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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
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
slow burntime travelhistorical fictionquesthe falls first🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›2 —
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
slow burnforbidden romancesecond chance romancemagical realismtime traveldark romance🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus - ›3 —
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
romantic comedytime travelmagical realismforced proximity🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus - ›4 —
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
magical realismtime travelromantic comedymultiple timelines🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›5 —
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
historical fictiontime traveltrauma recoveryanti heropsychological thriller - ›6 —
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
slow burnfated matestime travellove trianglemultiple timelines🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›7 —
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
time travelhistorical fictionrevenge plot🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›8 —
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
psychological thrillertime traveltwist endingclosed circlehigh stakes survival🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›10 —
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
magical realismtime travelsecond chance romancetrauma recovery🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›11 —
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
time travelslow burnenemies to loversromantic comedy🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›12 —
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
time travelhistorical fictiontrauma recoverysurvivalforced proximity🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›13 —
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
time travelforbidden romanceparanormal romanceslow burnlove triangle🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes - ›14 —
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
psychological thrillertime travelmissing personhigh stakes survival - ›15 —
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
space operasurvivaltrauma recoveryfirst contacttime travel - ›16 —
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
romantic comedymagical realismtime travelslow burnfated mates🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›17 —
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
historical fictiontime travelpolitical intriguetwist ending - ›19 —
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
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
time travelslow burnsecond chance romancerevenge plotmagical realism🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›22 —
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
time travelmultiple timelinesslow burnspace operaparanormal romance🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›23 —
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
second chance romancetime travelmagical realismmultiple timelinesparanormal romance🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit - ›25 —
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
dark romanceparanormal romanceobsessive lovetime travel🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus - ›26 —
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
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
dystopian societytime travelsurvival