Books Like Outlander

A novelist writing about the Jacobite rising of 1708 moves to a Scottish coastal village and finds she seems to remember the past she is writing. A time-slip romance built on real history.

An American woman abandoned in an English church weeps on a tomb and summons a sixteenth-century earl into the present. A much-loved time-travel romance that came out two years before Outlander.

A librarian with a genetic disorder that throws him unpredictably through time, and the artist who has known him since she was a child. Tender and sad.

A young Englishwoman is married off by royal decree to a fearsome Scottish laird, and turns his Highland household upside down. Funny, romantic and much shorter than Outlander.

An English boy raised as an Indian in the nineteenth century grows up to serve in the British army, torn between two worlds and in love with a princess.

One caveat: Very long.

The building of a cathedral in twelfth-century England, and the lives, loves and feuds of the people around it across decades.

One caveat: Long, with violence.

Three generations of a family on a sheep station in the Australian outback, and a love between a woman and a priest that neither can escape.

Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne, becomes the mistress of Henry VIII, and then watches her sister take her place.