I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction, but I like the kind of historical fiction that's a counterpoint to the truism that "history is written by the winners" - novels that give a voice to history's losers.

The Valiant and the Damned by Roy Clews, about the Luddites - I'll never use that word as an insult again.

There was a book about the Catiline rebellion that I read several years ago and just can't remember the author or title.

Another one by Sheri Holman that I just finished: The Dress Lodger, about a factory worker/prostitute and a doctor in 1830s England.