Time travel book series in reading order

by Jon Scieszka

by Mary Pope Osborne

by James Axler

by Elisabetta Dami

by Lynne Ewing

by Kate Messner

by Elisabetta Dami

by Simon Hawke

by Taylor Anderson

by Nora Roberts

by Leo Frankowski

by Tony Abbott

by Dav Pilkey

by Jasper Fforde

by Lucy M. Boston

by Rysa Walker

by Ada Hopper

by Anna Belfrage

by Tony Abbott

by Eugenia Riley

Mary Pope Osborne

166 books• 9 series

Mary Pope Osborne, born May 20, 1949, is an American children's author and audiobook narrator best known for the Magic Tree House series, which had sold more than 134 million copies worldwide by 2017. Awards have gone to both the series and Osborne, including recognition for work promoting children's literacy. Osborne attended the University of North Carolina and published a first book in 1982. The catalogue counts 166 Osborne books, from Run, Run, As Fast As You Can (1982) to Sea Otter Sunrise (2025). Time travel, tree houses, history, folklore and Greek mythology appear among the subjects.

Elisabetta Dami

309 books• 22 series

Elisabetta Dami, born 1 January 1958, is an Italian children's author known for the Geronimo Stilton book series. The catalogue credits Dami with 309 books from 1998 to 2026. Titles from 2000 include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, Attack Of The Bandit Cats and Four Mice Deep in the Jungle. Other listings include Geronimo Stilton: Thea Stilton, Mouseford Academy, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton Cavemice, Geronimo Stilton Spacemice and Creepella von Cacklefur. Subjects include mice, journalists, time travel and humorous stories. The Legend of Chocolate Hills (2026) is the newest title.

Jon Scieszka, born September 8, 1954, is an American author of picture books such as The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! and Math Curse, often illustrated by Lane Smith. The Time Warp Trio novels for young readers were written to teach history, and Scieszka founded Guys Read, an online program encouraging boys to read. The Librarian of Congress appointed Scieszka the first U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2008 and 2009. The catalogue lists 86 books, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992) and the Frank Einstein and Trucktown series.

Andre Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 to March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who also produced historical and contemporary fiction, and used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as well. Norton was the first woman named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master, and the first inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. The catalogue carries 209 books from The Prince Commands (1934) onward. Witch World, Solar Queen, Time Traders, Beast Master and Forerunner are series.

Diana Gabaldon

33 books• 12 series

Diana Gabaldon is best known for the Outlander book series. Gabaldon, born January 11, 1952, is an American author and television writer whose novels mix historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction or fantasy. Starz premiered a television adaptation of the Outlander novels in 2014. The catalogue lists 33 titles, from Outlander / Cross Stitch (1991) to Besieged (2022), with Dragonfly in Amber (1992) and Voyager (1993) early in the run. Lord John Grey is a second named series. Time travel, Scotland, Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall appear among the subject headings.

James Axler is the pen name under which Mark Ellis wrote scores of Deathlands and Outlanders novels. The books are post-apocalyptic men's adventure: survivalism, the regression of civilisation, imaginary wars and the invented territory called Deathlands. The Axler name carries 234 titles published between 1986 and 2025, from Pilgrimage to Hell (1986) to Wraith Winter (2025). Volumes run long at a median of 347 pages, and Earthblood is a third series beside the two main runs.

Eric Flint's catalogue opens with Mother of Demons (1997) and runs to 1637: The Pilgrim's Passage (2026). 1632 appeared in 2000, alongside Fortune's Stroke and Rats, Bats & Vats, and In the Heart of Darkness (1998) and Destiny's Shield (1999) came before it. Series include Ring of Fire: Assiti Shards, Grantville Gazette, Belisarius, Jao, Boundary, Pyramid, Demon Rift and Rats, Bats & Vats, and two short fiction lines carry Dave Freer's name alongside Flint's. Subjects include time travel, alternate history, West Virginia, Europe, the Thirty Years' War and life on other planets.

Dan Gutman

198 books• 23 series

Dan Gutman is an American writer of mainly children's fiction, born in 1955. The best-known lines are the My Weird School books, The Genius Files and the Baseball Card Adventures, which began with Honus & Me. The catalogue holds 198 books from It Ain't Cheating If You Don't Get Caught (1990) to Mrs. Towne Is a Clown! (2026), including early baseball titles such as Baseball Babylon (1992). Subjects include schools, teachers, baseball, time travel and humorous stories.

American children's author Kate Messner, born in 1970 or 1971, writes mainly picture books, chapter books and middle grade novels. Messner's books have sold over five million copies in more than a dozen languages. The catalogue lists 85 books from Spitfire (2007) to Axolotl-Ella: A Sort-of Cinderella Story (2026), with Keep the Ghost Light On due in 2027. Series include History Smashers, Ranger in Time, Marty McGuire, Over and Under and Silver Jaguar Society Mysteries. Time travel, schools, dogs and history feature among the subjects.

Paul McCusker writes Christian time-travel adventures for readers in grades 1 to 3. Cousins travel into historical episodes, one per book: Voyage with the Vikings (2011), Attack at the Arena, Peril in the Palace, Problems in Plymouth, Revenge of the Red Knight and Battle for Cannibal Island. Christian life, history and druids appear among the listed subjects, and the books tie to the AIO series. McCusker's 35 catalogued titles run from 2011 to Faith in the Flames (2026), at a median of 144 pages.

Lynne Ewing is an American screenwriter and young adult novelist with 24 books catalogued from 1996 to 2014. Daughters of the Moon, Sons of the Dark and Sisters of Isis are her three series, which draw on the supernatural, demonology and Egyptian mythology. Drive-By (1996), her debut, won the 1999 Arizona Young Readers Award. Party Girl, the follow-up, was filmed as Living the Life. Ewing's work has appeared in seven languages.

Time travel and magic run through Lynn Kurland's romance. The de Piaget family novels and the Nine Kingdoms fantasy sequence are the two series, with the MacLeods among the recurring names. A Dance Through Time (1996) is the earliest of 44 catalogued titles, and As Time Goes By is the newest. Median length is 376 pages, and the 2010s were the busiest decade.

Sandra Hill writes historical and contemporary romance, and new beginnings is the theme running through the work. The Reluctant Viking (1994) opens a catalogue of 61 books that reaches Jinx Christmas (2026), taking in two Viking series, the Cajun and Creole Historical books, Deadly Angels, Bell Sound, Jinx and the Tante Lulu Adventures. Vikings, time travel, vampires, angels and Navy SEALs recur as subjects. Hill grew up in central Pennsylvania, attended Penn State and worked ten years in journalism before that first novel.

Bill Myers is an American Christian author, film director and film producer, born in Seattle, Washington on September 9, 1953. The animated series McGee and Me! is the work Myers is most noted for. Myers writes across comedy, horror, thriller, fiction and nonfiction. The catalogue holds 132 books, from My Friend William Moved Away (1979) to Commune (2023), with the 1990s as the busiest decade. Series include Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle, Forbidden Doors, Bloodhounds Inc., TJ and the Time Stumblers and Secret Agent Dingledorf and His Trusty Dog, SPLAT. Catalogue subjects cover Christian life, children's fiction, humorous stories, time travel and spies.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

55 books• 12 series

Margaret Peterson Haddix, born April 9, 1964, is an American writer best known for two children's series: Shadow Children (1998-2006) and The Missing (2008-2015). She also wrote the tenth book of The 39 Clues, a series with multiple authors. The catalogue lists 55 of her books from Running Out of Time (1995) to Moonleapers (2025), including Among the Hidden (1998), Just Ella (1999) and Turnabout (2000). Other series listings include Palace Chronicles, Children of Exile, Greystone Secrets, Mysteries of Trash and Treasure and Under Their Skin. Subjects include time travel, science fiction, brothers and sisters, and schools.

Stephen Baxter

78 books• 19 series

Time travel, alternative history, space exploration and prehistoric peoples run through the 78 catalogued books of Stephen Baxter, an English hard science fiction author born in 1957 who holds degrees in mathematics and engineering. Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Anti-Ice (1993), Flux (1993), Ring (1994), The Time Ships (1995), Voyage (1996) and Titan (1997) are among the early titles, and Hearthspace (2025) is the newest. Series include the Xeelee Sequence, Manifold, Destiny's Children, Time's Tapestry, Northland, NASA Trilogy, Mammoth, Flood and World Engines.

Alex Scarrow

38 books• 6 series

TimeRiders is the young adult science fiction series Alex Scarrow is most known for, and subject headings for the books name time travel along with the characters Maddy Carter, Liam O'Connor and Sal Vikram. Scarrow is a British author born on 14 February 1966. The catalogue lists 39 books from A Thousand Suns (2006) to Let's Play (2026), with The Good Doctor due in 2027. Afterlight (2007), Last Light (2007) and October Skies (2008) precede TimeRiders (2010), and The Doomsday Code (2011) and City of Shadows (2012) follow. DCI Boyd, Ellie Quin and Plague Land are the other series, and plague and survival appear among the subjects.

Gordon R. Dickson

94 books• 15 series

Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 to January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction writer inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000. The catalogue lists 94 Dickson books, beginning with Time Grabber (1952) and No Shield from the Dead (1953). Dorsai! / The Genetic General (1960), Secret Under the Sea (1960) and Naked to the Stars (1961) are among the titles. Series include Childe Cycle, Dragon and the George, Dilbia, Sea People and Jim Eckert. Subjects include the Dorsai, time travel, dragons and the Middle Ages.

Tony Abbott, born in 1952, is an American author of children's books. His Secrets of Droon fantasy series runs to more than 40 titles and is his most widely read work; he also wrote Firegirl and The Copernicus Legacy. Abbott has sold over 12 million copies and been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish and Russian. The 105 catalogued books span Danger Guys (1994) to Junk Boy (2020), aimed largely at grades 1 to 3.

Kage Baker

36 books• 9 series

Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, born 10 June 1952 and died 31 January 2010. In the Garden of Iden (1997) opens a 38-title catalogue that runs through Sky Coyote (1999), Mendoza in Hollywood (2000), The Graveyard Game (2001) and The Anvil of the World (2003). Time travel, immortality, cyborgs, pirates and the imaginary Dr. Zeus Incorporated fill the subject list, and The Company is the recurring name among the characters. New material keeps appearing, with The Lady Keeps the Sea dated 2026, at a median of 336 pages.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Isaac Asimov

553 books• 31 series

Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer who also taught biochemistry at Boston University. Hard science fiction is the core of Asimov's reputation, and the Foundation series about a fallen space empire is the most famous work; Asimov ranked with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke as one of the "Big Three" of the genre. The output also covers mysteries, fantasy and popular science, with non-fiction lines such as How Did We Find Out and the Library of the Universe. Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books. This catalogue opens with the story Marooned Off Vesta (1939) and names Asimov on 400 of the listed books.

S.M. Stirling

96 books• 25 series

Born in France on September 30, 1953, Stephen Michael Stirling writes science fiction and fantasy as S.M. Stirling and holds Canadian and American nationality. Stirling is the author of the Draka alternate history novels, the Nantucket books combining time travel with alternate history, and the Emberverse. The catalogue starts with Snow Brother (1985), then The Sharpest Edge (1986), Marching Through Georgia (1988) and Under the Yoke (1989). Series include Raj Whitehall, Fifth Millennium, Island in the Sea of Time, Dies the Fire, Lords of Creation, Shadowspawn and T2. Subjects include time travel, the regression of civilization, imaginary wars and space warfare.

Ann Hood is an American novelist, short story writer and memoirist. Her work counts fourteen novels, four memoirs, a short story collection, one young adult novel and the ten-book Treasure Chest series for middle readers, inside a catalogue of 35 titles running from Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine in 1987 to The Stolen Child in 2024. Family life, mothers and daughters, twins and friendship recur across the fiction. Hood's essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares and Tin House, Hood contributes the Home Economics column to The New York Times Op-Ed page, and Hood teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing programme at The New School in New York City.