Racing from year to year at lightning speed is the alluring premise behind wildly successful books about time travel. First popularized by H.G. Wells, time-travelling novels have become guilty reading pleasures to escape modern life for the past or future. Stories about time travel either intentionally or inadvertently send main characters spiraling into parallel universes. Readers get sucked into riveting plots when even the slightest changes to history’s timeline can cause epic, disastrous effects.
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
In the near future, a civil servant is tasked with assisting and monitoring Commander Graham Gore, an "expat" from 1847, to test the feasibility of time travel. Gore, who was presumed dead in an 1845 Arctic expedition, must adjust to modern
Read More View in CatalogAtomic Anna
Rachel Barenbaum
From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past. Three brilliant women. Two life-changing mistakes. One
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A Rip Through Time
Kelley Armstrong
In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose. "A great read." —Charlaine Harris MAY
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The Garden of Promises and Lies
Paula Brackston
As the bustle of the winter holidays in the Little Shop of Found Things gives way to spring, Xanthe is left to reflect on the strange events of the past year. While she's tried to keep her time-traveling talents a secret from those close to her,
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The Untold Story
Genevieve Cogman
In this thrilling historical fantasy, time-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep into a tangled web of loyalty and power to keep her friends safe. Irene is trying to learn the truth about Alberich-and the possibility that he's he
Read More View in Catalog11/22/63
Stephen King
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students -- a gruesome, ha
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The Atlantis World
A. G. Riddle
Time has almost run out. In the aftermath of a global plague, the human race is shattered and in no state to face the new catastrophe that is now engulfing the planet. But then, from deep space, a signal, a coded message. Someone -- or something -- i
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A Catalogue of Catastrophe
Jodi Taylor
Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always wanted. The one with no heavy lifting and no one tries to kill her. Well, one out of two's not bad... Punching well above their weight, Max and Markham set out to bring down a s
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Jinwoo Chong
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travel--and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes . . . Four days before
Read More View in CatalogSea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenl
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. Over the course
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon
War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 17
Read More View in CatalogThe Time Machine
H. G. Wells
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700—and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Tra
Read More View in CatalogKindred
Octavia E. Butler
Dana's torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner's plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of
Read More View in CatalogThe Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have li
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Matt Haig
Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous
Read More View in CatalogOona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Br
Read More View in CatalogThe Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
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