11 Time Loop Novels for Fans of 'Russian Doll'

by Adrienne Celt

Two best friends on vacation in Paris accept a private tour of the Louvre from a strange man and the pair find themselves trapped alone in the museum during the apocalypse on a day that keeps repeating itself.

by Casey McQuiston

Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible when she meets Jane on the subway, a mysterious punk rocker she forms a crush on, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back.

by Lisa Berne Living the same day over and over again, Philip Thane—rogue, rake and scoundrel extraordinaire—repeatedly tries to win the heart of the delightful Miss Margaret Allen, who stands firm against his wiles, day after day.

by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

Nyokabi's world unravels after her brother Baraka's death by suicide. When an eccentric auntie gives Nyokabi a potion that sends her back in time to when Baraka was still alive, it becomes her only goal to keep him that way. But Kabi soon learns that while storytellers may be the carriers of time, defying the past comes with its own repercussions.

by Christina Lauren

Mae is adrift and off to spend one last Christmas in the cabin her family has visited each year with friends for decades. As she departs from the cabin, there is a screech, a crash, the world goes black, and then she awakens on the airplane again, several days earlier. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

by Justin A. Reynolds

Falling hard for a popular and charismatic girl who suddenly passes away, a grieving Jack finds himself traveling back in time to when they first met, only to find his efforts to prevent her death triggering unanticipated consequences.

by Stuart Turton

Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse, in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem.

by David Levithan

Waking up in the body of a different person every day and struggling to pass through each experience without raising alarm, "A" endures a lonely existence before falling in love with a girl named Rhiannon. Then all the rules change, and reuniting with her is all A can think about, regardless of what body they wake up in.

by Lauren Oliver

After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

by Mo Yan

Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.

by Ken Grimwood Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again—in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle‚each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market.