Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Overstory by Richard PowersSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Only Story by Julian BarnesCirce by Madeline Miller
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 237 voters
The Huntress by Kate QuinnThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeThe Lost Girls of Paris by Pam JenoffLost Roses by Martha Hall KellyAmerican Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Historical Fiction 2019
432 books — 673 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilMythology by Edith Hamilton
About the Trojan War
281 books — 286 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienViciously Yours by Jamie Applegate HunterThe Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Best Heroic Fantasy
727 books — 1,388 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusPompeii by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
761 books — 1,148 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerPompeii by Robert   HarrisThe Persian Boy by Mary RenaultThe King Must Die by Mary Renault
Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
526 books — 462 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
8,065 books — 26,732 voters

Blood & Beauty by Sarah DunantThe Borgia Bride by Jeanne KalogridisThe Family by Mario PuzoPoison by Sara PooleMadonna of the Seven Hills by Jean Plaidy
Best Books about the Borgia Family
82 books — 181 voters
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie BenjaminSeduction by M.J. RoseThe Firebird by Susanna KearsleyThe Midwife's Tale by Sam   ThomasThe White Princess by Philippa Gregory
Historical Fiction 2013
423 books — 2,173 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Quincunx by Charles PalliserThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonThe CodeBreaker Mindset by Chitra Nawbatt
Best Unappreciated Books
4,373 books — 2,296 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Tudor England
642 books — 1,670 voters


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