This is a new feature I developed where each month we will look at our favorite – the best – series in a genre or topic.
The topic here, by my definition, is a series with main characters who are Time Travelers. Now I would say I don’t even like time travel but I did enjoy these series. These are the ones which came to mind. I enjoyed some more than others. The team had to help me find some of these.
Since I haven’t read everything, it’s a subset of the possibilities. I’m sure I am forgetting some great authors. There are also plenty of authors I have yet to read. Please share your favorites with me in the comments, also.
My favorite Time Travel series are (in no particular order):
A Stitch in Time Seba Segal Outlander
by Kelley Armstrong by Elizabeth Hunter by Diana Galbadon
Time Quintet All Souls Trilogy Chronicles of St. Mary’s
by Madeline L’Engle by Deborah Harkness by Jodi Taylor
What are your favorite series?
Vote for your top 3 favorites! You can vote for my favorites or tell me about favorites of your own in the comments.
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Quite a few years ago these were popular, but not so many nowadays. Ones I’ve read in the past and enjoyed were
Times Was and Times Change. A duology by Nora Roberts
Banishment by Deryn Lake. Originally published as Dinah Lampitt
Out of Time and Just in Time by Pauline Baird Jones
Susan Squires wrote a few. Some better than others
Barbara Erskine has written some great books but they are mostly time slip or dual time lines
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Thanks for sharing some time travel reads. As I said I don’t generally read them but I really enjoyed these series. This meme focuses on series. Also I don’t consider dual time lines in stories time travel. Only when people are in both time lines at the same time so to speak. I know picky but since it’s my meme my rules and it’s all for fun anyway. I enjoy getting others options for reading in the same genre or styel.
I’ve heard good things about Jodi Taylor’s series, I must check it out some day.
Thanks Tammy. I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It’s a longish series and I can’t wait to read more. I nearly just checked one out and read it last night but I have a few other commitments right now. It’s got some great historical bits, characters I love or love to hate and humor.
As much as I love Outlander as the best time travel story I’ve ever read, Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister is now neck and neck with it!
I’m glad you are enjoying it. Is the Gillian McAllister one a series? I’m not familiar and will need to look into it.
I like time travel, but I don’t read it much. I’ve read some of both the Kelley Armstrong series and the Diana Gabaldon ones from your list. Eventually, I’ll get to Discovery of Witches.
Thanks Sophia. I know how it is. I’d like to read everything I want to read but fit in what I can.
I haven’t read any of these books. The only time travel book I can recall off the top of my head is A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong. Like you, I’m not attracted to plots with time travel. I only read Armstrong’s because I enjoy her writing. It was good and I look forward to the next in the series.
I’ve read a Rip Through Time and love it but there’s very little time travel after the initial occurrence. That why I chose her A Stitch in Time series as it happens more often. The Elizabeth Hunter series is just starting but it was amazing. Robin reads the St. Mary’s books and I can see why now that I’ve just started reading them; they’re great. A Wrinkle in Time is probably my favorite childhood book and series.
I know I read many, many time travel books in my day. Of course, I can only think of three of them right now because you mentioned them (the Harkness, Armstrong and Taylor series). I gave up on the library getting the latest Taylor book, so I bought The Good, the Bad and the History by Jodi Taylor yesterday, at 41% now. Not only did I like the books, but I really liked the tv series for the All Souls Trilogy, that’s kind of rare.
You and Robin clued me into the Jodi Taylor series which I’ve just started but I LOVE it.
There was one I read a while ago that was called Outlander for YA, but it was before I read Outlander, but I did enjoy it. Can’t remember the name of it though! The Ruby Red series by Kerstin Gier is one of my favorites though!
I figured you would know the Outlander series. lol
I haven’t read any of these but I don’t read a lot of time travel type stories.
I was shocked at how many I could think of which I had read at least one in the series.
I’m not a big time travel fan – it raises too many questions and issues in my sciency brain. That said – is a Wrinkle in Time really time travel? I thought it was more of a space travel/alt dimensionish type of thing. I don’t recall any time travel, but it’s been a few years since I’ve read them (I only read the first three).
Well that’s a good point I guess but I thought it was both time / space, after all it’s called A Wrinkle in Time. It’s not a genre I read often. I’d recommend the Jodi Taylor books because I loved the start of them. Robin has been reading them and reviewing them for awhile though.
Someday I will read more Outlander.
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