15 must-read nonfiction books like The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker Girls by Jan Slimming

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The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker Girls

By: Jan Slimming

4.04

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college student …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker Girls by Jan Slimming , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Bletchley Girls

By: Tessa Dunlop

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The story of the women of Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret code-breaking school, is told throug… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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2. Smiley's People

By: John Le Carré

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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Cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

3. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

Cover of Double Take (Lake City Heroes, #1) by Lynette Eason

5. Double Take (Lake City Heroes, #1)

By: Lynette Eason

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Detective James Cross has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division d… read more

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6. Malicious Intent (Defend and Protect, #2)

By: Lynn H. Blackburn

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dr. Ivy Collins, founder and CEO of Hedera, Inc., is ready to begin clinical trials of her company'… read more

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7. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

8. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

Similar categories in Bill Browder's Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath book and Jan Slimming's The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker Girls

  • nonfiction
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9. Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)

By: Nora Roberts

4.36

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Rob… read more

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10. A Stranger's Game

By: Colleen Coble

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A gripping new stand-alone novel from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble.… read more

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11. Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

By: Valerie Bertinelli

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and  New York Times  best… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The War Pianist

By: Mandy Robotham

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. … read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of The Secret to Happiness (Cape Cod Creamery, #2) by Suzanne Woods Fisher

13. The Secret to Happiness (Cape Cod Creamery, #2)

By: Suzanne Woods Fisher

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Escape to Cape Cod--where you just might find the secret to happiness Callie Dixon had the world… read more

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Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

14. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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15. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

By: Jim Popkin

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Into the Fire (Undaunted Courage #1) by Irene Hannon

16. Into the Fire (Undaunted Courage #1)

By: Irene Hannon

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. But after a myst… read more

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17. The Paris Network

By: Siobhan Curham

4.55

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the c… read more

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  • world war ii
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18. The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two

By: Sarah Baring

4.00

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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19. The White Rose Network

By: Ellie Midwood

4.20

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

1943, Germany: “I won’t be able to live if anything happens to you,” she whispered into his ear as … read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) by Bruce Borgos

20. The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling… read more

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21. Into the Dark

By: Fiona Cummins

3.67

Format: 400 pages, ebook

THE PLACE: Seawings, a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea. … read more

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Cover of The Shadow People (Patel & Pardoe, #3) by Graham Masterton

22. The Shadow People (Patel & Pardoe, #3)

By: Graham Masterton

3.79

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the n… read more

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Cover of We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula by Phyllis Michael Wong

23. We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

By: Phyllis Michael Wong

3.55

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann Göring’: A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 by Lawrence Paterson

24. Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann Göring’: A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945

By: Lawrence Paterson

4.13

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

A history of the development and role during World War II of the private army of the Nazi Luftwaffe… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War's Most Daring Mission by William R. Anderson

25. The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War's Most Daring Mission

By: William R. Anderson

4.10

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker Girls

By: Jan Slimming

4.04

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college student … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon by Betty            Webb

27. No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By: Betty Webb

3.70

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

The true and extraordinary story of one of the last surviving women to have worked in codebreaking … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State by Byron Tau

28. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

By: Byron Tau

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"

-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

Cover of The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway by Brendan Simms

29. The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

By: Brendan Simms

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway The Battle… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Making Memories: Practice Mindfulness, Learn to Journal and Scrapbook, Find Calm Every Day by Amy Tangerine

30. Making Memories: Practice Mindfulness, Learn to Journal and Scrapbook, Find Calm Every Day

By: Amy Tangerine

4.13

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Find calm every day through journaling and scrapbooking! Practice mindfulness and live in the momen… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force by Gavin Mortimer

31. Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force

By: Gavin Mortimer

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Based on recently released wartime files, interviews with surviving veterans and previously unpubli… read more

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