--- title: This Time Tomorrow: 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 description: Find out why "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. canonical: https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228635/this-time-tomorrow/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-11-14T12:53:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:10:56.366Z og:title: 'This Time Tomorrow' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 og:description: Here's why it made the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228635/this-time-tomorrow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e9fe7d159534c85/698a37c4b21a9c4db9506ab2/ThisTimeTomorrow.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'This Time Tomorrow' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'This Time Tomorrow' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 twitter:description: Here's why it made the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e9fe7d159534c85/698a37c4b21a9c4db9506ab2/ThisTimeTomorrow.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 14, 2022 # This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Alice Stern is about to turn 40, and her life is not exactly where she thought it would be by now. She’s still living in a studio apartment and working in the admissions office of the private school she attended as a teen. But when she wakes up the morning after her birthday to discover she is, somehow, 16 again, she’s not obsessed with her youthful body or getting a second chance with the boy she had a crush on. She’s fixated on her dad, a well-known author who is gravely ill in the present day but healthy in this peculiar moment. As Alice reunites with one of the most important people in her life, she wonders how she can perhaps change his future. In exploring their relationship, [Emma Straub has never been better](https://time.com/5829782/emma-straub-all-adults-here/), expertly manipulating time travel tropes to unravel a tender story about family and fate. The result is a narrative full of revelations both heartbreaking and delightful, and one that serves as a love letter to Straub’s own father, the novelist Peter Straub, who passed away in September. _—Annabel Gutterman_ **Buy Now**: _This Time Tomorrow_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780525539001) | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/3Uwv3TQ) **Contact us at** [letters@time.com](mailto:letters@time.com?subject=%28READER%20FEEDBACK%29%20Stay%20True&body=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Fcollection-post%2F6228627%2Fstay-true%2F)**.** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228635/this-time-tomorrow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228635/this-time-tomorrow/"},"headline":"This Time Tomorrow","datePublished":"2022-11-14T12:53:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:10:56.366Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228635/this-time-tomorrow/","keywords":["Books","list","best books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e9fe7d159534c85/698a37c4b21a9c4db9506ab2/ThisTimeTomorrow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e9fe7d159534c85/698a37c4b21a9c4db9506ab2/ThisTimeTomorrow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228635/this-time-tomorrow/","name":"This Time Tomorrow"}}]}] ```