If the way Nick’s encounters with the Stranger bend fate—and his desperate moves to keep Mia safe—had you flipping pages, Recursion will hit the same nerve. Crouch turns memory into a time machine, with characters forced to relive and rewrite their lives to protect the people who matter most. It’s the same high-stakes, twisty escalation you felt when Nick realized the loops weren’t just puzzles—they were a rescue mission.

If Nick’s leukemia and the way it shadows his nights after D&D made the story hit hard, A Monster Calls will speak to you. Conor faces a terrifying, truth-telling visitor while grappling with a parent’s illness, and the entire book stays intimately locked on one boy’s fear, anger, and love—just as One Word Kill stays close to Nick and Mia’s fragile, fiercely protected world.

If Nick’s candid, razor-edged narration—smart, self-deprecating, and fiercely focused on Mia—hooked you, Tom Barren’s voice in All Our Wrong Todays will feel like a perfect fit. When Tom wrecks a utopian timeline and tries to fix it to save the woman he loves, the story blends heartfelt confession with brainy temporal chaos, much like Nick turning math and gut instinct into survival.

If you tore through the sequences where Nick has to improvise across London to keep Mia out of harm’s way, Dark Matter delivers that same rocket pace. Jason Dessen is ripped from his life and fights through reality-bending dangers to get back to his family—each decision snowballing like Nick’s perilous gambits once the time-loop games stop being theoretical.

If what stayed with you was Nick being forced into adulthood—balancing illness, danger, and his feelings for Mia—then Todd’s journey in The Knife of Never Letting Go will resonate. Hunted out of his home, Todd has to make brutal, grown-up choices on the run, all while protecting someone he cares about, echoing Nick’s hard-won maturity under relentless threat.