Hi I enjoy Do Over stories and I have read just about all of them here on SOL. Do any of you fine people know of any mainstream Do Over books? By mainstream I am talking about books that could be available at my public library someplace other than an erotica site
There are a few, mostly YA and romance. The problem is that except for those few novels that actually have Do Over in the title, the term is rarely used in the mainstream. You'd probably have to search Time Travel categories and narrow manually.
The Do-Over (2020) by Jennifer Honeybourne is about a teen girl who magically erases 6 months in order to pursue a different boyfriend.
There was a 2019 YA series called "The Do-Over" with each book written by a different author (https://lernerbooks.com/series/10726-the-do-over).
Christopher Golden had a book called The Boys Are Back in Town (2004) which involved time travel, black magic, and rewriting one's own past.
One of the major branches of the LitRPG genre involves a person's soul being reincarnated in a computer game/ in a fantasy world/ in a simulation/ in a space ship/ etc. Some of these could be considered pseudo-do-overs, but again you'd have to do a broad search and narrow by reading a lot of summaries. Also, a lot of LitRPG is self-published, so you're going to have to look at Kindle libraries not physical copies.
"The Goat" by Roger Simon. An old man gets to relive his life and become the greatest tennis player ever.
1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12:01_P.M.
1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_(Grimwood_novel)
2001 "Summerhouse series" by Jude Deveraux
2009 "The Infinion Series" by Cathy Bell
2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Harry_August
2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill => Edge of Tomorrow
2016 A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt
2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_(Crouch_novel) //Many Worlds Quantum Theory
2018 Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape by Gregory Benford
2019 Recursion by Blake Crouch
The classic "do over" movie is "Groundhog Day." He relives the same day over and over again, doing things differently each time.
And then there's "Back to the Future."
But I've never read a mainstream "do over" book. Sorry.
The classic "do over" movie is "Groundhog Day." He relives the same day over and over again, doing things differently each time.
I enjoyed 'Source Code' more.
AJ
Replay by Ken Grimwood is fantastic. A middle aged man has a heart attack and wakes up in his own body in college. He lives another twenty years or so and it happens again. And again. Eventually he learns he's not the only person this is happening to. A lot happens but it's mostly a story about the characters.
The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Clare North is also fantastic. Harry is a serial reincarnator, meaning when he dies he is reborn as a baby back in the early 20th century. He is far from the only person like this, there's a whole society that look out for each other. On one of his deathbeds a young girl tells Harry that someone from his generation if really screwing with history, leading to very bad outcomes in the future. Harry sets about figuring out who's doing it and trying to stop them, which takes multiple lifetimes.
