Time Travel

Time bends and warps in these stories of love, destiny, and historical turning points, where characters slip between centuries as easily as walking through a door. Whether exploring the science behind temporal paradoxes or following passionate adventures across different eras, these books challenge our understanding of fate, free will, and the fluid nature of time itself.

Time Travel Book Summaries

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel • 2022

A violin echoes across centuries, linking an exiled nobleman, a moon author, and a time detective.

4.05

300k+

💫 Literary Science Fiction 🔗 Interconnected Lives ⏳ Time Travel Anomaly 🔍 Temporal Investigation 🦠 Pandemic Backdrop

Sea of Tranquility

A violin echoes across centuries, linking an exiled nobleman, a moon author, and a time detective.

by Emily St. John Mandel 2022 259 pages

4.05

300k+ ratings

💫 Literary Science Fiction 🔗 Interconnected Lives ⏳ Time Travel Anomaly 🔍 Temporal Investigation 🦠 Pandemic Backdrop

The Traveler's Gift

by Andy Andrews • 2005

A broke father wakes in different eras to learn the principles that built great lives.

4.08

20k+

📖 Self-Help Fiction ⏳ Time Travel Parable 👴 Wise Mentors 🕰️ Historical Encounters 🎯 Personal Accountability

The Traveler's Gift

A broke father wakes in different eras to learn the principles that built great lives.

by Andy Andrews 2005 227 pages

4.08

20k+ ratings

📖 Self-Help Fiction ⏳ Time Travel Parable 👴 Wise Mentors 🕰️ Historical Encounters 🎯 Personal Accountability

Time Travel in Einstein's Universe

by J. Richard Gott III • 2001

Einstein's two routes to time travel, and why no one from the future has shown up.

4.07

2k+

🔬 Relativity Theory 🌀 Spacetime Physics ⏳ Time Dilation 🕳️ Wormholes And Strings ⏩ Arrow Of Time

Time Travel in Einstein's Universe

Einstein's two routes to time travel, and why no one from the future has shown up.

by J. Richard Gott III 2001 304 pages

4.07

2k+ ratings

🔬 Relativity Theory 🌀 Spacetime Physics ⏳ Time Dilation 🕳️ Wormholes And Strings ⏩ Arrow Of Time

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

by Brandon Sanderson • 2023

He wakes in medieval England with amnesia, a pen, and a discount interdimensional travel guide.

3.76

75k+

🚪 Portal Fantasy 🤔 Amnesiac Protagonist 🌌 Dimensional Travel 🎭 Comic Fantasy 🪓 Vikings

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

He wakes in medieval England with amnesia, a pen, and a discount interdimensional travel guide.

by Brandon Sanderson 2023 399 pages

3.76

75k+ ratings

🚪 Portal Fantasy 🤔 Amnesiac Protagonist 🌌 Dimensional Travel 🎭 Comic Fantasy 🪓 Vikings

This Time Tomorrow

by Emma Straub • 2022

Alice turns 40 and wakes in 1996, a teenager again, with her father alive and vibrant.

3.80

100k+

🖤 Father-Daughter Bond 🕰️ Time Travel To Youth 😢 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🧓 Aging Parent 🎂 Midlife Reflection

This Time Tomorrow

Alice turns 40 and wakes in 1996, a teenager again, with her father alive and vibrant.

by Emma Straub 2022 310 pages

3.80

100k+ ratings

🖤 Father-Daughter Bond 🕰️ Time Travel To Youth 😢 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🧓 Aging Parent 🎂 Midlife Reflection

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

by Diana Gabaldon • 2014

A surgeon and her Highlander husband reunite as the Revolutionary War descends on Philadelphia.

4.55

100k+

🕰️ Time Travel Romance ⚔️ American Revolution 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Secret Parentage 💣 Wartime Saga

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

A surgeon and her Highlander husband reunite as the Revolutionary War descends on Philadelphia.

by Diana Gabaldon 2014 825 pages

4.55

100k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Romance ⚔️ American Revolution 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Secret Parentage 💣 Wartime Saga

Shadow of Night

by Deborah Harkness • 2012

A witch and her vampire husband flee to 1590 England, where their marriage is a death sentence.

4.08

200k+

🕰️ Time-Travel Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Elizabethan England 🧙 Magical Mentorship 🫂 Found Family

Shadow of Night

A witch and her vampire husband flee to 1590 England, where their marriage is a death sentence.

by Deborah Harkness 2012 584 pages

4.08

200k+ ratings

🕰️ Time-Travel Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Elizabethan England 🧙 Magical Mentorship 🫂 Found Family

Redshirts

by John Scalzi • 2012

Ensigns die like TV extras on his starship. One recruit travels to 2012 to confront the writers.

3.87

100k+

🛸 Meta Science Fiction 🖖 Star Trek Parody 🪟 Fourth Wall Breaking 💀 Expendable Crew 👥 Found Family

Redshirts

Ensigns die like TV extras on his starship. One recruit travels to 2012 to confront the writers.

by John Scalzi 2012 320 pages

3.87

100k+ ratings

🛸 Meta Science Fiction 🖖 Star Trek Parody 🪟 Fourth Wall Breaking 💀 Expendable Crew 👥 Found Family

And Then She Vanished

by Nick Jones • 2021

His touch reads object histories. Hypnosis sends him back, to the night his sister vanished.

3.97

9k+

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Bittersweet Resolution 🏘️ Small Town England

And Then She Vanished

His touch reads object histories. Hypnosis sends him back, to the night his sister vanished.

by Nick Jones 2021 246 pages

3.97

9k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Bittersweet Resolution 🏘️ Small Town England

Split Second

by Douglas E. Richards • 2015

A time travel breakthrough costs a physicist his life, and his fiancée must run for hers.

3.97

27k+

🧬 Physics Thriller ⏳ Time Travel Paradox 🕵️ Sci-Fi Conspiracy 🎯 Scientist Hunted 👥 Duplicate Identity

Split Second

A time travel breakthrough costs a physicist his life, and his fiancée must run for hers.

by Douglas E. Richards 2015 365 pages

3.97

27k+ ratings

🧬 Physics Thriller ⏳ Time Travel Paradox 🕵️ Sci-Fi Conspiracy 🎯 Scientist Hunted 👥 Duplicate Identity

No Rest for the Wicked

by Kresley Cole • 2006

A Valkyrie assassin meets a vampire begging for death, and his dead heart beats for her.

4.25

62k+

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates 💔 Forbidden Love ⚔️ Warrior Heroine 🏆 Paranormal Competition

No Rest for the Wicked

A Valkyrie assassin meets a vampire begging for death, and his dead heart beats for her.

by Kresley Cole 2006 356 pages

4.25

62k+ ratings

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates 💔 Forbidden Love ⚔️ Warrior Heroine 🏆 Paranormal Competition

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain • 2007

Waking in Camelot, a factory boss fakes magic with science and schemes to industrialize the kingdom.

3.78

100k+

🏰 Arthurian Britain ⏰ Man Out Of Time 🔧 Technology As Magic 🎭 Dark Comedy 💔 Doomed Revolution

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Waking in Camelot, a factory boss fakes magic with science and schemes to industrialize the kingdom.

by Mark Twain 2007 480 pages

3.78

100k+ ratings

🏰 Arthurian Britain ⏰ Man Out Of Time 🔧 Technology As Magic 🎭 Dark Comedy 💔 Doomed Revolution

Counter-Clock World

by Philip K. Dick • 1967

When time flows backward, a resurrectionist revives a prophet and fights the book-erasing Library.

3.55

5k+

⏳ Reversed Time 🧟 Resurrection Business 📚 Knowledge Suppression ✝️ Messianic Return 🌀 Reality Breakdown

Counter-Clock World

When time flows backward, a resurrectionist revives a prophet and fights the book-erasing Library.

by Philip K. Dick 1967 218 pages

3.55

5k+ ratings

⏳ Reversed Time 🧟 Resurrection Business 📚 Knowledge Suppression ✝️ Messianic Return 🌀 Reality Breakdown

What the Wind Knows

by Amy Harmon • 2019

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

4.36

100k+

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

What the Wind Knows

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

by Amy Harmon 2019 418 pages

4.36

100k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Peripheral

by William Gibson • 2014

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

3.89

33k+

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder 🤖 Remote Body 🛸 Drone Surveillance

The Peripheral

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

by William Gibson 2014 485 pages

3.89

33k+ ratings

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder 🤖 Remote Body 🛸 Drone Surveillance

The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver

by Shawn Inmon • 2015

A failed suicide sends Thomas Weaver to 1976, his dead brother alive, a killer in algebra.

4.18

3k+

🕰️ Time Travel Redemption 🌲 Small Town Darkness 💙 Sibling Devotion 🔄 Reliving Youth 📻 1970s Nostalgia

The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver

A failed suicide sends Thomas Weaver to 1976, his dead brother alive, a killer in algebra.

by Shawn Inmon 2015 320 pages

4.18

3k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Redemption 🌲 Small Town Darkness 💙 Sibling Devotion 🔄 Reliving Youth 📻 1970s Nostalgia

The Lost Colony

by Eoin Colfer • 2006

A teenage genius hunts time-displaced demons, but a rival prodigy reaches their island first.

4.01

100k+

🌟 Rival Child Geniuses 🔐 Heist Mission ⏳ Time Displacement 🧚 Fairy Underworld 👹 Demon Realm

The Lost Colony

A teenage genius hunts time-displaced demons, but a rival prodigy reaches their island first.

by Eoin Colfer 2006 385 pages

4.01

100k+ ratings

🌟 Rival Child Geniuses 🔐 Heist Mission ⏳ Time Displacement 🧚 Fairy Underworld 👹 Demon Realm

Sent

by Margaret Peterson Haddix • 2009

Three kids crash into the 15th century, and one is a doomed prince history recorded as dead.

3.94

18k+

⏳ Time Travel Adventure 👑 Princes In The Tower 🌹 Wars Of The Roses 🤴 Hidden Royalty 👫 Sibling Loyalty

Sent

Three kids crash into the 15th century, and one is a doomed prince history recorded as dead.

by Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009 320 pages

3.94

18k+ ratings

⏳ Time Travel Adventure 👑 Princes In The Tower 🌹 Wars Of The Roses 🤴 Hidden Royalty 👫 Sibling Loyalty

How to Build a Time Machine

by Paul C.W. Davies • 2001

Forward time travel is real. Going back needs wormholes, exotic matter, and a loophole in causality.

3.82

1k+

⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🕰️ Relativity And Spacetime ⏳ Physics Of Time 🌌 Quantum Reality 🚀 Speculative Physics

How to Build a Time Machine

Forward time travel is real. Going back needs wormholes, exotic matter, and a loophole in causality.

by Paul C.W. Davies 2001 144 pages

3.82

1k+ ratings

⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🕰️ Relativity And Spacetime ⏳ Physics Of Time 🌌 Quantum Reality 🚀 Speculative Physics

The Psychology of Time Travel

by Kate Mascarenhas • 2018

An archaeology student finds a body in a locked basement, killed by bullets fired through time.

3.70

15k+

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🧠 Psychological Sci-Fi 💕 Sapphic Romance 🔗 Generational Trauma 🏛️ Toxic Institution

The Psychology of Time Travel

An archaeology student finds a body in a locked basement, killed by bullets fired through time.

by Kate Mascarenhas 2018 336 pages

3.70

15k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🧠 Psychological Sci-Fi 💕 Sapphic Romance 🔗 Generational Trauma 🏛️ Toxic Institution

The Urth of the New Sun

by Gene Wolfe • 1987

A torturer-turned-king sails a starship beyond the universe to be judged by the makers of suns.

4.06

9k+

🪐 Dying Earth 🔮 Science Fantasy 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator ⚖️ Cosmic Judgment ✝️ Messianic Figure

The Urth of the New Sun

A torturer-turned-king sails a starship beyond the universe to be judged by the makers of suns.

by Gene Wolfe 1987 372 pages

4.06

9k+ ratings

🪐 Dying Earth 🔮 Science Fantasy 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator ⚖️ Cosmic Judgment ✝️ Messianic Figure

Voyager

by Diana Gabaldon • 1993

Twenty years after leaving him for dead, a doctor steps through time to reclaim her Highlander.

4.39

300k+

🕰️ Time Travel Romance 💞 Second Chance Romance 🏔️ Scottish Highlands ⛵ High Seas Adventure ⚔️ Jacobite Rebellion

Voyager

Twenty years after leaving him for dead, a doctor steps through time to reclaim her Highlander.

by Diana Gabaldon 1993 870 pages

4.39

300k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Romance 💞 Second Chance Romance 🏔️ Scottish Highlands ⛵ High Seas Adventure ⚔️ Jacobite Rebellion

The Fiery Cross

by Diana Gabaldon • 2001

On the Carolina frontier, a governor's decree forces a Highland time-crossed family to take up arms.

4.26

200k+

🌲 Colonial America 🕰️ Time Travel Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga ⚔️ Revolutionary War 🏡 Found Family

The Fiery Cross

On the Carolina frontier, a governor's decree forces a Highland time-crossed family to take up arms.

by Diana Gabaldon 2001 1443 pages

4.26

200k+ ratings

🌲 Colonial America 🕰️ Time Travel Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga ⚔️ Revolutionary War 🏡 Found Family

Hollow City

by Ransom Riggs • 2014

To save their poisoned guardian, hunted teens must cross a Britain of monsters and falling bombs.

4.07

200k+

🪖 WWII Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🚪 Hidden World 😰 Reluctant Hero 🔪 Ally Betrayal

Hollow City

To save their poisoned guardian, hunted teens must cross a Britain of monsters and falling bombs.

by Ransom Riggs 2014 412 pages

4.07

200k+ ratings

🪖 WWII Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🚪 Hidden World 😰 Reluctant Hero 🔪 Ally Betrayal

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

by Diana Gabaldon • 2005

Abducted by a brutal gang, a colonial healer must fight a murder charge as revolution erupts.

4.44

100k+

🕰️ Time Travel Romance ⚔️ Revolutionary War 🏡 Frontier Settlement 🩺 Healer Protagonist 💔 Trauma Recovery

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Abducted by a brutal gang, a colonial healer must fight a murder charge as revolution erupts.

by Diana Gabaldon 2005 1008 pages

4.44

100k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Romance ⚔️ Revolutionary War 🏡 Frontier Settlement 🩺 Healer Protagonist 💔 Trauma Recovery

Pebble in the Sky

by Isaac Asimov • 1950

A 1949 tailor hurled into the far future gains telepathy and must stop a galactic genocide.

3.90

27k+

🚀 Golden Age Sci-Fi 🌌 Galactic Empire 🧠 Reluctant Telepath ⏳ Man Out Of Time 💫 Interstellar Romance

Pebble in the Sky

A 1949 tailor hurled into the far future gains telepathy and must stop a galactic genocide.

by Isaac Asimov 1950 308 pages

3.90

27k+ ratings

🚀 Golden Age Sci-Fi 🌌 Galactic Empire 🧠 Reluctant Telepath ⏳ Man Out Of Time 💫 Interstellar Romance

Dragonfly in Amber

by Diana Gabaldon • 1992

Her mother's secret: she loved an 18th-century Highlander after traveling through time.

4.34

300k+

⏳ Time Travel Romance 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers ⚔️ Jacobite Rebellion 👑 French Court Intrigue 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highland Clan Life

Dragonfly in Amber

Her mother's secret: she loved an 18th-century Highlander after traveling through time.

by Diana Gabaldon 1992 947 pages

4.34

300k+ ratings

⏳ Time Travel Romance 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers ⚔️ Jacobite Rebellion 👑 French Court Intrigue 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highland Clan Life

Drums of Autumn

by Diana Gabaldon • 1996

Land in the colonies gives the Frasers hope, until the pirate they saved demands his price.

4.36

200k+

🗺️ Colonial America ⏳ Time Travel Romance 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🫂 Found Family 🕰️ Across Centuries

Drums of Autumn

Land in the colonies gives the Frasers hope, until the pirate they saved demands his price.

by Diana Gabaldon 1996 928 pages

4.36

200k+ ratings

🗺️ Colonial America ⏳ Time Travel Romance 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🫂 Found Family 🕰️ Across Centuries

An Ancient Witch's Guide to Modern Dating

by Cecilia Edward • 2025

Flung from 1690 to today, a lonely witch navigates dating apps and the quiet veterinarian next door.

3.65

5k+

🧹 Cozy Witch Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🐱 Animal Familiar 💔 Dating App Disasters ⚡ Opposites Attract

An Ancient Witch's Guide to Modern Dating

Flung from 1690 to today, a lonely witch navigates dating apps and the quiet veterinarian next door.

by Cecilia Edward 2025 320 pages

3.65

5k+ ratings

🧹 Cozy Witch Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🐱 Animal Familiar 💔 Dating App Disasters ⚡ Opposites Attract

Never a Hero

by Vanessa Len • 2023

She remembers the shattered timeline. The boy she loved does not. Now it breaks again.

4.02

9k+

🖤 Forgotten Love 🗡️ Morally Gray Heroine 👥 Sister Betrayal 💔 Tragic Romance 👹 Hidden Monsters

Never a Hero

She remembers the shattered timeline. The boy she loved does not. Now it breaks again.

by Vanessa Len 2023 528 pages

4.02

9k+ ratings

🖤 Forgotten Love 🗡️ Morally Gray Heroine 👥 Sister Betrayal 💔 Tragic Romance 👹 Hidden Monsters

The Shadows of London

by Nick Jones • 2021

A time traveler must prevent a 1963 London murder, or the sister he rescued will be erased.

4.07

4k+

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🇬🇧 1960s London 🔄 Altered Timeline 🕴️ Gangster Noir ⏳ Reluctant Time Traveler

The Shadows of London

A time traveler must prevent a 1963 London murder, or the sister he rescued will be erased.

by Nick Jones 2021 350 pages

4.07

4k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🇬🇧 1960s London 🔄 Altered Timeline 🕴️ Gangster Noir ⏳ Reluctant Time Traveler

Sherlock Holmes and the Needle's Eye

by Len Bailey • 2013

A time-bending contraption sends Holmes and Watson into the Bible to solve its deepest mysteries.

3.59

253

🕵️ Holmesian Pastiche 📜 Biblical Mystery ⏳ Time Travel Investigation 🤔 Skeptic And Believer ⚖️ Faith And Reason

Sherlock Holmes and the Needle's Eye

A time-bending contraption sends Holmes and Watson into the Bible to solve its deepest mysteries.

by Len Bailey 2013 336 pages

3.59

253 ratings

🕵️ Holmesian Pastiche 📜 Biblical Mystery ⏳ Time Travel Investigation 🤔 Skeptic And Believer ⚖️ Faith And Reason

Tempest

by Julie Cross • 2011

Time jumps never changed anything, until a bullet threw a teen two years into the past.

3.70

13k+

🕰️ Time Travel Romance 🕵️ Teen Spy 🧬 Genetic Abilities 🔬 Government Experiments 🔀 Alternate Timelines

Tempest

Time jumps never changed anything, until a bullet threw a teen two years into the past.

by Julie Cross 2011 413 pages

3.70

13k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Romance 🕵️ Teen Spy 🧬 Genetic Abilities 🔬 Government Experiments 🔀 Alternate Timelines

Departure 37

by Scott Carson • 2025

Voices of the dead warn every pilot. Then a B-52 missing since 1962 lands.

3.82

2k+

🕰️ Time Travel Thriller 🥶 Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Government Cover-Up 👻 Voices Of The Dead 🏚️ Small Town Secrets

Departure 37

Voices of the dead warn every pilot. Then a B-52 missing since 1962 lands.

by Scott Carson 2025 389 pages

3.82

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Thriller 🥶 Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Government Cover-Up 👻 Voices Of The Dead 🏚️ Small Town Secrets

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North • 2014

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

4.03

100k+

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Rival Immortals

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

by Claire North 2014 417 pages

4.03

100k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Rival Immortals

Only a Monster

by Vanessa Len • 2022

She steals time from the living. The boy she loves kills her kind.

3.86

32k+

🕰️ Time Travel Fantasy 🌃 Dark Urban Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Forbidden Love 🎭 Hidden Identity

Only a Monster

She steals time from the living. The boy she loves kills her kind.

by Vanessa Len 2022 416 pages

3.86

32k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Fantasy 🌃 Dark Urban Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Forbidden Love 🎭 Hidden Identity

Lightbringer

by Claire Legrand • 2020

An angel ensnared a queen. Her daughter, born a thousand years later, must finish the war.

3.96

16k+

🕰️ Dual Timelines 🔥 Elemental Magic 😇 Angelic Villains ⚡ Corrupting Magic 🌑 Dark Prophecy

Lightbringer

An angel ensnared a queen. Her daughter, born a thousand years later, must finish the war.

by Claire Legrand 2020 592 pages

3.96

16k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timelines 🔥 Elemental Magic 😇 Angelic Villains ⚡ Corrupting Magic 🌑 Dark Prophecy

The Desolations of Devil's Acre

by Ransom Riggs • 2021

When time loops shatter, a resurrected tyrant rises. Only a girl with stolen light can end him.

4.22

25k+

🏁 Series Finale 🫂 Found Family 🔮 Prophecy Chosen Ones 👹 Resurrected Tyrant 🐺 Becoming The Monster

The Desolations of Devil's Acre

When time loops shatter, a resurrected tyrant rises. Only a girl with stolen light can end him.

by Ransom Riggs 2021 528 pages

4.22

25k+ ratings

🏁 Series Finale 🫂 Found Family 🔮 Prophecy Chosen Ones 👹 Resurrected Tyrant 🐺 Becoming The Monster

Twilight

by Meg Cabot • 2005

A ghost-seeing teen loves a spirit. Saving him via time travel may cost her their love.

4.24

43k+

👻 Paranormal Ghost Romance 🏫 High School Paranormal 💔 Forbidden Supernatural Love 👀 Girl Who Sees Ghosts ⏳ Time Travel Romance

Twilight

A ghost-seeing teen loves a spirit. Saving him via time travel may cost her their love.

by Meg Cabot 2005 312 pages

4.24

43k+ ratings

👻 Paranormal Ghost Romance 🏫 High School Paranormal 💔 Forbidden Supernatural Love 👀 Girl Who Sees Ghosts ⏳ Time Travel Romance

A Thousand Pieces of You

by Claudia Gray • 2014

Her father's killer escaped into another dimension. She followed and fell in love with him.

3.89

62k+

🌌 Dimension Hopping 💞 Multiverse Romance 🪞 Alternate Selves 🔺 Love Triangle 🚫 Forbidden Romance

A Thousand Pieces of You

Her father's killer escaped into another dimension. She followed and fell in love with him.

by Claudia Gray 2014 368 pages

3.89

62k+ ratings

🌌 Dimension Hopping 💞 Multiverse Romance 🪞 Alternate Selves 🔺 Love Triangle 🚫 Forbidden Romance

Version Control

by Dexter Palmer • 2016

Her son is dead. The world feels wrong. Her husband's time machine rewrites reality without trace.

3.72

8k+

⏳ Literary Time Travel 🖤 Grieving Parents 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🔁 Timeline Overwriting 📡 Technology And Alienation

Version Control

Her son is dead. The world feels wrong. Her husband's time machine rewrites reality without trace.

by Dexter Palmer 2016 495 pages

3.72

8k+ ratings

⏳ Literary Time Travel 🖤 Grieving Parents 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🔁 Timeline Overwriting 📡 Technology And Alienation

Aurora's End

by Amie Kaufman • 2021

Scattered across time, a squad outruns a collapsing loop to stop an enemy devouring the galaxy.

4.20

26k+

🫂 Found Family ⏰ Time Loop ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🌌 Star-Crossed Romance 🕯️ Self-Sacrifice

Aurora's End

Scattered across time, a squad outruns a collapsing loop to stop an enemy devouring the galaxy.

by Amie Kaufman 2021 496 pages

4.20

26k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family ⏰ Time Loop ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🌌 Star-Crossed Romance 🕯️ Self-Sacrifice

The Redemption of Michael Hollister

by Shawn Inmon • 2017

A convict's suicide returns him to his childhood with the chance to escape his violent fate.

4.39

2k+

🔁 Second Chance Life ⏳ Time Travel Redemption 👻 Afterlife Guide 💔 Abusive Father 🎖️ Military Academy

The Redemption of Michael Hollister

A convict's suicide returns him to his childhood with the chance to escape his violent fate.

by Shawn Inmon 2017 234 pages

4.39

2k+ ratings

🔁 Second Chance Life ⏳ Time Travel Redemption 👻 Afterlife Guide 💔 Abusive Father 🎖️ Military Academy

The Once and Future Me

by Melissa Pace • 2025

She wakes in a 1954 asylum with no past and a future she cannot remember.

3.55

3k+

🕰️ Time Travel Trauma 🏥 Psychiatric Horror 🏚️ Midcentury Asylum 🧩 Fractured Identity 💍 Gaslighting Husband

The Once and Future Me

She wakes in a 1954 asylum with no past and a future she cannot remember.

by Melissa Pace 2025 384 pages

3.55

3k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Trauma 🏥 Psychiatric Horror 🏚️ Midcentury Asylum 🧩 Fractured Identity 💍 Gaslighting Husband

Fallen in Love

by Lauren Kate • 2012

Lost in medieval England on Valentine's Day, four hearts chase a love that may destroy them.

3.75

49k+

🕊️ Angel Romance 🏰 Medieval England 💕 Friends To Lovers 🌟 Star-Crossed Lovers 💔 Sacrifice For Love

Fallen in Love

Lost in medieval England on Valentine's Day, four hearts chase a love that may destroy them.

by Lauren Kate 2012 201 pages

3.75

49k+ ratings

🕊️ Angel Romance 🏰 Medieval England 💕 Friends To Lovers 🌟 Star-Crossed Lovers 💔 Sacrifice For Love

Draekora

by Lynette Noni • 2017

A wounded dragon hurls a teen into the past, where the future tyrant is still a prince.

4.55

9k+

⏳ Time Travel Fantasy 🐉 Dragon Bond 🖤 Villain Origin 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Masquerade Ball

Draekora

A wounded dragon hurls a teen into the past, where the future tyrant is still a prince.

by Lynette Noni 2017 404 pages

4.55

9k+ ratings

⏳ Time Travel Fantasy 🐉 Dragon Bond 🖤 Villain Origin 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Masquerade Ball

The Library of Ever

by Zeno Alexander • 2019

A bored girl finds a door into a magical library, where protecting books means fighting the dark.

3.77

2k+

🏛️ Magical Library 🚪 Portal Fantasy 📚 Librarian Hero 🤝 Unlikely Allies 🐋 Talking Animals

The Library of Ever

A bored girl finds a door into a magical library, where protecting books means fighting the dark.

by Zeno Alexander 2019 197 pages

3.77

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Magical Library 🚪 Portal Fantasy 📚 Librarian Hero 🤝 Unlikely Allies 🐋 Talking Animals

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

by Gabaldon and Diana • 2021

Time-crossed lovers and their kin defend a ridge-top home as the Revolution and treachery close in.

4.45

94k+

🗽 American Revolution 🏠 Family Saga ⏳ Time-Crossed Lovers 🪓 Frontier Life 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Time-crossed lovers and their kin defend a ridge-top home as the Revolution and treachery close in.

by Gabaldon and Diana 2021 928 pages

4.45

94k+ ratings

🗽 American Revolution 🏠 Family Saga ⏳ Time-Crossed Lovers 🪓 Frontier Life 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Mushoku Tensei

by Rifujin na Magonote • 2017

His friend from Earth is dying, and the only remedy grows in an immortal demon king's fortress.

4.52

2k+

🌀 Isekai Reincarnation 💕 Harem Dynamics 🏠 Found Family ⏳ Cursed Immortal 👑 Demon Lord Politics

Mushoku Tensei

His friend from Earth is dying, and the only remedy grows in an immortal demon king's fortress.

by Rifujin na Magonote 2017 255 pages

4.52

2k+ ratings

🌀 Isekai Reincarnation 💕 Harem Dynamics 🏠 Found Family ⏳ Cursed Immortal 👑 Demon Lord Politics

The Time Ships

by Stephen Baxter • 1995

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

3.95

6k+

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War 🌍 Post-Human Earth 💔 Guilt And Atonement

The Time Ships

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

by Stephen Baxter 1995 520 pages

3.95

6k+ ratings

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War 🌍 Post-Human Earth 💔 Guilt And Atonement

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