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Hey guys!

My interest in history waned for a while, but I'm all of a sudden into it again, and as summer is coming I'm looking for some stuff to read. Last night I started making a "to read" list and, to my dismay, could only come up with four things I actually wanted to get through. Four! Anyway, I'd be really appreciative if you all could give some recommendations on good books about the French Revolution. Fiction is preferable, but I'm not entirely opposed to nonfiction.

I've read Vive La Revolution on that front, which I thought was delightful. Fictionally speaking, I read A Place of Greater Safety last summer, but thought it got sort of tedious after a while—I liked reading about the personal lives of the revolutionaries more than anything else, regardless of the accuracy ('cause I wasn't really in it for that). I mean... I can take politics, and a decent amount of it is interesting, but when it makes up the bulk of the book it becomes dry and simply isn't enough to keep me entertained. I've also read A Tale of Two Cities which is one of my favorite books but so horribly inaccurate it hurts.

So anyway, I thought you'd all be good to ask. Anything to offer?