What Time Is It Again? Spring Forward With These Books Exploring TimeLike this list

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• Why Time Flies

  A Mostly Scientific Investigation

  Burdick, Alan

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  In this nonfiction book, Alan Burdick transforms his personal struggles with tardiness into compelling questions: What is time anyway? What do we mean when we say we have an internal clock? What happens to hours and days when you spend months living…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tale for the Time Being

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  Following a depressed Japanese American teenager recently relocated to Tokyo, and a stuck Japanese American novelist searching for purpose in British Columbia, this moving novel offers a tale for the present, as well as a tale for the human being…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mrs. Dalloway

  Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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  Woolf's working title for her classic novel was The Hours. Fitting for this rich tapestry of characters—their whole lives presented in the span of one day.

• The Hours

  a Novel

  Cunningham, Michael, 1952-

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  This novel takes up Woolf's steam-of-consciousness style and discarded title to braid the events of her life and death with the stories of a 1949 housewife on the verge, and a 1999 hostess throwing a party for a sick friend.

• The Time Traveler's Wife

  a Novel

  Niffenegger, Audrey

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  How can you sustain a marriage if you never know when you'll be? Get lost in past, present and future in this heartbreaking romance.

• Swann's Way

  Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

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  Where do the years go? Does the person we are today contain the versions of ourselves that existed in childhood, through adolescence or yesterday? Swann's Way is the first volume of Proust's masterwork In Search of Lost Time.

• The Chronology of Water

  a Memoir

  Yuknavitch, Lidia

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  The trail of events in this atypical memoir "swim in and out between each other, without chronology."

• Time's Arrow

  or The Nature of the Offense

  Amis, Martin

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  This timely read tells its narrator's life in reverse.

• The Remains of the Day

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  Stevens, an aging butler in a great English manor, wants things to remain the way they've always been. However, as he reflects on the fine people and pilot manners of the past, he begins to understand that not only is that past gone, perhaps it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grey Gardens

  Maysles, Rebekah

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  A gorgeous companion book to the classic documentary, exploring an enmeshed mother-daughter pair of former socialites in their crumbling mansion, trying to tell the line between the past and the present. As Little Edie says, that task is awfully…Read moreRead more of this annotation