Time travel works best across multiple books, where the rules can be tested. These series run longest.
Series in Reading Order
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon — 25 books · 1991–2022
Claire Randall, 1945 to 1743; the longest-running series here. - Chronicles of St Marys by Jodi Taylor — 10 books · 2013–2015
Historians who observe the past in real time. - All Souls by Deborah Harkness
Historian and witch Diana Bishop; time travel in the second book. - The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Oxford historians in the Middle Ages. - The Merchant Princes by Charles Stross
Parallel-world economic thriller series. - Jumper by Steven Gould
Teleportation series, begun 1992.
How to read these series
Numbered entries follow the order the books were published, which is the order the story was written and the safest order for a first read. Where a series has side novels or novellas, reading them in publication order avoids spoilers from later books.
Where the numbers come from
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