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  • Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved

    The Second-Chance Stories I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity Which other books should I add to my second-chance book list? From his second birth on, he is born each time carrying the knowledge from his previous lives, yet nothing And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid He is unaware that this is a second reality for Lydia and unaware of anything odd about this life, and

  • Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

    The Second-Chance Books I've been reminded lately how much I love a good second-chance book in which Which other books should I add to my second-chance book list? From his second birth on, he is born each time carrying the knowledge from his previous lives, yet nothing And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid He is unaware that this is a second reality for Lydia and unaware of anything odd about this life, and

  • Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

    The Second-Chance Books I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity Which other books should I add to my second-chance book list? From his second birth on, he is born each time carrying the knowledge from his previous lives, yet nothing And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid He is unaware that this is a second reality for Lydia and unaware of anything odd about this life, and

  • Review of The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

    The Second Ending was fun and full of heart. Prudence Childs was a prodigy. The Second Ending is about self-discovery, facing dark truths, taking a terrifying leap out of the safety

  • Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

    640 pages to build realities, possibilities, magical developments, quirky fun, deep connection, and second chances you'll be cheering for. Anabin offers them a chance to compete in magical tasks in order to reclaim their lives. The Book of Love explores reality, connections, loyalty, possibilities, and second chances. More Bossy love for oddball novels and second-chance stories For more oddball novels, check out the titles

  • Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock

    around a packhorse librarian in 1930s Appalachian Kentucky and adds layers like a complicated past, second chances, mining tragedy, a bad guy who's pure evil, mountain justice, and the promise of a happy ending Blaylock offers up second chances at love, avoidance of punishment for our heroes' missteps when they

  • Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

    T. and Charlotte must work together to figure out: Are they meant to change the future, make sure nothing changes, learn a lesson, or impart knowledge of some kind? Have they missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they ended resolution to come, but I loved the bookending of the time capsule and letters to their future selves, the second-chance also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of The Rule Book by Sarah Adams

    story about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance I loved the fake marriage, the push and pull of career and love, and the second-chance romance.

  • Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

    Lepucki's strange, interesting time-travel novel centers around betrayal, broken hearts, second chances A meeting of grandmother and grandchild could change everything forever. Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

    ICYMI: This is a heartwarming book from the author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow about books, second chances, and finding hope when all seems lost. Fikry is suddenly...changed. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is about second chances--and finding hope again.

  • Review of Heartwood by Amity Gaige

    explores imperfect parenting, compounding mistakes by clinging to fear or regret, and against-the-odds second chances.

  • Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

    Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances Can she shift the future by changing the past? My Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life

  • Review of Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

    Tell Me Everything digs into secrets and lies, revenge, forgiveness, resignation, heartbreak, second chances, abuse, and addiction.

  • Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

    II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the Warsaw Ghetto to her second The trauma of a second chance at life, a second act, is at once miraculous and unendurable.

  • Review of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

    Espach leans into the concept of chosen family, a favorite of mine, and offers up second chances with realistically messy fallout and life-changing consequences at stake.

  • Review of The Names by Florence Knapp

    timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear; in a second Novels that Play with Time I love a story that plays with time through alternate timelines, time travel, second chances, or other structures.

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    time shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never could, allowing for unusual perspective, second chances, and realizations. also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance McAllister Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep connections, and an unusual route to uncovering the truth.

  • Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

    And for second-chance stories, take a look at these options .

  • Review of Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver

    in December  and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

  • Review of A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

    decades into an engrossing, complicated family story of forbidden love, secrets, impending death, and second chances, against a backdrop of everyday minutiae. enraging to watch him pretend to be buoyed along and tell himself he has no real power--when he had the chance

  • Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo

    , sweat, and tears, and the appealingly messy second-chance attempts at being true to themselves and

  • Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    time shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never could, allowing for unusual perspective, second chances, and realizations. intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Second-Chance And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/30/25 Edition

    in December , and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    time shifts allow the story to go places it otherwise never could, allowing for unusual perspective, second chances, and realizations. also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance McAllister Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep connections, and an unusual route to uncovering the truth.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/4/24 Edition

    set in Maine, How to Read a Book ; I'm listening to Alison Espach's playful and poignant novel about second chances, The Wedding People ; and I'm reading Bonnie Blaylock's Appalachian-set 1930s historical fiction three cross paths out in the messy, unexpected, heartbreaking world, their encounters seem destined to change

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    McAllister Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep connections, and an unusual route to uncovering the truth. Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance enjoyment of the celebration of friendship, circuitous routes to self-confidence, and heartwarming second chances.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition

    I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Carley Fortune's newest light fiction about a missed opportunity and second chances, Meet Me at the Lake; I'm reading a book club pick about three young Muslim women and their A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later...but while As the women prepare to graduate from college, one night of confessions could change their relationships to rehabilitate humans' reputation as selfish and destructive, while alloy pilot Vaha jumps at the chance

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    explores imperfect parenting, compounding mistakes by clinging to fear or regret, and against-the-odds second chances. decades into an engrossing, complicated family story of forbidden love, secrets, impending death, and second chances, against a backdrop of everyday minutiae.

  • Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Caroline O'Donoghue's coming-of-age story celebrates friendship, young love, and life-changing decisions enjoyment of the celebration of friendship, circuitous routes to self-confidence, and heartwarming second chances.

  • Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

    talked to me about it, that's for sure--what it feels like to love someone so much, and then have them change Knowing what she does about the future, would Alice change the past? She gets do-over chances and plays with how various decisions shift her potential future. If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

  • Review of Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    complications and beauty of blended families, breaking unhealthy familial patterns, and unlikely, hard-won second chances.

  • Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year

    story about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance I loved the fake marriage, the push and pull of career and love, and the second-chance romance.

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight of fancy that changed around a packhorse librarian in 1930s Appalachian Kentucky and adds layers like a complicated past, second chances, mining tragedy, a bad guy who's pure evil, mountain justice, and the promise of a happy ending Blaylock offers up second chances at love, avoidance of punishment for our heroes' missteps when they When the three cross paths out in the messy, unexpected, heartbreaking world, their encounters change

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition

    interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six Second-Chance

  • Review of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

    Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition

    Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

  • Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

    Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    Mandel explores a pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the temptation to change colonized moon, considers the universal connection of music, and digs into the difficulty and danger in changing Andrew, a second son, is exiled by his family from England to Canada for voicing unpopular opinions at as a structure for our true main protagonist, Gaspary, and we see the most depth and development and change You might like the books I list on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    chances, the peeks into what might have been or what really occurred. You might also like the books on the list Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories. speaking harsh truths before she stops to think seem destined to lead her to misstep and thwart her own chances She has the incredible chance to make the same decisions or to consider her choices and do things differently The following morning, she gets yet another chance at reliving her first day.

  • Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros

    I do love a dragon book, and the second in the Empyrian series offers more page time for the talking Yet she also serves up an unexpected (as in, we thought he was dead, so: very unexpected) second chance

  • Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

    also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    might like to check the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance

  • Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

    tracing disjointed moments without an exploration of the external or internal reasons for important changes books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Second-Chance

  • Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    She's set to detest this interloper--but then he sends her a letter that changes everything. Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance resolution to come, but I loved the bookending of the time capsule and letters to their future selves, the second-chance A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later at her family friends like family, facing responsibility and challenge, and acknowledging when long-held dreams have changed

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/5/22 Edition

    Experts have long offered warnings about global weather changes and the potential destruction possible Isla must decide whether to believe Ewan but stay away from him in order to live, or to lose a chance also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Carley Fortune's rom-com novel about loss, adjusting goals and the pictures of our life as we age, and second chances; Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister's fascinating time-twisting mystery, buoyed by A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later at her family Gillian McAllister McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep connections, and an unusual route to uncovering the truth.

  • Review of One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

    also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition

    lesbian love, and shifts in time; and I'm also listening to Mary Laura Philpott's Bomb Shelter, her second might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/17/22 Edition

    books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Second-Chance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

    also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance

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