My Head Is Full of Books: TTT: Books Set in a Different Time -- Recent Reads

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Monday, February 24, 2025

TTT: Books Set in a Different Time -- Recent Reads

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set in a Different Time -- Recent reads

I didn't have to look back very far to find ten examples of books set in the past and the future.

1. Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland -- Set in France in the 1930s and '40s, before, during, and after WWII. (Published in 2014. Completed on Feb. 21, 2025)

2. The Most by Jessica Anthony -- Set in 1957 in Newark, Delaware. (Published in 2024. Completed on Feb. 13, 2025.)

3. Just Kids by Patti Smith -- A memoir set in the 1960s and '70s in New York City. (Published in 2010. Completed on Feb. 11, 2025.)

4. The Ministry of Time by Kalianna Bradley -- Set in London during several time periods because the book is about time travel. The main action happens in the near future but some action happens in the 1840s with references to other times periods in the 1600s, 1700s, 1900s, and 50+ years into the future from current time. (Published in 2024. Completed Feb. 8, 2025.)

5. The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich -- Set in North Dakota in 2008 during the economic recession. (Published in 2024. Completed Jan. 21, 2025.)

6. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore -- Set in 1975, with flashbacks to the early 1960s in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. (Published in 2024. Completed Jan. 18, 2025.)

7. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf -- Based on two lectures given by the author in 1928. (Published in 1929. Completed Nov. 27, 2024.)

8. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo -- Set in Western Mexico between 1870-1920s. (Published in 1955. Completed Nov. 26, 2024.)

9. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King -- Starts in 1947 and moves forward in time at least twenty years, set mainly in the Shawshank Prison in Maine. (First published in 1982. Completed Nov. 21, 2024.)

10. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -- Set in Essex, UK in the 1840s. (Published in 1898. Completed Nov. 10, 2025.)

-Anne