Alternate history changes one event and follows the consequences. The longest series build whole societies from that change.
Series in Reading Order
- Temeraire by Naomi Novik — 20 books · 2006–2016
The Napoleonic Wars with an aerial dragon corps. - 1632 by Eric Flint
A West Virginia town displaced into the Thirty Years' War. - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon — 25 books · 1991–2022
A twentieth-century nurse in Jacobite Scotland. - Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
First World War fought with Clankers and Darwinists. - Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card — 7 books · 1987–2026
Colonial America with folk magic.
How to read these series
Numbered entries follow the order the books were published, which is the order the story was written and the safest order for a first read. Where a series has side novels or novellas, reading them in publication order avoids spoilers from later books.
Where the numbers come from
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