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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak seems to be on everyone's list. I think my sister will be reading this one soon.
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Goodreads Summary...
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Narrated by Death, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she discovers something she can't resist- books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever they are to be found.
With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, Liesel learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
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Jennifer Donnelly books seem to be popping up everywhere as well, and these really interest me. I think the covers are absolutely beautiful!
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This last book, The Cellist of Sarajevo, I learned about over at Curling Up With a Good Book. She did a great review and it sounds like something I'd really like to read.
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Goodreads Summary...
In a city ravaged by war, a musician plays his cello for twenty-two days at the site of a mortar attack, in memory of the fallen. Among the strangers drawn into the orbit of his music are a young father in search of water for his family, an older man in search of the humanity he once knew, and a young woman, a sniper, who will decide the fate of the cellist—and the kind of person she wants to be.
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Hope you enjoyed this list and maybe found something you'd like to read as well! Have you read any of these books? What did you think?
