Alternate History

Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own. ...more

New Releases Tagged "Alternate History"

A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Pagans
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Blood Slaves
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Biography of X
Mania
The Blueprint
Пісня дібров (Літопис Сірого Ордену, #3)
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers
Five Years After (After, #4)
The Man in the High Castle
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Fatherland
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Years of Rice and Salt
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
11/22/63
The Plot Against America
1632
The Guns of the South
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
Retribution Falls by Chris WoodingSoulless by Gail CarrigerAnno Dracula by Kim NewmanAgatha H and the Airship City by Phil FoglioThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
Favourite Steampunk/Alt. History Novels
174 books — 167 voters
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickWatchmen by Alan             MooreFatherland by Robert   HarrisCoilhunter by Dean F. WilsonJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Alternate History
361 books — 679 voters

Good Intentions by D.N. SimmonsLocked Together by Michelle  AbbottThe Kalarthri by H.M. ClarkeFallon by Valerie ZambitoTwo Romantic, Two Suspenseful by Harmony Stalter
Books On Tour
103 books — 14 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Imaginative Books
734 books — 258 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 144 voters


Daniel S. William Fletcher
As a young adult, Naomi became a teacher to help inspire children; to aid the creativity and channelled passions of their fertile minds. Now, the kids would read these Protocols; that 11yr old boy would be joined by an army of thousands, countless thousands, even millions. How long until the twisted poison of language could scar purity, and forever pervert the children of Britain into a hateful, vengeful, violent clique of racists? *Jewish life was life unworthy of life.* How could she have ev ...more
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Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe ...more
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