19, 20, & 21. A book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

We have a triplet set here: a book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow. You can tie your books together through a shared theme or go for three unrelated books. There's also options on how to connect your books to yesterday, today, and tomorrow - title, theme, setting, the sky's the limit!

ATY Listopias
Yesterday: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Today: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Tomorrow: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

How will you be interpreting this prompt? Will you have a theme for your choices?

[Angie]

I'm planning to make it a theme--mystery/detective novels

* One historical mystery
* One present day mystery
* One mystery set in the future/in space, etc.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm definitely going to settle into an easy approach for these prompts - historical fiction, contemporary fiction, sci-fi.

[Deborah]

Not completely sure what I'll end up reading for these, it's early yet and I am bad about changing my mind and shuffling things around.

Current possibilities

All Our Wrong Todays
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Aftertaste

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

I Am Not Going to Get up Today!
Tomorrow I'll Be Brave
The Girl Who Saved Yesterday

[Jenny]

Yesterday immediately brought to mind The Beatles for me, so Abbey Road by David Hepworth for that.

Today - ???? No ideas yet.

Tomorrow will be Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

[NancyJ]

It would be cool to use 3 books that each play with time, but that could get messy. So I’ll probably pick 3 books from three distinct eras, historical, contemporary, future, with some important commonality or theme that will emerge based on the books I discover. I read a lot of futuristic books this year, but very little historical fiction, so the list for yesterday is much more appealing to me right now. I’ll probably start by reading several of those.

Alternatively, if I could find 3 multigenerational (or multi century) sagas that each cover yesterday today and tomorrow, that could be cool too. This will probably be among the last prompts I fill.

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A Canticle for Leibowitz covers multiple centuries in the future.

[LeahS]

I have round 1 planned as 'disasters'!

Nights of Plague; What Can We Do?: Climate Change; The Last Murder at the End of the World.

Round 2: The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty; The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It; Stolen Earth

[Marie]

This is going to be my repeated prompt, because I have two interpretations that I like two much to choose between.

I've got the straightforward word in the title interpretation, but a couple of these books have been on my TBR for a while so it's too good an opportunity to miss:

The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The more satisfying interpretation for me is these books are set in years that are my own yesterday, today and tomorrow:

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

I might go the title route cause there's a couple books with it in the title- The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? and If Tomorrow Never Comes

When we had did 3 centuries I BIOed it to be in the same location. So maybe I'll do that--- too bad I read the new Ian McEwan What We Can Know cause that would help with the British countryside in the future.

I kinda like Marie's idea of making it personal. I do need to read The House of the Seven Gables next year so that could/is my present and then something airplaney or war for past... and future? A book featuring retirees?

[Karen]

Yesterday - All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg - in the title

Today - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Current events, ideas, political situations

Tomorrow- NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman "Future" is in the title.

[Charlsa]

I'm not very creative here, so I may change this to something like Angie or Emily. My original plan was:

Yesterday: Death of Yesterday by M.C. Beaton

Today: Today We Go Home b y Kelli Estes

Tomorrow: Tonight is Already Tomorrow by Lia Levi

Now I'm going to switch to a mystery that takes in the late 19th Century, a current day mystery set in NYC, and a futuristic SCIFI.

Yesterday: A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn

Today: Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh

Tomorrow: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 by Philip K. Dick

[Martha☀]

I've settled on reads for 'Yesterday' and 'Tomorrow' but 'Today' eludes me.

I started looking at titles with 'now' in them and that has opened up a bunch of options. Hope that helps your searches!

[Claire]

I think I finally settled on reading a history for yesterday, a new release for today, and a near future book for tomorrow!

For history, I have The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World on my list, and for future I have The Handmaid's Tale: The Seminal Work of Dystopian Feminist Fiction. I am a mood reader, so I think for the new release for today, I am just going to pick one that I decide I want immediately and use that. Nothing more like the now than a book you just must have!

[Misty]

I'm just doing a past, present, future theme with no twists:
Yesterday: Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong (life in early 20th century Chinatown San Francisco)
Today: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez (contemporary time)
Tomorrow: Furyborn by Claire Legrand (starts at one time and then jumps ahead 1000 years)

[Dixie]

I've been thinking about how to relate these to my own life, and finally came up with:
Catrin in Wales (one of the pivotal years of my life was at a college in Wales)
Finding Violet Park (in the present, my relationship with my grandson is a big part of my life)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (I have no idea what my future will bring, but I hope it's something as surprising and exciting as Mrs. Pollifax's!)

[Donna]

A good place to pop in some nonfiction:

Yesterday
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

Tomorrow
Some Future Day: How AI Is Going to Change Everything by Marc Beckman

and a contemporary fiction for today:
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher

[Barbara]

yesterday: The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda Tate (historical fiction about Hattie McDaniel)
today: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
tomorrow: The Martian by Andy Weir

[Ron]

I was trying to figure out how to interpret these prompts because I wasn't sure if it was literal or how else to interpret but then an idea hit me.

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I'll be doing mine on wildlife:

Yesterday:

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

(extinction of animals)



Today:

Wild Orcas: A Deep Dive into the World of Killer Whales

(being released in 2026 and discusses the history and present state of Orca populations)



Tomorrow:

Before They Vanish: Saving Nature's Populations ― and Ourselves

(about what to do with animal populations and how to possibly stop the extinctions)

[Dixie]

Ron wrote: "I was trying to figure out how to interpret these prompts because I wasn't sure if it was literal or how else to interpret but then an idea hit me.

*****

I'll be doing mine on wildlife:

Yesterda..."

I like this. A great take on this prompt.

[Misty]

Ron wrote: "I'll be doing mine on wildlife:"

I love this take! Very cool.

[D.L.]

Martha☀ wrote: "
I started looking at titles with 'now' in them and that has opened up a bunch of options. Hope that helps your searches!"

That helps!

[D.L.]

Ron wrote: "I was trying to figure out how to interpret these prompts because I wasn't sure if it was literal or how else to interpret but then an idea hit me.

*****

I'll be doing mine on wildlife
I am a nature and animal lover so this sounds awesome!

[D.L.]

Title-ish theme??!

Yesterday: (Past) Mama Stalks the Past (I love this series and wish there had been many more books in it)

Today: (Now) You May Now Kill the Bride

Tomorrow: (Future) Fray: Future Slayer