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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

    🌶️🌶️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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    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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    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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    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