Weekly Question #6: What One Time Travel Book Should Everyone Read?

[Amy, Queen of Time]

What one time travel book should everyone read? Hopefully, it's obvious that the book you list is one that you've actually read. Also, I'd ask that you refrain from promoting your own book here. Please, no duplicate answers. Answers will be added to a new group challenge.

[Cheryl]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

[Neville]

The Temporal Knights

[Nate, First Tiger]

Previously my answer might have been different, but Hollow World just jumped to the top of my list.

[Corrie]

The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

[Brooke]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

[David]

That's a little like asking which potato chip everyone ought to eat (not many eat just one, and some people obviously shouldn't eat any). But I think I've enjoyed Willis's books as much as any in the subgenre. So...

Doomsday Book

[Reva]

Amy wrote: "What one time travel book should everyone read? Hopefully, it's obvious that the book you list is one that you've actually read. Also, I'd ask that you refrain from promoting your own book here. P..."

Timeline by Michael Crighton or the entire Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. I couldn't decide. All the above mentioned are good choices too.

[Cheryl]

Wow, really, *Everyone should read* Outlander!? No, thanks. Just saying.

Otoh: Once in a lifetime, everyone should eat one potato chip.... ;)

[Alicja]

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

(and I second Doomsday Book)

These two are my all-time favorites and wouldn't know which one to choose.

[Reva]

Michael Crichton Timeline

[Michele]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Replay and Time and Again.

The Outlander series is pretty good, but the time travel isn't central to the plot, it's more just a vehicle for putting the main characters in interesting situations.

[Duane]

Since I'm currently reading and loving it, I am going to say The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser.

[Cheryl]

Tom's Midnight Garden
Disconnected

[Doc]

For books in which the protagonist unwittingly travels back in time, is stuck there, and decides to try to improve things,"Connecticut Yankee" is No. 1, but I also like Lest Darkness Fall and Leo Frankowski'sThe Cross-Time Engineer series.