An Ocean of Minutes
By: Thea Lim
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simp…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure."-Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
"Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure."-Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
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1. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
By: Yasutaka Tsutsui , David James Karashima
3.21
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through … read more
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- romance
- time travel
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someon…"-Yasutaka Tsutsui, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2. All Our Wrong Todays
By: Elan Mastai
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's… read more
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- adult fiction
- time travel
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You believe what you do."-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
"For just a moment I had a home. It was the size of one cell but that was enough to fit in all I ever wanted."-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
"It was both the greatest kiss of my life and also made me feel like until that moment I’d been kissing all wrong."-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
"Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams."-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
3. Holding Still For As Long As Possible
By: Zoe Whittall
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
What is it like to grow into adulthood with the war on terror as your defining political memory, wi… read more
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- fiction
- canada
4. Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt
By: Yasmine El Rashidi
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Ca… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
5. Up the Line
By: Robert Silverberg
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, th… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- time travel
6. The Conjoined
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
4.41
Format: None pages,
On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after … read more
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7. The Time Tutor
By: Bee Ridgway
3.77
Format: 352 pages, ebook
When Alva receives an invitation from a man offering his services as a Time Tutor, she doesn't know… read more
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8. The River of No Return
By: Bee Ridgway
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Lord Nicholas Falcott wake… read more
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9. Chrysalis
By: Anuja Varghese
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more
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- canada
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
10. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
11. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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- time travel
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
12. The Ministry of Time
By: Kaliane Bradley
3.62
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more
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- romance
- time travel
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
13. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
14. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
15. Here and Now and Then
By: Mike Chen
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when…Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working… read more
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- adult fiction
- time travel
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I’m fourteen. I know how the world works."-Mike Chen, Here and Now and Then
"We’re all different people all through our lives, but that’s okay, as long as you remember all the people you used to be."-Mike Chen, Here and Now and Then
16. That Time I Loved You
By: Carrianne Leung
3.92
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Life is never as perfect as it seems. Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
17. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- canada
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
18. An Ocean of Minutes
By: Thea Lim
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simp… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- canada
- time travel
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure."-Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
19. The Night Shift
By: Natalka Burian
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
" The Night Shift is an engrossing and vibrant novel, and I loved watching my fair city shine in th… read more
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- adult fiction
- time travel
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The best life in any timeline was the life you let fully in."-Natalka Burian, The Night Shift
20. When It All Syncs Up
By: Maya Ameyaw
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dan… read more
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- romance
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21. ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
By: Steven Decker
4.37
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
BOOK INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCEImagine being given a chance at a second life but with a catc… read more
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- time travel
"I wouldn’t wish my life on anyone!"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was inclined to share it with."-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"From here, we can see the line of time stretching in opposite directions for eternity. You see, Edward, there is no beginning and no end of time. The past, present, and future are all happening at on…"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"The man had character. He possessed a moral compass to do the right thing, to fight for those who could not defend themselves, and to challenge authority that shielded itself behind the power of God …"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
