Recs if you like 11/22/63...

you can enter a space. you are a regular guy, you can enter a room. you are a regular guy, you can do that transaction. you are a regular guy, you know how to answer the phone. you are a regular guy, you know what sleep is. you are a regular guy, you know what it means to be you.

all of these books have regular people as the protagonist doing all sorts of things, from kissing to killing!

as always, open to all suggestions!

Includes novels, novellas/short story collections, and non-fiction

Here (and there and then) be time travelers!

A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.

For Stephen King and co. Horrors, thrillers, and spooky vibes

books about time slips, loops, travel, and alternate realities

Stephen King's bibliography, in publishing order. Includes novels, collections, and nonfiction.

a diverse selection of alternate history novels & stories (that aren’t just about WW2/nazism)

NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 Numerical Titles Prompt You must find titles with the words one through ten, plus one more of a random number 11 books total This is an on going list and always open for recommendations

50 books that involve time travel or parallel universes

A small selection of the over 2000+ banned books recently brought to the attention of Texas' Lt. Gov and a conservative organization for their for "vulgar" material 🙄 including topics of history, race, LGBTQ+, gender identity, feminism, mental health, and sex education as well as romance, horror, science fiction, memoirs, YA, and classic genres. Aka my new reading list 💅 **Includes all the books I've read/on my TBR and other popular books, comment others if you want!!

Fiction about trying to alter the past to achieve a different outcome

dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

This is a list of all Stephen King novels and novellas in publication order (which I've heard multiple people say is the best way to read through all of King's work). This list also includes books written under his pen name of Richard Bockman.

Some mysteries take a little bit more time to unravel! Stories involving time travel/time loops and a murder mystery/crime plot

Books that involve time loops of some kind. These will not include 'normal' time travel, and mostly focus on books that repeat the same stretch of time

Books I want to read before they hit theaters or streaming - or before I finally watch the adaptation. Because the book always deserves first dibs.

The New York Times published a list on August 5th, 2026, of the 50 best thrillers published since 2000 as voted on by hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and Bookstagrammers.