Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Non-Fiction that reads like fiction
396 books — 257 voters
Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay PenmanAn Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsPompeii by Robert   HarrisThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
Best Historical Fiction
7,258 books — 25,403 voters