Welcome back to another Top Ten Tuesday post! This week’s topic is Books Set in Another Time. These can be historical, futuristic, alternate universes, or even in a world where you’re not sure when it takes place you just know it’s not right now. I thought this topic would be a tough one, but I managed to find 10 books fitting this prompt. So, buckle up and let’s do some time travelling!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – Although I didn’t really enjoy the book due to the amount of physics it definitely is set in another world. It’s set on a spaceship, and I hardly understood what was going on because of the science used. However, this book came to mind immediately when I saw this week’s prompt.
- Caraval by Stephanie Garber – This series takes place in some kind of circus and the world keeps changing because of magical elements. Definitely not a world as we know it.
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao – This is yet another futuristic world which definitely differs from our world.
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – What would this post be without a good old dystopian?
- The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau – Okay let’s add another dystopian into the mix.
- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – let’s go back in time, back to London in the 1800s to be exact. I was a bit torn between adding the “The Infernal Devices” or “The Last Hours” series by this author, because they are both set in a historical London.
- A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson – This book is set in both 1923 and in an alternate universe.
- The Novice by Taran Matharu – This “Summoner” series feels like it’s set in medieval times, combined with a bit of Pokémon due to the creatures.
- Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco – I tried and DNF’ed this book twice myself, but this one is also set in historical London.
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer – I didn’t want to include this series at first because I’ve talked about this a lot in the past, but I just couldn’t stop myself. This first book in the series published in 2012, and the world Meyer created was very futuristic at the time. Nowadays many elements in this series seem to quickly become reality nevertheless.
If you have any, what’s your favourite time travelling trope?
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