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Across Spies & Spying, Law & Crime, Military & Wars, and Science & Nature — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Secret Agents by Adrian Gilbert.

Top related books to Secret Agents

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Secret Agents.

Secrets of Navajo Code Talkers

Rachael L. Thomas

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code

Rebecca E. F. Barone

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

Nathan Hale Revolutionary Spy

Nathan Olson

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

George Washington, Spymaster How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War

Thomas B. Allen

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

Bomb (Graphic Novel) The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

Steve Sheinkin

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Many Faces of Josephine Baker Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy

Peggy Caravantes

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

World War I Spies, Secret Missions, and Hidden Facts from World War I

Stephanie Bearce

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

FBI Files: Catching a Russian Spy Agent Leslie G. Wiser Jr. and the Case of Aldrich Ames

Bryan Denson

Themes: Spies & Spying • Law & Crime • Juvenile Nonfiction

Spying on Spies How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis’ Secret Codes

Marissa Moss

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#10

Guts & Glory: World War II

Ben Thompson

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#11

Moe Berg The Spy Behind Home Plate

Vivian Grey

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#12

Fallout Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown

Steve Sheinkin

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#13

World War II Spies An Interactive History Adventure

Michael Burgan

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#14

World War II Spies, Secret Missions, and Hidden Facts from World War II

Stephanie Bearce

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#15

Top Secret Spies, Codes, Capers, Gadgets, and Classified Cases Revealed

Crispin Boyer

Themes: Spies & Spying • Law & Crime • Juvenile Nonfiction

#16

Faceless

Kathryn Lasky

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#17

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

Robin Stevens

Themes: Law & Crime • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#18

Pirates

Alex Stewart

Themes: Law & Crime • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#19

Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz

Themes: Spies & Spying • Law & Crime • Juvenile Nonfiction

#20

Top Secret Shady Tales of Spies and Spying

Laura Buller

Themes: Spies & Spying • Law & Crime • Juvenile Nonfiction

#21

The Detective Society Presents: The Most Unladylike Puzzle Book

Robin Stevens

Themes: Law & Crime • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#22

Spy Stalkers Using Science to Catch Spies

Sarah Eason

Themes: Spies & Spying • Law & Crime • Juvenile Nonfiction

#23

Royal Murder The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns

Elizabeth MacLeod

Themes: Law & Crime • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

#24

One of Us

Jeannie Waudby

Themes: Law & Crime • Military & Wars • Juvenile Nonfiction

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Spies & Spying, Law & Crime, Military & Wars — the same threads that run through Secret Agents by Adrian Gilbert. Among the authors featured: Rachael L. Thomas, Rebecca E. F. Barone, Nathan Olson, Thomas B. Allen, and others.

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