My pick would have to be the A Whole Nother Story trilogy, in which (spoiler warning) you can only travel back in time. But because time is in a loop of sorts, if you go before the beginning of time, you will be at the end of time. From there you can go back to any time you want to. And time paradoxes cannot be produced. Plus, your memories from the previous timeline exist as well as the memories from the new one.

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    10 months ago

    Octavia Butler’s Kindred offers a depiction of time travel where a woman wakes up a century or two in the past and then returns home to modern day. She’ll be home for an hour or a day or a week and then go back unexpectedly, each stay getting longer and longer. Her stays in the past are traumatizing as the two time periods contrast drastically.

    It’s not her most compelling narrative, but I recommend it for what it is, especially if you’re a writer and thinking about using time travel or dramatically changing socioeconomic conditions in your work.