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Books Like The Alice Network

Best books to read after The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Kate Quinn's The Alice Network is the dual-timeline thriller about WWI female spies and a 1947 woman searching for her cousin. These recommendations continue the Quinn canon, explore the women's wartime espionage fiction tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the dual-timeline historical novel that recovers forgotten women's roles in the two World Wars.

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    The Rose Code

    by Kate Quinn

    The companion Quinn novel — three women codebreakers at Bletchley Park in WWII, the natural continuation for readers who loved The Alice Network's structure of uncovering a wartime woman's secret courage through a dual-timeline investigation.

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    The Diamond Eye

    by Kate Quinn

    The Soviet female sniper Quinn companion — Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most celebrated female sniper in history, in 1942 Soviet Union and Washington D.C.; shares The Alice Network's commitment to recovering real women's stories from the wars.

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    The Nightingale

    by Kristin Hannah

    The most popular WWII women's fiction companion — two French sisters under occupation, Hannah's novel sharing The Alice Network's dual-perspective structure and its focus on what ordinary women did that history has largely forgotten.

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    Suite Francaise

    by Irene Nemirovsky

    The literary French occupation companion — Némirovsky's posthumously published novel of the German invasion and occupation of France, the most literarily ambitious engagement with the world The Alice Network's Evelyn inhabits.

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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

    The warmest British occupation companion — a book club formed under German occupation of Guernsey, the epistolary novel that shares The Alice Network's belief that women's communities and networks sustained people through the wars.

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    Code Name Verity

    by Elizabeth Wein

    The young adult WWII women's spy companion — a female British spy captured by the Nazis in occupied France, Wein's dual-narrative novel sharing The Alice Network's interest in female friendship, courage, and what women who worked in intelligence actually did.

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    The Women

    by Kristin Hannah

    The Vietnam War women's service companion — Frances 'Frankie' McGrath following her brother to Vietnam as an Army nurse, Hannah's novel expanding the same project as The Alice Network: recovering what women did in wars that history has not acknowledged.

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    All the Light We Cannot See

    by Anthony Doerr

    The Pulitzer Prize WWII companion — a blind French girl and a German soldier, Doerr's literary dual-narrative novel covering the same occupied Europe as The Alice Network from a very different narrative perspective.

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