Best Time Travel Fiction
Fiction (of any genre) where the plot involves time travel
1 The Time Traveler's Wife
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 691,949 ratings
2 Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 196,965 ratings
3 The Time Machine
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 115,278 ratings
4 Harry Potter and the Prison...
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4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 938,068 ratings
5 Timeline
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 81,858 ratings
6 Slaughterhouse-Five
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 471,003 ratings
7 Doomsday Book
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 14,784 ratings
8 A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 315,554 ratings
9 To Say Nothing of the Dog
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 12,279 ratings
10 A Connecticut Yankee in Kin...
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 46,568 ratings
11 Replay
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 7,894 ratings
12 11/22/63
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 101,026 ratings
13 Dragonfly in Amber (Outland...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 69,233 ratings
14 Time and Again
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 5,083 ratings
15 Echo McCool, Outlaw Through...
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4.69 of 5 stars 4.69 avg rating — 185 ratings
16 Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 61,558 ratings
17 Lost in a Good Book (Thursd...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 25,611 ratings
18 A Swiftly Tilting Planet (T...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 43,302 ratings
19 Kindred
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 16,694 ratings
20 Drums of Autumn (Outlander,...
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 53,314 ratings
21 The Anubis Gates
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,620 ratings
22 The Forever War (The Foreve...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 37,499 ratings
23 The Fiery Cross (Outlander,...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 45,994 ratings
24 The Restaurant at the End o...
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 76,071 ratings
25 Blackout
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 7,214 ratings
26 The End of Eternity
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 11,591 ratings
27 Somewhere In Time
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
28 A Knight in Shining Armor (...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14,482 ratings
29 The Mirror
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
30 A Breath of Snow and Ashes ...
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4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 40,107 ratings
31 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 45,730 ratings
32 Night Watch (Discworld, #29)
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4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 41,649 ratings
33 Lightning
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 26,899 ratings
34 The Door Into Summer
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 8,911 ratings
35 From Time to Time
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
36 Many Waters (Time, #4)
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 19,376 ratings
37 Pastwatch: The Redemption o...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 8,003 ratings
38 A Visit from Voltaire
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 60 ratings
38 The Last Sunset
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4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 52 ratings
40 Banshee in the Well
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 75 ratings
41 A Sound of Thunder and Othe...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
42 The Accidental Time Machine
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
43 All Clear
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 5,385 ratings
44 The Dark is Rising (The Dar...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 22,163 ratings
45 Dirk Gently's Holistic Dete...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 50,180 ratings
46 A Christmas Carol
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 166,567 ratings
47 In the Garden of Iden (The ...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
48 Green Darkness
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
49 An Echo in the Bone (Outlan...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 29,819 ratings
50 1632 (Assiti Shards, #1)
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
51 The Man Who Folded Himself
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
52 Half Magic (Tales of Magic,...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,614 ratings
53 Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
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3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 20,081 ratings
54 Thief of Time (Discworld, #26)
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 23,903 ratings
55 Love, Eternally (The Roman ...
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 142 ratings
56 Island in the Sea of Time (...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 3,006 ratings
57 Time Enough for Love
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 15,751 ratings
58 The City on the Edge of For...
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 570 ratings
59 The Dark Highlander (Highla...
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 15,736 ratings
60 The Devil's Arithmetic
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 19,688 ratings
61 When You Reach Me
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 26,135 ratings
62 After the Fall (The Roman T...
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 70 ratings
63 Timequake
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 17,544 ratings
64 The Eyre Affair (Thursday N...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 55,089 ratings
65 Life, the Universe and Ever...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 63,737 ratings
66 The House on the Strand
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 3,190 ratings
67 Passage
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 4,088 ratings
68 Amber House (Amber House, #1)
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 650 ratings
69 Timescape
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 3,820 ratings
70 Beyond the Highland Mist (H...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 26,295 ratings
71 Behold the Man
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
72 Einstein's Dreams
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 13,200 ratings
73 The Egg Said Nothing
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 161 ratings
74 The Immortal Highlander (Hi...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 14,906 ratings
75 The Time Paradox (Artemis F...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 27,675 ratings
76 Kiss of the Highlander (Hig...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 18,650 ratings
77 Dare to Dream
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4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
78 Rant
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 30,370 ratings
79 The Man in the High Castle
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 28,619 ratings
80 About Time: 12 Short Stories
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 428 ratings
81 Just Plain Weird
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 93 ratings
82 Lady of Hay
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
83 Return to Me (Roman Time Tr...
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 41 ratings
84 Woman on the Edge of Time
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
85 Time and Again: Time Was / ...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 5,017 ratings
86 Shasta Summer
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
87 The Number of the Beast
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 6,787 ratings
88 An Acceptable Time (Time, #5)
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 8,845 ratings
89 Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey,...
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 2,438 ratings
90 Bearing An Hourglass (Incar...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 12,055 ratings
91 To Tame A Highland Warrior ...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 14,994 ratings
92 Lest Darkness Fall
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 795 ratings
93 Sky Coyote (The Company, #2)
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
94 The Time Ships
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
95 Time Patrol
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 697 ratings
96 The Three Stigmata of Palme...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 10,571 ratings
97 Io Deceneus - Journal of a ...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
98 The Map of Time
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3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 4,958 ratings
99 Guns of the South
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
100 The Highlander's Touch (Hig...
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 12,780 ratings
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message 1: by Ubik (new)

Ubik Why isnt Time and Again #1???!!!!?!?!


message 2: by Muzzlehatch (new)

Muzzlehatch Because very new books always do best in polls like these. Anyway, I'd think the grandaddy, and still the most visionary of time travel novels, "The Time Machine", ought to be #1.


message 3: by Nancy (new)

Nancy People read the most current work and have forgotten or have never heard of the earlier works. Muzzlehatch is absolutely right about polls like these, but I vote for Time and Again. Definitely a classic.


message 4: by Terri (new)

Terri Now I have a lot more books I need to read. LOL


message 5: by Misty (new)

Misty How is To Kill a Mockingbird time travel?


message 6: by Maryanne (new)

Maryanne Raphael I like books about yesterday or today In general I do not like books about tomorroW. I did like Stranger in a Strange Land and Brave New World and 1984 when that was future Maryanne


message 7: by Katty (new)

Katty Why is To Kill a Mockingbird on a list of books about time travel?


message 8: by Richard (new)

Richard Novak Nice to see people will be reading books they may not be familiar with. There really WAS stuff written before 1980

Love & blessings
Richard


message 9: by Leela4 (new)

Leela4 What's "Island of the Blue Dolphins" doing at #47 with five votes? There's no time travel in it. Just because it takes place two hundred years ago doesn't make it a time travel book.


message 10: by Eric (new)

Eric Shaffer Terri wrote: "Now I have a lot more books I need to read. LOL"

Yes, but now, you have plenty of time.



message 11: by Mike (new)

Mike Rochlen No Rant?? Great time travel book...


message 12: by Hayes (new)

Hayes Curious Incident... don't remember time travel...


message 13: by Namedujour (new)

Namedujour I think the person who posted Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime was confusing that book with To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. That is a wonderful, funny time travel book!


message 14: by Namedujour (new)

Namedujour I think the person who posted Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime was confusing that book with To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. That is a wonderful, funny time travel book!


message 15: by [deleted user] (new)

Hayes wrote: "Curious Incident... don't remember time travel..."

Not about time travel! I was surprised to see it too. Its about autism and very good.


message 16: by [deleted user] (new)

Green Darkness is about reincarnation not time travael if I rmember right.


message 17: by Leela4 (last edited Oct 19, 2010 11:49am) (new)

Leela4 Ugh! Clicking Jody's link above (message 17) automatically makes you join the group.

To un-join, there's an "edit membership" link in the right half of the screen.


message 18: by Leela4 (new)

Leela4 The description and reviews of "The Aventurion" don't imply anything about time travel. Is M.R.'s post just deceptive advertising?


message 19: by Debbie (new)

Debbie I read a book when I was a kid and don't know the name. Maybe someone could help me. The book was about a girl who learned how to "turn a corner" in a certain way and ended up in another "dimension of time". In one dimension JFK was killed in 1963 and in another dimension he lived to an old age and played with his many grandchildren. Needless to say, the book was published in the '60s, after '63. The book is not appropriate to this group, but I'm thinking some of you may have read it and know what it is.


message 20: by Betsy (last edited Mar 18, 2011 01:15pm) (new)

Betsy Kristin Hannah's earlier books were re-incarnation romances,and I just loved them. Her humor was excellent. Some of the Titles were The Enchanchment,Once in Every Lifetime and Waiting Down the Moon. The one I particulary enjoyed was a young blind researcher who chooses from an " after-life video selection " of men she needs to love and rescue. The line that really cracked me up was the young researcher's question: " What is this, Dating for the Dead?"


message 21: by Eric (new)

Eric Shaffer I agree on The Curious Incident; there is no time travel. Someone is confused.


message 22: by Blake (new)

Blake Sadly, I've only read 3 of the books on this list, so those are the ones I voted for. I can't think of any other books I've read that have dealt with time travel that aren't on this list in order to add any. But I've always found time travel an interesting subject, and I've attempted to write several short stories using various time travel concepts. It just seems hard to accomplish without leaving huge holes in the plot.


message 23: by Tej (last edited Nov 12, 2011 05:29am) (new)

Tej Well this list certainly seems comprehensive, I'll use it as a reference! Thank you!

But it is not definitive. There are 7 time travel books I have read and enjoyed immensely that are not on the lis. All of these are in my top 10 favourite TT books. But glad to see my all time favourite is on this awesome mega list which is Tom's Midnight Garden.


DestinedDestined DisconnectedDisconnected Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell, #3)Johnny and the Bomb TimeRiders (TimeRiders, #1)TimeRiders Moondial Moondial The Time HuntersThe Time Hunters The Children of Green KnoweThe Children of Green Knowe

Edit: Apologies, I didnt realise we can add to the list so I shall add them now :) Edit 2: Not sure how this voting works, are we allowed to vote more than 1 book then? As I see the only way to add books is to vote them in. Do we vote for all our favourites?


message 24: by Travis (new)

Travis How is the Phantom Tollbooth time travel?

Great book, but no time travel.


message 25: by Andy (new)

Andy Removed: The Phantom Tollbooth.


message 26: by RachelAnne (new)

RachelAnne The Sparrow is an absolutely stunning book, but I do not recall any time travel in it. There is interstellar space travel, and the tale is told in flashbacks, but there isn't any time travel.


message 27: by Lianne (new)

Lianne Great list, I found some interesting time travel books through it (I love the theme of time travel)! However, much as I love Anne Fortier's Juliet I don't know why it's on this list, there's no time travel involved in the story, just historical chapters (book #339)


message 28: by Andy (new)

Andy These two removed: The Sparrow and Juliet: A Novel


Laura the Highland Hussy I don't recall any Time Travel in Meyer's The Host, or KMM's To Tame A Highland Warrior
And KMM's The Immortal Highlander doesn't have time travel per se, it's more he's immortal. But with the amount of votes up maybe that isn't a big deal?


message 30: by Jude (new)

Jude Pokorny I read a time travel book, possibly written in the 70's or 80's where a man in a highrise office in NY, would look out a window, and when he saw it snowing, was transported to the early 1900's. He would be in NY in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Had a current day girlfriend who was a pschycologist. He was hunted by something from the past. I would love to know the name of the book. Read it about 15 years ago


message 31: by Ian (new)

Ian Wardell An excellent book featuring time travel.

Apocalypse


message 32: by Fadhel (new)

Fadhel Omar
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