Time Travel Books

Time Travel and Timeslip books I've reviewed, sorted by time period 

A regular feature here at my blog is "Timeslip Tuesday," a day on which I try to review a timeslip, or time travel, book.  I prefer "timeslip," a term more commonly used in the UK, because of its connotations of the slippiness of time (things reverberating across the centuries), whereas "time travel" has a much more solid feel of people moving from one time to another.  So in some of the books I call timeslip stories, there isn't much time travel qua travel at all... However, the title of this page is "time travel books" just because I think more people are familiar with that term.

The books are organized by the time period travelled to (with a "more or less" caveat).  Within each time period, the books are ordered by reading age, then by date of publication.  I've added information on the age level of the intended audience--mg stands for "middle grade," ie, good for kids 9-12 years old, ya for "young adult," ie teenagers.  Adult, not surprisingly, means it's a book published for adults.  The date of publication is given in parentheses.

Some books first published in the UK were retitled when they were published in the US, or maybe given new titles in later editions--the original title is given first, and the edition I read is the one that gets the link.

I have put stars in front of the books I personally love, though I really really like lots of others,

Please let me know if you see any errors!  And I'm always open to recommendations. You can contact me at charlotteslibrary@gmail.com  

The ancient past (12):
 
Dinosaur Dream, by Dennis Nolan (1990) picture book

Katie and the Dinosaurs, by James Mayhew (1991) picture book

Charlie and Kiwi, an Evolutionary Adventure, by Peter H. Reynolds (2011) picture book


Stuck in the Stone Age, by Geoff Rodkey (2018) elementary/mg

Dragons in a Bag, by Zetta Elliott (2018) elementary/mg

Knights vs Dinosaurs, by Matt Phelan (2018) elementary/mg

Terra Tempo: Ice Age Cataclysm, by David Shapiro(2010) elementary/mg graphic novel


Curtain of Mist, by M. Pardoe (1956) mg

Stig of the Dump, by Clive King (1962) mg (travel to Stone Age England; also travel to the present)

The Wild Way Home, by Sophie Kirtley (2020) mg

Hawksbill Station, by Robert Silverberg (1968), adult

*The Many-Colored Land, by Julian May (1981), adult (but with lots of ya appeal)


Precontact North America (2)

Magic of the Black Mirror, by Ruth Chew (1990) mg

11,000 Years Lost, by Peni R. Griffin (2004), mg


Ancient Egypt (7)

Cat in the Mirror, by Mary Stolz (1975) mg


Abracadabra Tut, by Page McBriar (2014) mg

The Long Lost Map, by Pierdomenico Baccalario (2006) mg

Jagger Jones and the Mummies Ankh, by Malayna Evans (2019) mg

The Eye of Ra, by Ben Gartner (2020) mg


Time Sphere, by Murray C. Morison (2014) ya


Ancient Mediterranean/North Africa (Pre-Romans) (6):


Helping Hercules, by Francesca Simon (2014) elementary/mg

A Dreidel in Time, by Marcia Berneger (2019) elementary/mg


The Moon Over Crete, by Jyotsna Sreenivasan (1996) mg

On Etruscan Time, by Tracy Barrett (2005) mg

Blue Thread, by Ruth Tenzer Feldman (2012) mg

The Iron Empire, by James Dashner (2014) mg


Romans (2):

The Green Bronze Mirror, by Lynne Ellison  (1966) mg

Running Out of Time, by Elizabeth Levy (1980) mg


The Dark Ages of Europe, ie up to about 1000 A.D. (12): 


Knights of the Kitchen Table, by Jon Scieszka (1991) elementary/mg

Time Jumpers: Stealing the Sword, by Wendy Mass (2018) elementary/mg


The Hill Road, by William Mayne (1968 UK, 1969 US), mg

The Sword of Culann, by Betty Levin (1973) mg

Ravine, by Janet Hickman (2002) mg

The Taker and the Keeper, by Win Coleman and Pat Perrin (2009) mg

 Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring 2), by Carrie Ryan (2012) mg


Beadbonny Ash, by Winifred Finlay (1973) mg/ya

*A String in the Harp, by Nancy Bond (1976) mg/ya

The Wind Eye, by Robert Westall (1976) mg/ya


On the Wasteland, by Ruth M. Arthur (1975) ya

Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague De Camp (1939) adult


Early Medieval North Africa (1)

The Button Box, by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams (2022)


The European/Near Eastern Middle Ages (26):

The Gauntlet, by Ronald Welch (1951) mg

Parsifal Rides the Time Wave, by Nell Chenault  (1962) mg

Astercote, by Penelope Lively (1970) mg  (although no-one goes quite all the way back in time, and possibly the echoes of the medieval village are coming forward)

Castle Merlin, by Ursula Moray Williams (1971)

Over the Sea's Edge by Jane Louise Curry (1971) also travel to North America in that time period

In the Keep of Time (1977), and In the Circle of Time (1979) by Margaret J. Anderson mg

The Castle Boy, by Catherine Storr (1983) mg

The Trolley to Yesterday, by John Bellairs (1989) (Constantinople, 1453) mg

A Well-Timed Enchantment, by Vivian Vande Velde (1990) mg

The Battle for Duncragglin, by Andrew H. Vanderwal (2009) mg

The Puzzle Ring, by Kate Forsyth (2009) mg

Sent, by Margeret Peterson Haddix (2009) mg

Ghost Knight, by Cornelia Funke (2012) mg

The Mysterious Manuscript, by Lars Jakobsen (2012) mg graphic novel

The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle, by Gabrielle Kent (2016 in the US); the time travel to the past happens when the main character is a baby, and sets things in motion, but isn't the point of the book.

Thunderbird, Book One, by Sonia Nimr (2022) mg

Thunderbird: Book Two, by Sonia Nimr (2022) mg


Crusade in Jeans, by Thea Beckman (1973 in Holland, 1975 in the US) mg/ya


The Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis (1992) ya/adult

The Sterkarm Handshake, by Susan Price (1998) ya

Old Magic, by Marianne Curley (2001) ya

Black Powder, by Staton Rabin (2005) ya

Wildwing, by Emily Whitman (2010) ya

My Unfair Godmother, by Janette Rallison (2011) ya

The Ninth Day, by Ruth Tenzer Feldman (2015)  11th century Paris ya


Renaissance (4)

The Disappearing Bike Shop, by Elvira Woodruff (1992) mg,  also travel from past to present

Mutiny in Time, by James Dashner (2012) mg

Da Vinci's Cat, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2021) mg


Saving Juliet, by Suzanne Selfors (2008) ya


Historic Near East (1)

Cave of Wonders (Infinity Ring 4) by Matthew Kirby (2013)


Historic India (1):

The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2005) mg


Historic China (1):

Along the River, by Adeline Yen Mah (2010)   ya


16th Century Mesoamerica (1)

Curse of the Ancients (Infinity Ring 3), by Matt de la Pena (2013) mg


16th Century Mediterranean  (1)

Seven Stiches, by Ruth Tenzer Feldman (2017) YA


16th century England (2)

Tangled In Time: The Portal, by Katheryn Lasky (2019) mg

The 48, by Donna Hosie (2018)


Elizabethan/early Stuart British Isles (10):

*The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard, by Gregory Rogers (2004) picture book


A Traveller in Time, by Alison Uttley (1939) mg

The House in the Waves, by James Hamilton-Paterson (1970) mg

The Bassumtyte Treasure, by Jane Louise Curry (1975) mg

The Time Tangle, by Frances Eager (1976) mg

Poor Tom's Ghost, by Jane Louise Curry (1977), mg

Webster's Leap, aka Castle Gryffe, by Eileen Dunlop  (1995) mg

The Black Canary, by Jane Louise Curry (2005) mg


Kissing Shakespeare, by Pamela Mingle (2012) ya

In the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker (1997) adult


17th century Europe (8):

Gregory and the Gargoyles, by Denis-Pierre Filippi (2017) elementary/mg graphic novel

Phyllis Wong and the Return of the Conjuror, by Geoffrey McSkimming  (2014 Australia),mg

Robinsheugh (aka Elizabeth, Elizabeth) by Eileen Dunlop (1975)

Children of Winter, by Berlie Doherty (1985) mg/ya


Requiem for a Princess, by Ruth M. Arthur (1976)  ya

The Devil on the Road, by Robert Westall (1978) ya

Being a Witch and Other Things I Didn't Ask For, by Sarah Pascoe (2017) ya


*1632 by Eric Flint (2000) adult


17th-century USA (7):

The Green Door, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1910)

Lavender-Green Magic, by Andre Norton (1974)

Parsley Sage, Rosemary & Time, by Jane Louise Curry (1975) mg

The 13th Floor, by Sid Fleischman (1995) mg

Sabotaged, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010) mg

Torn, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011) mg

Another Whole Nother Story, by Dr. Cuthbert Soup (2011) mg


18th-century USA (3):

George Washington's Socks, by Elvira Woodruff (1991) mg

Look Ahead, Look Back, by Annette Laing (2012) mg/tending YA

 
Whisper Falls, by Elizabeth Langston (2013) also time travel to the present


18th-century Europe (7):

The McNeills at Rathcapple, by Meta Mayne Reid (1959)

The Mysterious Girl in the Garden, by Judith St. George (1981) mg

To Nowhere and Back, by Margaret J. Anderson (1975) mg

Gideon the Cutpurse (US title The Time Travelers), by Linda Buckley-Archer (2006) mg

The Time Travelling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette, by Bianca Turetsky (2012) mg



The Crimson Shard, by Teresa Flavin (2011 in the UK, 2012 in the US), mg/younger YA

The Middle Window, by Elizabeth Goudge (1939) adult



19th-century (51)

Europe (18):

The Snowstorm, by Beryl Netherclift (1967) mg

*The Court of the Stone Children, by Eleanor Cameron (1973) mg

Come Back, Lucy (American title Mirror of Danger) by Pamela Sykes (1977) mg

Sky Pony, by Elaine Breault Hammond (2010) mg

A Stitch in Time, by Penelope Lively (1976) mg

The Secret of the Ruby Ring, by Yvonne MacGrory (1994) mg

A Different Day, a Different Destiny, by Annette Laing (2009) (also 19th cent. USA) mg

Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms, by Lissa Evans (2012) mg

Mira's Diary: Lost in Paris, by Marissa Moss (2012) mg

Ravencave, by Marcus Sedgwick (2023) mg 

Evie's Ghost, by Helen Peters (2017) mg

 Ripped Away, by Shirley Reva Vernick (2022) mg


The Other Face, by Barbara C. Freeman (1976) ya

Beyond Silence, by Eleanor Cameron (1980) ya

Prada and Prejudice, by Mandy Hubbard (2009)  ya

The Door That Led to Where, by Sally Gardner (2016) ya

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh, by Rachael Lippincott (2023), also travel from the past to the book's present ya


The River of No Return, by Bee Ridgeway (2013) adult

Australia (3):

Tangara  by Nan Chauncy (1960) mg

Playing Beatie Bow, by Ruth Park (1980) mg/ya

The Locket of Dreams, by Belinda Murrell (2009, 2013) mg  (also time travel to 19th cent. Scotland)

Canada (1):

Twin Spell, aka Double Spell, by Janet Lunn (1969)

North America (29): 

Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln, by Patricia Polacco (2011) picture book

Dayshaun's Gift, by Zetta Elliott (2015) elementary


Time at the Top, by Edward Ormondroyd (1963) mg, and its sequel, All In Good Time (1975)

 Crazy Creek, by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1978) mg

The Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn (1983) mg

Yesterday's Doll, by Cora Taylor (1987) mg

Mazemaker, by Catherine Dexter (1989) mg

Friends in Time, by Grace Chatwin (1992) mg

The Silver Tree, by Ruth L. Williams (1992) mg

Stonewall Hinckleman and the Battle of Bull Run, by Michael Hemphill & Sam Riddleburger (2009) mg

Freedom Stone, by Jeffrey Kluger (2011) mg

Bridge of Time, by Lewis Buzbee (2012) mg (there's brief time travellings to other periods, but it's mainly set in 1864)

The Fire Chronicle, by John Stephens (2012) mg

*The Wells Bequest, by Polly Shulman (2013) mg

The Trap Door (Infinity Ring Book 3), by Lisa McMann (2013) mg

Turning on a Dime, by Maggie Dana (2014) mg

The Book That Proves Time Travel Happens, by Henry Clark (2015) mg

Flashback Four: the Lincoln Project, by Dan Gutman (2016) mg


Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun, by Arvella Whitmore (1999) mg/ya

The Freedom Maze, by Delia Sherman (2011) mg/ya

Little Women and Me, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted (2011) mg/ya


Halfway Down Paddy Lane, by Jean Marzollo (1981) ya

Silent Echoes, by Carla Jablonski (2007) ya
 
Tennyson, by Leslie Blume (2008) ya

A Wish After Midnight, by Zetta Elliott (2009) ya

Always a Witch, by Carolyn MacCullough  (2011) ya

The Queen Must Die, by K.A.S. Quinn (2010) ya

Black Was the Ink, by Michelle Coles (2022) ya


Kindred, by Octavia Butler  (1979) adult



Late 19th/early 20th century Europe and North America (18):

The Secret Box, by Barbara Lehman (2011) picture book

Fog Magic, by Julia L. Sauer (1943) mg

*Caterpillar Hall, by Anne Barrett (1950) mg

Fair Bay, by Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1958)

Tom's Midnight Garden, by Phillipa Pearce (1958) mg, adapted as a graphic novel, by Edith (2018)

Jessamy, by Barbara Sleigh (1967) mg

House in the Wood (US title A Sound of Crying), by Rodie Sudbery (1968 UK, 1970 US) mg

*The Ghosts (retitled The Amazing Mr. Blunden in 1972), by Antonia Barber (1969) mg

In a Blue Velvet Dress, by Catherine Sefton (1973) mg

Romansgrove, by  Mable Esther Allan (1975) mg

A Stranger Thing, by Ruth Tomalin (1975) mg

*A Flute in Mayferry Street, (US title The House on Mayferry Street) by Eileen Dunlop (1976)  mg

Can I Get There by Candlelight? by Jean Slaughter Doty (1980) mg

The Doll in the Garden, by Mary Downing Hahn (1989) mg

Stonewords, by Pam Conrad (1991) mg

One Way or Another, by Annette Laing (2016) mg (Georgia and London)

The Dollhouse, by Caris Cotter (2021)


"Young Woman in a Garden" by Delia Sherman (2014) adult


The Titanic (2)

The Time-Travelling Fashionista, by Bianca Turetsky (2011) mg

Ghost of the Titanic, by Julie Lawson (2011/2012) mg


World War I (4):

*Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer (1969) mg

Day of the Assassins, by Johnny O'Brien (2009) upper mg/YA

The Jewel and the Key, by Louise Spiegler (2011) YA

 Crow Country, by Kate Constable (2012) YA -- just after WW I in Australia


World War II (25): 

Crocuses Were Over, Hitler Was Dead (Now and Then in the UK), by Geraldine Symons (1977) mg

The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen (1988) mg

The Mirror Image Ghost, by Catherine Storr (1994) mg

Johnny and the Bomb, by Terry Pratchett (1996) mg

Blitzed, by Robert Swindells (2002) mg

At the Firefly Gate, by Linda Newbery (2004)  mg

Don't Know Where, Don't Know When, by Annette Laing (2007)  mg (also a bit of WW I)

Ghost of Heroes Past, by Charles Read (2010) mg (also a bit of WW I)

Behind Enemy Lines (Infinity Ring 6), by Jennifer A. Nielsen (2013)

The Chaos Loop (Throwback #2), by Peter Lerganis (2020) 

*The Sky Over Rebecca, by Matthew Fox, (2022 in the UK, 2023 in the US), also travel from WW II to the present of the book


Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld (1997) mg/ya

Haunters by Thomas Taylor (2013) mg/ya 

Displacement, by Kiki Hughes (2020) mg/ya graphic novel


Time to Go Back, by Mabel Esther Allan (1972) ya

London Calling, by Edward Bloor (2006) ya

The Clearing, by Heather Davis (2010) ya

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (2011) ya

Dark Mirror, by M.J. Putney (2010) ya

Dark Passage, by M.J. Putney (2011) ya

Cold Sumer, by Gwen Cole (2017) ya

The Girl with the Red Balloon, by Katherine Locke (2017) ya


*"Fire Watch", by Connie Willis (1982) adult

Blackout, by Connie Willis (2010) adult

All Clear, by Connie Willis (2010) adult


20th-Century Europe (11):

The Children Next Door, by Jean Ure (1994)
 
Beswitched, by Kate Saunders (2010) mg

Tilly's Moonlight Garden (UK Title: Tilly's Moonlight Fox), by Julia Green (2012)  mg

North of Nowhere, by Liz Kessler (2013) mg

A House Without Mirrors, by Marten Sanden (2017) mg


The Autumn People, by Ruth M. Arthur (1973)

Back to Blackbrick, by Sarah Moorse (2013) mg/ya

The Truth Against the World, by Sarah Jamila Stevenson (2014) mg/ya


Changing Times, by Tim Kennemore (1984) ya

Frannie in Pieces, by Delia Ephron (2007) ya


Still She Wished For Company, by Margaret Irwin (1924) ya/adult (although it also has a bit of time travel back to the late 18th century)

20th-Century Australia (1)

When the Lyrebird Calls, by Kim Kane (2016) mg/ya

20th-Century North America (30):

The Backwards Watch, by Eric Houghton (1991) picture book

Harlem Renaissance Party, by Faith Ringold (2015) picture book


The Girl Who Slipped Through Time, by Paula Hendrich (1978) mg

The People in Pineapple Place, by Anne Lindbergh  (1982)

Building Blocks, by Cynthia Voight (1984) mg

Time Windows, by Kathryn Reiss (1991) mg

Tunnels of Time, by Mary Harlekin Bishop (2020) mg

Paint by Magic, by Kathryn Reiss (2002)

Dreamer, Wisher, Liar, by Clarise Mericle Harper (2014)

The Magic Half, by Annie Barrows (2008) mg

On the Blue Comet, 1920s to 1940s, by Rosemary Wells (2010), mg

Roberto and Me, mostly 1969, but also the future, by Dan Gutman (2010) mg 

Saving Lucas Biggs, 1938, by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague (2014) mg

Seven Stories Up, 1937, by Laurel Snyder (2014) mg

A Dragon's Guide To Making Perfect Wishes, by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder (2017) mg 1915 World's Fair

Ranger In Time: Hurricane Katrina Rescue, by Kate Messner (2018) mg

*The Magic in Changing Your Stars, by Leah Henderson (2020) mg

No Ordinary Thing, by G.Z. Schmidt  (2020) mg

White House Clubhouse, by Sean O'Brien (2023) mg


Backtracked, by Pedro de Alcantara (2009) ya

Small Eternities, by Michael Laurence (2004) ya

TimeRiders, by Alex Scarrow (2010) mg/ya

Timeless, 1910, 1920s, 1940s, by Alexandra Monir, (2011), ya

Wishful Thinking, by Alexandra Bullen (2011) ya

Yesterday, by C.K. Kelly Martin (2012) ya

Are You Experienced? by Jordan Sonnenblick (2013) ya

The Edge of Forever, by Melissa E. Hurst (2015) ya

Until We Meet Again, by Renee Collins (2016) ya

Yesterday Is History, by Kosoko Jackson (2021) ya


A variety of time periods (91): 

Dragons Love Tacos, the Sequel, by Adam Rubin (2017) pb

The Trouble with Time Travel, by Stephen W. Martin (2019) pb

Llama Rocks the Cradle of Chaos, by Jonathan Stutzman (2022) pb


 Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time! by Alex Milway  (2017) elementary/graphic novel hybrid


The Magic Mirror, by Zetta Elliott (2014) elementary


*The Story of the Amulet, by E. Nesbit (1906) mg

The House of Arden, by E. Nesbit (1908)  mg

Harding's Luck, by E. Nesbit (1909) mg

Borrobil, by William Croft Dickinson (1944) mg

Sun Slower, Sun Faster, by Meriol Trevor (1955) mg

*The Time Garden, by Edward Eager (1958) mg

The Ship That Flew, by Hilda Lewis (1958) mg 

Two Gold Dolphins, by Elisabeth Beresford (1961) mg

Time Cat, by Lloyd Alexander (1963) mg

The Hubbles' Treasure Hunt, by Elaine Horseman (1965) mg

The Glen Beyond the Door, by Meta Mayne Reid (1968) mg

The Last Straw, by Margaret Baker (1971)

Dragon Magic, by Andre Norton (1972) mg

The Driftway, by Penelope Lively (1972) mg

The Stones of Green Knowe, by L.M. Boston (1976) mg 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet, by Madeline L'Engle (1978) mg

Curious Magic, by Elisabeth Beresford (1980)

Bailey's Window, by Anne Lindbergh (1984)

Moondial, by Helen Cresswell (1987) mg

The Time Bike, by Jane Langton (2000) mg

The Book of Time, by Guillaume Prevost (2007) mg

Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London (2008) mg (the Late Cretaceous, Atlantis, and tiny bit before the actual present)

Any Which Wall, by Laurel Snyder (2009) mg  (5th century Britain, 18th and 19th century America)

A Walk Through a Window, by kc dyer (2009) mg (aspects of Canadian history)

Facing Fire, by kc dyer (2010) mg (aspects of Canadian history)

The Sixty-Eight Rooms, by Marianne Malone (2010) mg

Timecatcher, by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (2010) mg

Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble, by D. Robert Pease (2011) mg

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time, by Frank Cottrell Boyce (2013 in the US) mg

Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp, by Nathan Bransford (2013) younger mg

The Inventor's Secret, by Chad Morris (2013) mg (primarily the Titanic)

The Alchemist War, by John Seven (2013) mg  (primarily 17th century Prague)

The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand, and its sequel, The Sword in the Stacks, by Jennifer Swann Downey (2014, 2016)

The Shadow Lantern, by Teresa Flavin (2014) mg

Magic in the Mix, by Annie Barrows (2014) mg (primarily the Civil War)

The Time of the Fireflies, by Kimberley Griffiths Little (2014) mg  (19th and 20th cent. US)

In Due Time (Books 1-3) by Nicholas O. Time (2016) (20th century, ancient Egypt, travel from past to present) mg

Young Scrooge, by R.L. Stine (2016) mg

The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix, by Kate Saunders (2016) mg

Magic in the City, by Heather Dyer (2017) mg

How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe (and Put it Back Together Again), by David Teague (2017) mg

Curse of the Werewolf Boy, by Chris Priestly (2017) mg

The Storm Keepers Island (2017 in the UK) The Lost Tide Warriors, by Catherine Doyle (2020 in the US) mg

The Time Museum (2017) , and The Time Museum, Vol.2, by Matthew Loux (2019) mg graphic novels

The House of Months and Years, by Emma Trevayne (2017)

Bluecrowne, by Kate Milford (2018) mg

Time Castaways:  The Mona Lisa Key (2018), and The Obsidian Compass (2019), by Liesl Shurtliff mg

The Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity by Nicole Valentine (2019) mg

Time Sight, by Lynne Jonell (2019) mg

The Library of Ever, by Zeno Alexander (2019) mg

Glitch, by Laura Martin (2020) mg


Throwback, by Peter Lerangis (2020) mg

Out of Time, by Peter Lerangis (2021) mg

Rome Reframed. by Amy Bearce (2021) mg

The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson (2021) mg

Kingston and the Echoes of Magic, by Rucker Moses and Theo Gangi (2021)

The Sea of Always (Thirteen Witches #2), by Jodi Lynn Anderson (2022) mg

The Carrefour Curse, by Dianne K. Salerni (2023) mg


Tomorrow's Guardian, by Richard Denning (2010) mg/ya

The History Keepers:  The Storm Begins, by Damian Dibben (2011) mg/ya

Time Snatchers, by Richard Ungar (2012), and its sequel, Time Trapped (2013) mg/ya


Blood Secret, by Kathryn Lasky (2006) ya (persecution of Jews from 1391 Spain to colonial Mexico) 

Once a Witch, by Carolyn MacCullough (2009) ya

Hourglass (2011), Infinityglass (2013), by Myra McEntire (2013) ya (the 2nd book is Timwpiece, 2012)

Ruby Red (2011), and Sapphire Blue (2012), by Kerstin Gier, ya

Amber House (2012) by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, and Larkin Reed, ya

The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman (2012) ya

The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare, by MG Buehrlen (2014) ya

The Devil's Intern (2014) , and The Devil's Dreamcatcher (2015) by Donna Hosie, ya

Earth and Sky, by Megan Crewe (2014) ya

Loop, by Karen Akins (2014) ya

Passenger (2016), and Wayfairer (2017), by Alexandra Bracken ya

Invictus, by Ryan Graudin (2017) ya

Time Knott, by M.C. Morison (2017) ya

Weave a Circle Round, by Kari Maaren (2017) ya

The Last Beginning, by Lauren James (2019) ya


This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019) adult


Traveling from the past to the present of the book (more or less) (29):

Dino-Mike and the T-Rex Attack (2015) elementary


Black Hunting Whip, by Monica Edwards (1950) mg

Earthfasts, by William Mayne (1966) mg

A Game of Catch, by Helen Cresswell (1969) mg

Catweazle, by Richard Carpenter (1970) mg

Up the Pier, by Helen Cresswell (1971) mg

The House in Norham Gardens, by Penelope Lively (1974) mg

The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp, by Richard Peck (1983)

Wild Robert, by Diana Wynne Jones (1989) mg

Three Lives to Live, by Anne Lindberg (1992) mg

Archer's Quest, by Linda Sue Park (2006) mg

Crashing the Party, by Perdita Finn (2007)

Frozen in Time, by Ali Sparks (2009) mg

*The Hotel Under the Sand, by Kage Baker (2009) mg

The Prince of Fenway Park, by Julianna Baggott (2009) mg

Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! by Matthew McElligott and Larrry Tuxbury (2010) mg

The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams, by Rhonda Hayter (2010) mg

The Dead Gentleman, by Matthew Cody (2011) mg 

Once Was a Time, by Leila Sales (2016) mg

Journey's End, by Rachel Hawkings (2016) mg

Eleanor Roosevelt's In My Garage, by Candace Fleming, (2018) mg

Elsetime, by Eve McDonnell (2020) mg

Time Villains, by Victor Piñeiro (2021) mg

The Way to Impossible Island, by Sophie Kirtley (2021) mg


Dot to Dot, by Kit Bakke (2011), mg/ya


Time Piper, by Delia Huddy (1979) ya

A Kiss in Time, by Alex Flinn (2009) ya

Warped, by Maurissa Guibord (2011) ya

*Bone Jack, by Sara Crowe (2014 UK, 2017 US) ya



Time Travel From the Future to the book's Present (17)

The Accidental Time Traveller, by Janis Mackay (2013) mg

School for Sidekicks, by Kelly McCullough (2015) mg

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, by Lamar Giles (2019) mg

Legend of the Storm Sneezer, by Kristiana Sfirlea (2020) mg

A Long Way from Home, by Laura Schaefer (2022) mg

We the Future, by Cliff Lewis (2023) mg

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto, by Adrianna Cuevas (2023) mg


Thirty Talks Weird Love, by Alessandra NarvĂ¡ez Varela (2021) mg/ya


The Long Wait for Tomorrow, by Joaquin Dorfman (2009) ya

The Future of Us, by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler (2011) ya

Time Between Us, by Tamara Ireland Stone (2012) ya

After Eden, by Helen Douglas (2013) ya

Scorched, by Mari Mancusi (2013) ya

The Here and Now, by Ann Brashares (2014) ya

No True Echo, by Gareth P. Jones (2015 in the US) ya

One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1) by Mark Lawrence (2019) ya

Limited Wish  (Impossible Times #2), by Mark Lawrence (2019) ya


Time Travel from the past to the present, and also from the present to the past (2)

 Elsewhere Girls, by Emily Gale and Nova Weetman (2021) mg

Midwinter Burning, by Tanya Landman (2022) mg


Time traveling to different presents/reliving the same present more or less/reliving bits of ones own recent past life/time travel to the near future/alternate time lines for the main characters (38):


The Old Powder Line, by Richard Parker (1971) mg

The Power of Un, by Nancy Etchemendy  (2002) mg

15 Minutes, by Steve Young (2006) mg

Counterclockwise, by Jason Cockcroft (2009mg

11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass (2009) mg

Justin Thyme, by Panema Oxridge (2011) mg

A Year Without Autumn, by Liz Kessler (2011) mg

Odessa Again, by Dana Reinhardt (2013) mg

Wish You Weren't, by Sherrie Petersen (2014) mg

The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone (2016) mg

Secrets of Valhalla, by Jasmine Richards (2016) mg

Time Shifters, by Chris Grine (2017) mg graphic novel

Paris on Repeat, by Amy Bearce (2020) mg

The Map of Stars (York #3), by Laura Ruby (2020) mg

Chandu and the Super Set of Parents, by Roopa Raveendran-Menon (2021) mg

The Retake, by Jen Calonita (2021) mg

Operation Do-over, by Gordon Korman (2022) mg

You Only Live Once, David Bravo, by Mark Oshiro (2022) mg

Vivian Lantz's Second Chances, by Kathryn Ormsbee (2023) mg

Time after Time (Best Wishes #3), by Sarah Mlynowski and Christina Soontornvat (2023) mg


The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, by Yasutaka Tsutsui (1967, 2011 English translation) ya

Alice in Time, by Penelope Bush (2011) ya

Tempest, by Julie Cross (2012) ya

All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill (2013) ya

The Clay Lion, by Amelie Jahn (2013) ya

The Walls Around Us, by Nova Ren Suma (2015) ya

23 Minutes, by Vivian Vande Velde (2016) ya

The Girl From Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig  (2016) ya

The Square Root of Summer, by Harriet Reuter Hapgood (2016) ya

The Echo Room, by Parker Peevyhouse (2018) ya

The Opposite of Always, by Justin A. Reynolds (2019) ya

Malice, by Pintip Dunn (2020) ya

The Night of Your Life, by Lydia Sharp (2020) ya

Time Travel for Love and Profit, by Sarah Lariviere (2021) ya

The Electric Kingdom, by David Arnold (2021) ya

My Second Impression of You, by Michelle I. Mason (2022) ya

See You Yesterday, by Rachel Lynn Solomon (2022) ya


The Book of Tomorrow, by Ceceila Ahern (2011) adult




Time Travel to what is "future" from the character's pov (11)

Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot, by Dav Pilkey (2015) not quite mg


The Magical Cupboard, by Jane Louise Curry (1976) mg

The Secret World of Polly Flint, by Helen Cresswell (1982) mg

The Best-Kept Secret, by Emily Rodda (1988) mg

The Dog Who Saved the World, by Ross Welford (2019 in the UK, 2020 in the US) mg

Elsetime,  by Eve McDonnell (2020) mg

*The Longest Night of Charlie Moon, by Christopher Edge (2020) mg  (1933 to WW II)

The Window, by Dave Cole,  (2021) mg

Welcome to Dweeb Club, by Betsy Uhrig (2021) mg


Future Shock, by Elizabeth Briggs (2016) ya

The Amber Crane, by Malve von Hassell (2021) ya (time travel from 17th century to WW II)


Travel both back and forward in time (10)

Caravan Holiday, by Hilda Boren (1953) mg

The Art of the Swap, by Kristine Asselin and Jen Malone (2018) mg

The Boy from Tomorrow, by Camille DeAngelis (2018) mg

The Camelot Code: The Once and Future Geek (2018) and Geeks and the Holy Grail (2019) by Mari Mancuci  mg



Waking in Time, by Angie (2017) (ya)

The Invisible Hand, by James Hartley (2017) ya

Your Life Has Been Delayed, by Michelle I. Mason (2021) ya

The Family Tree, by Sheri Tepper (1997) adult

Alice Payne Arrives, by Kate Heartfield (2018) adult


Time Travel to the very recent past, no more than one or two generations removed (11): 

Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers, by Dav Pilkey (2012) elementary graphic novel

Gordon: Bark to the Future, by Ashley Spires (2018) elementary graphic novel

Super Potato's Mega Time-Travel Adventure, by Artur Laperla (2019) elementary graphic novel


*The Four Seasons of  Lucy McKenzie, by Kirsty Murray (2014) mg

Time Travelling with a Hamster, by Ross Welford (2016)mg

The Painting, by Charis Cotter (2017) mg

Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House, by Michael Poore (2020) mg

Rewind, by Lisa Graff (2023) mg

A Spoonful of Time, by Flora Ahn (2023) mg

The Rhythm of Time, by Questlove and S.A. Crosby (2023) but also some travel to the book's present


Sometime in Summer, by Katrina Leno (2022) ya


Not set on Earth/set in fantasy/sci fi version of Earth/Space (36): 

The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, by Dav Pilkey (2010) not quite mg

Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely, by Natalie Jane Pryor (2004) not quite mg


A Tale of Time City, by Diana Wynne Jones (1987) mg

Ancient Fire, by Mark London Williams (2001) mg

Kendra Kandlestar and the Crack in Kazah, by Lee Edward Fodi (2011) mg

Smasher, by Scott Bly (2014) mg

Tanglewreck, by Jeanette Winterson (1996) mg

The Midnight Hour, by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder (2019 in UK, 2020 in US) mg

The Daring of Della Dupree, by Natasha Lowe (2020) mg

Finn and the Time-Travelling Pajamas, by Michael Buckley (2021) mg

The Great Bear (The Misewa Saga #2) by David Alexander Robertson (2021) mg

The Prince of Nowhere, by Rochelle Hassan (2022) mg

Lark and the Wild Hunt,  by Jennifer Adam (2022) mg

The Mirrorwood, by Deva Fagan (2022) mg

Dragon Realm series, by Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang (2020-2022)


Maddigan's Fantasia, by Margaret Mahy (2007) mg/ya

The Navel of the World, by P.J. Hoover (2009) mg/ya

The Timekeeper's Moon, by Joni Sensel (2010) mg/ya

*The Only Ones, by Aaron Starmer (2011) mg/ya

The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove (2014) mg/ya

The Shores Beyond Time, by Kevin Emerson (2019) mg/ya


Singing the Dogstar Blues, by Alison Goodman (1998) ya

When the King Comes Home, by Caroline Stevermer (2000) ya  

The Tomorrow Code, by Brian Faulkner (2008) ya

Pathfinder, by Orson Scott Card (2010) ya

A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan (2011) ya

Growing Disenchantments, by K.D. Berry (2012) ya

Echo, by Alicia Wright Brewster (2013) ya

*The Keeper of the Mist, by Rachel Neumeier (2016) ya

Timekeeper (2016) and Chainbreaker, by Tara Sim (2018) ya

Furyborn, by Claire Legrand (2018) ya

The Named, by Marianne Curley (2002) ya


Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey (1968) adult

*Three Stories from The Wind's Twelve Quarters, by Ursula Le Guin (1975) adult

*"Another Story," by Ursula Le Guin (1994) adult

*Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett (2002) adult


Time Travel to sci fi futures/futures that haven't happened yet (7)

(Cleopatra in Space (2014),  The Thief and the Sword (2015), Secret of the Time Tablets (2016), The Golden Lion (2017)  by Mike Maihack, mg graphic novel


Steps Out of Time, by by Eric Houghton (1979) mg This sci fi future is around 2020, but didn't happen....

No Time Like Tomorrow, by Ted White (1969) mg/ya

Stolen Time, by Danielle Rollins (2019) ya

Other (1)


The Time Traveller's Handbook, by Wylie, Acton, and Goldblatt (2016)




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