The Book Thief

author:	Markus Zusak (2005)
date read:	2010-06-01
pages:	567
lists:	german
rating:	★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Cover of The Book Thief.

Sensitive, but oddly distant take on childhood in Nazi Germany.

Cover of The Diary of a Young Girl.

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank · published 1947 · read 2003-04-01

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

A real account of a girl living and dying in the same days.

Cover of Der erste Frühling.

Der erste Frühling

by Klaus Kordon · published 1995 · read 2004-12-01

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Another book about children in 1945.

Cover of I Am the Messenger.

I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak · published 2002 · read 2017-06-29

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Zuzak with similar sensitivity, but very different in tone and setting.