Diana Gabaldon
This popular historical romance series follows the adventures of Claire Randall who stumbles from 1946 into 18th century Scotland when she touches some mysterious standing stones:
- Outlander (also published as Cross stitch)
- Dragonfly in amber
- Voyager
- Drums of autumn
- The Fiery Cross
- A breath of snow and ashes
- An echo in the bone
The series is unique in its combination of time travel, historical detail and romance. You might like to try the following authors and titles:
- Kage Baker Novels of the Company: In the garden of Iden, Sky coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, The Graveyard game, The Life of the world to come
- This compelling series of novels is about the Company — a 24th century organization that turns orphans and refugees from the past into cyborgs and sends them back in time to save or hide paintings, cultural treasures, and genetic information useful to the future world. The first book in particular contains elements of romance and historical detail as Mendoza goes back in time to Elizabethan England.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon, The Forest house, The Lady of Avalon, Priestess of Avalon
- A series of novels revolving around the mythical isle of Avalon, weaving in and out of Arthurian legend and retelling the tales from the female perspective.
- Sara Donati Into the wilderness, Dawn on a distant shore
- Elizabeth Bonner leaves England in 1792 to join her father and brother in a mountainous village in upstate New York, where she falls in love with a man torn between white and Native American culture. In the sequel, she must cross the frozen wilderness in the winter of 1794 in a desperate bid to save her husband from being hanged as an American spy. Find more books by Sara Donati
- Barbara Erskine On the edge of darkness
- Adam is only 14 when he is placed in the harsh hands of his father. Then he meets Brid, a girl his own age, soon strange things occur. Sometimes he finds himself going back through the gateway in time to Brid's home in the 6th century.
- Susanna Kearsley Mariana
- When Julia moves to a small Wiltshire village, she finds herself transported back in time as Mariana, who lived there during the great plague of 1665. She experiences, as Mariana, all the terrors of that grim time, as well as falling in love with Richard de Mornay, the squire.
- Connie Willis The Doomsday Book
- History student Kivrin goes back in history - from 2048 to 1348.
You may also be interested in our Historical Fiction and Time Travel pages.
