7 best-selling biography books like The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield

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The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life

By: Amy Butler Greenfield

4.24

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The true story about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only rece…

If you liked the biography plot in The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. "The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By: Will Patton , James L. Swanson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Audio CD

A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling auth… read more

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Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

2. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Cover of Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge

3. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By: Brandy Colbert

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and leg… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin

5. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hung… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more

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  • middle grade
  • audiobook
Cover of Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson

7. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

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  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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8. Eagle Drums

By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Nat… read more

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  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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9. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

By: Susan Hood

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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10. The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life

By: Amy Butler Greenfield

4.24

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The true story about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only rece… read more

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  • espionage
  • biography
  • history
  • teen
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

11. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

By: Candace Fleming

4.15

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave an… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Murderer by Gail Jarrow

12. American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centurie… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Stateless

By: Elizabeth Wein

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A murder mystery set in 1937 Europe with intrigue, glamour, secrets, and betrayal. When Stella Nort… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • teen
  • audiobook
Cover of Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan

14. Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

By: James Donovan

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

For the 50th anniversary, the epic story of Apollo 11 and the astronauts, flight controllers, and e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

15. Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A riveting graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book, Bomb ―the fascinating and… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD by Pan Cooke

16. Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD

By: Pan Cooke

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with… read more

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  • middle grade
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself by Monica Edinger

17. Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

By: Monica Edinger

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their per… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew    Fox

18. The Sky Over Rebecca

By: Matthew Fox

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Bath Children's Novel Award Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist 2024 … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
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19. Trajectory

By: Cambria Gordon

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The stirring and dramatic story of one young woman who must find a way to overcome her deepest fear… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • teen
  • audiobook
Cover of Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow

20. Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

By: Gail Jarrow

4.20

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

This title blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination an… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
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21. The Name I Choose

By: Holly Brough

4.25

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Questions about Amalia’s past become more concerning when she’s uprooted at the young age of fiftee… read more

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11 Top audiobook books like The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Brandy Colbert

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

Steve Sheinkin

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Lasagna Means I Love You

Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

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11 best-selling history books like Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

Steve Sheinkin

4.49

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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith

4.46

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