Time Travel/Alternate Timeline/Reality Out of Order Speculative Fiction Books with Heart

Speculative fiction books that ask the big questions and dig deep into individual choices and interpersonal relationships.

Updated May 6, 2024
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Before the coffee gets cold : a novel
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Paper Book
One of the most popular Booktok books on Tiktok in 2022In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee...
Every day
Levithan, David.
Paper Book
From the genius of David Levithan, co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, comes a love story like no other you've read before. Each morning, A wakes up in a different body. There's never any warning about who it will be, but A is used to that. Never...
The first fifteen lives of Harry August
North, Claire
Paper Book
Harry August is on his deathbed, again. Every time he dies, he is reborn in exactly the same time and place, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, he always returns to where he began,...
The husbands : a novel
Gramazio, Holly
Paper Book
**NO 1 KINDLE BESTSELLER** **A GUARDIAN, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND RED BEST SUMMER READ** 'One of the funniest debuts for years' SUNDAY TIMES * 'The most fun I've had reading in the longest time' MARIAN KEYES * 'An absolute riot'...
In five years
Serle, Rebecca
Paper Book
'SMART, EMOTIONAL, INTRIGUING AND COMPELLING - I LOVED IT!' JILL MANSELL'Full of twists and turns, this is a heart-breaking yet uplifting story about love and friendship, and is one of this year's must-reads' Heat magazine ***** Perfect for...
The invisible life of Addie LaRue
Schwab, Victoria
Paper Book
When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price -- the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her tiny hometown in 18th-Century France, beginning a journey that takes...
Kindred
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
**MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON TO DISNEY+** Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò. 'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK TIMES 'The marker you should judge all other...
The lathe of heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Ebook
This science fiction classic by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author is "a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion" (The New York Times). In a near-future world beset by war, climate change, and overpopulation,...
The midnight library
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
The life-changing reader-favourite, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive and The Comfort Book.
One last stop
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
*Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Instant USA Today Bestseller* *Instant #1 Indie Bestseller* From Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes One Last Stop, a big-hearted romantic comedy...
Oona out of order
Montimore, Margarita
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKAMAZON EDITORS' 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK'With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down' USA Today'By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately...
This time tomorrow
Straub, Emma
Paper Book
Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have it figured out by now, and have spent more time with her father Leonard, who is very sick. When she wakes up outside their old apartment on her birthday, she's surprised to see a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for...

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