Time Travel Books of the 1980s
The 70 most-read time travel books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987), Sphere (1980) and Replay (1986).
This list collects 70 books from the 1980s by 61 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
Sphere
Michael Crichton
Replay
Ken Grimwood
Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)
Madeleine L'Engle
Test of the Twins
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Lightning
Dean Koontz
The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen
The Doll in the Garden
Mary Downing Hahn
A Knight in Shining Armor
Jude Deveraux
The Summer Tree
Guy Gavriel Kay
Caballo de Troya
J. J. Benítez
Deathlands
James Axler
Vacation Under the Volcano
Mary Pope Osborne
An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet #5 / O'Keefe Family #4)
Madeleine L'Engle
Hour of the Olympics
Mary Pope Osborne
Something Upstairs
Avi
The Magic Labyrinth
Philip José Farmer
Marooned in Realtime
Vernor Vinge
A Tale of Time City
Diana Wynne Jones
Novels
H. G. Wells
THE MANY-COLORED LAND
Julian May
Enchantment
Orson Scott Card
The Anubis Gates
Tim Powers
A Walk in Wolf Wood
Mary Stewart
The Forbidden Castle
Edward Packard
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Chris Heimerdinger
Knights of the Kitchen Table
Jon Scieszka
The Homeward Bounders
Diana Wynne Jones
Back to the Future
George Gipe, Bob Gale
House of Danger
R. A. Montgomery
Return to the Cave of Time
Edward Packard
Hi No Tori
手塚 治虫
The Golden Torc
Julian May
Star Trek - Time for Yesterday
A. C. Crispin
Doctor Who
British Broadcasting Corporation
Star Trek - Ishmael
Barbara Hambly
A Handful of Time
Kit Pearson
Green Futures of Tycho (Starscape)
William Sleator
Star Trek - Strangers From the Sky
Margaret Wander Bonanno
The Proteus operation
James P. Hogan
Thrice Upon a Time
James P. Hogan
Doctor Who - Inferno
Terrance Dicks
The Time Raider
Robert Lawrence Stine
The Dominators
Ian Marter
Time Was
Nora Roberts
Time-kept Promises
Constance O'Day-Flannery
Christmas Stranger
Joan Hohl
Time-Kissed Destiny
Constance O'Day-Flannery
The Best-Kept Secret
Emily Rodda
Anno's USA
Mitsumasa Anno
Warlock
Ray Garton
Intervention
Julian May
The Place of Dead Roads
William S. Burroughs
Fireball
Sam Youd
The Secret World of Polly Flint
Helen Cresswell
Terraplane (Dryco)
Jack Womack, Jean Bonnefoy
The Christ commission
Og Mandino
About Time
Jack Finney
The Dragon and the Djinn
Gordon R. Dickson
Doctor Who
Peter Grimwade
Trapped in Time
Ruth Chew
Love Once in Passing
Jo Ann Simon
Sword of the Samurai
Michael Reaves
Blossom Culp and the sleep of death
Richard Peck
Give Me Tonight
Lisa Kleypas
New Found Land
Sam Youd
The Reluctant God
Pamela F. Service
Forever, for Love
Becky Lee Weyrich
Sweet Reckoning
Eugenia Riley
Haphazard House
Mary Wesley