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Time Travel


With the immense popularity of The Time Traveler's Wife novel and film, we found ourselves greedy for more fun with chrono commutation. (So much fun, we just made up that word!) However, there are so many great stories about time travel, we'd have to have a time machine to find the time to read them all. So, here are some of our favorites, brought to you by the bibliophiles at Powell's City of Books.

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When You Reach Me
When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Staff Pick
My first thought when I closed the covers of this book was, Wow. My second thought was, I want to read this again. My third thought was, How can I possibly describe this book to anyone else? When You Reach Me is like one of those great books/movies... (read more)

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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Staff Pick
"Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more)

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A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly... (read more)

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Time and Again
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
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"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have... (read more)

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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim... (read more)

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To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
by Connie Willis
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It is 1888 and Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940s and modern day, researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron who wants to rebuild it. But when the time continuum is disrupted, Ned must scramble to set things right.... (read more)

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Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
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For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in... (read more)

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Replay
Replay
by Ken Grimwood
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Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each... (read more)

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The Time Machine (Bantam Classics)
The Time Machine (Bantam Classics)
by H G Wells
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When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed.  In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. ... (read more)

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
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When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly... (read more)

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Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love
by Robert A Heinlein
About the Author
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of... (read more)

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End of Eternity
End of Eternity
by Isaac Asimov
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One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the... (read more)

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The Accidental Time Machine
The Accidental Time Machine
by Joe Haldeman
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NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has... (read more)

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Sound of Thunder Movie Tie in Edition
Sound of Thunder Movie Tie in Edition
by Ray Bradbury
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With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The... (read more)

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In the Garden of Iden
In the Garden of Iden
by Kage Baker
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This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from... (read more)

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