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Wasn't built in a day: Stories that span time

  • July 30, 2024
  • 173 Books
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  • bsky

Inspired by a bluesky thread requesting recs for books that span several decades, centuries, millennia, or longer. Multi-genre. Vibes!

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Great Expectations
Dune
Diaspora
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
The House of the Spirits
The Optimist's Daughter
Absalom, Absalom!
Swann's Way - Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) - Book 1
Revelation Space
The Forever War
Marooned in Realtime
Childhood's End
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To Climates Unknown

Pachinko
Master And Commander
Anne of Green Gables
Children of Time
The Terraformers
Villager
London
Barkskins
Hearts in Atlantis
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Doomsday Book
Encounter with Tiber
Foundation
The Pillars of the Earth
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Golden Notebook
Les Misérables
The Mysteries of Paris
It
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cosmicomics
Here
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Penguin Island

A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Actual Star
Gnomon
The Crucible of Time
The House on the Borderland
At the Full and Change of the Moon
The Overstory
The Three-Body Problem
The Years of Rice and Salt
Homegoing
Daughter of Family G
The Crossing Places
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The Lost Book of Salem

Fall of Giants
Appleseed
Cloud Atlas
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Any Human Heart
Earthly Powers
Waterland
Orlando: A Biography
Seveneves
Cryptonomicon
The Corner That Held Them
The Silmarillion
No Enemy But Time
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man
Star Maker
War and Peace
Creation
The Once and Future King
Empire
Roma
Cuddy
Same Bed Different Dreams
One Hundred Years of Solitude