10 Books Set In Another Time

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This week’s prompt was for books that are set in another time. I’d like to have put more thought into this one but honestly, I’ve not had the bandwidth. We were both ill the weekend before we were away in Venice, so little was done that weekend and then this past weekend my planned productive Sunday was derailed by a migraine! So here we are writing and posting this on Tuesday evening!

These 10 books are really just whatever came to mind! I’ve tried to repeat myself with too many of the same old books from past posts, but the more I do the harder that gets!

As ever, if I linked a title that’ll take you to my review of the book.

1. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler – the smartest use of time travel as a literary device. A black woman from the 1970s finds herself transported back to 19th-century Maryland, to the plantation of her ancestor. It’s unbelievably brutal and just so incredibly effective with its plain prose style.
2. Salt To The Sea by Ruth Septys – A historical Young Adult fiction book that tells the story of four WW2 refugees desperately making their way to the ill-fated MV Wilhelm Gustloff. I didn’t know about this piece of history and it was so well-written and incredibly touching.
3. Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas – just gets a mention as my favourite Regency Romance, even if it’s a little light on the historical accuracy (nobody is reading it for that, though right)!
4. Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh – a grimly, twisted little fairytale set in a medieval fiefdom, if you want something a bit different! I fucking loved this!
5. Piranesi by Susanna Clark – I had to mention this one but I won’t say anything about it because you have to read it to unlock its mysteries! I picked it for its incredible almost-liminally timeless atmosphere. I highly recommend reading this is you have not already!
6. Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey – Looking to the future now! The space-faring future in these sci-fi books is well-considered and feels completely plausible to me!
7. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – What if the human race fucked everything up so much that highly evolved spiders became the future?
8. Project Hail Mary by Andy Wier – One man alone in a tiny shuttle is the only hope for the survival of the human race… there is a lot of maths in this book, but somehow it still kept me interested.
9. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – It’s a deeply disturbing vision of the United States that feels set simultaneously in the past and the future (and also increasing the present…), Atwood didn’t invent anything in this book, elements of the Gilead have been and are at play in many countries across the world. It’s depressingly fucking timeless.
10. She’s A Killer by Kirsten McDougall – I’m reading this right now and it is set in the not-too-distant future where climate change has already fucking up most of the world and the economy, and now “wealthugees” are flooding New Zealand.

That’s it, keeping my TTT streak even if it’s right before bed time! Hopefully, I can get more on track for future prompts… hopefully…