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Codebreaking Books
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by (shelved 6 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,239 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 5 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,388 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 4 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,456 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 4 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,074 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,114 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.98 — 391 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,722 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,603 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.72 — 215,127 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,506 ratings — published 1967

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,653 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.94 — 923 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,577 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.42 — 612 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.44 — 594 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,779 ratings — published 1932

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 43 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 982 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,871 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,190 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 560 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.97 — 972 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.94 — 156 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 69 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.23 — 204 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.59 — 27 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 1979

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.37 — 538 ratings — published 1978

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 123,617 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 341 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.13 — 15 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 84 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.51 — 53 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.87 — 289 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 422 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1986

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.43 — 21 ratings — published 1982

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.88 — 393 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.52 — 25 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.13 — 137 ratings — published 1931

by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,801 ratings — published 2001

“Elizebeth raced to stay on top of the shifting codes, the proliferation of patterns. Her worksheets grew weird, beautiful. She filled the grid squares with letters and numbers that made different geometric shapes when you stepped back and looked at the worksheet from a distance. Some of the shapes were parallelograms, some looked like stairs, other like labyrinths. She pulled mischievious letters from the sky and sorted them on the page. The invisible world was all out of whack, misaligned, and she had this set of tricks to knock it back into order.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

“To attack each system--first Red, then Purple--the American codebreakers needed to build their own bootleg versions of the Japanese machines, reverse engineering them based on nothing but educated guesses from analyzing the garbled messages they produced. It was a task akin to building a watch if you have never seen a watch before, simply by listening to an audio recording of the ticking and clicking of its gears.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies