Historical Fiction
- Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
- Augustus John Williams
- Burial Rites Hannah Kent
The Cicero Trilogy Robert Harris
- The City Always Wins Omar Robert Hamilton
- The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton
- The Daughter Of Time Josephine Tey
- The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry
- G. John Berger
- I, Claudius Robert Graves
- The Invisible Mile David Coventry
- Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
- Little Edward Carey
- Lustrum Robert Harris
- Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut
- The Noise of Time Julian Barnes
- Oddfellows Nicholas Shakespeare
- Remarkable Creatures Tracey Chevalier
- Resolution A.N.Wilson
- Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth
- Saville David Storey
- The Shadow Land Elizabeth Kostova
Sharpe Series Bernard Cornwell
- Something to Answer For P.H.Newby
- The Underground Railway Colson Whitehead
- Washington Black Esi Edugyan
- Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
- The Yid Paul Goldberg