Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Time Travel
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$23,816
The median book price
$11.98
Bestseller's daily sales
493
50th book's daily sales
12
Average number of pages per book
301
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
Performance tracking
Competitiveness
Volume sales
Book price
Volatility
New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
fiction > science fiction > time travel
91.17%
fiction > science fiction > hard science fiction
80.58%
juvenile > fiction > science fiction
73.85%
fiction > science fiction > steampunk
73.85%
Keyword requirement
time travel, science fiction, dystopian
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 5 words:
- Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
- 11-22-63: A Novel
- Doing Time: Time Police, Book 1
- Jane in Love: A Novel
- Time Lost: A Time Travel Novel
- Indie success
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26.32%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
100%
18.75%
26.67%
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Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel | N/A | N/A | $441 | $15.75 | 26,857 | |
2 | Quantum Radio | A.G. Riddle | N/A | 98 | $259,515 | $18.80 | 13,331 | |
3 | The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) | Matt Haig | Penguin Audio | 284 | $110,250 | $15.75 | 247,665 | |
4 | Four Minutes | Jeffrey Wilson | Blackstone Publishing | 341 | $133,084 | $21.41 | 101 | |
5 | The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) | Matt Haig | Self published | 406 | $82,555 | $15.12 | 247,665 | |
6 | 11-22-63: A Novel | Stephen King | Simon & Schuster Audio | 476 | $215,220 | $44.95 | 281 | |
7 | The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) | Matt Haig | Viking; First Edition | 800 | $40,085 | $15.23 | 247,665 | |
8 | Doing Time: Time Police, Book 1 | Jodi Taylor | Audible Studios | 1,046 | N/A | $-1.00 | 5,219 | |
9 | Lost in Time | A.G. Riddle | Self published | 1,250 | $25,514 | $11.99 | 20,172 | |
10 | The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) | Matt Haig | Viking | 1,416 | $23,836 | $11.99 | 247,665 | |
11 | This Is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar | (starred review) | 1,541 | $17,535 | $9.21 | 14,339 | |
12 | Jane in Love: A Novel | Rachel Givney | HarperAudio | 1,542 | N/A | $-1.00 | 314 | |
13 | This Is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2,131 | $18,172 | $11.80 | 14,339 | |
14 | Quantum Radio | A.G. Riddle | Self published | 2,664 | $12,867 | $9.99 | 13,351 | |
15 | Mother of Learning Arc 1: Mother of Learning, Book 1 | nobody103 | Podium Audio | 3,468 | N/A | $-1.00 | 4,327 |
Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
Quantum Radio
A.G. Riddle
None
The number one New York Times best-selling worldwide phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for FictionA Good Morning America Book Club PickIndependent (London) 10 Best Books of the Year"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits." (The Washington Post)The dazzling favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How to Stop Time and The Comfort Book.Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Read more
Four Minutes
Jeffrey Wilson
Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: uncertainty about the future?Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody’s promise—access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future.Together with Navy Intelligence Specialist Zee Williams, Brooks leads a new kind of counterterrorism task force, one that collects intel from the future to stop attacks in the present. But there’s a catch. Each mission can only last FOUR MINUTES. Stakes quickly escalate when Omega discovers an unprecedented future attack against America threatening the lives of millions—including Tyler’s daughter.Despite their prescient advantage, Brooks and Williams find themselves thwarted at every turn as they try to stop the plot. To make matters worse, they have somehow gone from hunter to hunted, targeted by an unknown enemy hidden in the shadows. With the country on the brink of nuclear war, Tyler’s daughter in mortal danger, and a commanding officer they’re not sure they can trust, Omega Team faces a terrible dilemma: Even if you know the future, is FOUR MINUTES enough time to change it? Read more
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Read more
11-22-63: A Novel
Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away: a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life - like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963 - turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession - to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world - of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading, eventually of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful - and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. Read more
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Read more
Doing Time: Time Police, Book 1
Jodi Taylor
Introducing the Time Police, the brand-new series by international best-selling author Jodi Taylor - an irresistible spinoff from the much-loved Chronicles of St Mary's series. Perfect listening for fans of Doctor Who, Ben Aaronovitch and Jasper Fforde. A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity - and the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history. And so, the Time Police were formed. An all-powerful, international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs.Their success is legendary, and the Time Wars are over. But now the Time Police must fight to save a very different future - their own.This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - arguably the worst recruits in Time Police history. Or, very possibly, three young people who might just change everything. Read more
Lost in Time
A.G. Riddle
The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read." –Diana Gabaldon"Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this... Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." –Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"Are we talking plot twists? More like spirals. Gripping, clever, mind-bending stuff." –Daily MailFrom the worldwide bestselling author of Departure and Winter World comes a standalone novel about a father and daughter trying to unravel an intricate murder mystery spread across time – with a jaw-dropping twist.Control the past.Save the future.One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered.For Sam, the horror is only beginning.He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted.And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses.But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison.Thanks to a machine Sam helped invent, the world's worst criminals are now sent to the past – approximately 200 million years into the past, to the dawn of the time of the dinosaurs – where they must live out their lives alone, in exile from the human race.Sam accepts his fate.But his daughter doesn't.Adeline Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly, unfair disease. She can't bear to lose her father as well.So she sets out on a quest to prove him innocent. And to get him back. People around her insist that both are impossible tasks.But Adeline doesn't give up. She only works harder.She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. And that she is made of tougher stuff than she ever imagined.As she peels back the layers of the mystery that tore her father from this world, Adeline finds more questions than answers. Everyone around her is hiding a secret. But which ones are connected to the murder that exiled her father?That mystery stretches across the past, present, and future – and leads to a revelation that will change everything. Read more
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Read more
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. Read more
Jane in Love: A Novel
Rachel Givney
"Artfully written and engaging, Jane in Love is a lively effusion of wit and humor." (Graeme Simsion, New York Times best-selling author of The Rosie Project)A charming, romantic debut novel in which Jane Austen, heralded author, ends up time-traveling almost 200 years in the future. There she finds the love she's written about and the destiny she's dreamed of...but is it worth her legacy? Bath, England, 1803. At 28, Jane Austen prefers walking and reading to balls and assemblies; she dreams of someday publishing her carefully crafted stories. Already on the shelf and in grave danger of becoming a spinster, Jane goes searching for a radical solution - and as a result, seemingly by accident, time-travels. She lands in...Bath, England, present day. The film set of Northanger Abbey. Sofia Wentworth is a Hollywood actress starring in a new period film, an attempt to reinvent her flagging career and, secretly, an attempt to reinvent her failing marriage. When Sofia meets Jane, she marvels at the young actress who can’t seem to "break character", even off set. And Jane - acquainting herself with the horseless steel carriages and seriously shocking fashion of the 21st century - meets Sofia, a woman unlike anyone she’s ever met before. Then she meets Fred, Sofia’s brother, who has the audacity to be handsome, clever, and kind-hearted. What happens when Jane, against her better judgement, falls in love with Fred? And when Sofia learns the truth about her new friend Jane? And worst of all, if Jane stays with Fred, will she ever achieve her dream, the one she's now seen come true? Read more
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA WINNER OF THE NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS: BEST NOVELLA“[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. Read more
Quantum Radio
A.G. Riddle
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOST IN TIMEAt CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery – a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence.But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined.Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. At CERN, he analyses data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, Ty believes he's found a pattern in its output. It looks like an organised data stream, being broadcast over what he calls a quantum radio.Could it be a signal from another universe? A message sent from the future? Or something else entirely?As Ty peels back the layers of his discovery, he learns that what he's found isn't what he thought it was. The encoded message is far more profound. It may alter our understanding of human existence and the universe.But Ty is not the only one looking for it. Someone has been following his research for a long time. And they'll do anything to prevent him from unravelling what is being broadcast by the quantum radio...Because the first one to discover the truth may well control the future. Read more
Zorian Kazinski has all the time in the world to get stronger, and he plans on taking full advantage of it.A teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, Zorian is attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. A driven and quiet young man, he is consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, resenting the Kazinskis for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, Zorian has no time for pointless distractions, much less other people's problems.As it happens, though, time is something he is about to get plenty of.On the eve of Cyoria's annual summer festival, Zorian is murdered, then abruptly brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take the train to school. Finding himself trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, he will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery set before him. He does have to unravel it, too, because the loop clearly wasn’t made for his sake, and in a world of magic even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill.Fortunately for Zorian, repetition is the mother of learning…. Read more
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times).“Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin. Read more
Time Lost: A Time Travel Novel
Elyse Douglas
In 1953, a mother's routine drive home is transformed into a time-travel odyssey, when the light from a mysterious spacecraft hurls her and her car to 2023, setting in motion a series of extraordinary events and a life-and-death decision.On a serene night in 1953, Sally Mason, a dedicated wife and mother of two, drives a twisting road on her way home from night school. Suddenly, a mysterious bluish-white light descends over the road.Terrified, Sally slams on the brakes. After a flash of bright light nearly blinds her, she passes out, awakening to the persistent knock of a police officer on her car window. When she sees the officer and remembers her frightening experience, she screams and faints, and is rushed to the hospital.What Sally does not know, and what the police eventually and reluctantly conclude, is that Sally and her car have been hurled ahead in time from 1953 to 2023.Driven by the urgency to reunite with her children, Sally is forced to confront the reason for her time leap journey, and to grapple with a life-and-death decision. Read more
Four Minutes: A Thriller
Brian Andrews
4 Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: Uncertainty about the future?Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody’s promise—access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future.Together with Navy Intelligence Specialist Zee Williams, Brooks leads a new kind of counterterrorism task force, one that collects intel from the future to stop attacks in the present. But there’s a catch. Each mission can only last FOUR MINUTES. Stakes quickly escalate when Omega discovers an unprecedented future attack against America threatening the lives of millions—including Tyler’s daughter.Despite their prescient advantage, Brooks and Williams find themselves thwarted at every turn as they try to stop the plot. To make matters worse, they have somehow gone from hunter to hunted, targeted by an unknown enemy hidden in the shadows. With the country on the brink of nuclear war, Tyler’s daughter in mortal danger, and a commanding officer they’re not sure they can trust, Omega Team faces a terrible dilemma: Even if you know the future, is FOUR MINUTES enough time to change it? Read more
Before We Say Goodbye: A Novel (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series Book 4)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel (Book 1)
Steven Decker
They met twenty years before she was born, but she doesn’t know that, yet.American anthropology student Dani Peterson thought she’d be writing her dissertation about Ireland’s past, but she didn’t expect to actually be in the past! Or in the future. A chance encounter with a mysterious Irishwoman named Aideen leads her on a miraculous journey spanning centuries.But something is amiss. Something about Aideen’s mentor, Charles, is off.And thus begins a time travel adventure where no one in the past, present, or future is safe.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:“This is one of the best time travel books I have read.”“A wonderful cast of characters and crazy good storyline.”“ A very hard book to put down.”“I highly recommend this book to all fans of time travel.”“Great book for science fiction fans and those new to the genre as well.”“Great read, makes you wonder if it's all possible!”“I forgot I was reading a book.”“I wish I could have given more than five stars!!!!”“You begin to wonder if it could be real.”“A totally new perspective on time travel.”“Amazing read.”“It took me out of my everyday life to a life of possibilities and adventure.”“What fun this book was!”“Great writing! Wonderful story!”“I really like time travel novels, and this one was incredible!”“I would read it again.”“Time Travel at its finest.” Read more