- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Like Oona Out of Order, this emotionally accessible novel uses an unconventional structure to examine regret, possibility, and the value of an imperfect life.
- by Kate Atkinson
Its protagonist repeatedly moves through different versions of one life, making family, history, and personal choices newly consequential each time.
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
This inventive time-loop novel pairs repeated lifetimes with shifting relationships and the long emotional accumulation of experience.
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Its interconnected stories across eras offer a more formally ambitious bridge to Oona Out of Order’s fascination with time, recurrence, and lives echoing across one another.
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Both novels center a woman whose unusual relationship to time reshapes love, memory, independence, and the meaning of a life.
- by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This character-led story follows a woman across decades as love, ambition, public identity, and private choices collide.
- by Laura Barnett
It traces three possible paths for one couple, offering a similarly accessible meditation on timing, relationships, and the lives people might have lived.
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
A woman’s life unfolds amid shifting temporal and supernatural perspectives, extending the seed’s interest in identity across decades into a darker scale.
- by Nikki Erlick
A fantastical premise makes ordinary people reconsider love, family, and social expectations in a way that complements Montimore’s humane speculative approach.
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Its determined heroine confronts restrictive social roles while discovering how stories, family, and other possible worlds can expand a life.
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The nonlinear experience of time places unusual pressure on romance, commitment, and the construction of a shared life.
- by Virginia Woolf
This playful, centuries-spanning portrait of a gender-fluid protagonist provides a literary bridge through time, identity, and social expectations.
- by David Nicholls
Its recurring view of two people across many years shares Oona Out of Order’s interest in timing, missed opportunities, and evolving intimacy.
- by Chloe Benjamin
Four siblings’ belief about their futures drives a multigenerational exploration of fate, choice, family bonds, and self-fulfilling expectations.
- by Jodi Picoult
A woman’s unexpected crossroads prompts a thoughtful examination of alternate paths, identity, love, and responsibilities.
- by Jeanette Winterson
Its surreal historical romance connects to Montimore through fluid time, heightened emotion, and characters resisting conventional accounts of love and selfhood.
- by Karen Thompson Walker
Its quietly strange premise frames adolescence, family change, and emotional resilience against a world whose normal rhythms are failing.
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
Like Montimore’s novel, it uses speculative transformation to question gendered expectations and the structures shaping women’s lives.
- How to stop time by Matt Haig
A protagonist aging unusually slowly reflects on love, isolation, memory, and the emotional cost of moving through history differently from others.
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Although much more harrowing, its time-travel structure uses the past to confront identity, ancestry, power, and the obligations binding generations.
- The Jane Austen book club by Karen Joy Fowler
This ensemble novel finds drama and renewal in friendship, romance, family tensions, and the stories people use to understand themselves.
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
A young woman’s unusual perception exposes hidden family emotions, blending domestic relationships with tender, quietly surreal invention.
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
This atmospheric family story uses a magical intrusion into ordinary life to explore longing, parenthood, grief, and hope.
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Its magical historical setting and focus on sisters challenging patriarchal limits offer a stronger feminist and fantastical bridge from Oona’s life story.