Doomsday Book
Hugo and Nebula winner, regularly cited among the greatest time-travel novels ever written; its pandemic chapters acquired a second life in 2020 for obvious reasons.
Series Guide
Oxford Time Travel
Willis's sequence of future Oxford historians field-tripping into the Black Death, the Blitz and Victorian England, where the past defends itself with chaos and coincidence.
In the Guide
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Hugo and Locus winner: the proof that a time-travel comedy of manners could stand beside the genre's tragedies — and the gateway through which countless non-SF readers entered the field.
Blackout / All Clear
The two-volume novel swept the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards (2011); the culminating statement of Willis's argument that history is held together by unrecorded decency.