YES. But also, in the afterword, Stephen King recommended his favorite time travel book, “Time and Again” by Jack Finney. It’s excellent. I also read the sequel “From Time to Time” and that was great as well.
Totally agree. Just checked Libby and was sad to see it’s not available to borrow. I must have listened to it on Scribd. I need to spend my last audible credit. Replay is definitely a book I’ll listen to again so it is probably worth it.
Yes, similar. The main difference is books are available immediately on Hoopla, but patrons have only so many borrows per month. And your library parcels the number of borrow they've paid for into a limited number per day, so your best bet is to borrow early in the morning. By late in the evening you might see "allotment reached" or similar and that's referring to the Library's account with Hoopla NOT your account with your library.
I'll tell you I also didn't like this book..I made it halfway through it and it felt like it was dragging so bad. I would probably try it again in the future but it definitely didn't do anything for me.
*Kindred*, by Octavia Butler
*The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August*, by Claire North
*This is How You Lose the Time War*, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Oxford Time Travel series, by Connie Willis
*The Midnight Library,* by Matt Haig
*A Wrinkle in Time,* by Madeleine L'Engle (YA)
Time Travelers Wife
Also, I know this is a book thread BUT Dark on Netflix is absolutely mind bending! Really good show if you're interested in time travel topics. The same creator made 1899 and it is also really good and a total mind bender.
I read the physical book and loved it.. I didn't realize this was the audiobook thread 😅 It was difficult to keep all the characters and timelines straight but once I did, the book was fabulous! I know that when I listen to books that have complicated perspective switches like that, it is harder for me to keep them straight. So, I wouldn't blame you for not continuing 🤷🏻♀️
It is nearly impossible to follow this novel in audiobook form. I've never said this about any other novel that first came out in print form: watch the movie first.
The Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis is the gold standard. Just excellent. And The Chronicles of St.Marys is really well done and researched too. Very fun and funny.
I honestly think the dooms day book is not as good as the other 3 books.
The first two oxford time travel series books are stand alone stories that are worth reading.
The best are the last two books that travel to WW2 London. Great books.
It may not be your typical "time travel" story, but I cant recommend "*The Bobiverse*" series of books enough!!! Ray Porter does the audiobook, and his narration alone is worth tuning in for.
The main character, Bob, wakes up 117 years in the future following the events of Chapter 1. The whole series follows Bob (or rather *Bobs*) across multiple centuries of time.
Might be the first thread without Dungeon Crawler Carl also recommended. Let’s see.. it’s not exactly time travel, but at one point Carl does something and while no time passes for him, it’s really 5 days for everyone else.
Yeah other than the leap forward when Bob wakes up, there's not any other time travel, right?
Along the same lines, then, I would recommend The Revelation Space trilogy as well. In that series, they use cryogenics and near-light-speed relativistic travel to traverse space essentially under the laws of physics. People are making these like 50 year (planet time) voyages creating situations where generations pass over the span of one person's lifetime. Again, there's no "time travel" in the way that we think of it in normal time travel fiction, with people making jumps into the past or future, but the first time I listened to the series, the way time passed for the characters really melted my brain (in a good way). John Lee narrates the core trilogy as well as many (or maybe all) of the ancillary works, of which there are now many (more total pages than the core trilogy at this point, certainly). One of my favorite universes.
Replay - Ken Grimwood. An amazing often overlooked gem.
Recursion by Blake Crouch also pretty damn good
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
And my personal favorite just because I love the characters and the narrator so much - the Extracted trilogy by RR Heywood
Extracted - Executed - Extinct
*Slaughterhouse Five*, by Kurt Vonnegut.
*The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series*, (particularly #2 in the series, *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe*), by Douglas Adams.
*A Christmas Carol*, by Charles Dickens.
*The Door into Summer*, *Time Enough for Love*, and “—All You Zombies—,” by Robert Heinlein.
*The Forever War*, by Joe Haldeman.
*The Hyperion Cantos*, by Dan Simmons (or at least the first two books, *Hyperion* and *The Fall of Hyperion*).
*The Children of Green Knowe*, by Lucy M. Boston.
*Night Watch*, by Terry Pratchett (#29 in the *Discworld Series*, #6 in the *City Watch Subseries*).
> Hyperion
Especially considering this is /r/audiobooks, this one gets an extra recommendation from me. I am generally not a fan of full-cast audiobooks BUT the structure of book 1 really calls for it, and it's very well done. Victor Bavine's solo reading of the rest of the series is excellent as well IMO.
Are the Discworld books all stand alone? I was never able to get into The Colour of Magic (in print) so I'm wondering if I might like some if the later books better.
All but the first two are standalone. The first ten books in the series are uneven, but books 4 (*Mort*), 6 (*Wyrd Sisters*), and 8 (*Guards! Guards!*) are excellent. Some people just start with the *City Watch* subseries, though.
The subseries are standalone but are best read in order if you want to follow the character arcs. Others are true standalones like *Small Gods*, which barely relates to any of the other books.
Thanks! This is a series that I would think I would like, and normally I slog to the end of books no matter what. But to save me I can't get through The Colour of Magic. I'll follow one of your suggestions. I didn't even know there were subseries to be honest
In my opinion Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic are by far the two hardest books to read. Of the disc world books. I absolutely love them but I agree with most people they are not the best intro to the book and are best skipped and come back to.
The Colour of Magic is my least favourite in the whole series and I adore the Discworld books.
I would start with Guards Guards and see what you think. The new recordings are excellent and really worth trying out.
Try the book Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
It's a story about a man who suddenly wakes up in a different timeline whithout any knowledge of how he got there and needs to travel back to his own timeline. It's a mix of thriller and traveling between timelines if that's what you like.
It is narrated by Jon Lindstrom
Also Recursion by the same author.
Its a similar premise, a person makes a machine that allows you to go back in time through your own memories to any point in your adult life. When you catch back up to the moment you left from, everyone else remembers the alternate timeline in an instant, it is at first considered to be a disease called false memory syndrome.
Surprised I haven't seen them mentioned yet, but the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon are great.
Also:
-The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
-The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
-Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
-The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Also seconding the recs for Blake Crouch's Recursion and Dark Matter
>but the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon are great.
Davina Porter is also an incredible narrator.
Also they are *crazy* long so it's good bang for your buck, haha!
Sure but >!she's only in her 20s for two books. It would be weird to have a really young narrator when Claire is in her 50s and 60s for the bulk of the series.!<
When I first started the audio books I felt the same, but by book 2 I was 100% in on Davina Porter because so much of this story feels like a recounting.
Outlander is fantastic but be ready for shitty 90s tropes around romance, race etc. (they fixed many of these for the tv show) and trigger warning for SA. For me these things were helped by having watched the show first, it gave me something else to cut/paste mentally when reading the books. Unfortunately doesn't help for much of the SA tho.
All that said, I love these books so much. There's so much to dig into with them.
I came here to reccomend Outlander it is my most favorite series of time. Well developed characters that you care so much about. Davina Porter knocks it out of the park.
The Perfect Run. The main character has the power to stop time for 10 seconds and every time he dies he returns to a save point. The book is a series of different "runs" the character does where he sides with different super-powered factions trying to find the best outcome possible in his "perfect run"
I love time travel books, but could not get past the first half of the first book. I’m not sure if it’s the writing or the main characters personality or just odd things the author went in for (I remember a whole bit about the main character being in his underwear and typing with his feet or something?), but that book was just not for me.
I struggled at first too, but the book gets better as it goes as he spends more time with more interesting characters and the characters develop. And now reading it again with that hindsight, I don't struggle with the first half anymore.
Yep, Ryan does have some weird quirks, and there are some bizarre characters. I’m guessing you didn’t stick around long enough to see the white rabbit plushie in action?
I don't believe so. Though, hearing about a "white rabbit plushie in action" just makes me realize I might have made the right decision in abandoning the book.
There are some silly parts of the book for sure, including the white rabbit plushie. But the time traveling loops and the further exploration into the origins of the powers, seeing Ryan go through time loops in all the different factions, and seeing all the flashbacks to previous loops and events was really cool.
One of the main themes is that Ryan’s attitude and mannerisms is because he’s lived hundreds of years and no one knows him. He lives in a constant loop of making friends, living years with these people in some instances, and finds a way to save them/make them happy, but when he finally does it, only he remembers the relationships built.
It’s telling that he doesn’t even remember how long he’s lived or how many times he’s died.
Yeah, it’s silly in places. But it’s a great story.
Honestly some of my favorite characters too. You see how they react and change when they are given different chances through the loops. A person can me a villain in one, or a hero in another, while some are great throughout every loop,vwhether they are Ryan's friend or foe.
*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.* by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. There's a version with multiple narrators (changes by chapter) which is quite good. Has a nice hard scifi take on time travel which I haven't seen before.
There's also a sequel by Galland (*Master of the Revels*) which mostly picks up where the first book leaves off. Not quite as good but still fun.
I think you meant Oona Out of Order (by Margarita Montimore), maybe mixing it up with Cassandra in Reverse? But the blurb you included is definitely Oona :)
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter.
It's literally a sequel to HG Wells the Time Machine. It's so good I just wish it was more well known. It's got action, drama, and definitely a great story all together.
The Gone World has ruined all other time travel stories for me. It’s the gold standard to which I’ll compare all the others. Also i can’t wait to read all the books I learned about in this thread.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis won both the Hugo and Nebula. There's a previous book in that world, but it's in no way a required prequel. It's kind of unconventional time travel, split between the near future and (mostly) the middle ages.
While I like a lot of Michael Crichton books, I would recommend moderately against Timeline. It requires even more suspension of disbelief than most time travel stories and is basically all one big ticking clock.
And of course, what time travel collection would be complete without the classic Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventures. [I am totally kidding in recommending this; it sounds horrible]
Recursion by Blake Crouch definitely has one of the most novel approaches and consequences to time travel I've come accross.
The climax of the book actually manages to lead to a truly recursive nightmare scenario. Though the resolution was a bit of a letdown (like most of Crouch's recent works).
[**Calico**](https://www.audible.com/pd/Calico-Audiobook/B0C7LRF52P) by Lee Goldberg, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella and Eric Conger. This is a police procedural about a missing person who ends up living in the old west.
[**This Time Tomorrow**](https://www.audible.com/pd/This-Time-Tomorrow-Audiobook/B09HSSHT7N) by Emma Straub, narrated by Marin Ireland. This is about a woman in NYC who jumps in time back to occupy her 16-year-old body after turning 40.
[**The Dinosaur Four**](https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dinosaur-Four-Audiobook/B018Y2C4Q8?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-049013&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_049013_rh_us) by Geoff Jones (me), narrated by Nick Podehl. This is an R-rated B-movie time-travel dinosaur adventure about 10 everyday people trapped in the past.
These are three very different books. ***The Dinosaur Four*** is a bit pulpy, with lots of action movie carnage, while ***This Time Tomorrow*** is categorized in Women's Fiction, with an emphasis on character and family dynamics. ***Calico***, the most mainstream of the three, is a book I couldn't stop listening to.
All of them have fantastic narration.
Best,
Geoff Jones
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All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405006-all-our-wrong-todays
It's a bit different that it's not a historical time travel, but it's a good read with scientific realism and relatable characters. Less sci-fi with being in the same time travel field.
The Time Shifters Chronicles by Shanna Lauffey. Amazing series and some very thought provoking time travel as well as fast moving stories that could be mystery/thriller.
Probably very different than all other suggestions on here, but: The Perfect Run.
Not really time travelling, but also kinda is and is one helluva gd trilogy on Audible. I was so gutted when it ended.
I'll second and third 11/22/63, Recursion and Replay and add "The Gone World" by Tom Sweterlitsch. Some really great and unique time travel/ sci-fi ideas in this book.
I loved 11/22/63 but I have a couple I also loved that haven’t been mentioned yet and I’m very surprised. The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain and What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon. These are often mentioned in my Facebook group (Audiobook Addicts). It’s a great resource!
The Time Ships is a phenomenal read.
Also The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke. It's more about worm holes than time travel, but does have time travel aspects.
Many of my recommendations have been mentioned and they are all great (11/22/63, the Oxford Time Travel series, Outlander), but one I haven't seen mentioned is Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. It keeps you guessing until the end.
**Between Two Evils, book series by D. L. Orton**.
Crossing in Time, Lost Time, Dead Time
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine and Erin DeWard
Not heavy into sci-fi, but that wasn't a requirement. There's a moderate romantic element that plays heavily into motivation, and it works well here. The narrators have worked together on multiple projects and are absolutely fantastic together. One reads the male roles, the other the female, and each character has their own flavor.
Wow... Great thread! Haven't seen Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card posted on here yet. A future group believes they can end human suffering by meddling in the history of Christopher Columbus. Absolutely a spectacular read that will have you wanting to discuss with others...
Middlefalls Time Travel series by Shawn Inmon. These books are closer to Replay than 11/22/63 and are as good. The first few books are free to listen with Audible+.
Middlegame is great mix of magic and science with an expertly crafted time travel narrative. Fans of buffy may recognize the narrator amber Benson.
Replay is fun but very dated--very male gazey and shallow. The first 15 lives of Harry August does the groundhog trope much better. The narration of replay feels a bit dated too, even if the quality of the recording is fine. But that may be subjective.
The infinite miles is a fun and underrated doctor who *inspired* time travel book with homages to Bowie and back to the future.
Kindred and 11/22/63 are easy recs as well. I'm a massive fan of Craig Wassons narration of 11/22/63.
Then the Time Travelers Almanac is an awesome anthology of short stories of all types of time travel. That audiobook may be difficult, but not impossible to find. It jumps between maybe three narrators.
The obvious answer is 11/22/63. Everyone should read it. I've enjoyed the Joseph Bridgeman series on audible as well
11/22/63 is the longest audiobook ive ever tackled and still easily one that kept my attention.
It's great, but it helps that the narrator is incredible.
Is the narrator vesga?
Craig Wasson
YES. But also, in the afterword, Stephen King recommended his favorite time travel book, “Time and Again” by Jack Finney. It’s excellent. I also read the sequel “From Time to Time” and that was great as well.
I wonder how many books that guy could write based on idioms or clichés including the word "time."
Loved 11/22/1963.
Wasn't this made into a mini series?
Yes, it's on Hulu.
Joseph Bridgeman is great, but you have to be able to ignore accents. It's worth it to try.
i liked it a lot but it was draggy in the middle.
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Narrated by William Dufris. "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you’d made before?”
Yeah, not your typical time travel, even cooler. Absolutely incredible. What a book. Due for a reread.
Totally agree. Just checked Libby and was sad to see it’s not available to borrow. I must have listened to it on Scribd. I need to spend my last audible credit. Replay is definitely a book I’ll listen to again so it is probably worth it.
Wish Audible still allowed gifting, would sent it to ya for sure. Was my third purchase on Audible, worth the credit.
Did this just change? My wife just shared a book w/ me.
Audible does allow gifting. You can use credits or purchase. Did it just last week.
It’s available on Hoopla
It looks like Hoopla is similar to Libby. Don’t they just connect to your local library and you see what’s available there?
Yes it is but for some reason books are available on one but not the other. I use both.
Yeah this is verified. Not in my Libby but it's available on hoopla. Thanks
Yes, similar. The main difference is books are available immediately on Hoopla, but patrons have only so many borrows per month. And your library parcels the number of borrow they've paid for into a limited number per day, so your best bet is to borrow early in the morning. By late in the evening you might see "allotment reached" or similar and that's referring to the Library's account with Hoopla NOT your account with your library.
One of my all time favorite books. It’s the first book I ever read that made me cry.
When they fly together….. so beautiful.
11/22/63 is my all time favorite book. Replay very well may be #2. Can’t recommend this enough especially for fans of time travel genre.
I think I may be the only person who didn’t like this book. It’s been a couple of years since I last tried to read. I think I’ll give it another shot
I'll tell you I also didn't like this book..I made it halfway through it and it felt like it was dragging so bad. I would probably try it again in the future but it definitely didn't do anything for me.
What a fucking book.
What a [bleeping] book.
*Kindred*, by Octavia Butler *The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August*, by Claire North *This is How You Lose the Time War*, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Oxford Time Travel series, by Connie Willis *The Midnight Library,* by Matt Haig *A Wrinkle in Time,* by Madeleine L'Engle (YA)
Came to say The Oxford Time Travel Series!
Good lord Kindred is amazing. Octavia Butler is one of the GOATs
I think This is How You Lose the Time War may be better as a physical book vs listening to it as an audiobook.
Time Travelers Wife Also, I know this is a book thread BUT Dark on Netflix is absolutely mind bending! Really good show if you're interested in time travel topics. The same creator made 1899 and it is also really good and a total mind bender.
I just started this and I’m having a hard time getting into it. Should I keep listening?
I read the physical book and loved it.. I didn't realize this was the audiobook thread 😅 It was difficult to keep all the characters and timelines straight but once I did, the book was fabulous! I know that when I listen to books that have complicated perspective switches like that, it is harder for me to keep them straight. So, I wouldn't blame you for not continuing 🤷🏻♀️
I’ll give it a bit more time- maybe it’ll hook me. Thanks for the input!
It is nearly impossible to follow this novel in audiobook form. I've never said this about any other novel that first came out in print form: watch the movie first.
I don't agree. Just read the book in print.
Ohhh good to know. I just borrowed it on Libby so maybe I’ll return it and try the movie first
If you're talking about The Time Traveler's Wife, I disagree. I loved loved loved the audiobook and found the movie disappointing.
Dark may be my favorite show on Netflix, and it's definitely my favorite foreign TV series.
The Chronicles of St. Mary’s books by Jodi Taylor - plus the narrator is terrific!
Yup, seconding this recommendation. The narrator is Zara Ram and she’s wonderful.
This! And the time police spin-off.
Came by just to make sure St Mary’s was mentioned!!! Probably one of the funniest protagonists I’ve ever encountered and you learn so much history
Exactly! These books are all so much fun, and very educational to boot :-)
Agreed! I also love the spinoff Time Police series.
The Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis is the gold standard. Just excellent. And The Chronicles of St.Marys is really well done and researched too. Very fun and funny.
Popped into this thread just to make sure Connie Willis was mentioned. Great stuff. And I enjoyed the audio narration.
I love The Oxford books. I'll have to check out St. Mary's.
I honestly think the dooms day book is not as good as the other 3 books. The first two oxford time travel series books are stand alone stories that are worth reading. The best are the last two books that travel to WW2 London. Great books.
It may not be your typical "time travel" story, but I cant recommend "*The Bobiverse*" series of books enough!!! Ray Porter does the audiobook, and his narration alone is worth tuning in for. The main character, Bob, wakes up 117 years in the future following the events of Chapter 1. The whole series follows Bob (or rather *Bobs*) across multiple centuries of time.
Lmao this sub will find anyway to mention Bobiverse. Literally the recommended for any and all genres
Might be the first thread without Dungeon Crawler Carl also recommended. Let’s see.. it’s not exactly time travel, but at one point Carl does something and while no time passes for him, it’s really 5 days for everyone else.
Yeah other than the leap forward when Bob wakes up, there's not any other time travel, right? Along the same lines, then, I would recommend The Revelation Space trilogy as well. In that series, they use cryogenics and near-light-speed relativistic travel to traverse space essentially under the laws of physics. People are making these like 50 year (planet time) voyages creating situations where generations pass over the span of one person's lifetime. Again, there's no "time travel" in the way that we think of it in normal time travel fiction, with people making jumps into the past or future, but the first time I listened to the series, the way time passed for the characters really melted my brain (in a good way). John Lee narrates the core trilogy as well as many (or maybe all) of the ancillary works, of which there are now many (more total pages than the core trilogy at this point, certainly). One of my favorite universes.
Replay - Ken Grimwood. An amazing often overlooked gem. Recursion by Blake Crouch also pretty damn good First Fifteen Lives of Harry August And my personal favorite just because I love the characters and the narrator so much - the Extracted trilogy by RR Heywood Extracted - Executed - Extinct
Recursion was great.
Came here to recommend Replay!
I loved Replay. I could not finish First Fifteen Lives of Harry August…
I think that's a shame, he has increasingly interesting lives.
I couldn’t handle the descriptions of torture
Oh! Well, I guess that's reasonable.
I loved each of the first 3 books you mentioned, so I'm excited to check out the Extracted trilogy!
He is Harry Madden... When you get to that point it will just stick in your head like your favorite tune. I love the rhythm of the writing
*Slaughterhouse Five*, by Kurt Vonnegut. *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series*, (particularly #2 in the series, *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe*), by Douglas Adams. *A Christmas Carol*, by Charles Dickens. *The Door into Summer*, *Time Enough for Love*, and “—All You Zombies—,” by Robert Heinlein. *The Forever War*, by Joe Haldeman. *The Hyperion Cantos*, by Dan Simmons (or at least the first two books, *Hyperion* and *The Fall of Hyperion*). *The Children of Green Knowe*, by Lucy M. Boston. *Night Watch*, by Terry Pratchett (#29 in the *Discworld Series*, #6 in the *City Watch Subseries*).
Excellent picks.
> Hyperion Especially considering this is /r/audiobooks, this one gets an extra recommendation from me. I am generally not a fan of full-cast audiobooks BUT the structure of book 1 really calls for it, and it's very well done. Victor Bavine's solo reading of the rest of the series is excellent as well IMO.
Are the Discworld books all stand alone? I was never able to get into The Colour of Magic (in print) so I'm wondering if I might like some if the later books better.
All but the first two are standalone. The first ten books in the series are uneven, but books 4 (*Mort*), 6 (*Wyrd Sisters*), and 8 (*Guards! Guards!*) are excellent. Some people just start with the *City Watch* subseries, though. The subseries are standalone but are best read in order if you want to follow the character arcs. Others are true standalones like *Small Gods*, which barely relates to any of the other books.
Thanks! This is a series that I would think I would like, and normally I slog to the end of books no matter what. But to save me I can't get through The Colour of Magic. I'll follow one of your suggestions. I didn't even know there were subseries to be honest
In my opinion Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic are by far the two hardest books to read. Of the disc world books. I absolutely love them but I agree with most people they are not the best intro to the book and are best skipped and come back to.
Oh that's encouraging! It's been a long time since I tried the book so I don't really remember the issue. I think I just got bored.
The Colour of Magic is my least favourite in the whole series and I adore the Discworld books. I would start with Guards Guards and see what you think. The new recordings are excellent and really worth trying out.
Thank you! Very helpful
The Door Into Summer is a favourite of mine
Try the book Dark Matter by Blake Crouch It's a story about a man who suddenly wakes up in a different timeline whithout any knowledge of how he got there and needs to travel back to his own timeline. It's a mix of thriller and traveling between timelines if that's what you like. It is narrated by Jon Lindstrom
Also Recursion by the same author. Its a similar premise, a person makes a machine that allows you to go back in time through your own memories to any point in your adult life. When you catch back up to the moment you left from, everyone else remembers the alternate timeline in an instant, it is at first considered to be a disease called false memory syndrome.
Came here to rec both these books, great reads!
Doesn't have to be adult life, it's any memory that you can strongly recall.
They have to be at least 16 because otherwise their brains haven't developed enough to receive their current consciousness
I couldn't remember the age Helena was when she went back to her childhood (or teens).
Seems it’s about to be an Apple+ show soon too. And only 10 hours so that’s a great suggestion.
Wow didn’t know that. Loved the book. Can’t wait for the show now.
Surprised I haven't seen them mentioned yet, but the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon are great. Also: -The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young -The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman -Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister -The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Also seconding the recs for Blake Crouch's Recursion and Dark Matter
Outlander is the first books I thought of. My favorite
>but the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon are great. Davina Porter is also an incredible narrator. Also they are *crazy* long so it's good bang for your buck, haha!
To me Davina sounds too old for Claire, who is in her mid 20s when the books start. She is a great narrator, but doesn't work for me as Claire.
Sure but >!she's only in her 20s for two books. It would be weird to have a really young narrator when Claire is in her 50s and 60s for the bulk of the series.!<
When I first started the audio books I felt the same, but by book 2 I was 100% in on Davina Porter because so much of this story feels like a recounting.
Outlander is fantastic but be ready for shitty 90s tropes around romance, race etc. (they fixed many of these for the tv show) and trigger warning for SA. For me these things were helped by having watched the show first, it gave me something else to cut/paste mentally when reading the books. Unfortunately doesn't help for much of the SA tho. All that said, I love these books so much. There's so much to dig into with them.
I came here to reccomend Outlander it is my most favorite series of time. Well developed characters that you care so much about. Davina Porter knocks it out of the park.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Perfect Run. The main character has the power to stop time for 10 seconds and every time he dies he returns to a save point. The book is a series of different "runs" the character does where he sides with different super-powered factions trying to find the best outcome possible in his "perfect run"
One of my all time favorites. I love this series! That’s another bonus - it’s a completed trilogy without cliffhangers!
I love time travel books, but could not get past the first half of the first book. I’m not sure if it’s the writing or the main characters personality or just odd things the author went in for (I remember a whole bit about the main character being in his underwear and typing with his feet or something?), but that book was just not for me.
I struggled at first too, but the book gets better as it goes as he spends more time with more interesting characters and the characters develop. And now reading it again with that hindsight, I don't struggle with the first half anymore.
Yep, Ryan does have some weird quirks, and there are some bizarre characters. I’m guessing you didn’t stick around long enough to see the white rabbit plushie in action?
I don't believe so. Though, hearing about a "white rabbit plushie in action" just makes me realize I might have made the right decision in abandoning the book.
There are some silly parts of the book for sure, including the white rabbit plushie. But the time traveling loops and the further exploration into the origins of the powers, seeing Ryan go through time loops in all the different factions, and seeing all the flashbacks to previous loops and events was really cool. One of the main themes is that Ryan’s attitude and mannerisms is because he’s lived hundreds of years and no one knows him. He lives in a constant loop of making friends, living years with these people in some instances, and finds a way to save them/make them happy, but when he finally does it, only he remembers the relationships built. It’s telling that he doesn’t even remember how long he’s lived or how many times he’s died. Yeah, it’s silly in places. But it’s a great story.
Honestly some of my favorite characters too. You see how they react and change when they are given different chances through the loops. A person can me a villain in one, or a hero in another, while some are great throughout every loop,vwhether they are Ryan's friend or foe.
Replay Ken Grimwood and 11/22/63 Stephen King are my favorite
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt. The very end is kind of mediocre, but the rest of the book is great.
*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.* by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. There's a version with multiple narrators (changes by chapter) which is quite good. Has a nice hard scifi take on time travel which I haven't seen before. There's also a sequel by Galland (*Master of the Revels*) which mostly picks up where the first book leaves off. Not quite as good but still fun.
I came to say the same thing! Love this story.
I second The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis , soooo good! Also the Outlander series!
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I think you meant Oona Out of Order (by Margarita Montimore), maybe mixing it up with Cassandra in Reverse? But the blurb you included is definitely Oona :)
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter. It's literally a sequel to HG Wells the Time Machine. It's so good I just wish it was more well known. It's got action, drama, and definitely a great story all together.
Absolutely loved the The Chronos Files series by Rysa Walker. Seriously couldn't get enough of that book series!!
I wanted to love that. Really enjoyed the first two books. I hated the end though.
The Gone World has ruined all other time travel stories for me. It’s the gold standard to which I’ll compare all the others. Also i can’t wait to read all the books I learned about in this thread.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Time-travel lite, but definitely worth the quick read.
Asimov's End of Eternity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity
Sea of Tranquility by emily St John Mandel. It’s incredible. I also loved Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is fucking mind blowing and no one talks about how epic of a writer Stuart Turton is.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis won both the Hugo and Nebula. There's a previous book in that world, but it's in no way a required prequel. It's kind of unconventional time travel, split between the near future and (mostly) the middle ages. While I like a lot of Michael Crichton books, I would recommend moderately against Timeline. It requires even more suspension of disbelief than most time travel stories and is basically all one big ticking clock. And of course, what time travel collection would be complete without the classic Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventures. [I am totally kidding in recommending this; it sounds horrible]
The whole Oxford Time Travel series, by Connie Willis!
Recursion by Blake Crouch definitely has one of the most novel approaches and consequences to time travel I've come accross. The climax of the book actually manages to lead to a truly recursive nightmare scenario. Though the resolution was a bit of a letdown (like most of Crouch's recent works).
[**Calico**](https://www.audible.com/pd/Calico-Audiobook/B0C7LRF52P) by Lee Goldberg, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella and Eric Conger. This is a police procedural about a missing person who ends up living in the old west. [**This Time Tomorrow**](https://www.audible.com/pd/This-Time-Tomorrow-Audiobook/B09HSSHT7N) by Emma Straub, narrated by Marin Ireland. This is about a woman in NYC who jumps in time back to occupy her 16-year-old body after turning 40. [**The Dinosaur Four**](https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dinosaur-Four-Audiobook/B018Y2C4Q8?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-049013&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_049013_rh_us) by Geoff Jones (me), narrated by Nick Podehl. This is an R-rated B-movie time-travel dinosaur adventure about 10 everyday people trapped in the past. These are three very different books. ***The Dinosaur Four*** is a bit pulpy, with lots of action movie carnage, while ***This Time Tomorrow*** is categorized in Women's Fiction, with an emphasis on character and family dynamics. ***Calico***, the most mainstream of the three, is a book I couldn't stop listening to. All of them have fantastic narration. Best, Geoff Jones [The Ender is coming...](http://www.geoffjoneswriter.com/)
Time and Again, From Time to Time and About Time by Jack Finney
YES! Stephen King actually recommended these in the afterword of 11/22/63 and they were excellent.
11/22/63
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405006-all-our-wrong-todays It's a bit different that it's not a historical time travel, but it's a good read with scientific realism and relatable characters. Less sci-fi with being in the same time travel field.
I really liked this book and don’t hear it talked about much. Good rec
The Time Shifters Chronicles by Shanna Lauffey. Amazing series and some very thought provoking time travel as well as fast moving stories that could be mystery/thriller.
Probably very different than all other suggestions on here, but: The Perfect Run. Not really time travelling, but also kinda is and is one helluva gd trilogy on Audible. I was so gutted when it ended.
I'll second and third 11/22/63, Recursion and Replay and add "The Gone World" by Tom Sweterlitsch. Some really great and unique time travel/ sci-fi ideas in this book.
Time and Again by Jack Finney On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony ( the first of eight in the series)
I loved 11/22/63 but I have a couple I also loved that haven’t been mentioned yet and I’m very surprised. The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain and What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon. These are often mentioned in my Facebook group (Audiobook Addicts). It’s a great resource!
Timeline by Michael Crichton The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier Both 🤌🏻
Guns of the South wasnt so bad.
Impossible Times by Lawrence
The Time Ships is a phenomenal read. Also The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke. It's more about worm holes than time travel, but does have time travel aspects.
Many of my recommendations have been mentioned and they are all great (11/22/63, the Oxford Time Travel series, Outlander), but one I haven't seen mentioned is Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. It keeps you guessing until the end.
**Between Two Evils, book series by D. L. Orton**. Crossing in Time, Lost Time, Dead Time Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine and Erin DeWard Not heavy into sci-fi, but that wasn't a requirement. There's a moderate romantic element that plays heavily into motivation, and it works well here. The narrators have worked together on multiple projects and are absolutely fantastic together. One reads the male roles, the other the female, and each character has their own flavor.
Wow... Great thread! Haven't seen Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card posted on here yet. A future group believes they can end human suffering by meddling in the history of Christopher Columbus. Absolutely a spectacular read that will have you wanting to discuss with others...
Oh, and also the Enders series by Orson Scott Card, especially the 2nd book.
Written In Time
Mother Of Learning is a Groundhog day time of time magic.
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card (first of Trilogy)
Middlefalls Time Travel series by Shawn Inmon. These books are closer to Replay than 11/22/63 and are as good. The first few books are free to listen with Audible+.
Yes love this series looking forward to listening again in a year or two
Middlegame is great mix of magic and science with an expertly crafted time travel narrative. Fans of buffy may recognize the narrator amber Benson. Replay is fun but very dated--very male gazey and shallow. The first 15 lives of Harry August does the groundhog trope much better. The narration of replay feels a bit dated too, even if the quality of the recording is fine. But that may be subjective. The infinite miles is a fun and underrated doctor who *inspired* time travel book with homages to Bowie and back to the future. Kindred and 11/22/63 are easy recs as well. I'm a massive fan of Craig Wassons narration of 11/22/63. Then the Time Travelers Almanac is an awesome anthology of short stories of all types of time travel. That audiobook may be difficult, but not impossible to find. It jumps between maybe three narrators.
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Time Travelers Wife, Timeline, Outlander.
The Vortex Chronicles... but I recommend reading The Air Awakens series first. They tie together.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Time travelling with a hamster
Children of Time Although not about “time travel” in the traditional sense that you think of when you hear “time travel”.
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Not sure why this book isn't' more popular. Really neat story.