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
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You may like [Rule 34 by Charles Stross](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8853299). It is set in the near future, so technology isn’t that different from what it is today. Don’t be too put off by the title, this is a story about police investigating embarrassing household accidents turning out to be murder.
{{Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman}}
Modern day Londoner, Richard Mayhew, is pulled into a “world below” London for all the people who have “fallen through the cracks”. It’s a magical, dark fantasy world and he kind of bumbles through it with a guide trying to get back home. He goes to markets in the underworld that are held in the real world department stores after hours and other such activities.