Time travel recommendations

[ArriettyMatilda]

I've recently read Time and Time Again by Ben Elton and liked the concept of trying to change the course of the future. I also enjoyed the Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Marcher by Chris Beckett. I did enjoy some of the Dr Who books but I'm less interested in reading about aliens. Does anyone have any recommendations for fiction books about time travel?

[piebald]

Kindred by Octavia E Butler
www.amazon.co.uk/Kindred-Octavia-Butler/dp/1472214811?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21
I think it is an extraordinary book,I
have read it several times and proabably will again.

[TeradelFuego]

Just to point out that the book mentioned above by HonniBee, Cherry Picking by Tim Heath, is currently free on Kindle.

[ArriettyMatilda]

I managed to borrow A Traveller in Time and Look Who's Back from my local library. I've also reserved the first Jodi Taylor, the First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and To Say Nothing of the Dog. I hope to get stuck in on an upcoming holiday. Thank you for all the recommendations, hope others have discovered new books and I will be dipping back into the thread when I've run out of books to read that will never happen

[carelesswhisper27]

ArriettyMatilda - thanks for the mention of Time and Time again. Devoured it in 2 days - loved it!

[JamieFraserskneewarmer]

Love both Jodi Taylor and Connie Willis - great to see some more St Mary's fans on here! (had begun to think I was all alone).

For alternate realities have you tried Jasper Fforde? His Thursday Next series are set in a parallel earth where England is a republic and the lines between reality and literature are flexible. Very funny and I think they are brilliant.

The Man in the High Castle and Fatherland are great reads based on the world if the outcome of the second world war had been different.

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

Susan Price - The Sterkarm Handshake and A Sterkarm Kiss.

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

Lauren Oliver Before I Fall. ( sort of a teenage girl version of Life after Life)

[NeverbuytheDailyMail]

If you have kids and what to extend the genre to the whole family read them Time Travelling With a Hamster by Ross Welford.

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

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Daphne du Maurice The House on the Strand.

[BestIsWest]

The Bone Clocks? There is a sort of time travel or rather immortality in that.

[Butterflycakes2016]

I have not read it yet, but I do intend to read The Accidental Time Traveller by Sharon Griffiths.

[FellOutOfBed2wice]

Place marking! Love time travel stuff.

[TenarGriffiths]

Up the Line by Robert Silverberg is about a man who gets a job leading tourist groups on trips to the past.

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock is about a man who travels back in time to see Jesus' crucifixion.

The Rose Garden by Susannah Kearsley is set in Cornwall and is a romantic story about a woman who slips between the present day and smuggling times.

[TaraCarter]

RemusLupin if you don't object to children's books, Charlotte Sometimes and Goodnight Mr Tom are both lovely.

I think you might mean Tom's Midnight Garden, but I can see how that mistake happened.

[pippinandtog]

The Doorkeepers, by Graham Masterton.
Timeline, by Michael Crichton.
Off now to do an Amazon order following some of the suggestions from this thread.

[SoupDragon]

I have added some to my wish list and onto my kindle for my holiday :)

I love these threads!

[moonlight1705]

I just came on here to suggest both Outlander and Jodi Taylor for this topic.

Also, if you used to like science fiction but wanted a slightly different world, have you ever tried Trudy Canavan's Black Magician series.....I love her writing!

[SoupDragon]

I've just discovered one on my Kindle : The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway.

[bruffin]

Is Outlander biok as bad as the series. The last two episodes were horrible.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Yes - Tom's Midnight Garden is indeed the one I meant! Lovely book.

[RustyBear]

Harry Harrison's The Technicolour Time Machine is a very funny story of a film director who uses a time machine to go back in time to make a historical film and ends up making history...

Also two by Barrington J Bayley, Colloson with Chronos (aka Collision Course) and The Fall of Chronopolis

Several of John Wyndham's short stories have a time element, such as Random Quest, Chronoclasm, Pawley's Peepholes, Odd and Stitch in time. In the collections Consider her Ways & Seeds of Time

[Butterflycakes2016]

I have just finished The Accidental Time Traveller. I really liked it. I came to have a look back at this thread, to find something similar for my next read.

[reader77]

A Knight in Shining Armour - Jude Deveraux

[NamelessEnsign]

Not quite time travel but Ferney and The Lives She Left Behind by James Long are about linked souls being reincarnated (not in a religious sense) throughout the centuries in England. They're quite compelling reads.

Nothing compares to Life After Life and A God in Ruins for me though. I'm rereading the former having just finished the latter and I bloody love them.

[CoteDAzur]

Martian Time-Slip by Philip K Dick is brilliant and wonderfully brainhurty.

Some of the books mentioned on this thread have nothing to do with time travel