Spring Ahead with a Time Travel Tale

Whisk readers away with these captivating time travel reads. Whether changing the clocks in real life or exploring time changes in fiction, it’s always a good time to promote the magic of time travel reads!

There’s No Time Like the Present (to read these books)

The White Octopus Hotel

Alexandra Bell

Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors.

“Have you travelled a long way?” she asked carefully..
A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Well, yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.”

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The Frozen People

Elly Griffiths

Some murders can’t be solved in just one lifetime.

“Think you know time-travel? Think again! Far more than just a detective story, this is a tale about time itself, with delicious connections that thread back and forth between 1850 and 2023. Elly Griffiths has weaved a corker of a mystery that gripped me from page one. Smart, original, and utterly masterful.”—Janice Hallett, international bestselling author of The Appeal

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Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

“In Sea of Tranquility, Mandel offers one of her finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.”—Laird Hunt, The New York Times

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Lightbreakers

Aja Gabel

What would you give to relive the past?

A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where time is both a healer and a thief.

“A novel about grief, ambition, and love . . . as breath-taking as it is mind-bending.” –Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans

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The Found Object Society

Michelle Maryk

An atmospheric speculative suspense novel following a mysterious society offering its members the chance to relive the death of another person—and the self-destructive woman determined to uncover its secrets.

“Unsettling. Propulsive. Sexy. The Found Object Society offers its protagonist, and readers, the ultimate thrill ride: the chance to experience death without dying. With lush, gorgeous prose, Michelle Maryk unspools a confident meditation on privilege, addiction, and grief. Do not miss this incredible debut.” —Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat

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Beatrice the Sixteenth

Irene Clyde; introduction by Lucy Sante

A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world—before the concept of gender.

“The recently rediscovered early 20th-century transfeminine author Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth is an interdimensional Amazonian romance and imperialist ethnographic fantasy rolled into one. Readers of this new edition are in for an unexpected and thought-provoking journey.”—Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: A Resource for Today’s Struggle—And Tomorrow’s

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A Spell for Drowning

Rebecca Ferrier

A stunning historical fantasy debut steeped in the salt and superstition of the Cornish coast. Forgotten sirens, mischievous sea gods, and the lore from days long since passed weave an irresistible tale.

“A truly immersive read steeped in the living landscape of earth and sea. A Spell for Drowning is folkloric fantasy as it should be―pernicious, wild and beholden to no-one. A story of outcast women, defiance and loss, and sisterhood and growth, it lingered long after the final pages.”―Eliza Chan, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fathomfolk

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Time Travel Reads from the Future

The Midnight Train, Available 5/26

Matt Haig

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.

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Retro, Available 6/23

Jessica M. Goldstein

An out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present—in this sharp, speculative debut novel.

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Time Travel for Beginners, Available 8/4

Jaclyn Moriarty

Three strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel in this dazzling novel from award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty.

“I could wish I wrote it but then I wouldn’t have had the pleasure of reading this truly extraordinary, exquisite novel. It’s both hilarious and heart-breaking, thoughtful and compelling. It’s hard for me (I’m the eldest) but I just have to say it, my sister is a literary genius.’’—Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Here One Moment

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