Ten Favorite Books About Lives Lived Backwards

(alphabetically by author)

Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
The Impossible Man and Other Stories by J.G. Ballard [for the story “Time of Passage”]
First Light by Charles Baxter
Collision With Chronos by Barrington J. Bayley
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W by Gabriel Brownstein
Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald [for the story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”]
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link [for the story “Lull”]
Project Pendulum by Robert Silverberg

— May 12, 2026