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Science Fiction Time Travel Books

Books selected for readers looking for science fiction time travel books.

60 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·3 crossover shelves·199% reader overlap with Time Travel Story Structures

1. The Time Machine
H. G. Wells, making him an enduring figure in literary history.
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
2. The Time Traders
Andre Norton
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
3. The Day of the Boomer Dukes
Frederik Pohl
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
4. This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
5. The Creatures That Time Forgot
Ray Bradbury, Mike Vendetti
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Sci-Fi Adventure
6. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, George Weightman
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
7. A Matter of Time
Glen Cook
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
8. Key Out of Time
Andre Norton
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
9. The Goblin Reservation
Clifford D. D. Simak, Clifford D. Simak
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
10. A Traveler in Time
August Derleth
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
11. This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
Fits this list for its focus on time and travel.
Shelf signal: Multigenerational Family Stories
12. The Forest on the Edge of Time
Jasmin Kirkbride
Fits this list for its focus on time and travel.
Shelf signal: Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
13. Time Knot
M. C. Morison
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
14. Time and Again
Jack Finney
Fits this list for its focus on time and travel.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
15. The Shadow Out of Time
H.P. Lovecraft, Kevin Kenerly
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
16. The Six Fingers of Time
R.A. Lafferty
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
17. Big Time
Ben H. Winters
Fits this list for its focus on time.
Shelf signal: Sci-Fi Crime
18. The Old Die Rich
H.L. Gold
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
19. Lightbreakers
Aja Gabel
Fits this list for its focus on time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
20. The Man From Time
Frank Belknap Long
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
21. Weighing Shadows
Lisa Goldstein
Fits this list for its focus on time and travel.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
22. The Dream
H.G. Wells
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and time.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
23. The Tunnel Under the World
Frederik Pohl
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction
24. Pygmalion's Spectacles
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Fits this list for its focus on fiction and science.
Shelf signal: Time Travel Fiction