In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character found himself continually repeating February 2nd. In honor of the 25th anniversary of that classic film, here are some YA and adult books involving time travel!
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Before I fall
by Lauren Oliver After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha Kingston relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. |
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The girl from everywhere
by Heidi Heilig Growing up beside her father on a time-traveling ship that ventures to real and imaginary places, 16-year-old Nix struggles to preserve her life when her father obsessively pursues a map in a past time period in ways that threaten her existence. |
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All our yesterdays
by Cristin Terrill Em must travel back in time to prevent a devastatingly destructive time machine from ever being invented, while Marina battles to prevent the murder of the boy she loves. A debut novel. 75,000 first printing. |
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Future shock
by Elizabeth Briggs Recruited by a powerful tech giant to travel to the future and back with a group of other talented teens, Elena, who thought her eidetic memory was a secret, breaks a rule about looking into their fates, an action that triggers a race against time to prevent a deadly event. |
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Ruby red
by Kerstin Gier Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust. |
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Timekeeper
by Tara Sim A young clockwork prodigy in an alternate world controlled by clock towers that can literally stop time if broken is assigned to a town with problematic clocks, where he enters into a forbidden relationship with a clock spirit and races against time to save those he loves. |
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X-Men : days of future past
by Chris Claremont As the X-Men journey into the dystopian future of 2013, they find Sentinels stalk the Earth and that they are humanity's only hope. |
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Life after life : a novel
by Kate Atkinson The award-winning author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum follows the experiences of a woman who after being born on a snowy night in 1910 repeated dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world. |
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Octavia Butler's kindred : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Damian Duffy Inexplicably pulled back in time to the antebellum South, a contemporary Black woman, raised in the age of Civil Rights and Black Power, must confront the harsh realities of Black history in America |
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The shining girls
by Lauren Beukes The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter in this new novel from the author of Moxyland. |
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11/22/63 : a novel
by Stephen King Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. By the best-selling author of Full Dark, No Stars. |
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Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
by Kurt Vonnegut An accessible paperback edition of a popular classic is a satirical social analysis that follows the haphazard life experiences of a man who is abducted by aliens and rendered a prisoner of war during the 1945 bombing of Dresden. |
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Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis Stranded in the fourteenth century--a time of superstition and fear--time traveler Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during history's darkest hour and awaits rescue by her comrades. |
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The time traveler's almanac
by Ann VanderMeer A definitive collection of time-travel stories from more than a century of literature features pieces by such leading authors as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury and is complemented by a selection of informative nonfiction articles, including Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers." |
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The time traveler's wife
by Audrey Niffenegger Caught in an impossible-to-resolve situation that spans the boundaries of temporal reality, this tale of a plucky librarian who is accidentally cast back in time focuses on the romantic complications of time travel. |
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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier. |