Time Travel and Alternative History

Adult Fiction - Time Travel and Alternative History

Updated May 19, 2023
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Life after life : a novel
Atkinson, Kate.
Paper Book
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty...
The shining girls
Beukes, Lauren.
Paper Book
A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future....
The impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Carter, Stephen L.
Paper Book
From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation's past   Stephen L. Carter's thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President...
The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel
Chabon, Michael.
Paper Book
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 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the...
Perfect : a novel
Joyce, Rachel.
Paper Book
A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. Byron Hemmings wakes to a...
Hitler's peace : a novel of the Second World War
Kerr, Philip.
Paper Book
A stunning World War II "what if" thriller in which the fate of Europe-and of its remaining 3 million Jews-hangs in the balance. Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allied conference in Teheran will set the ground rules for their second...
11/22/63 : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ON 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...
Weave a circle round
Maaren, Kari
Paper Book
Discover your inner child once again in this debut fantasy adventure for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. L. Konigsburg.When the unexpected moves in next door, anything can happen in Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren's debut in this YA-friendly fantasy adventure.Freddy doesn't...
Hazards of time travel
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" -- and its hazards--are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares...
Null states
Older, Malka
Paper Book
"Kinetic and gripping" --NPR onInfomocracy Null States continues Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's Hugo Centenal Cycle, the near-future science fiction trilogy beginning withInfomocracythat is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series ...
The afterlives
Pierce, Thomas
Paper Book
"Ridiculously good" (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out). Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart...
Island of glass
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune. As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he...
Landline
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
#1New York Times bestselling author! ANew York TimesBest Seller!Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fiction of 2014! An Indie Next Pick! FromNew York Times bestselling author ofEleanor & Park andFangirl, Rainbow Rowell, comes a...
Everfair
Shawl, Nisi
Paper Book
From noted short story writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate-history novel set in the Belgian Congo. What if the African natives developed steam power ahead of their colonial oppressors? What might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the...
The rise and fall of D.O.D.O.
Stephenson, Neal
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist! B&N Editor's Pick - Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017  From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future...
The gone world
Sweterlitsch, Tom
Paper Book
"I promise you have never read a story like this."--Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent...
Liberating Atlantis
Turtledove, Harry.
Paper Book
“The maven of alternate history”( San Diego Union- Tribune) continues his epic tale of Atlantis. Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis’s first settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to win the nation’s independence. But he is also a...
Blackout
Willis, Connie.
Paper Book
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-...
Underground airlines
Winters, Ben H.
Paper Book
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 Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson...

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