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

Updated 10 months ago
173 Books
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Inspired by a bluesky thread requesting recs for books that span several decades, centuries, millennia, or longer. Multi-genre. Vibes!

Details	Rating	Readers Count
20th Century Boys, Volume 1: Friends Naoki Urasawa Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)	4.07	39 reads
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	4.05	65 reads
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.94	385 reads
Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx	3.33	6 reads
A Cosmology of Monsters Shaun Hamill	3.78	43 reads
Alaska James A. Michener	4.15	12 reads
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man C.M. Kosemen	4.22	56 reads
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons Lorna Landvik	3.6	12 reads
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery	4.28	688 reads
An Unlasting Home Mai Al-Nakib	0	0 reads
Any Human Heart William Boyd	4.05	24 reads
Appleseed Matt Bell	3.5	9 reads
A Short History of Women Kate Walbert	4	4 reads
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens	3.63	675 reads
At the Full and Change of the Moon Dionne Brand	0	1 read
A Woman Is No Man Etaf Rum	4.05	93 reads
A Woman of Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford	4	7 reads
A Yellow Raft In Blue Water Michael Dorris	3.33	7 reads
Banyan Moon Thao Thai	4	22 reads
Barkskins Annie Proulx	4	23 reads
Beasts of a Little Land Juhea Kim	3.67	35 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.89	440 reads
Bestiary K-Ming Chang	3.5	8 reads
Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson	3.93	148 reads
Blackwater: The Complete Saga Michael McDowell	3.85	67 reads
Bloodroot Amy Greene	3	1 read
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann	4.05	27 reads
Chesapeake James A. Michener	4	19 reads
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke	3.98	472 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.27	975 reads
Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert	0	0 reads
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.93	550 reads
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr	4.25	326 reads
Compulsion Martina Boone	3.5	8 reads
Cosmicomics Italo Calvino William Weaver (Translator)	4.15	36 reads
Creation Gore Vidal	4	11 reads
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson	4.24	483 reads
Csardas Diane Pearson	0	0 reads
Cuddy Benjamin Myers	4.25	2 reads
Daughter of Family G Ami McKay	4	1 read
Diaspora Greg Egan	3.69	87 reads
Doomsday Book Connie Willis Rafael Marín Trechera (Translator)	3.83	250 reads
Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	3,698 reads
Early Warning Jane Smiley	3	2 reads
Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess	5	5 reads
East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.47	623 reads
Empire Steven Saylor	4.5	3 reads
Encounter with Tiber Buzz Aldrin John Barnes	4	4 reads
Fall of Giants Ken Follett	4.1	198 reads
Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald	3.73	36 reads
Five-Part Invention: A Novel Andrea J. Buchanan	0	0 reads
Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.99	1,477 reads
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1 Eduardo Galeano	4.67	4 reads
Ghost Story Peter Straub	3.61	89 reads
Gnomon Nick Harkaway	3.86	51 reads
Golden Age Jane Smiley	3	1 read
Great Expectations Charles Dickens	3.55	646 reads
Greenwood Michael Christie	4.06	36 reads
Hag Kathleen Kaufman	0	0 reads
Hawaii James A. Michener	4.03	26 reads
Hearts in Atlantis Stephen King	3.83	155 reads
Here Richard McGuire	4.08	57 reads
Her Mother's Daughter Marilyn French	5	2 reads
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.46	359 reads
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford	3.94	88 reads
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu	3.74	340 reads
I, Claudius Robert Graves Stephen Alcorn	4.1	90 reads
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.26	301 reads
Isle of Woman Piers Anthony	2.83	8 reads
It Stephen King	4.07	1,084 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.09	644 reads
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 1 — Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 Hirohiko Araki Evan Galloway (Translator)	3.75	5 reads
Les Misérables Victor Hugo Norman Denny (Translator)	4.16	450 reads
Little, Big John Crowley Donatella Rizzati (Translator)	3.76	49 reads
London Edward Rutherfurd	3.76	23 reads
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich	4.13	36 reads
Marooned in Realtime Vernor Vinge	4.29	28 reads
Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian	3.92	124 reads
Master of the Game Sidney Sheldon	3.66	43 reads
Mater 2-10 Hwang Sok-yong	3	2 reads
Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow	3.95	27 reads
Methuselah's Children Robert A. Heinlein	3.57	36 reads
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.14	394 reads
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.02	180 reads
Mr. Mani Abraham B. Yehoshua	0	0 reads
No Enemy But Time Michael Bishop	0	0 reads
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez	4.1	1,020 reads
Orlando Virginia Woolf	3.8	143 reads
Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.24	595 reads
Peach Blossom Spring Melissa Fu	4.29	20 reads
Penguin Island Penguin Island Anatole France	3.5	2 reads
Rain of Gold (Lluvia de Oro) Victor Villaseñor	4	1 read
Return to Wyldcliffe Heights Carol Goodman	2	3 reads
Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds	3.88	306 reads
Roma Steven Saylor	3.61	11 reads
Roots Alex Haley	4.41	53 reads
Russka: The Novel of Russia Edward Rutherfurd	3.96	14 reads
Salt Houses Hala Alyan	4.03	25 reads
Same Bed Different Dreams Ed Park	4.22	20 reads
Sarum Edward Rutherfurd	4.22	42 reads