Best Espionage Books (nonfiction)
1. 
The 231 Club: My Ten Year Journey From Therapist to CIA Courier and Sanctioned Kills - A True Story
by:
J. Bartell
3.72 avg rating โ 959 ratings 2. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating โ 83,059 ratings 3. 
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating โ 28,142 ratings 4. 
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.14 avg rating โ 19,738 ratings 5. 
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
by:
Jefferson Morley
3.93 avg rating โ 1,090 ratings 
7. 
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer
by:
Victor Ostrovsky
3.91 avg rating โ 2,055 ratings 8. 
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by:
Peter Wright
3.73 avg rating โ 3,390 ratings 
10. 
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
by:
Tracy Walder
3.84 avg rating โ 6,042 ratings 11. 
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by:
Clifford Stoll
4.28 avg rating โ 15,262 ratings 12. 
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by:
Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating โ 65 ratings 
13. 
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by:
Ben Macintyre
3.99 avg rating โ 13,559 ratings 15. 
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive
by:
Marcus Binney
3.73 avg rating โ 306 ratings 15. 
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB 3.94 avg rating โ 2,091 ratings
18. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating โ 58,201 ratings 19. 
The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
by:
Robert Lindsey
4.07 avg rating โ 2,424 ratings 20. 
Inside the Aquarium: Making of a Top Soviet Spy
by:
Viktor Suvorov
4.33 avg rating โ 2,125 ratings 21. 
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
by:
Annie Jacobsen
3.86 avg rating โ 10,396 ratings 
21. 
Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
by:
Howard Blum
4.06 avg rating โ 1,231 ratings 24. 
A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
by:
Sarah Helm
4.09 avg rating โ 2,065 ratings 
24. 
Conflict of Intrigues: The Marylebone Intersection (Intersection Saga, #1)
by:
ML Yost
4.21 avg rating โ 28 ratings 
28. 
The Spy Went Dancing: My Further Adventures as an Undercover Agent 4.04 avg rating โ 756 ratings
28. 
The Spy Wore Red: My Adventures as an Undercover Agent in World War II 4.05 avg rating โ 2,684 ratings
30. 
The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA
by:
Ted Gup
4.01 avg rating โ 1,075 ratings 30. 
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes : The Story of George Scovell
by:
Mark Urban
3.88 avg rating โ 391 ratings 32. 
33. 
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating โ 2,442 ratings
33. 
They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany 3.72 avg rating โ 383 ratings
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MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-45
by:
Nigel West
3.68 avg rating โ 44 ratings 36. 
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB 3.97 avg rating โ 541 ratings
39. 
The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents
by:
J.C. Masterman
3.96 avg rating โ 331 ratings 39. 
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage 3.76 avg rating โ 1,413 ratings
39. 
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by:
Jennet Conant
3.36 avg rating โ 2,455 ratings 42. 
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in AmericaโThe Stalin Era
by:
Allen Weinstein
3.62 avg rating โ 159 ratings 43. 
Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South 3.97 avg rating โ 1,184 ratings
44. 
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer - The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames 3.91 avg rating โ 1,017 ratings
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Major General George H. Sharpe and The Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War
by:
Peter G. Tsouras
4.30 avg rating โ 27 ratings 
47. 
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by:
Michael Isikoff
4.20 avg rating โ 6,660 ratings 47. 
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by:
Sherry Sontag
4.23 avg rating โ 10,808 ratings 
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Mole - The True Story of the First Russian Spy to Become an American Counterspy
by:
William Hood
3.92 avg rating โ 88 ratings 
50. 
Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant: Undercover & Overwhelmed as a CIA Wife and Mother
by:
Lillian McCloy
4.13 avg rating โ 150 ratings 50. 
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage 3.85 avg rating โ 1,296 ratings
50. 
The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb 3.94 avg rating โ 36 ratings
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
by:
Ann Hagedorn
3.57 avg rating โ 917 ratings 
69. 
Hitler's Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe
by:
Martha Schad
3.24 avg rating โ 29 ratings 69. 
Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
by:
Thomas Powers
3.61 avg rating โ 118 ratings 69. 
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
by:
Paul Kix
4.03 avg rating โ 1,689 ratings 69. 
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating โ 1,450 ratings 69. 
Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by:
Jefferson Morley
4.01 avg rating โ 255 ratings 69. 
Return To The Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
by:
Eric Lichtblau
4.35 avg rating โ 827 ratings 
69. 
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
by:
Stephen Kinzer
4.12 avg rating โ 4,060 ratings 78. 
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
by:
Clare Mulley
3.74 avg rating โ 2,313 ratings 78. 
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror 3.82 avg rating โ 2,012 ratings
78. 
A Spy for the Union: The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster
by:
Corey Recko
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 1 rating 
78. 
Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
by:
Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating โ 65 ratings 
85. 
The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
by:
Ben Montgomery
3.72 avg rating โ 281 ratings 85. 
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster
by:
Markus Wolf
3.96 avg rating โ 463 ratings 
85. 
Hitlerโs British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists
by:
Tim Tate
3.80 avg rating โ 178 ratings 90. 
Inside British Intelligence: 100 Years of MI5 and MI6
by:
Gordon Thomas
3.73 avg rating โ 298 ratings 90. 
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions
by:
James R. Gaines
3.96 avg rating โ 324 ratings 
90. 
The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America
by:
Verne W. Newton
4.03 avg rating โ 39 ratings 
95. 
Franco's Friends: How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco to Power in Spain
by:
Peter Day
3.50 avg rating โ 38 ratings 95. 
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.14 avg rating โ 9,249 ratings 95. 
Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
by:
William B. Feis
3.88 avg rating โ 56 ratings 95. 
The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
by:
Terry McDermott
4.10 avg rating โ 377 ratings 95. 
The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA
by:
Evan Thomas
3.83 avg rating โ 344 ratings 