What to Read After Citizens
Readers who loved Citizens by Simon Schama keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Citizens is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Citizens
A Distant Mirror
A people's tragedy
The proud tower
Fatal purity
The days of the French Revolution
The French Revolution
The Oxford History of the French Revolution
Twelve who ruled
The Discovery of France
The Terror
The Fall of Paris
Pursuit of Glory
The collapse of the Third Republic
Armada
The march of folly
The Embarrassment of Riches
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
Paris 1919
The First World War
A World Lit Only by Fire
The story of civilization
Vive La Revolution
Dreadnought
Postwar