Critical Praise

"Zusak doesn't sugercoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: with grim, darkly consoling humor."
—Time

"Zusak's novel is a major achievement."
—People

 “Exquisitely written. . . . A tour de force to be not just read but inhabited.”

—The Horn Book Magazine, Starred

 “An EXTRAORDINARY narrative.”

—School Library Journal, starred review

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"Brilliant and hugely ambitious… It’s the kind of book that can be life changing."

——THE NEW YORK TIMES

"The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night. It seems poised to become a classic."

——USA TODAY

"Beautiful and important."

——KIRKUS REVIEWS, Starred

"An achievement."

——PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred