Books About a Life Already Written: Fate, Memory Resets and Pages That Know Tomorrow
What if you woke to find your day already written down? Or forgot it all every night? These novels play with predetermined lives, daily amnesia and the question of free will.
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1. TURN On this site
by Simran Mehta
A book appears on his nightstand each morning describing the day he hasn't lived yet, and every night his memory of it disappears. Is the book recording his life or deciding it?
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2. Before I Go to Sleep
by S.J. Watson
A woman whose memory resets every night rebuilds her life each morning from a journal she doesn't remember keeping.
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3. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time and lives his life out of order, knowing every moment is fixed. So it goes.
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4. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
A man who is born again into the same life each time he dies, and remembers it all.
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5. The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
One day replayed through different eyes, with a murder that keeps happening.
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6. Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Ursula Todd dies and begins again, over and over, edging each life a little differently.