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You've likely heard of history repeating itself, but what about a different version of the history we know? The books on this list explore what might have happened if historical events went a different way resulting in different outcomes. Perfect for the open-minded history buff!
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The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow - Redhook
Format: Hardcover
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In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching... |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
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In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change Englands history when they bring magic back... |
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The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the worlds Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing... |
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The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world... |
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka a temporary safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking collapse of the fledgling state of Israel Proud grateful and longing to be American the Jews... |
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Circe
Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The... |
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Dread Nation
Justina Ireland - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar - a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation... |
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The Plot Against America: A Novel
Philip Roth - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly... |
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Underground Airlines
Ben H Winters - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best... |
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Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: eAudiobook
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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale... |
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The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL - Tor Books
Format: Paperback
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Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars." Winner 2019 RUSA Reading List for Science Fiction -- American Library AssociationLocus Bestseller ListChicago Review of Books... |
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