If you want to recommend a book for the quest, you’re in the right place - but PLEASE READ THIS POST BEFORE ADDING YOUR SUGGESTIONS.

I’ll be using upvotes to gauge interest. Avoid replying just to say you agree; it makes sorting much easier for me and for your fellow boundlings.

Upvoting/liking equals stating your agreement, in this case. Please do not downvote a book simply because you did not like it personally.💖

Important: a recommendation doesn’t guarantee the book will be added, even if it fits the criteria and has many upvotes.

Step One Make sure the book you want to recommend is fiction and fits under one or more of the following criteria:

Traveling back or forth in time: - a character intentionally travels to another time.

Person/people displaced in time: a character ends up in another time by accident and is stuck, trying (or having tried) to get back. The POV doesn’t have to be from the displaced character.

Time loop: same time period keeps repeating.

Time pocket: - a character spends meaningful time in a time pocket while real time is frozen or moves differently.

ALTERNATE REALITIES/MULTIVERSES/BRANCHING TIMELINES WILL NOT BE INCLUDED.

Step Two Check whether the book has already been recommended.

If it has, upvote the existing comment instead of adding a new one.

This helps keep everything tidy and makes it easier for everyone to navigate💖

Step Three If your book isn’t listed yet, leave a comment with: the title and author, and which criterion the book falls under.

Leave one comment per suggestion. Don’t be afraid of spamming the comment section - leave all the suggestions you’d like😍

Example: The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell – person/people displaced in time.

When will new books be added? I’ll try to add more books to the quest at least once every three months, but additions will mostly depend on relevant new releases.

Thank you so much!🥰

What types of books are currently being prioritized? New releases - Books by BIPOC authors - Books by queer authors - Books with BIPOC representation - Books with queer representation

TL;DR: Check if your suggestion has already been added in another comment. If not, leave a comment with one title, author, and time travel type per comment so each option can be upvoted individually. Upvotes are used to gauge interest. If you agree with an existing suggestion, do not add a new comment or reply to the suggestion stating your agreement - simply upvote it.

Last updated: 29th of august 2026

The people who urge the strictest policing of invasives often, it has been my impression, do so in a way that is wrapped up with conceptions of social class and the weird way that gets expressed in supposedly classless American culture. The way it is so often highly educated middle-class white people advocating the doctrines of ecological purity makes it feel sometimes as if the eugenics many of our grandparents and great-grandparents advocated for the human race got transferred to the plants that we live around. At a deeper level, perhaps more subconscious, it is often the people whose forebears were the earliest European settlers of these lands who get the most caught up in restoration efforts that aim to bring back the botanical ecologies that were here before, as if to atone.

This resonates with me. And it brings to mind Robin Wall Kimmerer's chapter "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place" from Braiding Sweetgrass. Here, she talks about some of the plants that have arrived with settlers and colonizers to Turtle Island. Many of them act like colonizers themselves--stealing water and nutrients, taking over prime growing space and edging the indigenous plants out. But some, she notes, find ways to fit in and work WITH the ecology around them instead of trying to dominate it. Like the plantain.

Ages ago, some Scottish sea captain who made his home somewhere in British Columbia got homesick and brought over a bush with cheery yellow flowers and brittle black seed pods to plant in his garden to remind him of Scotland. Today, his weird bush covers nearly every hill of disturbed earth on Vancouver Island (maybe the rest of BC? I've never paid attention to that when I'm on the mainland). I don't know what used to cover hills of disturbed earth, but it's all broom bushes today! Many attempts have been made to eradicate it over the years, but it's determined to stay.

Are there ways to navigate curtailing the expansion of invasive species without going to the extreme of complete eradication? Ways to encourage and facilitate naturalization instead of colonization?

I was thinking about The Golden Compass earlier because I'm going to be buddy reading that series later this year (rereading in my case because we actually read it in English class in 7th grade) and about the concept of daemons in that series, which is, to summarize briefly, an animal representation of your soul that lives in the physical world with you who you can talk to and interact with. Honestly, the dream. In the book, your daemon essentially settles into one animal form based on who you are for the rest of your life when you hit puberty.

And because I love animals and always love reasons for more animal talk - what would your daemon/animal form/however you want to conceptualize it be based on your personality and why? Post a picture if you want!

(To post a picture, use  without the spaces.)