Welcome back to the FYA Reading Challenge! This month’s prompt is to read an alternate history book.

If you’re looking for inspo, check out the “alternate histories” tag. Here are a few suggestions to get you started!

Reading Challenge Recs

American Royals

In American Royals, Katharine McGee explores a contemporary United States… with a monarchy.

Fateful

Claudia Gray’s Fateful asks the delicious question: what if there were werewolves on the Titanic?

My Name is Victoria

An alternative history of Queen Victoria’s rise to the throne proves to be a real page-turner with My Name Is Victoria by Lucy Worsley.

My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies #1)

Sure, it’s an obvious choice, but if you’ve never read My Lady Jane (Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows’s delightful and hilarious take on British history with a shapeshifting twist), you simply must!

Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1)

Zombies rise in the shadow of the Civil War in the richly layered and thrilling Dread Nation by Justina Ireland.

The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy #1)

In the land of S.E. Grove’s The Glass Sentence, the “Great Disruption” caused each piece of the world to be flung into a different Age. Impossible not to be intrigued, right?

Which book(s) are you planning to read for this prompt? Let us know in the comments!

Sarah lives in Austin, and believes there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure, which is part of why she started FYA in 2009. Growing up, she thought she was a Mary Anne, but she's finally starting to accept the fact that she's actually a Kristy.