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This list is comprised of novels or short story collections that feature time travel as a pivotal element. A large percentage of these novels are considered Science Fiction or Fantasy tales. However, the list also includes a number of general fiction titles and "time-travel romances." If you are interested in a longer list of just "time travel romances", please consult the booklist Somewhere in Time (1998 Lincoln City Libraries), or the following Web site: Romantic Times. Although often combined with Time Travel stories, we have not attempted to include Alternate History or Alternate Universe stories on this list. If you are interested in books of this type, you can visit the Uchronia Web site for some useful suggestions.
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| Ackroyd, Peter |
The Plato Papers: A Prophecy |
| Adams, Douglas |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-- Life, the Universe and Everything
-- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
-- So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
-- 813 AdaYg Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion by Neil Gaiman |
| Adams, Robert |
The Castaways in Time series
-- Of Beginnings and Endings
-- Of Chiefs and Champions
-- Of Myths and Monsters
-- Of Quests and Kings
-- The Seven Magical Jewels of Ireland |
| Ahlgren, Paco |
Discipline |
| Aldiss, Brian |
Cryptozoic!
Frankenstein Unbound |
| Alexander, Karl |
Time After Time |
| Alexie, Sherman |
Flight |
| Allen, Roger MacBride |
The Depths of Time |
| Amis, Kingsley |
Time's Arrow: or, the Nature of the Offense |
| Anderson, Poul |
The Avatar
Past Times
There Will be Time
Time and the Stars
The Time Patrol series
-- Annals of the Time Patrol
-- Corridors of Time
-- The Shield of Time
-- Tau Zero
-- Year of the Ransom |
| Angadi, Patricia |
The Highly-Flavoured Ladies |
| Anthony, Piers |
Through the Ice [with Robert Kornwise]
-- Hope of Earth
-- Man From Mundania |
| Appel, Allen |
Time After Time
Till the End of Time
Twice Upon a Time |
| Asimov, Isaac |
The End of Eternity
Pebble in the Sky
The Ugly Little Boy |
| Aspirin, Robert |
The Time Scout series
The House That Jack Built |
| Attanasio, A.A. |
In Other Worlds |
| Baker, Kage |
The Mendoza series
-- Graveyard Game
-- In the Garden of Iden
-- Mendoza in Hollywood
-- Sky Coyote
-- The Life of the World to Come
-- The Machine's Child
-- The Sons of Heaven |
| Ballard, J.G. |
Chronopolis and Other Stories
The Crystal World |
| Barker, Clive |
The Great and Secret Show |
| Baxter, Stephen |
The Manifold series
-- Manifold: Origin
-- Manifold: Space
-- Manifold: Time
Exultant
The Timeships
Transcendent |
| Beagle, Peter S. |
The Folk of the Air |
| Bear, Greg |
City at the End of Time
Eon |
| Bellamy, Edward |
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 |
| Benford, Gregory |
Timescape |
| Berger, Thomas |
Changing the Past |
| Biggle, Lloyd |
The Whirligig of Time |
| Birmingham, John |
The Axis of Time series
-- Weapons of Choice
-- Designated Targets
-- Final Impact |
| Bishop, Michael |
Ancient of Days
No Enemy But Time |
| Bisson, Terry |
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories |
| Blackburn, Julia |
The Leper's Companions |
| Blish, James |
Midsummer Century |
| Bova, Ben |
Orion and the Conqueror |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines: A Fable
Dinosaur Tales
From the Dust Returned
"A Sound of Thunder" (short story in collections: Bradbury Stories and The Stories of Ray Bradbury |
| Brock, Darryl |
If I Never Get Back |
| Brown, Rita Mae |
Riding Shotgun |
| Brunner, John |
The Tides of Time |
| Burdekin, Katherine |
Proud Man |
| Burroughs, William S. |
The Place of Dead Roads |
| Busby, E.M. |
Star Rebel |
| Butler, Octavia |
Kindred |
| Card, Orson Scott |
Enchantment
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus |
| Carl, Lillian Stewart |
Shadows in Scarlet |
| Carr, John Dickson |
Fire, Burn! |
| Cherryh, C.J. |
The Books of Morgaine series
-- The Fires of Azeroth
-- The Gate of Ivrel
-- The Well of Shiuan |
| Christopher, Nicolas |
Veronica |
| Clarke, Arthur C. |
The Time Odyssey series
-- Sunstorm
-- Firstborn |
| Creighton, Linn |
Beyond This Darkness |
| Crichton, Michael |
Timeline |
| Crispin, A.C. [Ann] |
Time For Yesterday [Star Trek]
Yesterday's Son [Star Trek] |
| Crowley, John |
Novelty |
| D'Amato, Brian |
Time and Time Again
In the Courts of the Sun |
| Danvers, Dennis |
Time and Time Again
The Watch |
| David, James F. |
Before the Cradle Falls
Footprints of Thunder |
| decamp, L. Sprague |
Lest Darkness Fall |
| Dedman, Stephen |
Foreign Bodies |
| Delacorte, Peter |
Time on My Hands |
| Deveraux, Jude |
A Knight in Shining Armor
[and many more time-travel romances] |
| Dezhnev, Nikolai |
In Concert Performance |
| Dick, Philip K. |
Time Out of Joint |
| Dickins, Charles |
A Christmas Carol |
| Dickson, Gordon |
The Dragon and the George series
-- The Dragon and the Djinn
-- The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent
-- The Dragon and the George
-- The Dragon and the Gnarly King
-- The Dragon at Lyonesse
-- The Dragon at War
-- The Dragon Knight
-- The Dragon on the Border
-- The Dragon, the Earl and the Troll
Timestorm |
| Dillard, J.M. |
Star Trek: First Contact [Star Trek] |
| Disch, Thomas |
The Priest |
| DiSilvestro, Roger L. |
Living With the Reptiles |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
The Lost World |
| Dukthas, Ann |
The Nicolas Segalla series
-- In the Time of the Poisoned Queen
-- The Prince Lost to Time
-- A Time for the Death of a King
-- The Time of Murder at Mayerling |
| DuMaurier, Daphne |
The House on the Strand |
| Dymmoch, Michael Allen |
The Cymry Ring |
| Edwards, Selden |
The Little Book |
| Effinger, George |
The Nick of Time |
| Ephron, Nora |
Frannie in Pieces |
| Erskine, Barbara |
Lady of Hay
On the Edge of Darkness |
| Esquivel, Laura |
The Law of Love |
| Eubank, Joyce |
Crossover |
| Finney, Jack |
From Time to Time
Marion's Wall
Time and Again |
| Flint, Eric |
1632
1635: The Dreeson Incident
Cromm
The Grantville Gazette
The Grantville Gazette II: Sequels to 1632
The Grantville Gazette III: Sequels to 1632
The Grantville Gazette IV: Sequels to 1632 |
| Frank, J. Suzanne |
Reflections in the Nile
Shadows on the Aegean
Sunrise on the Mediterranean |
| Frankowski, Leo |
The Cross-Time Engineerr |
| Fry, Stephen |
Making History |
| Gaardner, Jostein |
The Christmas Mystery |
| Gabaldon, Diana |
The Outlander series
-- Dragonfly in Amber
-- Drums of Autumn
-- The Fiery Cross
-- Outlander
-- Voyager
-- An Echo in the Bone
-- 813 Gab The Outlandish Companion [A guidebook to the series] |
| Garcia y Robertson, Rodrigo |
Spiral Dance |
| Gardner, Craig Shaw |
Dragon Sleeping
Dragon Waking |
| Garrett, Randall |
The Lord Darcy series
-- Lord Darcy Investigates
-- Murder and Magic
-- Too Many Magicians |
| Gerrold, David |
The Man Who Folded Himself |
| Giardina, Denise |
Fallam's Secret |
| Goldstein, Lisa |
The Dream Years |
| Goonan, Kathleen Ann |
The Bones of Time |
| Graziano, L.M. |
Cretaceous Dawn |
| Greenberg, Joanne |
With the Snow Queen |
| Grimwood, Ken |
Replay |
| Haldeman, Joe |
The Accidental Time Machine
Forever Free
The Forever War
Guardian
The Hemingway Hoax |
| Hale, Michael |
A Fold in the Tent of the Sky |
| Hambly, Barbara |
Ishmael [Star Trek] |
| Hannah, Kristen |
[many, many time-travel romances] |
| Harness, Charles L. |
The Paradox Men |
| Harris, M. John |
Light |
| Heinlein, Robert A. |
The Door Into Summer
Farnham's Freehold
Friday
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Time Enough For Love
"By His Bookstraps" (short story in collection: Menace From Earth
"--All You Zombies--" (short story in collection: Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein |
| Helprin, Mark |
Winter's Tale |
| Hesse, Hermann |
The Journey to the East |
| Hinchcliffe, Phillip |
The Masque of Mandragora [Doctor Who*] |
| Hogan, James |
The Proteus Operation
Thrice Upon a Time |
| Holdstock, Robert |
Ancient Echoes
Where Time Winds Blow |
| Hoyle, Fred |
October the First is Too Late |
| Hubbard, L. Ron |
A Very Strange Trip [Nebraska author] |
| Jablokov, Alexander |
The Breath of Suspension |
| James, Henry |
The Sense of the Past |
| Jarrard, Kyle |
Over There |
| Jensen, Liz |
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time |
| Jones, J.V. |
Barbed Coil |
| Jones, McClure |
Cast Down the Stars |
| Jong, Erica |
Serenissima: A Novel of Venice |
| Kabakov, Alexander |
No Return |
| Kandel, Michael |
Panda Rey |
| Kay, Guy Gavriel |
The Summer Tree |
| Kessel, John |
Corrupting Dr. Nice |
| King, Stephen |
"The Langoliers" -- story in Four Past Midnight |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
Puck of Pook's Hill |
| Koontz, Dean |
Lightning
Seize the Night |
| Kundera, Milan |
Slowness |
| Laumer, Keith |
Dinosaur Beach |
| Lee, J. Ardian |
Son of the Sword |
| LeGuin, Ursula K. |
The Lathe of Heaven |
| Leiber, Fritz |
The Changewars series
-- The Big Time |
| L'Engle, Madeleine |
The Wrinkle in Time series
-- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
-- A Wind in the Door
-- A Wrinkle in Time |
| Lewis, C.S. |
That Hideous Strength |
| London, Jack |
Before Adam |
| MacAvoy, R.A. |
The Book of Kells |
| MacIntyre, F. Gwynplaine |
The Woman Between the Worlds |
| Mason, Lisa |
Summer of Love
The Golden Nineties |
| Matheson, Richard |
Bid Time Return [basis for movie Somewhere in Time] |
| Maverick, Liz |
Wired |
| Maxim, John |
Time Out of Mind |
| May, Julian |
The Saga of the Pliocene Exile series
-- The Adversary
-- The Golden Torc
-- The Many-Colored Land
-- The Nonborn King |
| McIntyre, Vonda N. |
The Entropy Effect [Star Trek]
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home [Star Trek] |
| McMullen, Sean |
The Centurion's Empire |
| Meredith, Richard |
No Brother, No Friend
Vestiges of Time |
| Merritt, Abraham |
The Ship of Ishtar |
| Miller, Linda Lael |
Knights
[and many other time-travel romances] |
| Millhiser, Marlys |
The Mirror
The Threshold |
| Moffett, Julie |
The Ragged World: a Novel of the Hefn on Earth
Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream |
| Moorcock, Michael |
The Dancers at the End of Time series
-- An Alien Heat
-- The End of All Songs
-- The Hollow Lands
-- A Messiah at the End of Time
The Eternal Champion
The Land Leviathan
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| Morris, Janet & Morris, Chris |
Threshold |
| Morrow, James |
This is the Way the World Ends |
| Morse, David |
The Iron Bridge |
| Moscoe, Mike |
The Lost Millennium series
-- First Dawn |
| Mosse, Kate |
Sepulchre |
| Nathan, Robert |
Mia
A Portrait of Jennie |
| Niffenegger, Audrey |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
| Niven, Larry |
Rainbow Mars
A World Out of Time |
| Noon, Jeff |
Automated Alice |
| Norman, Diana |
Fitzempress' Law |
| Norton, Andre |
Operation Time Search
The Shadow of Albion
The Time Traders series
-- Echoes in Time (with Sherwood Smith)
-- Firehand
-- Galactic Derelict
-- Key Out of Time
-- The Time Traders
-- The Time Traders II |
| O'Faolain, Sean |
And Again? |
| Paulsen, Gary |
The Transall Saga |
| Piercy, Marge |
Woman on the Edge of Time |
| Pohl, Frederik |
The Age of the Pussyfoot |
| Powers, Tim |
The Anubis Gates |
| Pratchett, Terry |
Night Watch
The Thief of Time |
| Rand, Ayn |
Anthem |
| Rawn, Melonie |
Knights of the Morning Star [Quantum Leap] |
| Ray, Angie |
A Knight to Cherish |
| Rice, Anne |
Servant of the Bones |
| Riley, Eugenia |
Embers of Time |
| Robb, J.D. |
Dead of Night
Eternity in Death |
| Roberts, Nora |
Time and Again
[and many other time-travel romances] |
| Robinson, Spider |
By Any Other Name
The Callahan Chronicles (and other "Callahan's" novels)
The Lifehouse trilogy
-- Mindkiller
-- Time Pressure
-- LifeHouse |
| Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| Runyan, C.F. |
The Flight |
| Saberhagen, Fred |
Pilgrim
A Question of Time |
| Sawyer, Robert J. |
FlashForward |
| Seton, Anya |
Green Darkness |
| Shimerman, Armin |
The Merchant Prince |
| Shiner, Lewis |
Deserted Cities of the Heart |
| Silverberg, Robert |
The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
Hawksbill Station
Letters From Atlantis
Thebes of the Hundred Gates
Trips in Time [editor] |
| Simak, Clifford |
The Goblin Reservation
Highway of Eternity
Mastodonia
Special Deliverance
Time and Again |
| Simmons, Dan |
Hyperion |
| Simpson, George Gaylord |
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder |
| Sinclair, Upton |
Our Lady: A Parable for Moderns |
| Sleator, William |
Singularity
Strange Attractors |
| Steele, Allen M. |
Chronospace |
| Stewart, Michael |
Belladonna |
| Stirling, S.M. |
The Island in the Stream of Time series
-- Against the Tide of Years
-- Island in the Sea of Time
-- On the Oceans of Eternity
T2: Infiltrator
T2: Rising Storm |
| Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris |
The Time Wanderers |
| Suzuki, Koji |
Paradise |
| Taine, John |
The Time Stream |
| Tarr, Judith & Turtledove, Harry |
Household Gods |
| Tepper, Shari S. |
Beauty |
| Tucker, Wilson |
Ice and Iron
The Lincoln Hunters
The Time Masters |
| Turtledove, Harry |
Counting Up, Counting Down
Curious Notions
The Disunited States of America
The Gladiator
Gunpowder Empire
Guns of the South
In High Places
The Valley-Westside War |
| Tuten, Frederic |
Van Gogh's Bad Café: A Love Story |
| Twain, Mark |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Van Vogt, A.E. |
Cosmic Encounter
Pendulum |
| Varley, John |
Mammoth
Millennium |
| Vick, Helen Hughes |
Walker of Time |
| Vidal, Gore |
Live From Golgotha
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel |
| Vinge, Joan D. |
Snow Queen |
| Vinge, Vernor |
Marooned in Realtime |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Between Time and Timbuktu
Slaughterhouse Five
Timequake |
| Walker, Barbara |
Amazon |
| Watson, Ian |
Chekov's Journey |
| Watt, Laura |
Carry Me Back |
| Weber, David |
The Excaliber Alternative
1633 [with Eric Flint -- see others under Flint] |
| Wells, H.G. |
The Time Machine
When the Sleeper Awakes |
| Westall, Robert |
Devil on the Road
The Wind Eye |
| Weston, Susan |
Children of the Light |
| White, T.H. |
The Once and Future King |
| Williams, Billy Dee |
Just in Time [with Rob Macgregor] |
| Williams, David |
Second Sight |
| Willis, Connie |
The Doomsday Book
Lincoln's Dreams
Passage
To Say Nothing of the Dog |
| Wilson, Robert Charles |
The Chronoliths
Gypsies |
| Winterson, Jeannette |
Sexing the Cherry |
| Womack, Jack |
Going, Going, Gone! |
| Wright, Ronald |
A Scientific Romance |
| Wu, William F. |
Dictator |
| Yulsman, Jerry |
Elleander Morning |
| 813.08 Ad |
Time Machines: The Greatest Time Travel Stories Ever Written |
And a few items about Time Travel from the non-fiction collection...
* the library owns over twenty novels in the Doctor Who series -- search our catalog holdings under Subject: Doctor Who (Fictional Character)
Updated and expanded from the March 2002 print booklist by sdc
Last updated October 2009 sdc
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