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This list of titles fulfill the UBN 2025 category of an alternate reality book.
Updated January 2, 2025
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11/22/63 : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
King's highly acclaimed novel, now with a stunning new cover look. WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . ...
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All our wrong todays
Mastai, Elan
Paper Book
So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have. That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have. But it never should''ve turned out like this. And it''s all my fault - well, me and to a lesser extent my father....
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American royals
McGee, Katharine
Paper Book
HRH Princess Samantha has always been a royal rebel. She's the spare not the heir, so no one minds too much who she dates or how hard she parties. It helps that her sister, Princess Beatrice, is literally perfect. She's demure, sweet and beautiful, and she knows that the crown...
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The calculating stars
Kowal, Mary Robinette
Paper Book
Winner of the 2019 Nebula, Locus and Hugo Awards! One woman. One mission. One chance to save the world. It's 1952, and the world as we know it is gone. A meteorite has destroyed Washington DC, triggering extinction-level global warming. To save humanity, the...
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Dark matter : a novel
Crouch, Blake.
Paper Book
'Brilliant' - Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series. Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. Jason Dessen has been abducted. His life has been stolen. To get it back, he will go on a journey more wondrous and horrifying than...
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The Eyre affair
Fforde, Jasper.
Paper Book
The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork...
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The man in the high castle
Dick, Philip K.
Paper Book
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been- the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and...
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The plot against America
Roth, Philip.
Paper Book
'He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive' Guardian 'Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next...
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Rabbits : a novel
Miles, Terry
Paper Book
'Murakami meets Ready Player One' - Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld'A twisted trip through a cool digital wilderness of a mystery. This book sticks to your brain' - Norman Reedus, star of The Walking DeadWhat happens in the game, stays in the game . . . Rabbits is a secret, dangerous and...
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Rodham : a novel
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Paper Book
What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? The sensational long-awaited new novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE and RODHAM. 'This addictive novel is the SLIDING DOORS of American politics. Gripping' STYLIST 'Startlingly...
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The space between worlds
Johnson, Micaiah
Paper Book
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Underground airlines
Winters, Ben H.
Paper Book
'The most timely of alternate history novels. Ben Winters has created a spellbinding world that forces the reader to look around-and to look within. This is a thriller not to be missed and one that will not be easily forgotten.' Hugh Howey It is the present-day, and the world...
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