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England as it might have been…had dragons fought in the Napoleonic wars, a Celtic otherworld existed beside our own, and Regency balls been twinged with spellcasting.
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The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
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Is Underground (The Wolves Chronicles, #8)
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Rose (Rose, #1)
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
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Seth Grahame-Smith (Goodreads Author)
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Hell and Earth (Promethean Age, #4)
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A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
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Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author)
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The Paradise War (The Song of Albion, #1)
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Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3)
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The Homeward Bounders
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The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)
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Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
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Wizard's Hall
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Magic Below Stairs
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The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
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Black Butler, Vol. 1 (Black Butler, #1)
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The Starlight Barking (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #2)
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A Scholar of Magics (A College of Magics, #2)
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Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1)
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Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)
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Inside Evil
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Geoffrey Wakeling (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Reason to be Shy (Levels, # 3.5)
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Awake, King Arthur
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Glen Batchelor (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet
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Tamuna Tsertsvadze (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Dawn of All
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Bard 2
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And All the King's Men
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| 128 |
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Moonlight
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Ann Hunter (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 151 ratings
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| 130 |
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Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk, #1)
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The Darkest Hour (John Rossett, #1)
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Divided Kingdom
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Fly by Night
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
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Fated (Alex Verus, #1)
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Benedict Jacka (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 30,943 ratings
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Nothing But Blue Skies
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The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
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Charlie N. Holmberg (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 89,869 ratings
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Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 331,053 ratings
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The Minpins
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| 140 |
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Between Two Thorns (The Split Worlds, #1)
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Emma Newman (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
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Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
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| 142 |
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 81,377 ratings
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Automatic Woman
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Nathan L. Yocum (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Serpent's Shadow (Elemental Masters, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 11,298 ratings
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The Royal Sorceress (The Royal Sorceress, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 12,211 ratings
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Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych, #1)
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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The Hanged Man (Her Majesty's Psychic Service, #1)
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Petty Treason (Sarah Tolerance Book 2)
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Madeleine E. Robins (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 820 ratings
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All Clear (Oxford Time Travel, 4)
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The Endless Knot (The Song of Albion, #3)
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Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)
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The Gauntlet (Cassandra Palmer #0.5)
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3.73 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
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The Silver Hand (The Song of Albion, #2)
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The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
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4.05 avg rating — 21,153 ratings
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| 157 |
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Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 63,241 ratings
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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Ghost Talkers
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Broken Homes (Peter Grant, #4)
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The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co., #1)
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Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
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The Children of Green Knowe
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Toad of Toad Hall
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The Crowfield Curse (Crowfield Abbey, #1)
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Matilda
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The Shadow of Albion (Carolus Rex, #1)
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The Crowfield Demon (Crowfield Abbey, #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 918 ratings
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The Enchanted Castle
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The Mislaid Magician; or, Ten Years After (Cecelia and Kate, #3)
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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1)
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The Horse Goddess
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Gossamer Wing (Steam and Seduction, #1)
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The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain, #2)
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Stig of the Dump
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Hawk of May
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The Mysterious Mr. Quin
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Heartstone (Heartstone, #1)
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Kingdom of Summer
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Bedknob and Broomstick
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The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
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The Owl Service
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Enchanted Glass
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Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham
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Counterpunch (Belonging, #2)
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Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)
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Mars on the Rise (Veetu Industries, #1)
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The Lost Girl
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A Deconstructed Heart
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Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed (Goodreads Author)
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Oxford Blood (The Cavaliers, #1)
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Georgiana Derwent (Goodreads Author)
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Little People
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Winter of the Passion Flower
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The Mailed Fist
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Shadows Against the Empire (Folkestone & Hand, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Chasing the Star Garden (The Airship Racing Chronicles, #1)
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A Midsummer Tempest
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Let it Snow
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Darkwells
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Oh, nice! I've read 58 of these books and a lot more are on my to-read list!
Good idea for a list! I've read 42 of them!However, I don't really think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, (but not the sequels - they count) and Artemis Fowl, great books as they are, really fall into the category of alternate England... yes, they're fantasy books set in England, but in my opinion they're not true alternate worlds like Nation, Northern Lights, Temeraire, and Never Let Me Go are.
There seem to be a number of fantasy novels on here that don't even take place in England. Surely everyone knows that The Lord of the Rings takes place in Middle Earth (which may be based somewhat on England, but definitely is NOT England). And while the Narnia books are partially based in England, Narnia itself (and thus the land that contains magic) is a different place.
Kirsten wrote: "There seem to be a number of fantasy novels on here that don't even take place in England. Surely everyone knows that The Lord of the Rings takes place in Middle Earth (which may be based somewhat ..."I completely agree with you.
I went through this list and I too noticed books set in fantasy worlds instead of the 'real' UK, and therefore fully agree with Cassandra, Kirsten and Paul on this. I have serious doubts about the current #1 (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) as well, for instance.I don't see how The Great God Pan (#323) should be on this list either. It is set in England alright, but not in an 'alternate' England, yet it has been added. Spooky, gruesome, scary, it can be whatever you like to call it, but an alternate England?
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I'd be happy to remove titles if you want me to. Unless fantasy worlds should be included in your list of course (which would still exclude The Great God Pan, in my opinion)
Argh I typed a whole reply and lost it. Shorter version: I didn't define the original category very well--never thought it would get this much attention. My original intent was just to start a list of books that still kept a "feel" of Britain while departing in some fashion (Jonathan Strange, Sorcery and Cecilia, His Majesty's Dragon).
I did mean to include fantasy titles like Sabriel, which start off in what is essentially modern Britain, but with everything north of Hadrian's wall as a separate magical kingdom. So I guess that would sort of include Harry Potter, too.
Book set in modern England but that just happen to have supernatural elements. .. eh. Not originally the plan, though if you push that logic too far they fit. So my inclination is not to include Narnia or Lord of the Rings, but I think modern England/Celtic otherworld (if it is also essentially British) is fair, and HP probably is too.
I don't know that I have the ability to remove titles from the list.
Lee Anne wrote: "I don't know that I have the ability to remove titles from the list. ..."I have, so if there are titles you'd like removed, just let me know ;-)
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