• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Angelfall & World After (Penryn & the End of Days series) by Susan Ee
• Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth series by Carrie Ryan
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett (though I have not yet read the rest of the Demon Cycle books yet)
• Scarecrow series and Jack West Jr series and Contest by Matthew Reilly

I know I cheated a bit on some, naming whole series and extra books by the same author, but I enjoyed them all.

• Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog by P. Robert Smith
• Casting Shadows Everywhere by Tim McBain & L.T. Vargus

• Anne Shirley & Gilbert Blythe
• Mr Darcy & Elizabeth Bennett