Hello!
I’m interested in reading some books about accidentally time travelling. I specifically mean that. I don’t want any recommendations about someone who built a Time Machine. I’m more so looking for your average joe who just accidentally went back a hundred odd years. I want it to go into the past and not the future. Don’t get me wrong when I say average joe either. It could be someone interested in science but I just don’t want it to be intentional. I’m flexible and I don’t mind what genre! Also I don’t mind how far they go back either.
Thanks 🙂
by Arkon_17
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outlander diana g.
Following because I’m also interested
A change from most of the work she’s known for, Octavia Butler’s [Kindred](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60931.Kindred) is my first recommendation.
And if you’re open to it’s accidental dimensional shifts rather than time travel, (though time moves differently in the different planes) I quite enjoyed Ursula K LeGuin’s [Changing Planes](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13657)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister is an excellent mystery and also fits your request, though it might not be what you were expecting to find. It’s lighter on the sci-fi side of things and more focused on the mystery. I loved it.
Outlander
Also a similar one is A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
Beyond the Moon by Catherine Taylor
It was gifted to me when my grandmother died. (The main character’s grandmother’s death gets the story going.) It was a book that I was truly surprised to enjoy so much!
The Time Traveler’s Wife is about a man who jumps around in his own past and can’t control why or when it happens.
Slaughterhouse-Five is about the exact same thing, and it’s a much, **much** better book.
They’re both worth reading, though.
Island in the Sea of Time and sequels by Sterling,
Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague De Camp,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court,
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Time Travelers Wife.
*How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler* –Ryan North
*Wrong Place Wrong Time* is a “mom book club mystery” that is a good palate cleanser. Easy to read and interesting enough to hold interest. A woman finds herself traveling backwards in time to figure out why her teen son kills.
*Flux* by Jinwoo Chong is a time travel/reality bender that talks about a man who figures out that his employers are using time travel.
*All Our Wrong Todays* is a time travel book that was just optioned to be made into a series/movie on Peacock. Starting off like a goofball first person adventure about a down on his luck dude from the future who gets messed up in his father’s time travel experiment… the story turns into a surprising depth of emotion that creeps up on you in the last third.
*Oona Out of Order* is an easy and fast read about a young woman who is thrown into a different year of her life on New Year’s Eve while remaining in her 20’s “inside.” Good in that it doesn’t get too predictable or “safe,” but stumbles a bit in Oona’s personality and making some pretty bold assumptions for plot.
*The Hike* by Drew Magary is a story that follows a man who becomes lost on a hiking trail and ends up traversing an alt-reality/surreal landscape. Pretty straight forward weird-read, but the devil is in the details. After a jaw dropping final chapter, you realize that this is much more than just a goofy journey book and perhaps worth re-reading to find nuggets the author left for you to find.