Books like This Is How You Lose the Time War
If you liked This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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One Last Stop
Because shares tags: romance, lgbtq, time travel.
August, 23 and newly moved to New York, meets Jane, stuck on the Q train since the 1970s, and fights to free her while falling for her.
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Shadow of Night
Because shares tags: romance, time travel.
Diana and Matthew flee to Elizabethan London seeking Ashmole 782, magic training with Goody Alsop, and a reckoning with his violent past.
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Sea of Tranquility
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.
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One Italian Summer
Because shares tags: romance, time travel.
Grieving Katy meets her mother Carol at 30 in Positano and learns to see her as a young woman with wishes of her own.
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Kindred
Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.
Dana pulled from 1976 to slave Maryland must save Rufus who owns her kin.
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Every Day
Because shares tags: romance, lgbtq.
A wakes in a new teen body daily until falling for Rhiannon breaks rules.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Because shares tags: romance, novella.
A writer recalls his 1943 neighbor Holly Golightly, wild and kind, in a Manhattan brownstone, plus three short stories from Capote's 1958…
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Under the Whispering Door
Because shares tags: romance, lgbtq.
Workaholic Wallace dies and must learn tea, apology, and love before crossing the upstairs door.
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Recursion
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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Prodigy
Because shares tags: science fiction, romance.
Day and June join the Patriots to kill Elector Anden, then learn both rebels and the Republic lie about the plague labs.
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Drums of Autumn
Because shares tags: romance, time travel.
Brianna crosses stones to save parents, finding love, assault fallout, and a home to build.
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Voyager
Because shares tags: romance, time travel.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.











