The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

earliest edition we have, 1998 The House of Books, 2025 paperback 560 pages

Kniga, pokorivsha︠i︡a mir

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters someth...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

De boekendief paperback · 2025 · The House of Books · 560 pages · 9789044370393
De boekendief paperback · 2020 · Pelckmans · 9789041713780
Book Thief edition · 2019 · Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited · 600 pages · 9781760783693
Boktjuven edition · 2019 · B Wahlströms (Massolit) · 1 pages · 9789132211676
Zlodziejka ksiazek hardcover · 2019 · Nasza Ksiegarnia · 496 pages · 9788310134561
La ladrona de libros hardcover · 2018 · Debolsillo · 544 pages · 9788466347754
La ladrona de libros paperback · 2016 · Debolsillo · 539 pages · 9786073120319
The Book Thief hardcover · 2016 · Random House · 552 pages · 9780735284296
The Book Thief edition · 2016 · Alfred A. Knopf · 9780307433848
The Book Thief hardcover · 2016 · Alfred A. Knopf · 9781101934180
The Book Thief audiobook · 2016 · Random House Audio · 9783837133561
The Book Thief paperback · 2016 · Black Swan · 569 pages · 9781784162122

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.