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The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 245,849 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,802,422 ratings — published 1949
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.88 — 139,531 ratings — published 2001
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,577,943 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,325,812 ratings — published 2008
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.12 — 551,905 ratings — published 2022
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,704,511 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,010,456 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,796,963 ratings — published 2005
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,358,478 ratings — published 2009
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.16 — 570,043 ratings — published 1996
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,896,410 ratings — published 2010
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.95 — 350,740 ratings — published 2009
The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.89 — 23,384 ratings — published 2010
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.03 — 449,039 ratings — published 2015
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,163,945 ratings — published 1932
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,877,584 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,254,379 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,947,956 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,076,016 ratings — published 1999
Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
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avg rating 3.62 — 17,465 ratings — published 2021
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,176,319 ratings — published 2016
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.72 — 82,077 ratings — published 2007
The City & the City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 83,305 ratings — published 2009
Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,230 ratings — published 2009
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,350,548 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,695,108 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,375,911 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,946 ratings — published 2002
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,123 ratings — published 2003
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.13 — 809,283 ratings — published 2002
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.06 — 632,465 ratings — published 1955
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,084,606 ratings — published 1979
The Kaiju Preservation Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.97 — 77,376 ratings — published 2022
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,117,697 ratings — published 2020
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 249,454 ratings — published 2013
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 822,972 ratings — published 2016
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,642,101 ratings — published 2020
Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,252 ratings — published 2013
Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,884 ratings — published 2012
The Difference Engine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.47 — 23,328 ratings — published 1990
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 263,865 ratings — published 2004
Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 23,756 ratings — published 2015
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.18 — 245,253 ratings — published 2016
In the Garden of Iden (The Company, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,132 ratings — published 1997
1Q84 (1Q84, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.92 — 49,914 ratings — published 2010
Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.96 — 32,720 ratings — published 2015
My Real Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,508 ratings — published 2014
Kindred (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 297,802 ratings — published 1979
Goliath (Leviathan, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as alternative-reality)
avg rating 4.22 — 34,404 ratings — published 2011
“If nothing lasted and the world did not exist, all that meant was that reality was not fixed. The illusion she lived in was fluid and mutable, and could be easily altered by someone willing to rewrite the script of reality.”
― The Dragon Republic
― The Dragon Republic
“On the night Sam went missing, it occurred to Sadie that nothing in life was as solid-state as it appeared. A childish game could be deadly. A friend might disappear. And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living. Sometimes, it felt as if you might be walking down Brattle Street, and without warning, you could slip into this other life, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole that led to Wonderland. But it wouldn't be strange like Wonderland, not at all. Because you would have expected all along that it could have turned out that way. You would feel relief, because you had always wondered what that other life would have looked like. And there you were.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
