Katie Roiphe, Still She Haunts Me (Dial, 2001). Historical novel about Lewis Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell, especially as funneled through the photography sessions. (Amazon [secondhand])
Carsten Jensen, We the Drowned, trans. Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder (Houghton Mifflin, 2011). A family saga covering approximately a century's worth of the history of Danish maritime island Marstal. (Amazon [secondhand])
Connie Willis, All Clear (Ballantine, 2011). Second half of Willis' duology about time-traveling historians researching the London Blitz. (Barnes & Noble)
China Mieville, Railsea (Ballantine, 2012). It's Moby-Dick! But with trains. And, um, gargantuan moles. (Amazon)
William M'Gavin, The Protestant, 2 vols. (Edwin Hunt, 1833). 1500+ pages (in small print!) of M'Gavin's anti-Catholic journalism & other writings. Electric Scotland has an overview of M'Gavin's career. (eBay)
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