Books like Timequake
A timequake sends everyone back ten years to live the decade over again, with no power to change it, and Vonnegut mixes the story of what happens when free will returns with memories of his own life.
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Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time, bouncing between his life as a POW in Dresden, suburban America, and an alien zoo.
Ilustrado
A young Filipino writer in New York investigates the death of his mentor, a famous exiled novelist pulled from the Hudson, and his own story tangles with fragments of the dead man's work.
Hollywood
Bukowski's semi-autobiographical account of surviving Hollywood while his novel Barfly becomes a movie.
Motherhood
A woman in her late thirties decides whether or not to have a child, and the decision becomes an excavation of everything she believes about freedom, selfhood, and time.
Time Shelter
A Bulgarian writer works in a Zurich clinic where each floor recreates a decade of the 20th century for Alzheimer’s patients, and then nations begin choosing their own pasts.
Quichotte
Ismail Smile, an ageing Indian-American pharmaceutical salesman obsessed with television, renames himself Quichotte and sets off across America to win the love of a talk-show host, in a Don Quixote for the age of opioids and TV.
10:04
A Brooklyn poet who has just sold a novel, and just learned he has a heart condition that could kill him, agrees to help his best friend have a baby, in the year between two hurricanes.
Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis writes himself into a horror novel, as a married father in the suburbs whose house begins to change and whose past, Patrick Bateman included, seems to come for him.
The Hero of This Book
A writer walks around London a year after her mother's death, remembering a sharp, funny woman who never let disability slow her down, in a novel that insists it is not a memoir.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
A stockbroker is woken at 4 AM by a phone call and must navigate a surreal night of psychics, homeless prophets, and the stock market's metaphysical underpinnings.
How Should a Person Be?
A young woman in Toronto tries to figure out how to live by imitating her friends, making art, and asking the title question with increasing desperation.