Alternate History Fiction

Included alternate historical fiction books.

Updated January 9, 2026
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11/22/63 A novel
King, Stephen
Ebook
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE On November 22, 1963, three...
Crusade
Anderson, Taylor
Audiobook
Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. They have allied with the Lemurians-a mammalian race whose peaceful existence is under attack from the warlike, reptilian Grik.The Lemurians are vastly outnumbered...
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...
Fatherland
Harris, Robert
Paper Book
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most...
The Great War : American front
Turtledove, Harry.
Paper Book
The United States sides with Germany, while the Confederate States ally with Britain and France in this alternate history of World War I--the stunning sequel to How Few Remain.
Nightbirds on Nantucket
Aiken, Joan
Ebook
A shipwreck survivor and her friends race to stop a nefarious plot in this classic children's adventure set in an alternate United States. "A whale of a lot of fun." -- Kirkus Reviews Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a...
The plot against America
Roth, Philip.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The chilling bestselling alternate history novel of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president whose government embraces anti-Semitism--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. "A...
The underground railroad (oprah's book club) A Novel
Whitehead, Colson
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of...
The yiddish policemen's union
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...
You dreamed of empires A novel
Enrigue, ©¿lvaro.
Audiobook
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR "Short, strange, spiky and sublime." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous." --Wall Street Journal

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