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- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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This week’s topic is a freebie on the theme of genres. We’re invited to pick a genre and build a list around it. I’ve gone for alternate history novels, a genre (or perhaps sub-genre) which combines my love of historical fiction with a little fantastical thinking.
Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick – Premise: It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again.
False Lights by K. J. Moran – Premise: Wellington was defeated, not victorious, at the Battle of Waterloo
Fatherland by Robert Harris – Premise: Nazi Germany won the Second World War
SS-GB by Len Deighton – Premise: It’s 1941 and England has been invaded – and defeated – by the Germans
The Infinities by John Banville – Premise: Greek gods are still with us and meddling in human affairs
11/22/63 by Stephen King – Premise: A man goes back in time to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy
Dominion by C. J. Sansom – Premise: Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley – Britain has been a colony of the French Republic since they won the Napoleonic Wars
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara – Premise: Three alternate versions of America, set in the past and the future
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld – Premise: Hillary Rodham never married Bill Clinton
Do you have any alternate history novels to recommend or add to my list?
What Cathy Read Next... 
Hmm. I’ve never in fact read a n alternative history, but it’s an interesting premise. I remember my husband not enjoying the CJ Sansom, and his choices and mine are often similar, so I wonder where to start?
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Robert Harris might be a good place to start.
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I think there’s also a show on The Man in the High Castle? I wonder if you’ve seen that and liked it, and how true it was to the book.
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Now that’s a great idea for a list!
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Fatherland sounds very interesting (and scary!)
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-xenofiction/
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I can’t say I’ve read a huge amount of alternate history so I don’t have any recs for you, but I’m glad you enjoyed these books.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/top-ten-tuesday-409/
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Fun twist! A little history, a little magic sounds fun.
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Good topic!
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What a fun take on the topic! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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I’m afraid I dislike this genre, especially when it comes to changing the outcome of WWII. But… I thought The Man in the High Castle was also where Japan and Germany won the war and took over the whole world… kind of. I don’t remember the bit about slavery from the TV series. By the way Phillip Roth did something a little different in his book The Plot Against America where the US was pro-Nazi and Lindbergh gets elected to the Presidency instead of defeats Roosevelt in 1941.
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I don’t think I ever realized that Rodham is an alt-history. Interesting!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-historical-fiction-the-1920s-1930s/
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Of course! He’s always reliable.
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