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A sweeping, time-looping cat-and-mouse thriller that wrestles with the crushing weight of infinity and the fierce bonds of rivalry. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
- existential
- suspenseful
- nostalgic
- dread-tinged
- 01
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
A sweeping, beautifully fractured tapestry of a single life lived over and over against the backdrop of a world at war.
- 02
How to stop time
Matt Haig
A bittersweet, time-hopping meditation on the courage it takes to stop hiding from the past and finally risk living in the present.
- 03
Touch
Claire North
A breathless, body-hopping thriller that wraps deep existential melancholy in a relentless game of cat and mouse.
- 04
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A sweeping, deep-time evolutionary epic that will make you root for the most unlikely of sentient species.
- 05
Permutation City
Greg Egan
A dizzying plunge into the deep end of hard science fiction that will leave you questioning the fundamental nature of your own consciousness.
- 06
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
A breathtaking, genre-hopping puzzle box that spans centuries to reveal the invisible threads connecting all of human history.
- 07
Thrice Upon a Time
James Patrick Hogan · 1980
A cerebral exploration of temporal physics that accelerates into a tense, high-stakes dilemma of ultimate sacrifice.
- 08
Reincarnation blues
Michael Poore
A darkly hilarious, deeply romantic romp through the cosmos that makes you fall in love with the messy, imperfect business of being alive.
- 09
Half-resurrection blues
Daniel José Older
A shadowy, supernatural mystery that explores the eerie, liminal space between the living and the dead.
- 10
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
A kaleidoscopic, genre-defying epic that bends time and reality to explore the fragile, beautiful tragedy of human mortality.
- 11
My real children
Jo Walton
A deeply moving exploration of how a single choice fractures a life into two equally profound, heartbreakingly real paths.
- 12
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
A gentle, philosophical exploration of regret that feels like a warm cup of tea on a dark night.
