Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage

This episode we take on books about Spies and Espionage, which meant extra painful reading for Anna. We tackle topics like how to pronounce John Le Carré’s name, if the Cold War is necessary for the spy-espionage genre, how to use Novelist to read diversely, whether we need a “Badass Women” subject heading, if spy novels are fundamentally boring, what to do when authors don’t write their own books, and if it ever hurts to call officers “dude”.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Recommended

• Clementine by Cherie Priest
• Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim
• Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley
• League of Unexceptional Children by Gitty Daneshvari (Middle Grade)
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
• The Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop (Non-Fiction)
• Women Heroes of World War II by Kathryn J. Atwood (Non-Fiction)
• Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (YA on the younger side)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (try the audiobook - it’s good)
• Corporate Spies: the Pizza Plot (article)

Read

• By Tess Gerritsen:
• • In Their Footsteps
  • Call After Midnight
• Spy School by Stuart Gibbs (Middle Grade)
• Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson and maybe Louise Fitzhugh (Middle Grade)
• From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
• Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Did Not Finish

• The Agency by Y. S. Lee
• Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (We can totally see why people like this one; it’s just not for Anna)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré

Also read, not mentioned:

• Octopussy and the Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
• The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (Recommended)
• Super Spy, and The Lost Dossiers by Matt Kindt (Comic)
• 2 Sisters by Matt Kindt (Comic)