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There are many lists out there, but none seem to be "complete." Here is my attempt to round them all up as it's my favorite subgenre of sci-fi!
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Dark Matter
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 687,365 ratings
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The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,603,001 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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score: 415,
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 557,685 ratings
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 319,384 ratings
score: 396,
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 263,916 ratings
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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Recursion
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 300,909 ratings
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Timeline
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 64,049 ratings
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Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant, #1)
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Cassandra Yorke (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Somewhere In Time
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3.84 avg rating — 8,609 ratings
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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Charles Yu (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 20,070 ratings
score: 290,
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Time Travelers Never Die
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3.68 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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Jodi Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 51,468 ratings
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 27,191 ratings
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The Gone World
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3.92 avg rating — 26,760 ratings
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The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF
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Mike Ashley (Editor)
3.90 avg rating — 802 ratings
score: 230,
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,464,053 ratings
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About Time: 12 Short Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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Paradox Bound
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Peter Clines (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 10,334 ratings
score: 205,
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Contact
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4.15 avg rating — 151,052 ratings
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Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
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Nino Cipri (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 12,260 ratings
score: 201,
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Lightning
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 65,092 ratings
score: 198,
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,589 ratings
score: 196,
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Flight
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3.89 avg rating — 18,071 ratings
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Time and Time Again
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4.09 avg rating — 15,271 ratings
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 455,748 ratings
score: 190,
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The Winds of Time
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3.87 avg rating — 197 ratings
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How to Stop Time
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 214,752 ratings
score: 186,
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Time Travel: Recent Trips
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Paula Guran (Editor)
3.33 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 176,
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Footprints of Thunder
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3.64 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel
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3.97 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Millennium
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3.79 avg rating — 2,951 ratings
score: 170,
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Doing Time (The Time Police #1)
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Jodi Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 9,174 ratings
score: 169,
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A Second Chance (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #3)
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Jodi Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 17,259 ratings
score: 168,
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A Symphony of Echoes (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #2)
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Jodi Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 22,226 ratings
score: 168,
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The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
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Barry N. Malzberg (Editor)
3.92 avg rating — 342 ratings
score: 158,
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Version Control
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3.72 avg rating — 7,845 ratings
score: 152,
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,946 ratings
score: 143,
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Doors of Sleep (Journals of Zaxony Delatree, #1)
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Tim Pratt (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
score: 140,
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Bones of the Earth
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3.51 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Almanac
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
score: 131,
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 43,763 ratings
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Scharlette Doesn't Matter and Goes Time Travelling
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Sam Bowring (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
score: 124,
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Armageddon 2419 A.D.
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3.35 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
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Here and Now and Then
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Mike Chen (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 11,303 ratings
score: 120,
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The Psychology of Time Travel
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3.70 avg rating — 15,486 ratings
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The End of Eternity
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4.24 avg rating — 61,513 ratings
score: 114,
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Conquistador
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3.90 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
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Three Great Lies
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Vanessa MacLellan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Unju - The Jump
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Gleneley Stander (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Vellum (The Book of All Hours, #1)
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3.32 avg rating — 2,128 ratings
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Life II
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Scott Spotson (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 862 ratings
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The Dreaming City
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3.74 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Door to September (Back to the Stone Age, #1)
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R. Magnusholm (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 599 ratings
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The Fortress of Time (Called by a Viking #1)
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Mariah Stone (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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The Bad Love Series (Bad Love #1-4)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 211,049 ratings
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A Knight to Remember (Merriweather Sisters, #1; Knights Through Time Travel, #1)
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Cynthia Luhrs (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 2,182 ratings
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The Heads of Cerberus
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Tomorrow Was Beautiful Once
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Amy Orrell (Goodreads Author)
4.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Artifacts: A Flint Hills Story
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Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2)
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Bridge Through Time
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Scott Spotson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (The Elric Saga, #2)
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3.91 avg rating — 12,640 ratings
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The Price (Highland Lairds of the Crest, #2)
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Kim Sakwa (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 59,144 ratings
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Replay
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The Merriweather Sisters Books 1-3 (Knights Through Time Travel, #1-3; Merriweather Sisters Time Travel, #1-3)
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Cynthia Luhrs (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Star Maker
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Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd.
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Christy Nicholas (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Window of Time: A Story
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Arcadia
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 34,107 ratings
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Spectral
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 88,892 ratings
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The Weird of the White Wolf (The Elric Saga, #3)
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3.93 avg rating — 11,116 ratings
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Refuge in Time (After Cilmeri, #14)
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Sarah Woodbury (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Running Out of Time (Out of Time #1)
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A Lady Out of Time (Helen Foster, #1)
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Caroline Hanson (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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Anathem
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 74,971 ratings
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The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga, #4)
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3.96 avg rating — 9,792 ratings
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Twin Flames (Twin Flames #1)
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Rachel Henke (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Sent (The Missing, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 18,029 ratings
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Darkest Knight (Knights Through Time Travel, #4; Thornton Brothers, #1)
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Cynthia Luhrs (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 530 ratings
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The Infinite Loop (The Infinite Loop #1-6)
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Making History
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The Bane of the Black Sword (The Elric Saga, #5)
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4.02 avg rating — 8,067 ratings
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Champions of Time (After Cilmeri #13)
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Sarah Woodbury (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Found (The Missing, #1)
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The Future of Another Timeline
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Annalee Newitz (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 9,237 ratings
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La llegada de los gatos cuánticos
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Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #6)
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4.18 avg rating — 10,295 ratings
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Never Say Goodbye (Brothers Montgomery. #1)
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Kim Sakwa (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Sparkle Pirate (Max and the Multiverse Shorts #3)
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Zachry Wheeler (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Welcome Back, Vol. 1: Help, I'm Alive
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Christopher Sebela (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Amendments
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Hannah M. Lynn (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Fortress of the Pearl (The Elric Saga, #8)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,626 ratings
score: 94,
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