By Stephen King
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture.

By Joe Haldeman

Working as a lowly research assistant at MIT, Matt fuller is working on a project to measure quantum forces related to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, when his calibrator is transformed into a time machine.

By Charlie Jane Anders
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Reunited as adults, childhood friends Patricia Delfine, who is magically gifted, and Laurence Armstead, an engineering genius, discover that something bigger than either of them has brought them together to either save the world, or plunge it into a new Dark Ages.

By Connie Willis
Series Oxford Time Travel Novels
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Stranded in World War II England, three researchers from the future investigate period behavior and seek each other out in a shared effort to return to their own time.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In 1772, on the eve of the American Revolution, Jamie Fraser is asked by the governor to help protect the colonies for the King and Crown, but, thanks to his time-traveling twentieth-century wife, Claire, Jamie is aware of the ultimate result of the rebellion, a situation complicated by his discovery of an obituary, dated four years hence, that reports his own death.

By Mark Twain

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

Became numerous movies: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1921, 1949, 1989-TV movie), A Connecticut Yankee (1931, 1955-TV movie), A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court (1978- TV movie), Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979), A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1995), A Kid in Aladdin’s Palace (1998-TV movie) *spin-off*, A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1996), A Knight in Camelot (1998-TV movie), and Black Knight (2001).

By Stephen King

Gunslinger Roland Deschain fights otherworldly forces on his quest across a bleak and frightening landscape to find the Dark Tower.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life—gallant warrior James Fraser.

By Jason Gurley

Years after an accident claims her twin’s life and triggers her father’s abandonment and mother’s ascent into alcoholism, Eleanor begins to experience supernatural dissociations that reveal her parent’s unhappy pasts and her role in helping them heal.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels

The eagerly awaited fifth volume in the award-winning series of historical novels takes place in 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser's wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy--a time-traveler's certain knowledge.

By Claire North

Forced to relive his life over and over again, Harry August receives a message on his eleventh death bed, from a little girl who tells him that the world is about to end, and it is up to him to stop it.

By Jack Finney
Series Time and Again
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“The continuing escapades of Simon Morley, a time-travelling New York advertising executive engaged in a U.S. government program to change history (From the Publisher).”

By Annalee Newitz
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history–changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel–world America where time travel is possible.

By Ransom Riggs
Series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies.

By Stephen Leigh
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

An immortal Muse visits the greatest artists of all time, including the 14th-century Parisian alchemists, Vivaldi, and William Blake, until a centuries-old feud comes to a head in modern-day New York.

By Andrew Sean Greer
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 20, 2015. 1:30 PM.

To alleviate her suffocating depression after the death of her twin brother and the break-up with her long-time lover, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment that has an unexpected side effect, which transports her to the lives she might have had if she had been born in a different era.

By Jude Deveraux
Series Montgomery and Taggert Clan
Recommended By Rosanne Crudo, Head of Circulation

“Jude Deveraux's beloved bestseller has captivated readers the world over; now in a special edition featuring new material, this timeless love story greets a new generation…  (From the Publisher).”  

By Stephen Fry

A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all.

By Félix J. Palma

A skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel.

By Ransom Riggs
Series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage.

By Margarita Montimore
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.

By Beatriz Williams

A cynical Wall Street analyst falls uncharacteristically in love with a billionaire with a mysterious past in a romance with mystical ties to a relationship between World War I British officer and a beautiful young American who held vital information about a fateful reconnaissance mission.

By Mandy Hubbard

Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends her back to 1815.

By Chuck Palahniuk

A fictional oral biography of Buster "Rant" Casey chronicles the violent world of a small-town rebel who becomes the leader of a demolition derby.

By Jude Deveraux

A woman novelist, obsessed by her book's hero to the point of being ill, is diagnosed with problems from a past life. She is hypnotized back to the 16th Century as Lady de Grey, whose husband, a man just like her hero, is divorcing her for adultery which she did not commit.

By Ken Grimwood

“A fatal heart attack returns forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston to his eighteen-year-old body, in 1963, and, with his memory of the next twenty-five years intact and the freedom to change his actions, he begins to live his life over again (From the Publisher).”

By Jude Deveraux
Series Summerhouse

Three women--Amy, Faith, and Zo?e--come to a special Maine refuge to confront the pain and heartbreak of the past, as the mysterious Madame Zoya and her sister Primrose send them on a trip back through time that could alter their futures.

By Bryan Lee O'Malley

After her life hits some unexpected snags, Katie, a successful chef, meets a mysterious girl who provides her with a set of simple instructions for getting a magical do-over. Katie suddenly finds herself with another change to get things right—and with an irresistible urge to keep resetting the clock until her life is not just good, but perfect.

By James Patterson
Recommended By Rosanne Crudo, Head of Circulation

Awakening in a world both unknown and disturbingly familiar, Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, must once again go up against his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan, and prove that he is not only a super crime-fighter, but an icon.

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter.

By Emily St. John Mandel
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 9, 2015. 7:30 PM.

The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.

By Jude Deveraux
Series Summerhouse

Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. They plan to share this momentous occasion together at a summerhouse in Maine, talking up a storm and taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse.

By Jack Finney
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

In November 1970, Simon Morley, an advertising sketch artist, is approached by U.S. Army to participate in a secret government project. For reasons of his own, Simon agrees to participate in the project, and requests permission to go back to New York City in 1882.

By Nora Roberts

After time traveler Caleb Hornblower crash-lands in the twentieth century, he relies on Liberty Stone to help him survive; and Jacob Hornblower heads back into the past to rescue his stranded brother, only to find himself falling for Sunbeam Stone.

By Audrey Niffenegger

Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

By Michael Crichton

“Sometime in the future, a group of students is studying an archaeological site in France when the professor in charge disappears. While uncovering 600-year-old documents from the remains of a monastery, they discover a note dated April 7, 1357, and written in the professor's hand that says "Help me." Three people then embark on a journey back in time to rescue the professor. The first third of the book sets up the plot and discusses quantum technology. The rest of the story is a heart-pounding adventure in 14th-century France (Library Journal).”

By Connie Willis
Series Oxfor time travel novels

Ned Henry is sent back in time to the 19th century to obtain the original plans of Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. A rich American wants to rebuild it. Problems arise when Henry’s lady friend saves a cat from drowning, an act that threatens to alter history.

By Connie Willis
Series Oxford Time Travel Novels

Ned Henry goes back in time to 1889 to study the Coventry Cathedral for a wealthy American who wants to build an exact replica before it is destroyed.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.

By Rodrigo Garcia Y Robertson
Series Knight Errant series

Savoring her new life as Lady Robyn of Pontrefract after being sent through time to medieval England, Robyn anticipates her marriage to Edward Plantagenet but finds their home challenged by the rebellious Tudor army and an imminent French invasion.

By Melissa De la Cruz
Series Witches of East End
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Transported back in time where she is forced to relive the horrors of Salem, Freya Beauchamp must find a way to survive the witch-burning hysteria, while her family, stuck in the present, must confront the trickster god Loki to save Freya (From the Publisher).”