Historical fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Alice Network
The best books like The Alice Network are Bel Canto, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Diary of a Young Girl. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is about female spies in wartime, trauma and survival, revenge and justice. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Bel Canto
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Ann Patchett · Literary fiction
Bel Canto opens at a birthday party in an unnamed South American country: a Japanese industrialist, Hosokawa, is celebrating in the private residence of the country's vice president, the sole attraction being a performance by his favorite soprano, Roxane Coss.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank · Memoir
Anne Frank's diary, kept during the two years she spent hiding with her family in a concealed Amsterdam apartment, stands as one of the most widely read first-person accounts of the Holocaust.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown · History
The Boys in the Boat is the story of the University of Washington crew team that won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, defeating Nazi Germany's squad on Hitler's home course.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn · Thriller
Libby Day survived the Kansas farmhouse massacre that killed her mother and two sisters when she was seven.
Both dig into trauma and survival.
Read the summary → - The Poppy War
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R.F. Kuang · Fantasy
Rin is a war orphan from a poor southern province who claws her way into Sinegard, the empire's elite military academy, by acing an exam she was never supposed to pass.
Both dig into trauma and survival.
Read the summary → - The Sparrow
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Mary Doria Russell · Literary fiction
The Sparrow opens with its ending: Father Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest and linguist, has returned to Earth as the sole survivor of humanity's first contact mission to the planet Rakhat, broken in body and will in ways the novel withholds until the final chapters.
Both dig into trauma and survival.
Read the summary → - The Surgeon
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Tess Gerritsen · Thriller
The Surgeon is the first book in Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles series, though it begins primarily as a Jane Rizzoli solo novel.
Both dig into trauma and survival.
Read the summary → - A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles · Historical fiction
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal — not to death, but to permanent house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens · Historical fiction
A Tale of Two Cities is set against the French Revolution and follows three intertwined characters: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who has renounced his title and family legacy; Lucie Manette, the daughter of a man who spent eighteen years imprisoned in the Bastille; and Sydney Carton, a dissolute English lawyer who loves Lucie without hope and knows he will never be the man Darnay already is.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini · Historical fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns follows two Afghan women across nearly forty years of their country's turbulence: Mariam, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy merchant who is married off at fifteen to a much older man in Kabul, and Laila, a young woman from a different generation whose family is destroyed in a rocket strike during the civil war and who is subsequently forced into the same household.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood · Historical fiction
Alias Grace is based on the historical case of Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant servant who was convicted in 1843, along with stable hand James McDermott, of the murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Upper Canada.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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Books like The Alice Network: quick answers
What are the best books like The Alice Network?
The best books like The Alice Network by Kate Quinn are Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Alice Network, such as female spies in wartime, trauma and survival, revenge and justice.
What should I read after The Alice Network?
A natural next read after The Alice Network is Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. A kindred historical fiction read. Other strong choices are All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown.
What books are similar to The Alice Network by Kate Quinn?
The Alice Network centers on female spies in wartime, trauma and survival, revenge and justice. Books with a similar feel include Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
