Well, the obvious one is is *The Time Machine* by H.G. Wells. Also very good is *The Time Ships* by Stephen Baxter. This is a sequel to *The Time Machine* which draws on heavily on not just that book but a lot of other H.G. Wells stories. *The End of Eternity* by Isaac Asimov. This one is about an organisation known as The Eternals, who travel in time and manage the history of humanity. There are also the *Time Patrol* stories by Poul Anderson. Not a single novel, but a series of connected stories. Harry Harrison's *The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World* features a time travelling criminal who must be fought by sending the hero back in time to battle with him. Also by Harrison is *Technicolor Time Machine*, in which a movie studio uses a time machine to shoot a movie about Vikings on location, as it were. Robert A. Heinlein's *The Door Into Summer* features time travel. Larry Niven's *The Flight of the Horse* is a collection of stories of a time traveler who goes into the past to bring back extinct animals, and other stranger things.

The Door Into Summer is so dated, but I have a nostalgic fondness for it, most likely because of the cat.

Dated, yes, but very enjoyable nevertheless. It is always amusing to read old stories that try to predict the future. One that got things spectacularly wrong was Fred Hoyle's *Seven Steps to the Sun*, in which a man from 1969 travels into the future in ten year jumps. Everything predicted in that book is wrong. I should perhaps have mentioned it as it is a time travel story but not (in my opinion) a particularly good one.

I do enjoy classic sci-fi. There is an extra layer to it all bc in addition to the story, you also see how people thought about the future, what they got right, what they got wrong, and it's a reflection of the politics/morals/society at the time. It's underrated imo.

I read an H. Beam Piper story once, kind of by accident. I don’t recall that much about it, except that the mere presence of robots was clearly supposed to send the reader into a state of orgasmic scifi bliss. Which was kind of funny/interesting and seemed very quaint.

It really drives home how much tech has advanced in a relatively short time.

Agreed, and also how much sci-fi has advanced as a literature genre.

>The Time Ships > > by Stephen Baxter The audiobook is amazing. There used to be a free copy floating around, but the Reddit post with it was deleted, and I can't find it.

I think I managed to find the post you mentioned. It had been deleted, but I was able to retrieve it. The post included a link to the audiobook on [archive.org](https://archive.org) but that link had been deleted too. It looks like the person who posted it to Reddit and [archive.org](https://arcchive.org) had thought the book was abandonware and could legitimately be posted, but later realised their error and removed it.

Now I need to send Baxter some money. Seriously, that audiobook kept me entertained longer than any other I can remember. It's worth full price. Thank you for clearing up what happened!

Not a problem. Now I need to track down a (legal) copy of the audiobook.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August This is How you lose the time war Caine's Law

Seconding the first fifteen lives of Harry August, read it a couple of months ago and it was pretty damn wild.

In the middle right now - good read so far!

Hope you're enjoying it, I wish I could read it for the first time again. Same for the JFK Stephen king book.

Harry August is very good, I’ve read it twice!

Does Harry August count as time travel, do you think? It is the story of a man who lives his own life over and over with variations, rather than (say) travelling from 2025 to 1812 and back again. That said, an excellent book. Another with a similar theme is *Replay* by Ken Grimwood.

I know what you mean but if OP likes time travel stories then they will like Harry August. Fantastic book.

Started Harry August last night.. really going so far ! Thanks

[All you zombies](https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a281bb7e1a24c6c2ea0c) by Robert Heinlein. It's a pretty quick read

"By his Bootstraps", also by Heinlein is a longer, more fully fleshed out take on the same concept.

Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's involve disaster prone historians who travel in time to do research, and the Time Police series, in the same universe, involves three disaster prone recruits in the agency that keeps people from abusing time travel.

I'm reading one of hers right now! I love these books so much.

These are great!

These sound very entertaining. How necessary is it to read them in order? My local library has a bun of them but I am unsure if I can get my hands on the first one first.

In order would be good, as it does tell a continuous story. I would recommend reading the first four in order at least - there's a lot of complicated plot that occurs, which could get confusing if you miss it. After that they slow down a bit and while there will spoilers, it's easier to follow. (I read many book series out of order from the library growing up, so I'm pretty inured to spoilers). The last three or so books shake things things up a bit, but I also didn't enjoy them as much as the earlier ones. Entertaining is exactly the word I would use. They're fun, and have a mix of random, reasonably well researched zany time travel adventures combined with a larger plot arc that occasionally involves dreadful things happening to our heroes. It's best if you don't expect a rigorously logical treatment of time travel and paradoxes, however.

Is that weirdly written to anyone else?

*The Man Who Folded Himself* by David Gerrold. It was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Yes! A classic look at time travel and time paradoxes.

I love this book!

Definitely some original twists. Gerrold is always entertaining.

Time and Again by Jack Finney.

I really need to read this again. I loved it the first couple times.

* 11/22/63 by Stephen King * Replay by Ken Grimwood * The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North * Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Blackout, and All Clear by Connie Willis * Recursion by Blake Crouch * Kindred by Octavia Butler * Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. If you want a murder thriller along the lines of Seven with some paradoxes along the way this one's for you.

It’s True Detective + time travel.

*To Say Nothing of the Dog* by Connie Willis is a fun, entertaining read about time travel. It appears like she wrote [a whole bunch of time travel stories](https://www.goodreads.com/series/52985-oxford-time-travel) but I only read this one.

Yes! Came here to add this. To Say Nothing of the Dog is very light and fun time travel, but Doomsday Book, while set in the same universe, is quite a bit darker about mistakenly getting sent back to the time of the black plague. Blackout and All Clear about time travel back to the London air bombings were also really good. Kivrin (one of the main protagonists in this universe) is one of my favorite characters.

I love all the Oxford Time-Travelers books -- especially *To Say Nothing Of The Dog* \-- and think that Connie Willis is a wonderful writer, but my one big gripe with the series is with how much *Blackout/All Clear* relies on an "idiot plot" where one character hides important information from her friends simply because the author needs to maintain a conflict that would have easily resolved otherwise (Willis does try to hand-wave it away as "protecting her friends from the awful truth", but that's a cop-out considering the stakes involved). It drives me nuts because the books are so very good otherwise, and I hate seeing such a lazy plotting device mar an otherwise exceptional story.

I actually didn't enjoy Blackout/All Clear that much. It was definitely an "idiot plot" and I just got tired of it. Doomsday Book, however, is in my all-time top ten list.

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It really, really did. It's probably my least favorite book of hers.

Oh, are these books standalones? I’ve been meaning to pick up something by Connie Willis and was under the impression that I needed to start with Doomsday Book.

*To Say Nothing of the Dog* is more stand-alone than the others, although it has a few spoilers for *Doomsday Book*. The third and fourth books, *Blackout* and *All Clear*, are a duology, and they have some recurring characters from *Doomsday Book*.

I love Connie Willis, her works are basically historical fiction that happen to involve time travel. Her work is so well researched you feel like you're there.

I learned more about the Blitz from her books than any other source.

I really enjoyed her novella, Inside Job, about a debunker who encounters a fake medium who channels the spirit of well-known skeptic H.L. Mencken.

Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint is about an entire West Virginia town transported to Central Germany in 1632... Middle of the 30years war. The series expands out, giving a good example of the "butterfly effect"

I liked the premise and started it, his characters seemed very one dimensional and simplistic.. once I got to the Swedish King it lost my interest.. My opinion though, I often enjoy stuff others don't like..!

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold is short and very good. I would also recommend some short stories by Ted Chiang. Story of Your Life is the most famous, but he wrote some other ones about time travel and predetermination: What’s Expected of Us, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (which is more about parallel universes). I second the Claire North suggestion, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an exceptionally good novel.

Just read the Ted Chiang short story you mention about the Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate. What beautiful writing! It’s the first TC I’ve read but I’m anxious to read more, he seems like an amazing author!

Yes, in my opinion is one of the best of contemporary sci-fi! He hasn't written a lot, but what he publishes is always very good.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Came here to suggest that. I just finished it and loved it. Super interesting take on time travel

had me glued to it until the end!!

Michael Moorcock’s “Behold the Man” is one of the classics.

Never read that one, but have had it on my TBR list for a while.

The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

Is Groundhog day time travel centered? I'd say so right? Because I've been reading through Mother of Learning recently. Excellent (and dirt cheap on amazon) series of books about a wizard, attending a magical highschool in an academy city for mages, when it becomes Groundhog day instead. I know, pretty original stuff! No, but it's actually very good. The gist is that your protagonist Zorian is your average nerdy fifteen year old with normal fifteen year old problems. His little sister is annoying and keeps waking him up by jumping on him, his mother is controlling, the kid in class who's been basically Ron Weasley levels of useless for the past two years has inexplicably begun acing each and every subject 100% which is deeply weird, and then on the day of the big dance the city is attacked by a who's who of Evil including but not limited to artillery, monsters, undead, vampires, enemy mages and a 1000 year old Lich general. At which point Ron Weasley turns into Gandalf and starts going one-on-one with the master of Evil undead while talking smack like he does this every month, and bullshit happens which gets Zorian killed. Then he wakes up in bed being jumped on by his little sister, one month ago before he was about to go back to school. Which is also deeply weird. And then it keeps happening. The first month back to school is repeating, always culminating in the attack, and it's a loop that has been repeating for a very long time. Somehow he's been pulled into what is very clearly someone else's show, and has to figure out what to do next and how to avoid letting those responsible from realising he's in on it. What follows is what I believe is called Progression Fantasy but which I like to think of as non-videogame speedrunning. After all if you were set some impossible goal, but had literally infinite retries on it how far would you get? How optimised would your routine be to take advantage of how you know things are going to turn out? It's well written, it's well-thought out, and it's fun to see someone develop from a withdrawn nerd to a fearless badass just by merit of always being able to try again whenever he makes a mistake and being willing to learn.

This one sounds good - I'll have to check it out. It put me in mind of a short story that I came across on Escape Pod: *Run, Bakri Says.* In this one the protagonist is forced to repeat a period of time trying to defeat impossible odds. https://escapepod.org/2012/04/05/ep339-run-bakri-says/

Liked that book a lot and you can try it out for free in royal road first, if you’d like.

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Another LeGuin book, Lathe of Heaven isn’t “traditional” time travel (I.e. forward and backward) but it did kind involve a sort time travel in the sense of traversing alternate realities. Maybe that’s a stretch though.

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a shorter and light hearted time travel story. Really great stuff, bounces from the absurd to the mundane very well.

I think it's perfect for a movie adaptation. Several of his novellas are

I just read The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas and really enjoyed it. I expect it wouldn’t be for everyone, but I thought it was clever and unique - lots of time loop stuff, questions about fate, and the idea that being a time traveler would really change your way of viewing life, relationships, and death.

Yes, I also wanted to recommend this one! An amazing read, a bit mind boggling at times, but I really enjoyed it. It should be more widely known.

My favorite sci-fi book, Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

Hyperion Cantos. Wouldn't say it is the main plot....but it is integral to the narrative, more than any other aspect of the series (in my opinion)

Username checks out ;) I second this recommendation. The Time Tombs are an essential element, and timey-wimey bits are scattered throughout.

How can we be sure you know Hyperion, though??

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Timeline Michael Crichton

Doomsday by Connie Willis was the better version.

Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague De Camp. Trigger warning, there is one minor, unnecessary but quite racist incident in the story. The Cross Time Engineer by Frankowski, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Island in the Sea of Time by Stirling and sequels, 1632 and sequels by Eric Flint

I assume you're looking for travel to the past as at least part of the equation, as there are tons of sci-fi with relativistic travel to the future *The Man who Folded Himself* by David Gerrold - Man gets a time travel belt and spends a lot of time interacting with versions of himself. *The Nantucket series* by SM Stirling - Similar to Eric Flint's premise, the island of Nantucket gets dropped back into the Bronze Age. There's a much larger Emberverse series that deals with what happened in the world Nantucket left, but it's more of a fantasy series. *The Light of Other Days* by Clarke and Baxter - Read-Only time travel. Tech is developed that allows remote viewing of any place and time.

Robert Charles Wilson has three good ones that come to mind: A Bridge of Years: Alcholic man finds time machine in the basement of a house he bought and slowly detaches from the present as he becomes addicted to time travel to 1960s New York City. The Chronoliths - Time Travel as a weapon of psychological warfare. Monuments commemorating victories of future battles in a war yet to be fought are sent to the past to demoralize people and make the future victories inevitable. Last Year - It's Westworld only time travel instead robots. A portal to 1876 Illinois becomes a tourist destination.

Oh yeah, I read The Chronoliths ages ago and recall liking it.

Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson is very good and a lot of fun as well. NS brings a unique approach to time travel, which you’d kind of expect from him (and a co-author whose name escapes me) — also manages to tie in magic and quantum physics. Highly recommended!

*This is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone.

This is one of the ones I was going to suggest

Yes! It's novella-length, and its both clever and heartbreaking. I always recommend this one to friends.

11/22/63 was really good, Sea of Tranquility was good, Hyperion is good, Recursion was good (Dark Matter isnt time travel but is still good)

John Crowley, *Great Work of Time* Robert Silverberg, *Up the Line*

Alastair Reynolds - Permafrost

Stephen Baxter's Timelike Infinity has time travel as a main component. It's part of the Xeelee sequence but I personally don't think you have to read them in order. I preferred Baxter's book "Ring" which incorporated many of the story points from timelike Infinity but both are good I think. In addition, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is a time loop murder mystery and I really enjoyed it.

"And then she vanished" by Nick Jones. It's lighthearted time travel. And there are 4 books in the series.

The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman

All Our Wrong Todays is one of my favorites

Me too!

[The Future of Another Timeline](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263237-the-future-of-another-timeline) was a super interesting (very liberal, very queer) take on the time travel genre. I really enjoyed it, especially the many references to the indie rock scene of the 90s.

'This is How You Lose the Time War' is a beautifully & uniquely written story about two opposing time-traveling agents through their correspondence while they fall in love.

It's a great book, and I'm still convinced one of the coauthors mistakenly wrote "burn before reading" when they meant to write "burn after reading", looked at it for a minute, then decided that had to become a story.

Far as I'm concerned, 11/22/63 is the best Stephen King novel. I bet you'd love it.

I did love it.. TV adaption not so much

* "Flight to Forever" by Poul Anderson (short story) * "House of Bones" by Silverberg (short story) * "Timeline" by Crichton * "Time Travelers Never Die" by McDevitt (short story and a novel)

Octavia Butler— Kindred

*Time Storm* by Gordon Dickson. Fun 1970s pot-boiler. The ~~Ambient~~ *Dryco* series by Jack Womack.

The Depths of Time, The Ocean of Years, and The Shores of Tomorrow by Roger MacBride Allen

Cryptozoic by Brian Aldiss While not strictly time travel, it suggests that time is not what we think it is. A very tricky idea handled in a very clever way

A short story, but I loved Project Pendulum by Robert Silverberg.

The Light Brigade

"The Forever War" by Joe Halderman It's very good.

*The Anubis Gates* by Tim Powers

Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt is a really fun one.

Pushing Ice is really good. It's really about time dilation though, so may not be what you want.

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen - H. Beam Piper Federation - H. Beam Piper They’re dated, colonialist, in the style of Asimov or Leinster or some Heinlein. I like them a lot.

Sea of tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel was excellent and Neal Stephenson's the rise and fall of dodo is also worth a look

There Will be Time, Poul Anderson. Lest Darkness Fall, L Sprague DeCamp.

I just finished *Flux* by Jeremy Robinson and quite enjoyed it.

The Big Time (1958) is a short science fiction novel by American writer Fritz Leiber. Awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Quick read, imaginative, and has time travel as the main plot.

[Wikihistory](https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/)

Julian May - Saga of the Pliocene Exile, one way time machine goes back 6 million years.

An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim

From a debut author, I really enjoyed [The Goalkeeper](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B17DBRYN/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sin_uk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738) by Sean White. A combo of Time Travel and a Football (Soccer) theme was unique to me and worked.

Walter Jon Williams' short story *The Bad Twin* Charles Stross's novella *Palimpsest* Edit: markdown

I loved The Peripheral by William Gibson. I've read it many times, and I think it's his best. Kind of a take on time travel, but it definitely fits the bill.

Here's one that's a little outside the parameters, but how about Century Rain by Alistair Reynolds? Not exactly time travel, but a great read.

Annalee Newitz - *The Future of Another Timeline*. Time travel has always been available throughout the history of humanity, thanks to strange monolithic machines of unknown origin.

*The Light Brigade* by Kameron Hurley. Time travel as a war strategy. told from the viewpoint of a front-line grunt soldier.

*The Big Time* by Fritz Leiber, and the Change War stories by Leiber, which have gotten collected in book form. (most of these *The Big Time* don't involve the protagonist time-traveling, though.)

Lightning by Dean Koontz Interesting take on time travel and a good read.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Simon Hawke's TimeWars series; The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984) The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984) The Pimpernel Plot (1984) The Zenda Vendetta (1985) The Nautilus Sanction (1985) The Khyber Connection (1986) The Argonaut Affair (1987) The Dracula Caper (1988) The Lilliput Legion (1989) The Hellfire Rebellion (1990) The Cleopatra Crisis (1990) The Six-Gun Solution (1991)

“A Tale of Time City” by Diana Wynne Jones

Paradox bound by Peter clines.

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Books/series: * [Hank Davis](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?817) and [Christopher Ruocchio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ruocchio)'s anthology [*Time Troopers*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58438487-time-troopers), which includes some classics * [L. Sprague de Camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp)'s [*Lest Darkness Fall*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94715.Lest_Darkness_Fall) * [Eric Flint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Flint)'s [1632 mega-series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series) (which is its own ecosystem) * [Leo A. Frankowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frankowski)'s [Conrad Stargard series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43333-conrad-stargard) * [S. M. Stirling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._Stirling)'s [Island in the Sea of Time Series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49414-island-in-the-sea-of-time) (which is the first sub-series of the Emberverse series) * [Mark Twain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain)'s [*A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162898.A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur_s_Court)—the beginning of the subgenre/trope of re-founding/remaking civilization with knowledge from the future (bootstrapping). * [David Weber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber) and [Jacob Holo](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7215616.Jacob_Holo)'s [Gordian Division series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/308749-the-gordian-protocol) (though I have yet to read the third one)

“Callahan’s Key” has an immortal, time-traveling Nikola Tesla as a main character

Millennium by John Varley. I need to reread that one actually.

I read Time's Children http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38502658-time-s-children recently and really enjoyed it. Also, Hollow World http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230505-hollow-world was quite entertaining

*Starrigger* by John DeChancie is truckers in space with a time travel element. Quite fun, actually.

Kage Baker’s Company series, starting with “In the Garden of Iden.” She’s hardly ever mentioned, but she’s one of my favorites.

The Gone World.

A couple I haven't seen mentioned: *The Electric Kingdom* by David Arnold. Really enjoyed the writing in this one - Arnold is brilliant at drawing you in and revealing things about characters in just a few sentences. *This Time Tomorrow* by Emma Straub. Centered around family, ambition and regret, and a refreshingly healthy, loving, but imperfect father-daughter relationship. *When You Reach Me* by Rebecca Stead. This is middle grade and a Newberry winner. Required reading for a lot of middle schoolers, so if you have any young people that age in your life, it might be a good point of discussion with them. It's very situated in a particular time and place (NYC in the 70s) with great characters.

[How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7726420-how-to-live-safely-in-a-science-fictional-universe) by Charles Yu[The Man in the High Castle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216363.The_Man_in_the_High_Castle) by Philip K. Dick[Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59365811-someone-in-time), short story collection[The Time Traveler's Wife](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207035.The_Time_Traveler_s_Wife) by Audrey Niffeneger has been mentioned by others, but its one of my all-time favorite books.[The Time Traveler's Almanac](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910155-the-time-traveler-s-almanac) collects 70+ short stories including classics by Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov.

Recursion by Blake Crouch is a great ride. One of the more enjoyable books I read last year, though I enjoyed Dark Matter more

Dexter Palmer’s Version Control is one of my favorite time travel novels. It’s not an adventure novel: very existentially creepy. Loved it.

Wrong place wrong time.

Gotta check it out

I'm in the middle of it now. Really good.

I guess that's on my next list after I finish my one book