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Books like The Rose Code
The best books like The Rose Code are The Alice Network, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Diary of a Young Girl. The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is about bletchley park and codebreaking, female friendship and betrayal, wartime secrets. 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.
- The Alice Network
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Kate Quinn · Historical fiction
The Alice Network alternates between two timelines and two women.
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 Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson · Science
The Code Breaker is Walter Isaacson's account of how CRISPR gene-editing technology was discovered and what it means for the future of medicine and humanity.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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.
Read the summary → - All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr · Historical fiction
All the Light We Cannot See follows two children through the Second World War on a collision course neither can see coming.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Babel
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R.F. Kuang · Historical fiction
Set in an alternate 1830s Oxford, Babel imagines a Royal Institute of Translation at the heart of the British Empire — a place where silver bars engraved with translation "match-words" generate the industrial magic that powers British supremacy.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Bring Up the Bodies
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Hilary Mantel · Historical fiction
Bring Up the Bodies is the second novel in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, picking up where Wolf Hall ended: Anne Boleyn is Queen, Henry VIII is restless, and Thomas Cromwell is the indispensable minister who keeps the machinery of the court running.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Half of a Yellow Sun
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Historical fiction
Half of a Yellow Sun is set before and during the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 1970, a conflict in which more than a million people died, most of them Igbo civilians from the secessionist Republic of Biafra.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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Books like The Rose Code: quick answers
What are the best books like The Rose Code?
The best books like The Rose Code by Kate Quinn are The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Rose Code, such as bletchley park and codebreaking, female friendship and betrayal, wartime secrets.
What should I read after The Rose Code?
A natural next read after The Rose Code is The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. 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 Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson.
What books are similar to The Rose Code by Kate Quinn?
The Rose Code centers on bletchley park and codebreaking, female friendship and betrayal, wartime secrets. Books with a similar feel include The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
