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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

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01 Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky

Two novellas about France under Nazi occupation -- written while Nemirovsky herself was in hiding, before she was deported and killed. The manuscript was not published for sixty years.

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02 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks

A book conservator examines an illuminated haggadah from Sarajevo and discovers, in the traces left in its binding, five centuries of survival against persecution.

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03 The Book Thief Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, it's the story of a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany and shares their words with those around her.

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04 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah

Two sisters in occupied France choose very different paths of resistance -- and both will be tested beyond anything they imagined.

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05 The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris

In the darkest place on earth, the man tasked with tattooing prisoners falls in love with the woman whose number he inks onto her arm.

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