Growing up I watched my fair share of old James Bond movies and it always seemed that every Sunday, on some channel, one could not avoid a Roger Moore-era Bond film. James Bond on film will have his 50th anniversary this year with a new installment of the series, Skyfall. Although many of us probably know Bond best through film, 007 started his life in fiction in the novel Casino Royale [2] by Ian Fleming. So in celebration of Bond’s 50th anniversary on film and almost 60 years in fiction, I’ve put together a list of great reads that in some way feature spies or espionage. What do you recommend?
Spy Reads
- George Washington, Spymaster: How America Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War [3] by Thomas B. Allen (Nonfiction)
- Chains [4] by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue [5] by Kathryn J. Atwood (Nonfiction)
- The Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Agency that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement [6]by Rick Bowers (Nonfiction)
- The Shadow Project [7] by Herbie Brennan
- Star Crossed [8] by Elizabeth C. Bunce
- I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You [9] by Ally Carter
- Spygirl: True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye [10] by Amy Gray (Adult Nonfiction)
- Sure Fire [11] by Jack Higgins
- SilverFin [12] by Charlie Higson
- Stormbreaker [13] by Anthony Horowitz
- The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from the Revolution to the 21st Century [14] by Paul B. Janeczko (Nonfiction)
- Insignia [15] by S.J. Kincaid
- The Recruit [16] by Robert Muchamore
- Trickster’s Choice [17] by Tamora Pierce
- Girl in Blue [18] by Ann Rinaldi
- A Hunt for Justice: The True Story of a Woman Undercover Wildlife Agent [19] by Lucinda Delaney Schroeder (Adult Nonfiction)
- Live and Let Shop [20] by Michael P. Spradlin
- I.Q.: Independence Hall [21] by Roland Smith
- Code Name Verity [22] by Elizabeth Wein
Flickr CC [23]: Eye Spy [24] Photo by: ocularinvasion [25]
- Teens [26]
