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Books like Time Machine: 9 series to read next

Time Machine is time travel. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Time Machine is 25 books, 1984–1989.

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Tarzan
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Allan Quatermain
Time Patrol
Voyages extraordinaires
Kairos
Orion
Infinity Ring
Wolves Chronicles

universe100 books1912

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

Allan QuatermainSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard, Jean Francis Webb & Thomas Kent Miller25 books1885

Adventure, adventurous in tone, about expeditions, set in 19th century and africa.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Marie →

Time PatrolSeries

seriesPoul Anderson, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg & S. M. Stirling24 books1955

Time travel and science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in our world.

“Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories follow Manson Everard, recruited in 1957 into a secret organization that polices time travel, hunting down unauthorized travelers and anyone who would alter history.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Time Patrol →

Voyages extraordinairesSeries

seriesJules Verne, A. Laurie, Bill Bowler, Deanna McFadden, Donald M. McFarlan, Gardner F. Fox, H. E. Palmer, Howard J. Schwach, Kathleen Olmstead, Kathryn Lay, Maria José Lobo, Marian Leighton, Michael Dean, Pepita Subirà & Raymond James59 books1863

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in 19th century.

“The cycle features some of Verne's best known titles, such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Floating City →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

Reading order →

OrionSeries

seriesBen Bova14 books1977

Time travel and science fiction, adventurous in tone.

“Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Orion →

Infinity RingSeries

seriesJames Dashner, Matt de la Peña, Carrie Ryan, Jennifer A. Nielsen, Lisa McMann & Matthew J. Kirby8 books2012

Time travel and science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in our world.

“The first book introduces the trio and follows them as they try to prevent a revolt by the Amancio brothers.”
from the catalogue description of A Mutiny in Time
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Mutiny in Time →

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoan Aiken12 books1962

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in 19th century and british isles.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Time Machine?: Tarzan — the closest match to Time Machine on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Time Machine?: Secret of the Knights. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Time Machine.
How big is Time Machine?: Time Machine is 25 books, 1984–1989.

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