January 31^st is National Backwards Day. Backwards day was created by Sarah Nichole Miller and Megan Emily Scott while they were working on a farm. They came up with the rules on January 29^th, 1961 and word spread around town with the community doing things backward. The women made the day on January 31^st and it has remained such ever since.

In celebration of National Backwards Day, here is a list of ten books told in reverse chronological order. Reverse chronological order is a method of storytelling in which the plot is revealed in reverse order.

#1 Genuine Fraud by E Lockhart

• Published: 2017
• Pages: 262
• Starts at the end of the story moves backward.

#2 All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

• Published: 2016
• Pages: 371
• Told backward from Day 15 to Day 1.

#3 The October List by Jeffery Deaver

• Published: 2013
• Pages: 312
• Tells the story that occurs over a weekend, from Sunday evening to Friday morning.

#4 Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

• Published: 2020
• Pages: 384
• Tracks a five-year relationship from its end to its beginning.

#5 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

• Published: 1991
• Pages: 304
• Follows the Garcia sisters, Carla, Sandi, Yolanda, and Sofia in revere chronological order from adulthood to early childhood.

#6 The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

• Published: 2014
• Pages: 338
• A generational saga told in reverse in three parts 1999-2001, 1955, and 1929, with a prologue set in 1900.

#7 Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis

• Published: 1991
• Pages: 165
• Begins in the 1980s and ends in Nazi Germany.

#8 The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

• Published: 2006
• Pages: 528
• Begins in 1947, following the lives of four Londoners back in time through the 1940s.

#9 Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

• Published: 1999
• Pages: 304
• The chapters and pages are numbered backward. It begins on page 289 with Chapter 47 and ends on page 1 with Chapter 1.

#10 The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

• Published: 2001
• Pages: 325
• Told backward in three sections with the characters at the ages 52, 28, and 17.