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    I'd love recommendations for time travel or time loop type books. My favorites (that I remember of the top of my head):

    All Our Wrong Todays

    Timequake

    Replay

    The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    Time and Again

    Kindred

    The In-Between Bookstore

    by LumpyPurpleFloof

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    1. Michael Crichton’s **Timeline** has a group of grad students go back to 14th century France to investigate a mystery while another group stays in the present to assist/protect them. Much of the story is set in the past, depicting the brutality of life back then.

      Robert A. Heinlein’s **The Door Into Summer**. An engineer bounces between the future and the present. (Written in 1957.)

      Stephen King’s **11/22/63**. A man goes back in time in an effort to prevent the assassination of JFK.

    2. CherenkovLady on

      The time traveller’s wife – Audrey Niffenegger

      The end of eternity – Isaac Asimov

    3. scandalliances on

      Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

      The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

      The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry (a little bit more alternate universe)

      This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Brooks

    4. AnonymousAmI on

      Recursion, by Blake Crouch. His book, Dark Matter, also deals with similar concepts, but I always feel that Dark Matter is his most popular work, while Recursion is a better, more rewarding read.

    5. clumsystarfish_ on

      Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. The premise is that time travel exists and historians use it to study the past first-hand. This particular duology takes place in WWII.

      There are a couple more in the series, too: Doomsday Book, and To Say Nothing of the Dog. The most amusing is TSNOTD, and the most hopeful is Blackout/All Clear. Doomsday Book is brilliant but darker.

      It’s YA, but does the time loop thing well: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. A teenage girl is killed in a car crash and is forced to live the day over and over until she gets it right.

      11.22.63 by Stephen King

      End of an Era by Robert J. Sawyer

      The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

    6. RagingOldPerson on

      Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

      The first book in a five book series. The title tells the premise, you can travel back in time for as long as a cup of coffee stays hot. Fast read, low stakes, good.

    7. whatever56561977 on

      They’ve already been mentioned, but I will pile on with 11/22/63 and the Outlander series

    8. Sweaty_Sheepherder27 on

      Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley has a very novel concept, and I enjoyed it.

      The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas was another interesting take on the genre.

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