Can’t Wait Wednesday #190: Time Travel For Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #190 pick. Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf (opens in a new window).

Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty book cover — Expected Publication: August 4, 2026 by Berkley / Penguin Audio.
Length: 544 pages / ~11 hours.
Narrator: TBD.
Genre: Time Travel, Women’s Fiction

From The Publisher:

Three strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel.

Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course. The Agency is the cause. It is also the solution.
On a quiet road nestled within the bustle of Sydney lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. At once a confounding mystery and a beacon of hope, the Agency seems to attract those who need it most. Single mother Anna is in desperate need of change, and the Agency gives her the chance to begin her career—and life—anew. Teddy is a genius at salvaging businesses but needs saving himself, and he’s drawn to the Agency hoping to travel back in time to untangle his troubled childhood and his recently imploded marriage. Jade has no interest in the Agency at all, because there’s no way people are literally time traveling, right? Jade’s present is challenging enough, with her spirited, increasingly bad-tempered daughter and a deeply buried secret too painful for words. As Anna, Teddy, and Jade’s paths converge, the question of just how legitimate the Agency’s ventures into the past are becomes a mysterious, provocative, tantalising, and even heart-wrenching one to parse—but there is no denying that the ripple effects through all three of their lives are very, very real …

Why I Can’t Wait to Read Time Travel For Beginners:

This is my first book by this author, and it’s the synopsis that really intrigues me. I usually love time travel stories, and I’m curious to see how the lives of the three characters converge.