Intriguing Time Travel Novels for Kindle Readers

What if you could go backward in time and experience daily life in the slums of ancient Rome or in London during the Blitz? Or forward in time to see what has become of our civilization one hundred or one thousand years from now? Would you step on board the time machine? What effect, if any, would your actions in the past have on the future?

Many novelists have explored the theme of time travel - from H. G Wells in The Time Machine and Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to more recent efforts like the chilling Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

Here are a few critically-acclaimed time travel novels available in Kindle editions:

Replay by Ken Grimwood. Avon, 2010. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (391 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again - in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle - each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time..." - Amazon.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Bantam, 2009. Print Length: 512 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (279 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In 2057, the fearsome, slave-driving Lady Schrapnell has lent her authority and her money to developing time travel so that she can rebuild Old Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by Nazi bombs in 1940. After too many recent missions, operative Ned Henry is timelagged and in need of a complete rest. But Lady Schrapnell has another vital task for poor Ned: to locate a grotesque Victorian artifact known as the bishop's bird stump. A chronological complication that Ned is only dimly aware of, though, has arisen and must be fixed before history is changed. So a bewildered Ned finds himself in Oxford in 1889, wearing boating clothes, accompanied by a mountain of luggage, a regal cat in a box, and no idea what he's supposed to do next..." - Kirkus Reviews.

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. Beacon Press, 2004. Print Length: 287 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (231 reviews). Kindle edition $4.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous..." - Publisher.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Dell, 2004. Print Length: 896 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (1855 reviews). Kindle edition $8.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon - when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach - an 'outlander' - in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart." - Amazon.

Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein. Tor Books, 2010. Print Length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (15 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution - human telepathy. Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth, but one of them has to stay behind while the other explores the depths of space..." - Amazon.

Lightning by Dean Koontz. Berkley, 2003. Print Length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (320 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Laura Shane leads a troubled life: she is orphaned, nearly molested twice and loses one of her closest friends in a tragic accident, all before her 13th birthday. Even worse events would have befallen Laura if not for the mysterious guardian angel who periodically appears with a bolt of lightning to miraculously rescue her. The 'angel,' Stefan, is in fact a time traveler who rides the 'lightning road' through time to follow Laura throughout her adult life; unfortunately, Stefan himself is being chased through time by a pack of equally mysterious villains..." - Publishers Weekly.

The X President by Philip Baruth. Bantam, 2003. Print Length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (22 reviews). Kindle edition $8.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The year: 2055. Sal Hayden is writing the biography of a 109-year-old former U.S. president known as BC. Meanwhile, the U.S. is taking a pummeling in the Tobacco Wars, a massive international conflict that resulted from antitobacco legislation BC signed when he was president in the 1990s. When Sal is recruited by the government to participate in an audacious plan to rewrite history so that the Tobacco Wars never happened, she finds herself on a journey so fantastic she would never have imagined it possible. At its heart, this is a novel about American politics, but it's also a story about the nature of history: just because an event has already taken place, does that mean we can't change what happened?" - David Pitt for Booklist.

Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson. Tor Books, 2008. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (67 reviews). Kindle edition $6.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1979 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day." - Publisher.

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Fawcett, 2010. Print Length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (100 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today..." - from the paperback edition.

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg. Del Rey, 2004. Print Length: 448 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, R. A. Lafferty, Jack Dann, Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Henry Kuttner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Larry Niven, Charles Sheffield, Robert Silverberg, and Connie Willis.


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