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Let's Try That Again

If you've ever wanted to call time and re-do a moment in your life, this list has got you covered. These are all stories where characters "get to" relive key moments in their lives, or experience them from different perspectives, or just have a very different experience of time than the people around them, over and over again.

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  • The story of a TV weatherperson forced to relive one February 2nd over and over is the one that popularized this narrative technique. It's still pretty great.
    Blu-ray Disc, 2009Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures : distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2009. — GRO
  • Daytripper

    the Deluxe Edition

    Moon, Fábio
    Daytripper tells stories about a writer's life in Brazil in a series of self-contained chapters where he dies at the end of each one. He doesn't remember all the other versions of himself, but we the readers do, which makes it less a puzzlebox and…
    Graphic Novel, 2014New York, NY : DC Comics/Vertigo, 2014. — GNA MOON
  • A priest performs an exorcism and it affects his life. And then a third of the way into the story, he's martyred. And then he lives it again, makes different choices, and then it keeps on repeating. The story is based on real events, but it goes…
    Book, 2019New York : Tor, [2019] — WALT
  • You're tossed into a war against aliens without enough training and promptly get blown up. And then you wake up at the beginning and you're tossed into a war against aliens with slightly more training and promptly get blown up. Rinse and repeat.
    Graphic Novel, 2014San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, c2014. — A
  • You're tossed into a war against aliens without enough training and promptly get blown up. And then you wake up at the beginning and you're tossed into a war against aliens with slightly more training and promptly get blown up. Rinse and repeat.…
    DVD, 2014Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., 2014. — EDG
  • Addie LaRue made a deal with a devil. She gets to live forever, but no one will remember her. Everyone else starts fresh with her each morning. Until something changes.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020New York : Macmillan Audio, 2020.
  • Kind of Like All You Need is Kill, this is a story about a soldier fighting a war in space with dropships and teleportation. The difference here is that your protagonist is experiencing things all out of order. They're constantly disoriented by…
    Book, 2019New York : SAGA Press, [2019] — HURL
  • When you fall in love with someone flitting about in time, it makes for a disjointed relationship.
    Downloadable Audiobook, San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage
  • Ursula keeps on dying and being reborn and then using the experience and her memories to try to stop disasters from happening.
    Audiobook CD, 2013New York : Hachette Audio, 2013. — AB ATKI
  • Aiden Bishop is living in a time loop in different bodies and trying to solve a murder in this weird Agatha Christie-ish puzzle-game.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2018Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2018]
  • This one is about reliving the day of the protagonist's death and reflecting on how her life has impacted others.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2010New York : HarperCollins, 2010.