What to read after “See You Yesterday” by Rachel Lynn Solomon: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.
Jack meets Kate at a party and falls for her, but months later she dies of sickle cell disease. He wakes up back at the party where they met and gets another chance to save her, then another, each choice changing the lives around him.
Emilie Hornby plans a perfect Valentine's Day, but it falls apart: she crashes into her annoying chemistry partner's truck, loses a journalism fellowship and catches her boyfriend cheating. Then she wakes up and the same day starts again, and again.
Popular high-school senior Samantha Kingston dies in a car crash on 12 February and wakes up to the same day again. She relives it seven times, changing small choices each time and learning how her actions affect the people around her.
A year after her boyfriend Jim's death, Beatrice joins four old friends at an isolated mansion. After a strange visitor tells them time is stuck, they relive the same day again and again and must agree on who among them will live.
Jeff Winston dies in 1988 and wakes in 1963 in his eighteen-year-old body, with every memory of the years ahead intact. He lives that span over and over, each replay starting later, and slowly realises he is not the only one caught in the loop.
Zorian Kazinski is a quiet mage-in-training at Cyoria's magical academy when he is killed on the eve of the summer festival and wakes at the start of the month. Trapped in a month-long loop, he uses the repeated time to study magic and uncover who made it.
A young soldier is thrown into a war against alien Mimics and killed on his first day of battle, then wakes on the morning before, again and again. Each death teaches him something, and he must relive the same fight until he can survive long enough to find a way out.
Harry August dies and is born again in the same English country house in 1919, remembering everything. Each life draws him into a hidden network of people who live their years over and over, until another of their kind begins to unravel time itself and asks him to stop it.
Ursula Todd is born in 1910 and dies, then is born again in the same English house. Over many lives she survives accidents, war and bad choices, and begins to sense that her repetitions might be leading somewhere.
At Blackheath, Evelyn Hardcastle is shot dead at a party every night, and Aidan Bishop wakes each morning in a different guest's body with no memory of who he is. To escape, he must use each host to find the killer, while other players want the same thing.
LaRynn and Deacon married young, divorced, and hoped never to see each other again. When they inherit a crumbling building that must be renovated before it can be sold, they are stuck working side by side and confronting why they failed the first time.
Jules Ambrose is focused on passing the bar exam, while doctor Josh Chen is her best friend's brother and her oldest rival. A single night together turns into an enemies-with-benefits arrangement, and when a ski trip with friends leaves them sharing one bed, their hostility and their attraction become impossible to separate.
Literary agent Nora is the cold city professional that small-town romance novels leave behind, and editor Charlie is her sharp-tongued rival in the same business. When her sister drags her to a North Carolina town for the summer, Charlie turns out to be there too, and their sparring slowly becomes something neither expected.
Jasmine's pairs figure-skating career is nearly over when her former partner leaves. The only skater willing to take her on is Ivan Lukov, her longtime rival, and she has no choice but to accept. Months of gruelling shared training force them past years of resentment and into reluctant trust.
Juliette's touch is lethal, so the world has locked her away. When a military faction offers her a chance to use her power, she must decide who to trust in a regime that would use her as a weapon.
Toronto city girl Calla flies to remote Alaska to see the father she has not seen since her mother took her away as a toddler. There she clashes with Jonah, the proud bush pilot who flies for her father's charter company and thinks she does not belong. Weeks in the unforgiving landscape slowly wear down both their defences.
Stevie takes a job as a flight attendant on a hockey team's private plane, determined to keep her distance from players. Evan Zanders, the team's most disliked star, seems equally determined to provoke her. Long road trips and shared flights blur the line between irritation and attraction, even though both have reasons to stay away.
After food poisoning strikes at her twin sister's wedding, unlucky Olive takes her sister's place on a free Hawaiian honeymoon, but her sworn enemy Ethan has to come too. Stranded together and posing as newlyweds to keep the perks, the two bicker their way toward something neither expected.
Eliza Mirk is shy and friendless at school, but online she is the anonymous creator of a popular webcomic. When Wallace, a fan and fanfiction writer, transfers to her school, Eliza begins to imagine a life offline. Then her secret identity is exposed, and the fragile balance between her two worlds collapses.
Sasha Samokhina fails her exams and is told to attend a remote institute instead. There the lessons are strange and punishing, and students are asked to do things that break the usual rules of the world. Obedience may unlock a terrifying kind of power.
In a divided nation, two teenagers on opposite sides play a deadly game of cat and mouse. June, a military prodigy, hunts the Republic's most wanted criminal, Day, without knowing anything about the boy behind the legend.
Abby Abernathy arrives at college determined to avoid bad boys, but a bet lands her living in Travis Maddox's apartment. Their instant attraction turns into a volatile friendship and then something more, as Abby tries to keep her past and her feelings under control.
Poppy was born the Maiden, chosen and set apart, forbidden from friends, love or any life of her own. When a new guard, Hawke, enters her world, duty and desire collide for the first time. As attacks close in on the kingdom, she begins to doubt everything she was taught about the gods and her own fate.
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
Start with “Opposite of Always”, “The Do-Over”, “Before I Fall”: they are the closest to “See You Yesterday” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “See You Yesterday” these are Time Loop, Enemies to Lovers, Coming of Age), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “Opposite of Always”, “The Do-Over”, “Before I Fall”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
