If being yanked from 1976 California into the Weylin plantation’s daily dangers gripped you—especially Dana’s desperate trips to save Rufus and navigate 19th‑century survival—then you’ll love how Kivrin, a historian, is accidentally dropped into 14th‑century England in Doomsday Book. Like Dana teaching and bargaining to stay alive, Kivrin must earn trust in a world reeling from plague, with the same lived-in historical detail, moral stakes, and escalating dread. It’s the kind of time travel that feels painfully real, where compassion and ingenuity are the only tools you have against history’s worst moments.

If Dana’s split existence—torn between contemporary Los Angeles and the Weylin plantation, between loving Kevin and surviving Rufus—moved you, Beloved offers that same searing interiority. Sethe’s haunted home and the embodied ghost of her past confront the kinds of choices Dana faces when violence and ownership warp love and memory. The book probes the same questions that echo through Dana’s encounters with Alice and her own ancestry: what the past demands, what survival costs, and how trauma refuses to stay buried.

If you admired Dana’s resolve—teaching, negotiating, and resisting on the Weylin plantation while holding fast to her sense of self—The Salt Roads centers multiple Black women whose strength and agency radiate across centuries. A goddess’s presence links their lives, much as Dana’s lineage binds her to Rufus and Alice. You’ll find that same focus on women’s ingenuity under crushing systems, rendered with sensual, grounded detail and moments of numinous power.

If the Weylin plantation’s routines—whippings, coerced labor, the peril in Dana’s every choice—left a mark, The Underground Railroad literalizes the escape network while exposing the same relentless logic of ownership Dana confronts in Rufus’s world. Like Dana’s fraught bond with Rufus and her witnessing of Alice’s fate, Cora’s flight lays bare the shifting faces of control and complicity across states, pairing stark historical texture with a bold speculative lens.

If you valued how Kindred uses minimal tech to explore power—Dana’s time slips forcing her to confront race, gender, and autonomy—Woman on the Edge of Time channels that same soft‑SF spirit. Connie, institutionalized in 1970s New York, mentally journeys to contrasted futures and debates what kind of society we choose to build. As with Dana and Kevin navigating the ethics of intervention and survival, Connie’s encounters turn personal struggle into a sharp, human-centered argument about justice.