Alaska by James A. Michener can be considered a bunch of loosely based novellas. Each with its own characters, drama, culture, history and story

The author looks at different aspects of society, and the people living in it, ruminates on them, and then reexamines his findings to shed a new light on them

I found the book quite boring in the beginning, but the story got better when the narrative was moved from San Francisco to Chile

An alternative history novel which asks an question: what if America had elected a fascist government before World War II?

While this is certainly not a history book, the lives of the women follow the national struggles (civil rights for example) which got national attention

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick is told in vivid narrative, it is sinful and tense, with flashes of violence, graphic sexual acts and grief

The central idea of video being spliced from public cameras, using one person as a central figure without their knowledge, an interesting concept