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Tosho
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Post by Tosho »

If you like Alt. History here's some suggestions,

Rising Sun Victorious: The Alternate History of How the Japanese Won the Pacific War,
The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars,
How Few Remain[i/] by Harry Turtledove (prelude to his Great War series),
Great War series; American Front, Walk Through hell, Breakthroughs by Harry Turtledove.
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One I will have to agree with Sheppard on

"The Gulag Archipeligo"
"Notes from Underground"(Admittably the story does get a little Ray Cav ish (It's about a guy who lost his family to the Czar's persecution, and is now stalking the daughter of some wealthy family)
"War & Peace"

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"Name of the Rose", "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco
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