list to share some of my favourite time-bending novels, and hype myself up for some of those on my TBR pile.

So lately I’ve been re-watching Star Trek: Voyager (the best Star Trek, don’t even argue with me), and immersing myself in that beloved sci-fi has started to bleed over into the books I’m choosing to read right now.

If I Wake by Nikki Moyes