Best of history

According to the Observer's book editor, here is a list of the 10 best historical novels.  Their subject matter covers a wide range of history.  They include: the Napoleonic Wars, the Tudors & Thomas Cromwell, Renaissance Florence, 1860s Sicily, 1950s Brooklyn, pre-revolutionary Paris, life of 18th-century German aristocrat Friederich von Hardenberg, Ancient Rome, 1830s slave plantation, and the story of psychiatrist William Rivers and his pioneering treatment of various First World War soldiers.  Have you read any?  Do you agree with his list?  Or is there a title or titles that he missed?

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Romola by George Eliot
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
• Pure by Andrew Miller
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Property by Valerie Martin
• The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker [1. Regeneration 2. The Eye in the Door 3. The Ghost Road]