Books like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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.
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Replay
Jeff Winston, a forty-three-year-old radio journalist, dies of a heart attack in 1988 and wakes up in his college dorm in 1963 with all his memories, to live his life again, and again.
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen watches her eighteen-year-old son stab a stranger outside their house, and wakes up the next morning to find it is the day before, and each day after that she goes further back.
The Children of Men
In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.
Life After Life
Ursula Todd is born on a snowy night in 1910 and dies before she can draw breath, and then is born again, and again, living through the century's wars with slightly different choices each time.
Declare
In 1963 Andrew Hale, a British academic who was a wartime spy, gets a coded phone call that sends him back to Operation Declare, the secret mission on Mount Ararat that went wrong in 1948.
The Invention of Morel
A fugitive on a deserted island watches a group of tourists who seem to repeat the same days and falls in love with a woman who never notices him.
The Demolished Man
In a future where telepaths are monitored by law, a corporate mogul commits the ultimate crime: premeditated murder.
Lessons
Roland Baines's whole life, from a boarding school where a piano teacher abuses him to decades of love, loss and compromise across Cold War Europe, in McEwan's most autobiographical novel.
Mother of Learning
Zorian, a talented but unremarkable student mage starting his third year at the academy in Cyoria, finds himself living the same month over and over, each time ending in an invasion.
Blackout
In 2060, three Oxford historians go back to Second World War England, to Dunkirk, the Blitz and a country house full of evacuated children, and find their way home won't open.
Timescape
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.
Stations of the Tide
A bureaucrat pursues a shapeshifting rebel across a terraformed world where technology is indistinguishable from magic.