The good thing about writing books set a year apart is that the background reading is already done. So most of the texts I read for Plague were still useful for Fire. The first three below, especially the wonderful one by Bell, made the difference.
ON THE FIRE:
Bell, Walter George, The Great Fire of London (London: Folio Society, 2003)
Hanrahan, David. C, Colonel Blood (Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2003)
Tinniswood, Adrian, By Permission of Heaven (London: Pimlico; new edition, 2004)
ON LONDON:
Ackroyd, Peter, London: The Biography (London: Chatto & Windus, 2000)
Hyde, Ralph (ed.), The A to Z of Restoration London (London: London Topographical Society, 1992)
Picard, Liza, Restoration London: Everyday Life in London 1660–1670 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
Porter, Stephen, Pepys’s London: Everyday Life in London 1650–1703 (Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, 2011)
ON THE TIME PERIOD:
Capp, B.S., The Fifth Monarchy Men: A Study in Seventeenth-Century EnglishMillenarianism (London: Faber & Faber, 1972)
Friedman, Jerome, Blasphemy, Immorality and Anarchy: The Ranters and the English Revolution (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987)
Gyford, Phil (ed.), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, www.pepysdiary.com (advertised on the gyford website)
Hill, Christopher, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (London: Penguin Books, 1972)
Miller, John, The English Civil Wars: Roundheads, Cavaliers and the Execution of a King (London: Constable & Robinson, 2009)
Palmer, Tony, Charles II: Portrait of an Age (West Sussex: Littlehampton Book Services, 1979)
Pennington, Donald and Keith Thomas (eds), Puritans and Revolutionaries: Essays in Seventeenth-century History Presented to Christopher Hill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978)
Purkiss, Diane, The English Civil War: A People’s History (London: HarperPress, 2006)
ON THE PLAGUE:
Defoe, Daniel, A Journal of the Plague Year, with notes by Louis Landa and introduction by David Roberts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Porter, Stephen, The Great Plague (Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, 2009)
ON THE THEATRE:
Etherege, George, The Man of Mode, translated by John Barnard (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2007)
Fisk, Deborah Payne (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Speaight, George, Punch and Judy: A History (West Sussex: Littlehampton Book Services, 1970)
THE BIBLE:
Daniel and The Revelation of St John the Divine. King James Bible. (Nashville: Holman Bible, 1973)