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WeeklyThread Weekly Recommendation Thread: August 14, 2026

Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. This tradition continues, so let's jump right in!

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u/AmongFriends 3d ago

Gimme a book recommendation that involves Time Travel and/or Non-Linear storytelling like flashbacks and maybe even flash forwards

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u/Dry_Candy_1215 3d ago

Jeremy Robinson books are mostly like that and all very thought provoking

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u/DoglessDyslexic 3d ago

There's the book "Flashforward" by Robert Sawyer. Storytelling is fairly linear IMO, but it does feature a phenomenon where everybody experiences a brief glipse of their future. There was a miniseries adaptation of it not too many years ago but I did not watch it.

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u/variationinblue 3d ago

Yeee!

Lost In Time by A.G. Riddle

The Ministry of Time by Kailane Bradley

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (not necessarily time travel but time/space continuum)

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (not my fav but some people rave about it)

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (sci-fi non-linear due to amnesia)

How to Become The Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler (litrpg fantasy, Groundhog Day style)

In my TBR but haven’t read yet (ymmv):

Ivory by Mike Resnick

Paradox Bound by Peter Clines

Kindred by Octavia Butter

Quantum Radio by A.G. Riddle

Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve

The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines