If you loved how Ursula Todd is reborn time and again, navigating the shifting possibilities of her life and the world in Life After Life, you’ll be captivated by The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Harry, too, is able to relive his life repeatedly, but with memories intact, leading to intricate consequences and a meditation on choice, fate, and history. The inventive structure and the cumulative impact of lived experience will keep you riveted.

If Ursula’s shifting sense of self and the profound questions about destiny and the meaning of a single life resonated with you, Never Let Me Go offers a similarly haunting exploration. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up in a world where their future is predetermined, and their struggles with memory, love, and the search for purpose evoke the same emotional intensity and philosophical depth as Ursula’s many lives.

If you were moved by the way Ursula’s decisions ripple through her life and those around her, the sweeping narrative of Atonement will draw you in. Briony’s single, life-altering choice shapes the fates of everyone she loves, and as the novel unfolds across decades and perspectives, the emotional resonance and payoff are equally profound and heartbreaking.

If you were fascinated by how Ursula’s story moves through world wars, eras, and alternate possibilities, Cloud Atlas will astonish you with its scope. Following six distinct but interconnected stories across centuries, Mitchell’s novel explores how actions reverberate through time, weaving a tapestry as ambitious and multi-layered as Atkinson’s.

If you were drawn to the intertwining of time’s mysteries with deeply personal stories, as in Ursula’s shifting timelines and connections, The Time Traveler’s Wife will enchant you. The love story between Henry, who is involuntarily pulled through time, and Clare, who waits for him in linear time, is both heartrending and inventive, exploring the emotional costs and beauty of living out of sync.