alternative historical fiction

Alternative historical fiction is a captivating genre that transports readers to parallel worlds where history has taken a different turn. It offers a unique blend of imagination and historical accuracy, making it the perfect choice for those who love to explore the "what-ifs" of the past. In this article, we will delve into some of the most intriguing alternative historical fiction novels and authors, as well as recommend websites where you can find more remarkable works.

One highly acclaimed alternative historical fiction novel is "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. Set in a post-World War II United States, the story imagines a world where the Axis powers emerged victorious. This thought-provoking book delves into the complexity of human nature and the potential consequences of altered historical events.

Another must-read in this genre is "11/22/63" by Stephen King. This gripping novel transports readers to a startling version of America, where the protagonist discovers a portal that leads to the past. Tasked with preventing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this alternative history offers a thrilling blend of suspense and meticulous historical detail.

For those interested in ancient history, "The Gates of Rome" by Conn Iggulden is an excellent choice. This novel portrays a divergent Roman Empire, where Gaius Julius Caesar survives his assassination, forever changing the course of history. Iggulden's compelling writing style and thorough research make this book both entertaining and educational.

If you are searching for a reputable website to discover more alternative historical fiction novels, Goodreads is an excellent platform to explore. With its vast community of book lovers, you can find detailed reviews, recommendations, and discussions about this genre. The "Alternative History" section on Goodreads will provide you with a wide range of novels to choose from, ensuring you never run out of captivating stories.

Another valuable resource for alternative historical fiction enthusiasts is "LibraryThing." This website allows you to catalog your personal library, connect with other readers, and discover new books. By participating in groups dedicated to alternative historical fiction, you can engage in lively conversations, share your favorite novels, and expand your reading list.

In conclusion, alternative historical fiction offers an enthralling blend of imagination and historical events, allowing readers to explore captivating "what-if" scenarios. From "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick to "The Gates of Rome" by Conn Iggulden, there are countless remarkable novels to discover in this genre. By utilizing platforms like Goodreads and LibraryThing, you can indulge in your passion for alternative historical fiction and connect with like-minded readers. So, pick up a book, immerse yourself in a different version of history, and let your imagination soar.
Happy Little Landlord Fiction
Happy Little Landlord

I was fortunate enough to travel through time, but I was born into a landlord family. Although I never lacked food and clothing in this life, I didn't want to live off others, so Fu Xiaoguan did some things casually. Unexpectedly, the impact was so huge. The emperor wanted to promote him to a high-ranking official, the princess wanted to marry him as her husband, the daughter of the Shangshufu wouldn't marry anyone else, the savage wanted his head, the barbarian country wanted his life, and the Fan country wanted his money... but all Fu Xiaoguan wanted was to be a big landlord!

302.55 Million words | 2022-03-20 08:30Update

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Peerless Concubine Fiction
Peerless Concubine

A young sales manager, due to an unexpected experience, arrived in a completely different world and became an honorable family servant in the Xiao Mansion. How will he navigate the business world, officialdom, battlefield, and love affairs as a lowly servant? Confronting a frosty princess, a vengeful woman from a wealthy household, a talented woman renowned throughout the world, a cunning and vicious witch, and an untouchable fairy, who will become his conquest? This servant is not just a mere human; even a carp must leap over the dragon gate. Light-hearted, provocative, and shameless will set the tone for this book. Taoist priests, stay away!

324.75 Million words | 2021-04-02 10:59Update

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Tyrant Fiction
Tyrant

Feeling overwhelmed by life's pressures? Then become a depraved ruler! Getting judged during job hunt? Then become a depraved ruler! Suffering under an exploitative boss? Then become a depraved ruler! Can't afford skyrocketing housing prices? Then become a depraved ruler! No money to date? Then become a depraved ruler! Stocks plummeting? Then become a depraved ruler! Wife forbidding smoking? Then become a depraved ruler! Our slogan is: as an emperor, do whatever you want as the greatest depraved ruler in history. Support is needed for our new book.

125.88 Million words | 2023-03-05 21:59Update

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Bloodshed Fiction
Bloodshed

Have you not seen, Han Zhongjun, at a tender age, donning the enemy's armor to serve his country? Have you not seen, Ban Dingyuan, leading a light cavalry in the desolate wilderness, urging forth the battle clouds? A true man should fearlessly face danger, how can he let scholarly pursuits hinder his purpose in life? Moreover, the nation teeters on the edge of peril, urgent orders fly without respite! Zhao Shi's life is destined to be one of carnage and bloodshed. From the northern wilderness to the southern jungles, wherever he ventured, it was a landscape of war and blood, his life akin to a blade of grass. His enemies fear him like a demon, his subordinates admire him like a deity. But who truly knows that he is like a lost child, constantly searching for his own path and his honor? As he looks back, his glorious life is stained with blood, does he feel deep regret or does he only leave behind a twisted smile?

598.41 Million words | 2023-05-05 18:24Update

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Establishing a thousand-year prestigious family since King Wu's conquest of King Fiction
Establishing a thousand-year prestigious family since King Wu's conquest of King

Luo Zhao crossed over and became the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa. He was entrusted with the regency and from the end of the Shang Dynasty to the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, he established his own family. Throughout the rotations of dynasties, the lineage has been passed down continuously. "The Luo family has lasted until today, spanning more than 2,300 years. Starting from the regency of the founding ancestor, Su Wang Zhao, there were nine regents who all returned the governance to the king."

189.06 Million words | 2023-04-15 12:39Update

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Shao Song Fiction
Shao Song

Shào, First is succession, second is guidance. In the year of the century, the Northern Song dynasty fell. Soon after, Emperor Zhao Guo of the ninth generation ascended the throne in Shangqiu, inheriting the rule of the Song dynasty and adopting the era name Jiànyán. However, within three months, Li Gang was dismissed as prime minister, Chen Dong was killed, Yue Fei was expelled from the army, Zong Ze was abandoned in the capital, and the anti-Jin military plans in Hebei were completely dismantled... After much effort, the officials and military of the entire court finally unified their thoughts and established the brilliant anti-Jin route of supporting Emperor Zhao's southern migration from Huaidian to Yangzhou. But as soon as they set out, after paying homage to the ancestral temple in Mingdao Palace in Bozhou, Emperor Zhao himself fell into the world-famous Nine Dragon Well. When he got up, he no longer recognized who his trusted confidants were! I want to resist the Jin dynasty! But where are my trusted confidants?! This is a sincere cry from a soul nine hundred years later. After reluctantly inheriting the name of the Great Song dynasty, he is determined to lead this court and the world onto a new path. Thus it is called Shào Sòng.

274.10 Million words | 2022-04-02 12:10Update

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Son-in-Law Fiction
Son-in-Law

In the waning years of the Wuchao Dynasty, the world was in chaos. The Jin and Liao dynasties were at odds, and the situation was turbulent. After a century of humiliation, the first glimmer of dawn for an end finally emerged. Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wu Qimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamukha, Jebe, Subutai, Muqali, Borhu, Borchu, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Geng, Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, and Zhang Bangchang engaged in a battle of loyal ministers and treacherous courtiers, heroes and villains. The barbarians descended from the north, with millions of cavalry pounding at Yanmen Pass. The land fell, and countless lives were devastated. A nation and its people were tormented for a century, their struggle and humiliation. At the very beginning, within the city of Jiangning, hidden undercurrents surged. In this unassuming merchant's family, a frivolous son-in-law lived an irresponsible life, only concerned with eating and watching performances.

593.95 Million words | 2020-10-11 01:42Update

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Rebellion Fiction
Rebellion

We betray for interests, but seek redemption for our conscience. In the third year of Daqian, the indifferent emperor spoke like a god, and the world was stirred up. Yang Xuan, a countryside bumpkin bathed in starlight, walked into Chang'an City with a mysterious scroll from a thousand years in the future. With one step, he fell into a whirlpool... Until he stood above Chang'an. Holding the scroll, a sweet smile appeared on the girl inside, and Yang Xuan screamed in despair, "No...". Written by Sir Dibala, "Defeating the Rebels" is a free-to-read novel without pop-up ads, and its chapters are published by netizens. Recommended link:

623.72 Million words | 2021-04-15 11:49Update

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I will never become an emperor. Fiction
I will never become an emperor.

I, Yu Zhiqian, would rather die in poverty, starve to death, and be degraded to a commoner than become an emperor!

101.85 Million words | 2023-05-10 12:06Update

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Resurrecting Lu Bu Fiction
Resurrecting Lu Bu

Due to a series of unfortunate events, the legendary warrior Lu Bu found himself inexplicably transported to a different timeline. If he were to be in a world where might makes right, would his fate still be as tragic?

6.67 Million words | 2022-07-17 21:58Update

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The Royal Family of Great Jin Fiction
The Royal Family of Great Jin

In the second year of the Great Jin Dynasty, Prince Dai, who had just recovered from a serious illness, arrived in Chang'an City. He flipped through history books and finally came to a conclusion: this was a dynasty unfamiliar to him, but possibly a dynasty he was familiar with. With the emperor's order to conquer Goguryeo, Baekje, and Korea, and the construction of the Grand Canal, as well as a series of national policies to pacify the south, he seemed to grasp something... an alternative history! Please don't take it as fact, thank you all! Regular group.

169.21 Million words | 2022-11-14 04:27Update

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Conquering States with the City Fiction
Conquering States with the City

While playing a web-based strategy game, Zhao Wuming suddenly found himself transported to another world. As the youngest and most despised son of the Zhao King, he watched from the sidelines as his brothers fought for the throne. Silent and determined, he developed his city and recruited renowned ministers and warriors from history. In the vast northern lands, he forged his own empire.

68.37 Million words | 2022-08-29 15:47Update

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The Life Simulator of Zhu Yuanzhang Fiction
The Life Simulator of Zhu Yuanzhang

If life were not limited to one existence, I would certainly reign over the myriad realms. In the tenth year of the Hongwu reign, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled to the year 1622 using a life simulator, arriving in the late Ming Dynasty. As he opened the history books and saw Zhu Di usurping the throne, he couldn't help but furrow his brow. Seeing the Great Ming War God sacrificing a million soldiers in battle, his expression turned somewhat dark. And when he learned that peasant uprisings were rampant during the reign of Chongzhen, with the Great Ming Empire on the verge of collapse, he could no longer sit idly by. All you unworthy descendants, get out of my way! What "Later Jin," what "King of Yan," Zhu Yuanzhang will make you all understand what

62.42 Million words | 2021-10-12 11:54Update

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Business Through Words Fiction
Business Through Words

The new book "I Have a Dreamlike Castle" has been published. "Suyan, are you willing to help me unify the world?" "I will bring salt to the world."

97.19 Million words | 2022-11-19 23:52Update

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Chu Chen Fiction
Chu Chen

During the fragmented Tang Dynasty, various vassals emerged and the divine Emperor rose from the wilderness. For the past twelve years, Chu State has been established in the Jianghuai region, becoming one of the three most powerful overlords in the world alongside Liang State in the Central Plains and Jin State in the Hedong and Youyan regions. The relentless warfare has left the people in desperate hardship.

305.18 Million words | 2023-06-20 01:37Update

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End Song Fiction
End Song

The Song Dynasty came to an end without ever reclaiming Yan Yun. Throughout the entire Song Dynasty, they were constantly oppressed by foreign enemies... As the Southern Song Dynasty approached its demise, he vowed to accomplish the great ambitions that had eluded the dynasty for so long.

414.51 Million words | 2023-05-01 08:58Update

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The Unraveling of the Sky in the Red Chamber Fiction
The Unraveling of the Sky in the Red Chamber

If you think Lin Yue's latest novel "Red Mansions: Mourning the Falling Sky" is good, you can copy and share it with your friends through the following website link! No pop-up reading address for bookmarking:

510.39 Million words | 2021-10-08 09:09Update

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Countless charming figures Fiction
Countless charming figures

In the second year of the Yonglong era of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a flourishing era conceals underlying concerns. The nobles and officials are adorned with colorful attire, while civil and military officers face the fiery trials. Internal strife between factions persist both in the north and south, while external threats loom on the nine borders. This is both the best and the worst of times. The key lies in how one navigates through it. With courage and perseverance, watch me embrace a resolute and elegant path, striving to change the course of the heavens! This is a historical narrative that nurtures the political environment, and I ask for your support, my friends. Join the loyal readers' group of Rui Gen for discussions and updates.

814.36 Million words | 2021-09-24 02:31Update

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From the Hundred Officials Fiction
From the Hundred Officials

In that year, a streak of light emerged from beyond the sky and fell in the southeast. In that year, Emperor Xiaozong entrusted his heir by his bedside. In that year, the heavens and earth turned upside down, with thunderous waves filling the sky. It was also in that year that he carried on his father's legacy, serving as just a minor official. There are also two completed novels, "The Great Thief of the Film World" and "The Strongest Overlord of the Multiverse," with over a million words each. The author of these novels is well-established, with stable updates and a guaranteed reputation. Those who can't wait may give them a try.

283.63 Million words | 2022-04-03 09:55Update

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Chief Royal Physician Fiction
Chief Royal Physician

Saving your life means saving your political life. By a stroke of luck, he entered the ranks of the "Imperial Physician", serving as a part-official, part-physician. While demonstrating the powerful charm of traditional Chinese medicine, Zeng Yi also fulfilled his ideal of "healing the country as a top doctor", steadily rising in the world. This book has already been formally published under the new title "Chief Physician”. Brothers and sisters who enjoy this book can follow and buy it, available in major bookstores across the country and online platforms like Dangdang.

450.20 Million words | 2020-07-06 21:16Update

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Step by step, a lotus grows. Fiction
Step by step, a lotus grows.

Yang Decheng, a diligent community worker, accidentally travels back to ancient times and becomes the most despised illegitimate son of the Ding family, Ding Hao. With neither power nor wealth, Ding Hao, who works as a coachman for his half-brother, harbors a dream of becoming a carefree and prosperous young master in this wicked society, living a peaceful life. Although his dream seems distant, Ding Hao remains undaunted. With the social experience accumulated from his community work, he adeptly navigates through people and events, seizing every opportunity to break free from confinement and strive for everything he desires. The power struggles of the Song dynasty, the joys and sorrows of Li Yu, the ambitions of Xiao Chuo in the Northern Kingdom, the secrets of the Golden Casket Alliance, the mysterious movements behind the scenes, Chen Tun's cunning plot to take Mount Huashan, the eternal regret of the Gao Liang River... The picturesque landscape, the beauty as poetic as a verse, the samsara world, where every step yields lotus blossoms.

356.55 Million words | 2020-11-15 02:01Update

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