Books like “The Alice Network”

What to read after “The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein · 2012
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- War Fiction
A British wireless operator and a pilot become close friends before a mission goes wrong over occupied France. Captured by the Gestapo, the operator is forced to write down what she knows, and her account of the two women slowly reveals more than it first seems.
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
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
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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A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine · 2019
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
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 Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell · 2004
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Found Family
Raised by Vikings after they kill his father, the Saxon boy Uhtred must choose between the people who love him and the kingdom of his birth. As Alfred of Wessex battles the Danes, Uhtred becomes a warrior torn between two worlds.
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The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman · 1982
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Betrayal
A retelling of the life of Richard III, from his boyhood in a divided England to his brief reign. Set against the Wars of the Roses, it follows the Yorkist claim to the throne, the loyalties that bind Richard, and the rumour and betrayal that surround his name.
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 1907
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
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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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré · 1974
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
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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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
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.
10
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian · 1969
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Found Family
In 1800, Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey takes command of a small brig and meets the ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, a naturalist and secret intelligence agent. Their friendship grows as the crew pursues a Spanish frigate across the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
11
The Lost City of Z
David Grann · 2009
Similar plot moves: “Missing Person”
- Missing Person
In 1925 the explorer Percy Fawcett walked into the Amazon to find a fabled civilization he called Z, and never came out. Decades later a journalist follows the same trails, sifting clues and rumors to learn what became of the missing expedition.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Found Family
Robert Jordan, an American volunteer, joins a band of Republican guerrillas in the Spanish mountains to blow up a bridge. Over a few days he falls for Maria, a young woman scarred by war, and weighs duty, love and the near certainty that the mission will cost him his life.