I've really enjoyed reading the following books, just to name a few:

** Giordano Bruno series s.j. Parris
** Matthew Shardlake series by C. S. Sansom
** Ashes of London series by Andrew Taylor

Wonderful books by these fabulous authors.

[General124]

For me it wasn't necessarily historical fiction per say. A group of historians put together the piece What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been. It was a great book.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. There are others but that one springs to mind quite easily.

I'd say An English Bride in Scotland, The Perfect Bride(both by Lynsay Sands, and so far I have re-read them countless of times and haven't gotten tired of them yet), Train Station Bride, Silver Storm by Cynthia Wright, Suddenly You, The Surviving Trace series, Remembrance by Jude Deveraux

[Governor3]

I am positively shocked that I'm four pages in and there has not been any mention of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series of novels. Meticulously researched and scandalously knowing of the worst aspects of human behavior, highly recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers

[CaptainKidd]

Lincoln by Gore Vidal, the second book in Vidal's American Chronicle series.

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.
Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.
Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart. I'm not overly fond of anything Arthur related but I did enjoy the trilogy.
Fatherland by Robert Harris.

Governor3: I am positively shocked that I'm four pages in and there has not been any mention of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series of novels. Meticulously researched and scandalously knowing of the worst aspects of human behavior, highly recommended.

Jeez, I completely forgot about the great fun of the Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser. Thanks for prodding my memory.

I really liked Gates Of Fire by Stephen Pressfield. Spartans, Thermopylae, it's great.