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Time Travel

All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult.

TIP: Find more time travel stories by searching the library catalog for the for the subject "Time travel fiction" or investigate the science of time travel by searching the subject "Space and time" or "Fourth dimension.".

Baker, Kage: In the Garden of Iden : A Novel of the Company

(1997)

SF

In the first book in The Company series, young Mendoza is rescued from the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition by Dr. Zeus, Inc and transformed into an immortal cyborg. Programmed to save plants from extinction for the good of mankind — and for the profit of Dr. Zeus — she falls in love with a mortal zealot in Elizabethan England. A mistake that will bring her grief for centuries to come.
Bradbury, Ray: Classic Stories 1 : Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R is for Rocket
(1990)

SF

This collection includes the influential time travel story "A Sound of Thunder", in which a time tourist steps on a prehistoric butterfly to devastating effect.
Butler, Octavia E.: Kindred
(1979)

SF

A modern black woman is snatched away to the antebellum South to save the life of her white slave-owner ancestor.
De Camp, L. Sprague: Lest Darkness Fall
(2011)

SF
In this 1941 classic professor Martin Padway is transported to 6th century Rome and takes it upon himself to prevent the Dark Ages from descending on Europe.
Gabaldon, Diana: Outlander

(1998)

Outlander introduces a series that combines time travel, humor and passionate romance. While Claire and her husband visit an ancient stone monument in 1945 England, Claire is suddenly thrust back to the year 1743 — and becomes torn between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler's Wife
(2003)

Clare is married to Henry, who suffers from Chrono-Displacement Disorder. He is an unwilling and unintentional time traveler, drawn through time to people who are close to him — particularly Clare, who first meets him when he manifests to her 6-year-old self.
Sawyer, Robert: Flashforward
(1999)

SF
An experiment at the CERN research lab goes awry, momentarily throwing the consciousness of the entire human race ahead by 20 years. As the implications hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants another glimpse of their future.
Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

(1889)

A skilled mechanic in post-Civil War New England is transported to 528 AD Great Britain via a bump on the head. He uses his knowledge of science to introduce modern technology to the Arthurian world.
Wells, H G: The Time Machine

(1895)

SF

Wells imagined what eons of human evolution would bring in this time travel classic first published in 1895. His Victorian hero travels to a future of surface-dwelling, childlike Eloi and subterranean, vicious Morlocks.
Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog, or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

(1998)

SF

Oxford's history department travels between 1940 and 1888 as they work on the Coventry Cathedral restoration project, occasionally encountering Jerome K. Jerome of Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog! fame.
Yu, Charles: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

(2010)

Yu's debut novel is the sharp, funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father through quantum space-time.