36 Best Time Travel Books of All Time

Our goal: Gather the most accurate and trustworthy list of Time Travel books on the internet.

Our process:
1. Search for "best Time Travel books" and click on the top 5 articles.
2. Find every book mentioned in 2+ articles and average their rankings.
3. Deliver them all neatly to you here! 😊

(Updated 2022)

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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Appears in 5 articles
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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Appears in 4 articles
1 recommender
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Appears in 4 articles
1 recommender
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Appears in 4 articles
MOST RECOMMENDED!
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This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Appears in 4 articles
2 recommenders
MOST RECOMMENDED!
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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Appears in 4 articles
2 recommenders
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Appears in 4 articles
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11/22/63
Stephen King
Appears in 4 articles
1 recommender
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Appears in 3 articles
1 recommender
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Timeline
Michael Crichton
Appears in 3 articles
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The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes
Appears in 3 articles
1 recommender
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Appears in 3 articles
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The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
Appears in 3 articles
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The Accidental Time Machine
Joe Haldeman
Appears in 3 articles
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
Appears in 3 articles
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Recursion
Blake Crouch
Appears in 3 articles
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Appears in 3 articles
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All Our Wrong Todays
Elan Mastai
Appears in 3 articles
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Appears in 3 articles
1 recommender
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Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Appears in 2 articles
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What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon
Appears in 2 articles
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Time and Again
Jack Finney
Appears in 2 articles
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Josie Silver
Appears in 2 articles
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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Appears in 2 articles
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The Girl from Everywhere
Heidi Heilig
Appears in 2 articles
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The Door into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein
Appears in 2 articles
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Somewhere In Time
Richard Matheson
Appears in 2 articles
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Ruby Red
Kerstin Gier
Appears in 2 articles
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One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
Appears in 2 articles
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Night Watch
Terry Pratchett
Appears in 2 articles
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Lightning
Dean Koontz
Appears in 2 articles
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Just One Damned Thing After Another
Jodi Taylor
Appears in 2 articles
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In Five Years
Rebecca Serle
Appears in 2 articles
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In a Holidaze
Christina Lauren
Appears in 2 articles
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How to Invent Everything
Ryan North
Appears in 2 articles
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Here and Now and Then
Mike Chen
Appears in 2 articles