52. A book with a time-related word in the title

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

The last prompt of the year, and a prompt that acknowledges the passing of time. This week, you are looking through your TBR for books that feature a time-related word in the title.

Suggestions:
The word "time": The Time Traveler's Wife
Names the time in the title: Confessions on the 7:45
Refers to a time of day: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; The Midnight Library
Gives a length of time: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Day and night: The Night Circus; The Remains of the Day
Looks at the passage of time: The Once and Future Witches

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

What are you reading for this prompt, and do you have any recommendations?

[Angie]

My current options:
Year of the Monkey
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Home Before Dark
The Last Time I Lied



I recommend:
The Given Day
A Drink Before the War
Later
The Remains of the Day

[Kathy]

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes - Isabella Lucy Bird
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

Recommended:
Endless Night - Agatha Christie
The Hours Before Dawn - Celia Fremlin
The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
Cocktail Time - P.G. Wodehouse
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

[Marie]

I'm working my way through the Jack Reacher books, which luckily don't have to be read in order, so I'll be reading 61 Hours.

I think this is a tricky prompt, I don't have many suggestions, but I would recommend Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, A Year of Marvellous Ways and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.

I always recommend Discworld when I get the chance, there are a few that fit but if you're new to the series Thief of Time would probably work best without needing to read the previous books first.

[Amy (Other Amy)]

I have so many of these and I keep finding more. My list right now:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
WAS : A Novel
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Hours
Saturday
August Is A Wicked Month
The Summer Before the Dark
Sundial

[Joy D]

I can recommend:

Tuesdays with Morrie
Seasons of the Moon
The Queen of the Night
The Hours
The Time of Our Singing
Three Junes

[NancyJ]

I'm considering:
✅The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Seven Years in Tibet
✅ Our Souls at Night
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
Just One Damned Thing After Another,

I recommend:
**The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
This Is How It Always Is
A Tale for the Time Being
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Once There Were Wolves
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Dawn (Xenogenesis)
Life After Life

**This is a real feel-good story. It was also developed into a Broadway Show called Come From Away. The cast album is very entertaining.

[Nancy]

Since I'm trying to read in order, and this is the last prompt of the year, my intention is to read This Time Next Year as it revolves around New Year's. Since I do both this and PopSugar, plus review books, I should be getting to this prompt right around the end of the year.

My other options are books I own:

The Seven Day Switch
The Ten-Year Nap

[CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph]

I'm currently planning to read Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 7.

[Maryam]

I have read following two

The Missing Hours by Julia Dahl
56 Days

[LeahS]

Actually read for the last prompt in January! because I thought A Tale for the Time Being might work for the 'mind' prompt, but decided it was a better fit here. Time is in the title, and is also important in the overlapping stories in the book,

I thought this was a fascinating book, which includes Zen philosophy and quantum physics (not too much of the latter), but all wrapped up in two interesting lives.

Recommendations: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The Time Traveller's Wife; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

[NancyJ]

LeahS I'm glad you liked A Tale for the TIme Being. I absolutely loved it. It was in my top 10 (#2 actually) last year. I'm thinking of reading her book My Year of Meats for this prompt. It's a strange title, but I really like her writing.

I could also use When We Cease to Understand the World for this prompt. It was a strange book too but very powerful.

[Brittany]

I'm planning on reading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice for this one. It's going to be my "big read" for the year.

[miss.mesmerized]

Irmgard Keun Nach Mitternacht
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Matthias]

For this prompt, I read Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson. An interesting SFF tale with deep roots in Caribbean history and folklore, exploring some dark issues while focusing on the development of a female protagonist.

[Wendy]

I'm tempted to read Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times for this one.

I highly recommend Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

[Anne]

I will be reading The Celtic Twilight by W B Yeats , a collection of stories. I recommend Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald.

[ladymurmur]

For this prompt I read Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch, the first book in the fantastic Rivers of London series.

(I'm still not sure why they renamed this book for the US instead of going with the original Rivers of London title. Felt much better when, in one of the story introductions in Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, the author himself described the renaming as "inexplicable". )

[Evelyn]

I am reading Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas and I would recommend Secrets of a Summer Night by the same author.

[ladymurmur]

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman

[Pam]

I’m reading the short story collection Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier.

[Joy D]

For this prompt, I read:
The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard - 4* - My Review

[Adam]

Reading through the novelisation of Back to the Future. It is bizarre to say the least. People make fun of his green shoes.

Found an entire YouTube channel called audiobooks for the damned that handles dramatic readings of film novelisations.

[Joan]

For this one I listened to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I wouldn't recommend the audio book. In the beginning it was hard to keep track of the characters. It ended up making sense but I would have enjoyed reading the actual book more. I did like the Author's commentary at the end about the book however.

[Severina]

I read The Day after Oblivion by Tim Washburn

[Liz]

I read Life After Windows by Inez Ribustello

[Rachel]

I read The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi which is a great book about two girls growing up in Iran amongst the recent conflicts and struggles. This is my review

[Samantha]

I read This Time Tomorrow, it was an easy read and pretty enjoyable.

I have been reading in order so this was my last book for this years challenge! Happy to still have the seasonal challenges!

[Barbara]

Samantha wrote: "I read This Time Tomorrow, it was an easy read and pretty enjoyable.

I have been reading in order so this was my last book for this years challenge! Happy to still have the season..."

Well done Samantha! I am adding this one to my list (:

[Nicola]

I have just finished so this will fit in nicely.

[GailW]

I read 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak.

[Judy]

I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

[Marta]

Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse is pure joy at all times.

[Guylian]

I read Der Sommer, als ich schön wurde (The Summer I Turned Pretty) by Jenny Han.

[Alicia]

Are we counting months and days of the week as “time-related”

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I think most people are, but your challenge your rules.

[Stacey]

I read the introspective short story collection Afterparties by the late Cambodian American author Anthony Veasna So. The stories offered a glimpse of young immigrant life, growing up gay in California's largely poverty-stricken Central Valley. This was the author's debut. It's a shame to imagine all of the great work he could have given the world had he lived.

[Tracy]

I read These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett. I enjoyed this book. Since it was essays it could easily be read while reading another book (which I happened to have done) since you can put it down at various points and not lose the thread. Not every essay was a favorite, and a couple got a little long winded, but overall it was very enjoyable AND I learned a bit about Ann Patchett, who I have liked as an author of fiction.

I wasn't originally going to fill this prompt with this book, but one of my IRL book groups chose the book, and it fit here, so...

My original list of possible reads to go here were:
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (most likely what I was going to read originally)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

[Barbara]

The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

[Sherri]

I read Hour Game

[Misty]

I read In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez for this prompt, and it was such a good book. If anyone is still looking for a book for this prompt, I really recommend this one.

[Rachel]

I read::

The Baghdad Clock by Iraqi author Shahad Al Rawi is a beautifully written story of a young girl growing up in war-torn Iraq. She met her best friend Nadia in an air-raid shelter, as the US bombed Iraq in the First Gulf War after they had invaded Kuwait. They share their hopes and dreams, and first romantic attachments with a childish innocence and joy. All around their neighbourhood is being decimated, people are emigrating, desperate to escape and the sanctions create poverty and hunger. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
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[Sheena]

I went a bit outside the box with this one, maybe? I read Greenwich Park relating it to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). GMT was the international standard of time until 1972.

[Hannah]

I read Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. It's a "second chance" romance that's focused on two weeks: the seven days in June when the two romantic leads meet again and flashbacks to the seven days in June fifteen years previously when they met for the first time.

Some other books I liked that have time as a major element of the book as well as the title:
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky spans a great deal of time through cryogenic sleep and the slow evolution of an alien race.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - the timespan is important in this story, too, as you follow this family through many generations.
Time travel! I'd recommend This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Time and Again by Jack Finney.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - this is a cool, non-chronological story in which midnight is very important.

[KP]

I read two books in the Thursday Next series, One for aging, and one for time - unless I move them around.

[Kylie]

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN AIRLINE PILOT

[Laurel]

I ended up with 4:50 from Paddington, a classic Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie. Great side characters, including Lucy Eyelesbarrow.

[Karolina]

I've read The Midnight Library

[Nike]

I wonder if a date counts as time-related? I'm not thinking about the book by Stephen King now although I guess that would be a great choice but I'm reading about a day in Swedish crime history with three mystical disappearances that stay unsolved. The title of the book contains the date 65 - 07 - 29. (We don't write dates the same way as in US, we write year-month-day). Can I use it for this prompt? Göteborg 65-07-29: Svensk kriminalhistorias märkligaste dag by Lars-Olof Lampers

[Hannah]

Personally, I would definitely count that, Nike!