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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11/22/63 by Stephen king
The Time Traveler’s Wife
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I can’t say anything at all without spoilers, but it’s beautiful and mind-bending all at once.
Also, Ted Chiang has a short story about a magic mirror that sends you exactly 10 years back in time, and the escapades of all who have used it.
I really liked Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hoskings. The narrator is sort of an aimless young guy whose older sister, a brilliant physicist, builds a cardboard maze filled with mirrors in her living room and… things start getting very weird.
I know it’s a kid’s book, but Tom’s Midnight Garden was my first intro to time travel & I still love it!
The Gone World had an interesting set of characters and time travel story.
Futurama did an episode where they could only go forward and then looped around to the beginning. They kept missing their target date too.
The Old Powder Line. I read it as a kid in the 80s and it blew my mind – it was the first book I read in one sitting as it was so engrossing.
A kid finds an extra platform at his local train station and a steam train arrives in it. Essentially, this steam train drives back in time and when you get off you take over your body further and further back in your timeline.
It’s actually quite trippy and creepy for a children’s book.
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister – and for that very same reason. It’s backwards time travel and very unique. Or…so I thought 😆
Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travel series has the most interesting and believable time travel system I’ve encountered in any medium. The mechanics of it are integral to the plot of one of the books, so I won’t give an explanation here.
Impossible times trilogy by Mark Lawrence. First book is One Word Kill. It’s like stranger things in the UK but instead of aliens it’s time travel. Very good series
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Ted Chiang’s short story that another poster mentioned is great.
The Oxford Time Travel series is good, starting with Doomsday Book.
The End of Eternity by Asimov