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Time Travel

Journeys to the past or future and the paradoxes they create. Every choice in the timeline costs something.

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    The Everlasting cover

    The Everlasting

    Alix E. Harrow · Fantasy

    Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country.

    slow burn · time travel · historical fiction · quest · he falls first

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue cover

    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    V. E. Schwab · Fantasy

    France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

    slow burn · forbidden romance · second chance romance · magical realism · time travel · dark romance

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Seven Year Slip cover

    The Seven Year Slip

    Ashley Poston · Romance

    Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

    romantic comedy · time travel · magical realism · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Ministry of Time

    Kaliane Bradley · Literary Fiction

    In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on.

    magical realism · time travel · romantic comedy · multiple timelines

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut · Literary Fiction

    Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an…

    historical fiction · time travel · trauma recovery · anti hero · psychological thriller

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    Our Infinite Fates

    Laura Steven · Romance

    THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Impossible to put down' V.E.

    slow burn · fated mates · time travel · love triangle · multiple timelines

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    11/22/63

    Stephen King · Sci-Fi

    11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F.

    time travel · historical fiction · revenge plot

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Recursion

    Blake Crouch · Sci-Fi

    **Memory makes reality.** That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has…

    time travel · psychological thriller · twist ending · high stakes survival · amnesia

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    Kiss Slay Replay

    Rachel Harrison · Horror

    Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of So Thirsty…

    psychological thriller · time travel · twist ending · closed circle · high stakes survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Midnight Train cover

    The Midnight Train

    Matt Haig · Literary Fiction

    When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

    magical realism · time travel · second chance romance · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Every Version of You

    Natalie Messier · Romance

    She's gone back in time to win the man of her dreams, so why is she falling for her worst nightmare?

    time travel · slow burn · enemies to lovers · romantic comedy

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Kindred

    Octavia Butler · Sci-Fi

    Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California…

    time travel · historical fiction · trauma recovery · survival · forced proximity

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Outlander cover

    Outlander

    Diana Gabaldon · Romance

    Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times…

    time travel · forbidden romance · paranormal romance · slow burn · love triangle

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    All That We See or Seem

    Ken Liu · Sci-Fi

    Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.

    psychological thriller · time travel · missing person · high stakes survival

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    The Forever War

    Joe Haldeman · Sci-Fi

    "The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War…

    space opera · survival · trauma recovery · first contact · time travel

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    Love Me Tomorrow

    Emiko Jean · Romance

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Tokyo Ever After comes “an endearing, lightly magical romantic comedy” (Kirkus Reviews) about a girl…

    romantic comedy · magical realism · time travel · slow burn · fated mates

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Dead Zone

    Stephen King · Horror

    The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979.

    psychological thriller · time travel · trauma recovery

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    Nonesuch

    Francis Spufford · Literary Fiction

    A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London…

    historical fiction · time travel · political intrigue · twist ending

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    The Time Machine cover

    The Time Machine

    H. G. Wells · Sci-Fi

    H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time,…

    time travel · survival

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    Spin

    Robert Charles Wilson · Sci-Fi

    One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out.

    space opera · survival · time travel

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    The Unmaking of June Farrow cover

    The Unmaking of June Farrow

    Adrienne Young · Fantasy

    In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her.

    time travel · slow burn · second chance romance · revenge plot · magical realism

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Sea of Tranquility

    Emily St. John Mandel · Sci-Fi

    Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a…

    time travel · multiple timelines · slow burn · space opera · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Stories of Your Life and Others cover

    Stories of Your Life and Others

    Ted Chiang · Sci-Fi

    Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award for 1990.

    magical realism · time travel

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    The White Octopus Hotel

    Alexandra Bell · Fantasy

    Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them…

    second chance romance · time travel · magical realism · multiple timelines · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Wild Seed

    Octavia E. Butler · Sci-Fi

    Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design.

    dark romance · paranormal romance · obsessive love · time travel

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August cover

    The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    Claire North · Sci-Fi

    Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World…

    time travel · coming of age · cat and mouse

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    The Perfect Run cover

    The Perfect Run

    Maxime J. Durand · Sci-Fi

    Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies.

    dystopian society · time travel · survival