I love books that have some magical realism to them like time travel or a person experiencing different realities, but everything else is in the real world and completely normal. Not heavily fantasy or sci fi focused, moreso the main character is the only one experiencing the different realities, and almost everything else is normal.
I have already read:
The Husbands
This Time Tomorrow
In a Holidaze
Landline
Maybe in Another Life
The Midnight Library
Wrong Place Wrong Time
But would love to know if there are more books like this!
Thank you!
by youngandstarving
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Dark Matter
All our wrong todays
Here and now and then
Recursion
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
Weyward by Emilia Hart
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
11/22/63
Connie Willis. My favorites are The *Doomsday Book* and *To Say Nothing of the Dog. *
The time traveller’s wife matches this!
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Outlander sounds like a fit.
Read *The Time Traveler’s Wife* by Audrey Niffenegger!
I liked doors of sleep by tim pratt
The Man in the High Caslte
Our Infinite Fates
Sarah Addison Allen writes books with just that touch of magic. Start with *Garden Spells* and the sequel *First Frost*.
My favorite is *The Sugar Queen*.
Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.
[China Miéville](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33918.China_Mi_ville) is pretty great – and his The City & The City is alternate reality and realistic. Check it out. Kage Baker & Connie Willis both do good time travel – Doomsday Book & Garden of Iden are where to start respectively. I don’t always love Michael Crichton, but Timeline is pretty good.
On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
*Sea of Tranquility* – Mandel
OG Jack Finney Time and Again (1970) and sequel From Time to Time (1995).
“The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender
“Lightning” by Dean Koontz
Life after life and the time travellers wife
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guinn
4321 by Paul Auster
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas.
Dahlgren. Samuel R Delaney
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard