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What to read after “Code Name Verity” by Elizabeth Wein: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- War Fiction
In 1947, pregnant and unmarried Charlie follows a lead about her missing cousin to a ruined woman in London. Their search draws on the story of Eve, a spy who ran a network in occupied France during the First World War, and the betrayals that broke it.
2
Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews · 2013
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
Dominika Egorova, a Russian intelligence officer trained to seduce targets, is ordered to work against a CIA agent, Nathaniel Nash. As their operations and their feelings become entangled, both sides begin to suspect that someone is betraying the other.
3
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré · 1974
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
After a mission fails, George Smiley is quietly brought back to find a Soviet mole inside British intelligence. Working from old files and a few wary colleagues, he sifts the careers of his former friends to discover which of them is the traitor.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
During the German occupation of France, a blind girl and her father flee Paris for the walled city of Saint-Malo, carrying a valuable jewel. In Germany, an orphan with a gift for radio repairs is drawn into the war machine. Their separate paths move slowly toward the same besieged town in August 1944.
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys · 2016
Same genre: “Historical fiction” and “Young adult fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
Four young refugees cross a frozen East Prussia in the winter of 1945, each hiding a secret and hoping to reach a ship that will carry them west. Their paths merge among the crowds fleeing the advancing Soviet army, bound for a vessel whose fate none of them suspect.
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
In occupied France, two sisters take very different roads through the war. One keeps her daughters safe in the countryside while sheltering fugitives; the other joins the resistance, guiding downed airmen over the Pyrenees. Their choices strain their bond and put both of them in constant danger.
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A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine · 2019
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives at the heart of the Teixcalaanli Empire to replace a predecessor who died under unclear circumstances. Guided by his recorded memories, she must survive court politics, assassins, and a capital that hides its own plans.
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 1907
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
In late-Victorian London, a shopkeeper who is also a paid spy for a foreign power is ordered to carry out a bombing. The people around him, including his wife and her vulnerable brother, are pulled into the consequences of a plot he cannot control.
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Same genre: “Historical fiction” and “Young adult fiction”
- War Fiction
Narrated by Death, the story follows Liesel Meminger, a girl sent to live with a foster family in Nazi Germany. She steals books, shares them with a Jewish man hiding in the basement, and grows up amid bombs, loss and small acts of kindness.
10
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
A young woman in colonial Korea, Sunja, leaves home for Japan with a husband she barely knows and raises a family that lives as outsiders for generations. Through war and poverty, the household holds on to its dignity and its secrets.
11
The Rook
Daniel O'Malley · 2012
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
A woman wakes in a London park with no memory, surrounded by bodies, holding a letter from her former self. It explains that she is an officer in a secret agency guarding Britain from supernatural threats. To find the traitor who tried to kill her, she must live a stranger's life.
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Azincourt
Bernard Cornwell · 2008
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
Outlawed archer Nicholas Hook joins Henry V's army as it invades France. Mired in a brutal siege and heavily outnumbered at Azincourt, he and his comrades face a battle that will decide the fate of a kingdom.