Best Books About Second Chances and Unfinished Stories
For readers drawn to the version of the story where it is not too late — or where the characters get to find out whether it is.
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1. The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
A relationship lived out of order, with the ending known early.
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2. When Darkness Blooms On this site
by Simran Mehta
Two souls with an unexplainable bond and no memory of why, walking a town that seems determined to keep them from finding out.
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3. One Day
by David Nicholls
The same date, twenty years, two people repeatedly almost getting it right.
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4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V. E. Schwab
Three hundred years of being forgotten, and one person who does not.
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5. Persuasion
by Jane Austen
The best second-chance novel ever written and it is not particularly close.