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I've already read 4 time travel books in 2025, all 4 star reads:

The In-Between Bookstore

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

The Other Valley

Throwback

And two I dnfed:

When the Day Comes

Time of the Cat

I'm currently reading Fire Watch which is a prequel to the Oxford time travel series. Just finished first chapter and I am loving it as much as the others i have read in the series.

Finished Fire Watch---and am embarrassed to say, I didn;t realize it was a book of short stories ! haha, really had me lost during the second "chapter" , it was only when I started the third one that I realized--kind of sucked the enjoyment out of the book after that.


Now I am well into The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells and am really enjoying it-it is about a woman who travels back and forth in time where she exists in multiple timelines, 1918, 1945, and 1985

I've been reading a lot of historical fiction this year but I have read a couple of time travel.

The Glassmaker (sortof time travel) and The Ministry of Time.
Both good reads.

I read The Ministry of Time last year and gave it 4 stars.

Deborah wrote: "I've already read 4 time travel books in 2025, all 4 star reads:

The In-Between Bookstore

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

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Estella and the Dream Traveler! My upcoming novel is a philosophical witchy time travel love story. If that sounds interesting, check out my profile for more details. It's on preorder now, and I'll be doing a Goodreads giveaway soon.

Deborah wrote: "I read The Ministry of Time last year and gave it 4 stars."

I read that one last year. I gave it 3 stars (ok but not great.) What did you like so much about it?

I found this list for 2025. https://www.bookbub.com/blog/time-tra...

Maybe there's a good one on it. I'll have to see...

Glynn wrote: "Deborah wrote: "I read The Ministry of Time last year and gave it 4 stars."

I read that one last year. I gave it 3 stars (ok but not great.) What did you like so much about it?"

I thought it was a good time travel story, don't want to post spoilers, but the one reveal about a character was an interesting twist.

This year, I read Lightning by Dean Koontz, partly because I'd seen it recommended on Bookbub's blog.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I like that it's not hard SF, but also because it treats time travel as something dangerous and personal rather than a toy. The consequences felt intimate and concrete, especially in the eyes of Laura Shane when her "guardian angel" didn't show up one time---because of circumstances beyond his control.

More time travel I read in 2025:

The Secret Library
The Third Rule of Time Travel
Death at a Highland Wedding
Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me

I have a new release time slip next week, a follow up to my 2023 book, The Wish: A Time Slip Novel. The new one is romantic women's fiction/magical realism. An overwhelmed teacher makes a wish for a simpler life and wakes up the next day in 1985. The Right Time: Back to the 80s

I've been enjoying the Runes series of time slip novels by Christina Courtenay.

I would say "The Ministry of Time" de Kaliane Bradley