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Connie Willis · 2010 · US · science fiction
Book 4 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel
★ 4.08 Goodreads · 22,571 ratings

The historians stranded in Blitz London keep looking for a way home, and start to fear they have changed the outcome of the war.

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12 books for readers of All Clear

Timescape

Gregory Benford · 1980 · US 94% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 11,784 ratings
shares: academic, time travel, nebula award · unhurried, earnest

In 1998, with the world dying of ecological collapse, Cambridge scientists try to warn the past using tachyons, and in 1962 a young physicist in California picks up the strange noise in his experiment and tries to make sense of it.

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley · 2024 · UK 91% match ★ 3.55 Goodreads · 271,857 ratings
shares: time travel, London · easy read, conventional

A British civil servant is hired by a secretive new ministry to live with Commander Graham Gore, a Victorian naval officer brought into the present from the doomed Franklin expedition, and as she teaches him modern life, they fall for each other while the project turns dangerous.

Recursion

Blake Crouch · 2019 · US 89% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 357,339 ratings
shares: time travel, suspenseful · earnest, suspenseful

A New York detective chasing an outbreak of false memories crosses paths with the neuroscientist whose machine for preserving memory has started letting people rewrite their pasts, and the timeline with them.

11/22/63

Stephen King · 2011 · US 89% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 715,255 ratings
shares: time travel, suspenseful · easy read, suspenseful

A high school English teacher discovers a portal to 1958 and tries to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but every change to the past fights back.

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham · 1951 · UK 89% match ★ 3.92 Hardcover · 431 ratings
shares: London · easy read, suspenseful

Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched the previous night's green meteor shower has gone blind, and that the triffids, tall walking plants with poisonous stings, are loose.

The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov · 1955 · US 89% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 65,327 ratings
shares: time travel · speculative, easy read

A technician in a time-altering organisation makes unauthorised changes to history to save a woman he loves, threatening the existence of eternity itself.

The Rose Code

Kate Quinn · 2021 · US 86% match ★ 4.44 Goodreads · 411,805 ratings
shares: WWII, suspenseful, war, wwii · easy read, earnest

A debutante, an East End girl and a shy puzzle-solver become codebreakers at Bletchley Park, then reunite on the eve of the 1947 royal wedding to unmask the traitor among them.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North · 2014 · UK 86% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 105,038 ratings
shares: earnest, speculative

Harry August, born in 1919, lives his life, dies and is born again in the same year with all his memories, and at the end of his eleventh life a little girl brings him a message from the future.

Miracle at St. Anna

James McBride · 2002 · US 86% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 5,253 ratings
shares: WWII, ensemble, war, wwii · easy read, wrenching

Four Black American soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village during WWII and find shelter with the locals.

The Children of Men

P. D. James · 1992 · UK 86% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 54,245 ratings
shares: easy read, earnest

In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.

A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson · 2015 · UK 86% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 61,125 ratings
shares: WWII, war, wwii · unhurried, easy read

The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008 · US 85% match ★ 4.36 Goodreads · 10,329,666 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Hunger Games
shares: easy read, suspenseful

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.