To wrap up my little mini series of blog posts about time travel narratives, I am ending with a fairly large recommended reading and viewing list. There’s a bunch of stuff on here, some nonfiction books about the science and theories of time travel, an enormous list of novels, a couple anthologies, and bunch of movies, and a handful of relevant tv shows (mostly from Star Trek, which is famous for their time travel episodes).

This list is not remotely exhaustive. There are hundreds and hundreds of possible books and other media to include in this list. But this is a pretty place to start. It’s a fairly representative list of the most well-known and popular media on the subject. I have not read all of these books, or watched all of these movies (though I have at least some familiarity with a large majority of them).

I have them separated into categories, but they are not in any kind of order whatsoever (not chronological, alphabetical, or quality). Sorry, I was too lazy to work that much out. In any case, have fun with this list!

Non-Fiction Books:

• Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative by David Wittenberg
• How To Build A Time Machine: The Science Between Time Travel by Brian Clegg
• Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne
• The Science of Interstellar by Kip S. Thorne
• Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by Dr. Ronald Mallett and Bruce Henderson
• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
• Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time by J. Richard Gott

Anthologies:

• The Time Traveler’s Almanac, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
• The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenburg

Novels:

• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• From Time to Time by Jack Finney
• End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
• The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Book 1 of the Outlander series)
• Timeline by Michael Crichton
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
• The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• Black Out/All Clear by Connie Willis
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka 
• Recursion by Black Crouch
• Just One Damn Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (Book 1 of Chronicles of St. Mary’s series)

Movies:

• The Time Machine (1960)
• Terminator
• Terminator 2
• Looper
• Primer
• Back to the Future
• Time After Time
• Planet of the Apes
• Donnie Darko
• Groundhog Day
• Interstellar
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• Arrival
• La Jetee
• 12 Monkeys
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
• Your Name
• Edge of Tomorrow
• The Philadelphia Experiment
• Somewhere in Time
• Time Bandits

TV Episodes:

(These shows all did multiple time travel-centric episodes. I have not listed all of them, just a representative handful.)

Futurama — “All’s Well That Roswell,” “The Late Philip J. Fry,” “The Why of Fry,” “Meanwhile”

Star Trek: TOS — “City on the Edge of Forever,” “All Our Yesterdays,” “Tomorrow is Yesterday”

Star Trek: TNG — “Time Squared,” “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” “Time’s Arrow,” “Tapestry,” “All Good Things”

Star Trek: DS9 — “Past Tense,” “Visionary,” “Wrongs Darker than Death or Night,” “Time’s Orphan”

Star Trek: VOY — “Future’s End,” “Before and After,” “Year of Hell,” “Relativity”

*I didn’t really watch Enterprise or Discovery, though I know they also feature plenty of time travel. Also, season 2 of Picard is centered around one giant time travel plot. 

Pretty much all of Doctor Who (obviously,) but I especially recommend “Blink”

Also, all of Quantum Leap, which is a CLASSIC.

Twilight Zone had several of time travel eps, but the one that comes to mind most is “Cradle of Darkness”