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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?
This week’s topic is a freebie on the theme of Love/Valentine’s Day. I’ve decided to revisit some of my favourite books from Februarys of previous years, two from each month.
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