I love wildly imaginative books with a gripping mystery but that are still somewhat connected to +- 20 years our time on our earth and not JUST some completely made up universe or JUST a billion years in the future. Time travel/jumps are absolutely welcome as well as other universes just as long as there’s mystery and good old 21st century earth somewhere in there. Some examples I love include:
Recursion – Blake Crouch
Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
(Kind of a spoiler for a book)
>!Piranesi – Susanna Clarke!<
Thank you so much in advance for any suggestions!
by TheManOfMeerkats