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Reading list: Women of Intelligence
In tune with the 2018 BookLikes "Summer of Spies" and my "Women Writers" project, a few books on spies and spying written by women ... and a few books on woman spies written by men.
ETA: Now also my list for 2019 "Summer of Spies Redux", combined with "Around the World in 80 Books".
Books: 26
1.
by Kate Westbrook
Note: 007, from Jane Moneypenny's POV.
2.
by Helen MacInnes
Note: "The Queen of Spy Novelists" -- or so they call her. With reason.
3.
by Helen MacInnes
Note: 2019 addition: Robert Renwick, book #1.
4.
by Helen MacInnes
Note: 2019 addition: Robert Renwick, books ##2 and 3, plus a standalone ("Agent in Place").
5.
by Stella Rimington
Note: Book no. 2 in the Liz Carlyle series -- book no. 1 is "At Risk". I liked it.
6.
by Stella Rimington
Note: ... and book no. 3 is as good as its predecessors ...
7.
by Stella Rimington
Note: ... as is Rimington's autobiography.
8.
by Stella Rimington
Note: 2019 addition: Liz Carlyle #4.
9.
by Phyllis Bottome
Note: The author -- and the book -- that inspired the James Bond novels.
10.
by Patricia Wentworth
Note: Added at Tigus's suggestion, and what a good suggestion it was!
11.
by Agatha Christie
Note: Pass the gin. (Also: strictly on audio.) ... Or so I thought. Actually, this turned out surprisingly entertaining!
12.
by Samantha Bond, Agatha Christie
Note: Not the best of Christie's spy fiction (surprisingly, even when compared with "They Came to Baghdad", above), but bearable, and it definitely benefited from the audio abridgment ... and from being narrated by Samantha Bond.
13.
by Jane Thynne
Note: An English actress in early 1930s Berlin, infiltrating the social circle of Magda Goebbels: surprisingly well-researched and well-executed.
14.
by Francine Mathews
Note: An alternative post-9/11 Germany (and Eastern Europe) -- not half as well realized as Jane Thynne's 1930s Berlin in "Black Roses" (above).
15.
by Elisabeth Rodgers, Rosalie Knecht
Note: A misfit, from Bethesda, MD, to spying in Argentina.
Thanks for the recommendation, Mike (audiobookjunkie)!
16.
by Gayle Lynds
Note: Judging by the blurbs, most of Lynds's books don't appeal to me, but this one sounds like it might.
17.
by Sarah Lovett, Valerie Plame Wilson
Note: First in the series -- OK, though not great (but it got better towards the end). I may give the series another shot, but probably not very soon.
18.
by Laura Rozen, Valerie Plame Wilson
Note: Plame Wilson's autiobiography, OTOH, somehow reads more timely than ever now.
19.
by Paulo Coelho
Note: Mata Hari
20.
by Georgina Howell, Gertrude Bell
Note: Adventurer, intrepid traveler ... and spy! (Another 2019 addition to the list.)
21.
by Peggy Caravantes
Note: Working with the French Résistance was just one of Josephine Baker's many occupations and faces.
22.
by Ruth Scarborough
Note: The Confederate spy whom Southern newspapers alternately celebrated as "Joan of Arc of the South", "Siren of the Shenandoah", and "Cleopatra of the Secession".
23.
by Russell Braddon
Note: An Australian in the French Résistance. The Nazis called her "The White Mouse", due to her nimbleness and skill at evading capture.
24.
by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée
Note: Well, look and behold what updating my personal library data has produced ... I didn't even remember this was on my TBR! But how can this possibly *not* be on my "Summer of Spies" reading list?
25.
by Emmuska Orczy, Gary Hoppenstand
Note: Honorary mention: Perhaps not a spy novel as such, but the mother of all swashbucklers -- written by a woman, and starring a power couple specializing in infiltrating the enemy's side every which way and then some.
"They seek him here, they seek him there ..."
26.
by Johanna Ward, Emmuska Orczy
Note: (... and for an encore ...)
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