Best Alternative History Novels - April 2024

The Two Gates: A Novel

Finally one of history's most enduring "what if" questions is answered:What if John F. Kennedy survives the assassination attempt in Dallas?It’s January 1964. Political intrigue and infighting roils Washington in the wake of the assassination attempt, as President Kennedy returns to the White House from the hospital to face a growing crisis in Vietnam that threatens America’s Cold War strategy. The president doesn’t trust the information he is getting from Saigon, where in the aftermath of the coup that toppled the U.S. supported government, the American military is engaged in a shadow o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07643DCY6
• ASIN: B07643DCY6

1942: A Novel

• ASIN: B001NLKTEC
• ASIN: B001NLKTEC
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

1984

• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Reckoning: A Novel

#1 bestselling author John Grisham’s The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.  “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case.”—USA Today   October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385544154
• ASIN: 0385544154
• ISBN: 9780385544153
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Departure

• ASIN: B00VQRCQZI
• ASIN: B00VQRCQZI
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Harper Voyager

Of Mice and Men

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression   They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140177396
• ASIN: 0140177396
• ISBN: 0140177396
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Now an HBO series.Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and lead... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609450787
• UPC: 787721927150
• ASIN: 1609450787
• ISBN: 9781609450786
• Brand: Europa Editions
• Manufacturer: Europa Editions

Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie)

The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburgh Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.Thirty years after the first incident... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316010707
• ASIN: 0316010707
• ISBN: 0316010707
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

11/22/63: A Novel

One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James FrancoON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451627297
• ASIN: 1451627297
• ISBN: 1451627297
• Brand: King, Stephen
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Animal Farm and 1984

• ASIN: B003ZX868W
• ASIN: B003ZX868W
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Tetradome Run

When the crime wave peaked in the early 70s, and Nixon signed the Redemption Act, no one bothered to imagine what public execution might look like fifty years in the future.No one imagined that The Tetradome Run would become the most popular show in America. This year's show puts convicted felons in a race with genetically engineered monstrous creations. Murderers, rapists, terrorists, and thieves--they all will take their place at the starting line, and the most notorious among them is Jenna Duvall, the college student who shot a Senator.Allegedly. Jenna swears she's innocent, and as she runs... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07FT3QZYB
• ASIN: B07FT3QZYB

The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

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• ASIN: 1441177043
• ASIN: 1441177043
• ISBN: 1441177043
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Academic

First Lessons: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 1)

Enjoy the complete historical romance and time travel series by a bestselling Amazon author right now!Aliya is a medical school graduate gifted with both smarts and an athletic body. Her life seems perfect…until she finds herself in a fatal car accident. Instead of dying, however, she wakes up in a completely different body in the middle of a half-ruined castle during alternate medieval times. Confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she was given a second chance in life — so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring the castle and her new life.Aliya’s situation is confusing an... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079318YMX
• ASIN: B079318YMX
• Manufacturer: LitHunters Ltd.

Trial by Treason (Enchanter General Book 2)

A burgeoning Saxon enchanter confronts a demonic plot against the king in the sequel to Ironfoot, a historical fantasy series set in twelfth century England. King Henry, campaigning in France, receives a muddled warning of a treasonous conspiracy in Lincoln Castle, his great fortress in the center of England. His enchanters report that the letter contains both truth and lies, but cannot determine which is which. Putting little stock in the warning, he sends an eager young knight to lead a troop of men and investigate, and since the letter includes hints of magic, Henry orders him to enlist the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H9G8R1W
• ASIN: B07H9G8R1W
• Manufacturer: Night Shade Books

The Electric State

NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501181416
• ASIN: 1501181416
• ISBN: 1501181416
• Brand: Skybound Books
• Manufacturer: Skybound Books

Alternate Side : A Novel

Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at

• UPC: 203858808
• Rating: 3.81

Sophie's World : A Novel About the History of Philosophy

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out

• UPC: 5088983
• Rating: 3.53

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century - eBook

Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed—and still might yet . . .Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll

• UPC: 944021623
• Rating: 4.0

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century : Stories

Presents a collection of "what if" stories that offer an alternate version of actual historical events in an anthology with works by Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, Ward Moore, Gregory Benford, and Susan

• UPC: 1265661
• Rating: 4.0

Best Friends Forever : A Novel

With incomparable humor and heart, Weiner presents her latest novel, which depicts the nuances of female

• UPC: 11975146
• Rating: 3.324

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories - eBook

Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we

• UPC: 577244098
• Rating: 3.5

My Best Friend's Exorcism : A Novel

An unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist that blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of '80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller The year is 1988. High school sophomores

• UPC: 55695819
• Rating: 4.087

Zane Grey, Best Novels

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 -1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.

• UPC: 312706690

All the Way with JFK: An Alternate History of 1964 - eBook

What if Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullet had missed on that fateful day in Dallas? What if John F. Kennedy had lived to run again in 1964? Find out the answers in All the Way with

• UPC: 783468774
• Rating: 4.333

We the States : An Alternate History Novel

Imagine if the United States Constitution had never been ratified and George Washington had never become President. In We the States, author Adam Sivitz creates an alternative narrative acted out by the founding fathers of

• UPC: 329674026