Books like Kindred

1. 

   Uncle Tom's Cabin

   Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852

   Because shares tags: classics, slavery, historical fiction.

   Enslaved Tom, Eliza, and George face sale and escape under Southern law.

2. 

   Beloved

   Toni Morrison · 1987 · Beloved Trilogy #1

   Because shares tags: classics, historical fiction, slavery.

   Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.

3. 

   The Time Machine

   H.G. Wells · 1895

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, time travel.

   Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

4. 

   A Wrinkle in Time

   Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 · A Wrinkle in Time Quintet #1

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, time travel.

   Meg Murry, Charles Wallace and Calvin tessar past Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which to Camazotz to free Mr Murry from IT.

5. 

   This Is How You Lose the Time War

   Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone · 2019

   Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.

   Rival time agents Red and Blue trade secret letters across history, and falling in love could get them killed by their own sides.

6. 

   The Good Earth

   Pearl S. Buck · 1931 · House of Earth #1

   Because shares tags: classics, historical fiction.

   Wang Lung, a poor farmer in 1920s China, rises with his wife O-lan through famine and wealth, holding to land above all else.

7. 

   Starship Troopers

   Robert A. Heinlein · 1959

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

   Rico earns citizenship through Mobile Infantry drops against Bugs.

8. 

   Sea of Tranquility

   Emily St. John Mandel · 2022

   Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.

   Edwin in 1912, Olive in 2203, and Gaspery in 2401 hear the same impossible sound and chase an anomaly across time.

9. 

   Life, the Universe and Everything

   Douglas Adams · 1982 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #3

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

   Arthur in slippers must stop cricket robots from rebuilding the Wikkit Gate.

10. 

    Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Anthony Doerr · 2021

    Because shares tags: historical fiction, science fiction.

    Kids across centuries bound by a Greek shepherd tale who would be bird.

11. 

    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Jules Verne · 1870

    Because shares tags: classics, science fiction.

    A monster hunt finds Nemo submarine, and three captives tour seas they cannot leave.

12. 

    Recursion

    Blake Crouch · 2019

    Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.

    False pasts feel truer than true ones as a memory chair lets the grieving rewrite deaths.

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