35 Books like Twice

The Midnight Train

by Matt Haig

A dead bookseller boards a train that stops at every moment he failed the people he loved.

4.01

46k+

🕰️ Second Chance Life 👻 Ghost Guide 📚 Bookshop Setting 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🚂 Literary Time Travel

The Midnight Train 93%

A dead bookseller boards a train that stops at every moment he failed the people he loved.

by Matt Haig 2026

4.01

46k+ ratings

🕰️ Second Chance Life 👻 Ghost Guide 📚 Bookshop Setting 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🚂 Literary Time Travel

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger • 2003

When a time traveler meets his wife, she has already loved him since she was six years old.

4.00

1.9M+

🔗 Time-Crossed Lovers ✨ Fated Love 🖋️ Lyrical Prose 💔 Melancholy Romance 😢 Bittersweet Ending

The Time Traveler's Wife 95%

When a time traveler meets his wife, she has already loved him since she was six years old.

by Audrey Niffenegger 2003

4.00

1.9M+ ratings

🔗 Time-Crossed Lovers ✨ Fated Love 🖋️ Lyrical Prose 💔 Melancholy Romance 😢 Bittersweet Ending

The Memory Collectors

by Dete Meserve • 2025

Four strangers journey into their own pasts to heal, and find the same tragedy waiting.

3.91

10k+

🕰️ Emotional Time Travel 💔 Linked By Tragedy 😢 Grieving Mother 💕 Second Chance Romance 🤝 Found Family

The Memory Collectors 93%

Four strangers journey into their own pasts to heal, and find the same tragedy waiting.

by Dete Meserve 2025

3.91

10k+ ratings

🕰️ Emotional Time Travel 💔 Linked By Tragedy 😢 Grieving Mother 💕 Second Chance Romance 🤝 Found Family

This Used to Be Us

by Renee Carlino • 2024

Still in love after divorce, two parents face her terminal diagnosis and a final shot at forever.

4.06

8k+

🖤 Second Chance Love 💔 Marriage In Crisis 👨‍👩‍👦 Divorced Co-Parents 😢 Terminal Illness ⏳ Dual Timeline Romance

This Used to Be Us 92%

Still in love after divorce, two parents face her terminal diagnosis and a final shot at forever.

by Renee Carlino 2024

4.06

8k+ ratings

🖤 Second Chance Love 💔 Marriage In Crisis 👨‍👩‍👦 Divorced Co-Parents 😢 Terminal Illness ⏳ Dual Timeline Romance

Expiration Dates

by Rebecca Serle • 2024

Every romance comes with expiration. A blank note promises forever, but her heart may not last.

3.58

141k+

🪄 Magical Realism 🫀 Chronic Illness 💔 Bittersweet Romance 🔮 Love And Fate 📚 Book Club Fiction

Expiration Dates 92%

Every romance comes with expiration. A blank note promises forever, but her heart may not last.

by Rebecca Serle 2024

3.58

141k+ ratings

🪄 Magical Realism 🫀 Chronic Illness 💔 Bittersweet Romance 🔮 Love And Fate 📚 Book Club Fiction

One Italian Summer

by Rebecca Serle • 2022

When a grieving woman takes her late mother's Italian trip alone, the woman reappears at thirty.

3.59

298k+

🕰️ Time Slip Narrative 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 💔 Grief And Healing 👻 Meeting Younger Parent 💕 Love Triangle

One Italian Summer 92%

When a grieving woman takes her late mother's Italian trip alone, the woman reappears at thirty.

by Rebecca Serle 2022

3.59

298k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Slip Narrative 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 💔 Grief And Healing 👻 Meeting Younger Parent 💕 Love Triangle

Version Control

by Dexter Palmer • 2016

Her son is dead. The world feels wrong. Her husband's time machine rewrites reality without trace.

3.72

8k+

⏳ Literary Time Travel 🖤 Grieving Parents 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🔁 Timeline Overwriting 📡 Technology And Alienation

Version Control 92%

Her son is dead. The world feels wrong. Her husband's time machine rewrites reality without trace.

by Dexter Palmer 2016

3.72

8k+ ratings

⏳ Literary Time Travel 🖤 Grieving Parents 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🔁 Timeline Overwriting 📡 Technology And Alienation

The Other Side of Now

by Paige Harbison • 2025

A hollow Hollywood star wakes in an Irish town, inside the life she never lived.

4.17

21k+

🪞 Parallel Lives 🍀 Small Town Ireland 💔 Lost Friendship 💕 Second Chance Romance 🥲 Bittersweet

The Other Side of Now 92%

A hollow Hollywood star wakes in an Irish town, inside the life she never lived.

by Paige Harbison 2025

4.17

21k+ ratings

🪞 Parallel Lives 🍀 Small Town Ireland 💔 Lost Friendship 💕 Second Chance Romance 🥲 Bittersweet

Landline

by Rainbow Rowell • 2014

Alone at Christmas, a TV writer's rotary phone calls the week her husband almost walked away.

3.54

172k+

🪄 Magical Realism Romance 💔 Marriage In Crisis ⚖️ Work-Life Balance ⏳ Dual Timeline 🍂 Bittersweet

Landline 92%

Alone at Christmas, a TV writer's rotary phone calls the week her husband almost walked away.

by Rainbow Rowell 2014

3.54

172k+ ratings

🪄 Magical Realism Romance 💔 Marriage In Crisis ⚖️ Work-Life Balance ⏳ Dual Timeline 🍂 Bittersweet

Out of the Loop

by Katie Siegel • 2026

Two years inside Monday. On Tuesday, Amie's neighbor is dead and she knows everyone's secrets.

3.27

1k+

🕰️ Time Loop Mystery 📚 Bookstore Setting 🫂 Found Family 💔 Second Chance Romance 🔍 Reluctant Detective

Out of the Loop 92%

Two years inside Monday. On Tuesday, Amie's neighbor is dead and she knows everyone's secrets.

by Katie Siegel 2026

3.27

1k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Loop Mystery 📚 Bookstore Setting 🫂 Found Family 💔 Second Chance Romance 🔍 Reluctant Detective

The Good Part

by Sophie Cousens • 2023

Broke TV runner makes a wish, wakes at forty-two: husband, two kids, sixteen blank years.

4.01

49k+

🔮 Magical Time Slip 💔 Amnesia Romance 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 👶 Instant Motherhood 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Good Part 92%

Broke TV runner makes a wish, wakes at forty-two: husband, two kids, sixteen blank years.

by Sophie Cousens 2023

4.01

49k+ ratings

🔮 Magical Time Slip 💔 Amnesia Romance 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 👶 Instant Motherhood 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

16 Forever

by Lance Rubin • 2026

Each year he turns sixteen and forgets her. She remembers everything and is done hoping.

3.56

355

🔄 Time Loop 💔 Forgotten Love 💕 Second Chance Romance 🔐 Family Secrets 🌅 Bittersweet

16 Forever 92%

Each year he turns sixteen and forgets her. She remembers everything and is done hoping.

by Lance Rubin 2026

3.56

355 ratings

🔄 Time Loop 💔 Forgotten Love 💕 Second Chance Romance 🔐 Family Secrets 🌅 Bittersweet

How to Stop Time

by Matt Haig • 2017

A 400-year-old history teacher is forbidden to love. His new colleague makes him break the rule.

3.82

225k+

🧬 Ageless Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Society ⏳💕 Love Across Time 🔍👧 Search For Daughter 🏰 Elizabethan London

How to Stop Time 92%

A 400-year-old history teacher is forbidden to love. His new colleague makes him break the rule.

by Matt Haig 2017

3.82

225k+ ratings

🧬 Ageless Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Society ⏳💕 Love Across Time 🔍👧 Search For Daughter 🏰 Elizabethan London

The Other Valley

by Scott Alexander Howard • 2024

Odile guards the border between her valley and the past. Her oldest friend is trying to cross.

3.87

26k+

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🌫️ Quiet Speculative Fiction 🏔️ Isolated Valley Town 💔 Maternal Expectations 🕯️ Grief And Closure

The Other Valley 91%

Odile guards the border between her valley and the past. Her oldest friend is trying to cross.

by Scott Alexander Howard 2024

3.87

26k+ ratings

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🌫️ Quiet Speculative Fiction 🏔️ Isolated Valley Town 💔 Maternal Expectations 🕯️ Grief And Closure

Los días en los que más te quise

by Amy Neff • 2024

After a lifetime of love, they give their family one year to say goodbye.

4.02

15k+

📖 Multi-Generational Saga 💖 Literary Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🕊️ Right To Die Fiction 😢 Bittersweet

Los días en los que más te quise Summary

Los días en los que más te quise 91%

After a lifetime of love, they give their family one year to say goodbye.

by Amy Neff 2024

4.02

15k+ ratings

📖 Multi-Generational Saga 💖 Literary Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🕊️ Right To Die Fiction 😢 Bittersweet

Thanks for the Memories

by Cecelia Ahern • 2008

After a transfusion, a grieving woman inherits a stranger's memories and searches for the donor.

3.70

46k+

⚡ Memory Transfer 💞 Speculative Romance 🍃 Gentle Magic 🧑‍🧒 Father-Daughter Bond 🌧️ Bittersweet Romance

Thanks for the Memories 91%

After a transfusion, a grieving woman inherits a stranger's memories and searches for the donor.

by Cecelia Ahern 2008

3.70

46k+ ratings

⚡ Memory Transfer 💞 Speculative Romance 🍃 Gentle Magic 🧑‍🧒 Father-Daughter Bond 🌧️ Bittersweet Romance

And Then She Vanished

by Nick Jones • 2021

His touch reads object histories. Hypnosis sends him back, to the night his sister vanished.

3.97

10k+

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Bittersweet Resolution 🏘️ Small Town England

And Then She Vanished 91%

His touch reads object histories. Hypnosis sends him back, to the night his sister vanished.

by Nick Jones 2021

3.97

10k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Bittersweet Resolution 🏘️ Small Town England

Once and Again

by Rebecca Serle • 2026

A magical do-over tests a woman when infertility and a first love threaten her marriage.

3.57

23k+

🏠 Family Saga 📖 Book Club Fiction 🪄 Magical Do-Over 🌱 Infertility Journey 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Once and Again 93%

A magical do-over tests a woman when infertility and a first love threaten her marriage.

by Rebecca Serle 2026

3.57

23k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 📖 Book Club Fiction 🪄 Magical Do-Over 🌱 Infertility Journey 💔 Marriage In Crisis

The Dinner List

by Rebecca Serle • 2018

Five impossible guests at her birthday dinner, each one holding a piece of the past she buried.

3.54

59k+

🥀 Bittersweet Romance 💔 The One Who Got Away 🕊️ Father-Daughter Healing 🌊 Drifting Friendships 😢 Tearjerker

The Dinner List 93%

Five impossible guests at her birthday dinner, each one holding a piece of the past she buried.

by Rebecca Serle 2018

3.54

59k+ ratings

🥀 Bittersweet Romance 💔 The One Who Got Away 🕊️ Father-Daughter Healing 🌊 Drifting Friendships 😢 Tearjerker

The Unmaking of June Farrow

by Adrienne Young

June Farrow steps through a door into 1951, into a marriage, and into a murder charge.

4.11

198k+

🧬 Inherited Magic ⏳ Time Travel Romance 💍 Second Chance Romance 🔍 Small Town Mystery 🌫️ Southern Gothic

The Unmaking of June Farrow 91%

June Farrow steps through a door into 1951, into a marriage, and into a murder charge.

by Adrienne Young 2023

4.11

198k+ ratings

🧬 Inherited Magic ⏳ Time Travel Romance 💍 Second Chance Romance 🔍 Small Town Mystery 🌫️ Southern Gothic

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

by Mark Lawrence • 2023

A wasteland scholar and a time-lost enemy boy break the sentient library's cycle of war.

3.96

43k+

📚 Literary Fantasy 📖 Sentient Library 🖤 Enemies To Lovers ♻️ Cyclical History 💀 Knowledge As Danger

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn 91%

A wasteland scholar and a time-lost enemy boy break the sentient library's cycle of war.

by Mark Lawrence 2023

3.96

43k+ ratings

📚 Literary Fantasy 📖 Sentient Library 🖤 Enemies To Lovers ♻️ Cyclical History 💀 Knowledge As Danger

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North • 2014

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

4.03

101k+

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Rival Immortals

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Summary

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 91%

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

by Claire North 2014

4.03

101k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Rival Immortals

The Book of Lost Hours

by Hayley Gelfuso • 2025

Escaping the Nazis, a girl enters a library where history is rewritten by erasing memories.

4.07

27k+

🕯️ Liminal Library 🧠 Memory Erasure 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🌳 Intergenerational Saga ✡️ Jewish Heritage

The Book of Lost Hours 91%

Escaping the Nazis, a girl enters a library where history is rewritten by erasing memories.

by Hayley Gelfuso 2025

4.07

27k+ ratings

🕯️ Liminal Library 🧠 Memory Erasure 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🌳 Intergenerational Saga ✡️ Jewish Heritage

The Wedding Dress

by Dani Atkins • 2021

A jilted bride. A crash survivor. A grandmother in forbidden love. One dress connects them all.

4.15

1k+

🧵 Multiple Timelines 🫂 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love 🌅 Later-In-Life Love 🩹 Healing After Trauma

The Wedding Dress 91%

A jilted bride. A crash survivor. A grandmother in forbidden love. One dress connects them all.

by Dani Atkins 2021

4.15

1k+ ratings

🧵 Multiple Timelines 🫂 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love 🌅 Later-In-Life Love 🩹 Healing After Trauma

The Seven Year Slip

by Ashley Poston • 2023

A publicist meets a charming chef in her aunt's apartment. He's from seven years ago.

4.15

629k+

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 👨‍🍳 Chef Hero ⏳ Right Person Wrong Time 🏠 Forced Proximity 🗽 New York City

The Seven Year Slip 91%

A publicist meets a charming chef in her aunt's apartment. He's from seven years ago.

by Ashley Poston 2023

4.15

629k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 👨‍🍳 Chef Hero ⏳ Right Person Wrong Time 🏠 Forced Proximity 🗽 New York City

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2015

A Tokyo café seat carries you back in time, but only while the coffee is warm.

3.65

718k+

🩹 Healing Fiction 🍃 Slice Of Life Fantasy ⏳ Fixed Timeline 🖤 Grief And Acceptance 💔 Bittersweet

Before the Coffee Gets Cold 91%

A Tokyo café seat carries you back in time, but only while the coffee is warm.

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2015

3.65

718k+ ratings

🩹 Healing Fiction 🍃 Slice Of Life Fantasy ⏳ Fixed Timeline 🖤 Grief And Acceptance 💔 Bittersweet

Every Breath

by Nicholas Sparks • 2018

A safari guide and a nurse: one week of love, one impossible choice, decades of silence.

4.07

122k+

🕊️ Second Chance Romance 🕯️ Terminal Illness Love Story 💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 💌 Epistolary Romance 💔 Bittersweet Ending

Every Breath 91%

A safari guide and a nurse: one week of love, one impossible choice, decades of silence.

by Nicholas Sparks 2018

4.07

122k+ ratings

🕊️ Second Chance Romance 🕯️ Terminal Illness Love Story 💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 💌 Epistolary Romance 💔 Bittersweet Ending

The Echo of Old Books

by Barbara Davis • 2023

An empathic bookseller discovers two old volumes: his telling of their love, hers of its ruin.

4.25

128k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 📖 Found Manuscript 💔 Tragic Misunderstanding 👶 Secret Child 🔒 Family Secrets

The Echo of Old Books 91%

An empathic bookseller discovers two old volumes: his telling of their love, hers of its ruin.

by Barbara Davis 2023

4.25

128k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 📖 Found Manuscript 💔 Tragic Misunderstanding 👶 Secret Child 🔒 Family Secrets

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson • 2013

Repeatedly reborn, Ursula Todd endures two world wars, each life a chance to save her family.

3.79

243k+

🌀 Literary Time Loop 📜 Alternate History 🦋 Butterfly Effect 🏡 Family Saga 🏠 WWII Home Front

Life After Life 91%

Repeatedly reborn, Ursula Todd endures two world wars, each life a chance to save her family.

by Kate Atkinson 2013

3.79

243k+ ratings

🌀 Literary Time Loop 📜 Alternate History 🦋 Butterfly Effect 🏡 Family Saga 🏠 WWII Home Front

In Time with You

by Kristin Dwyer • 2026

When time rewinds to before her boyfriend drowned, an art student falls for his best friend.

3.82

2k+

⏳ Time Loop Romance 🖤 Grief And New Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance ⚡ Rivals To Lovers 💫 Bittersweet Romance

In Time with You 91%

When time rewinds to before her boyfriend drowned, an art student falls for his best friend.

by Kristin Dwyer 2026

3.82

2k+ ratings

⏳ Time Loop Romance 🖤 Grief And New Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance ⚡ Rivals To Lovers 💫 Bittersweet Romance

What Happened to the McCrays?

by Tracey Lange • 2025

His father's stroke forces Kyle back to the ex-wife he abandoned when their child died.

3.99

28k+

🕯️ Grieving Parents 💔 Second Chance Love 🏡 Small Town Community ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔑 Family Secrets

What Happened to the McCrays? 91%

His father's stroke forces Kyle back to the ex-wife he abandoned when their child died.

by Tracey Lange 2025

3.99

28k+ ratings

🕯️ Grieving Parents 💔 Second Chance Love 🏡 Small Town Community ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔑 Family Secrets

This Time Tomorrow

by Emma Straub • 2022

Alice turns 40 and wakes in 1996, a teenager again, with her father alive and vibrant.

3.80

160k+

🖤 Father-Daughter Bond 🕰️ Time Travel To Youth 😢 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🧓 Aging Parent 🎂 Midlife Reflection

This Time Tomorrow 91%

Alice turns 40 and wakes in 1996, a teenager again, with her father alive and vibrant.

by Emma Straub 2022

3.80

160k+ ratings

🖤 Father-Daughter Bond 🕰️ Time Travel To Youth 😢 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🧓 Aging Parent 🎂 Midlife Reflection

Love and Other Words

by Christina Lauren • 2018

Her first love is back after eleven years. Her engagement was never built to survive him.

4.21

831k+

🖤 Second Chance Romance 📖 Dual Timeline Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 💕 First Love 📚 Bookish Romance

Love and Other Words 91%

Her first love is back after eleven years. Her engagement was never built to survive him.

by Christina Lauren 2018

4.21

831k+ ratings

🖤 Second Chance Romance 📖 Dual Timeline Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 💕 First Love 📚 Bookish Romance

The Little Paris Bookshop

by Nina George • 2013

A Paris bookseller heals heartache with novels. His own waited twenty years in an unopened letter.

3.50

108k+

📚 Bibliotherapy 📖 Bookish Fiction 🚢 River Journey 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

The Little Paris Bookshop 91%

A Paris bookseller heals heartache with novels. His own waited twenty years in an unopened letter.

by Nina George 2013

3.50

108k+ ratings

📚 Bibliotherapy 📖 Bookish Fiction 🚢 River Journey 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

Time Loops & Meet Cutes

by Jackie Lau • 2025

An engineer trapped on the same Friday falls for a brewery owner who forgets her by morning.

3.60

7k+

🔄 Time Loop Romance 🥟 Magical Food 👯 Female Friendship 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🔧 Stem Heroine

Time Loops & Meet Cutes 91%

An engineer trapped on the same Friday falls for a brewery owner who forgets her by morning.

by Jackie Lau 2025

3.60

7k+ ratings

🔄 Time Loop Romance 🥟 Magical Food 👯 Female Friendship 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🔧 Stem Heroine

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