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Alternative History: What if...?
“A species of fiction—also called Allohistory—in which much depends on some major reversal of known geography or history.” — from A Handbook to Literature
Civil War
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
Newt Gingrich, FIC GIN
A Confederate victory at Gettysburg.
Grant Comes East: A Novel of the Civil War
Newt Gingrich, FIC GIN
The Confederates hope to capture the capital and President Lincoln
How Few Remain
Harry Turtledove, FIC TUR
Second Civil War after the South won the first
World War I
Pashazade: The First Arabesk
Jon Courtenay Grimwood, FIC GRI
United States brokered a deal that ended World War I, and the Ottoman Empire never collapsed
Rosa: A Novel
Jonathan Rabb, FIC RAB
Post-World War I Germany and the execution of Rosa Luxemburg
The Great War: American Front
Harry Turtledove, FIC TUR
The United States and the Confederate States of America enter the war on opposing sides.
World War II
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick, SCF DIC
The United States is occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
In War Times
Kathleen Ann Goonan, SCF Goo
A young army engineer is given a mysterious device by a gypsy physicist on the eve of Pearl Harbor that could end mankind’s penchant for war and violence.
Fatherland
Robert Harris, FIC HAR
Twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II
The Narrows
Irvine, Alexander. FIC IRV
World War II-era Detroit
Last Stop Vienna: A Novel
Andrew Nagorski, FIC NAG
Hitler and the Nazis pre-World War II
Fox on the Rhine
Douglas Niles, FIC NIL
Hitler is assassinated and Himmler takes over
Fox at the Front
Douglas Niles, FIC NIL
A continuation of Fox on the Rhine
Plot Against America: A Novel
Philip Roth, FIC ROT
In 1940, Charles A. Lindbergh is elected President.
The Children's War
J. N. Stroyar, FIC STR
What if the Nazis had won WWII?
Farthing
Jo Walton, M WAL
Britain agreed to peace with Nazi Germany
Miscellaneous Subjects
Voyage
Stephen Baxter, FIC BAX
1986 Mars landing
Birthright: A Novel
Andrew Coburn, FIC COB
Account of the abduction and supposed murder of the Lindbergh baby
Resurrection Day
Brendan DuBois, FIC DUB
What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had become a full-blown atomic war?
Blonde Roots
Bernardine Evaristo, FIC EVA
What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans?
1632
Eric Flint, FIC FLI
A West Virginian town travels through time to the 17th-century
A Disturbance of Fate
Mitchell J. Freedman, FIC FRE
Robert F. Kennedy won the election for president in 1968
Nixoncarver
Mark Maxwell, FIC MAX
Ex-president Richard Nixon and poet Raymond Carver strike up a friendship
Pasquale's Angel
Paul J. McAuley, FIC MAC
Renaissance murder mystery involving Michelangelo and Raphael
Billy's Blues
C. Rips Meltzer, FIC MEL
Story of Billy the Kid from a unique narrator
The Bloody Red Baron
Kim Newman, FIC NEW
The Red Baron and other historical figures as vampires
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson, FIC ROB
What if the Black Death killed 99% of the population?
Conquistador
S. M. Stirling, SCF STI
An America where Europeans have never set foot
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