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

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

Semiosis
Seveneves
Shōgun
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Slade House
Some luck
Star Maker
Swann's Way - Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) - Book 1
The Actual Star
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
The Arsonists' City
The Big House
The Boat of a Million Years
The Books of Rachel
The Corner That Held Them
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Covenant
The Covenant of Water
The Croning
The Crossing Places
The Crucible of Time
The Eighth Life
The Eighth Life: for Brilka
The Family Moskat
The Forever War
The Forsyte Saga
The fortune of the Rougons
The Golden Notebook
The Good Earth
The Heart's Invisible Furies
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The House in Fata Morgana

The House of the Spirits
The House on the Borderland
The Iliad
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
The Island of Sea Women
The Last Story of Mina Lee
The living
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The Lost Book of Salem

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Moon Maid
The Mysteries of Paris
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Optimist's Daughter
The Overstory
The Pillars of the Earth
The Rainbow
The Rice Mother
The Shadow of the Wind
The Silmarillion
The Son
The Source
The Terraformers
The Thorn Birds
The Three-Body Problem
The Vanishing Half
The White Stone
The Whole Town's Talking
The Witching Hour
The Years of Rice and Salt
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To Climates Unknown

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Ursula, Under
Victory City
Villager
War and Peace
Waterland
We, the Drowned
When the Lion Feeds
White Teeth
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China