The Number of Love by Roseanna M. WhiteThe Killing Tide by Dani PettreySweet on You by Becky WadeA Bound Heart by Laura FrantzThe Sky Above Us by Sarah Sundin
Most Anticipated Christian Fiction 2019
318 books — 863 voters
Dreamland by Nancy BilyeauCode Name Hélène by Ariel LawhonThe Mirror & the Light by Hilary MantelCartier's Hope by M.J. RoseAnd They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Historical Fiction 2020
374 books — 526 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Help by Kathryn StockettA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,778 books — 3,746 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Best Historical Mystery
2,229 books — 4,721 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,475 books — 2,452 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
7,808 books — 26,041 voters