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"

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Nonesuch
World War 3.3 (The Axis of Time Reloaded Book 3)
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
The Age of Calamities
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Pagans
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Blood Slaves
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
World War 3.3 (The Axis of Time Reloaded Book 3)
Mania
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
Biography of X
Polostan (Bomb Light #1)
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
Nonesuch
The Age of Calamities
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

After the End of the World by Jonathan L. HowardThe Sea Peoples by S.M. StirlingWinter Tide by Ruthanna EmrysThe Berlin Project by Gregory BenfordInterviews With the Rauschmonstrum by Nick LaTorre
Alternate History in 2017
51 books — 18 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Manchurian Candidate by Richard CondonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Mind Control Fiction
340 books — 145 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 — 145 voters

The Man in the High Castle
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Fatherland
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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)

Gwenn Wright
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Gwenn Wright, Lipstick & Bolsheviks

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