I love John Grisham and I always read anything he puts out immediately and this book was wonderful.

Gray Mountain- John Grisham– this book came out last year and I really didn’t see a lot of fanfare and such around the release. This story didn’t pull me in quite as much as the Paris Architect but it is still a beautiful book and absolutely worth picking up.įrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. The Paris Architect asks us to consider what we owe each other, and just how far we’ll go to make things right.Īll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr-This is another WWII book and it is also mostly from the French perspective but a completely different story and different tone.

He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can’t resist.īut when one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what’s at stake. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won’t find it. But if he’s clever enough, he’ll avoid any trouble. In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed.

Here is the official summary of the novel: The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure– I LOVED this book! I could not put it down and it is about WWII- which we have all read about many times but I thought this was an interesting perspective and the author did a fantastic job of pulling me right into this world. Perhaps you missed them the first time around and might want to read them before the movie version is released.Īnd if you have more books to add to this list, please be sure to comment below! I have found some excellent books based on your recommendations! Some of these aren’t new books but rather books that will be made into movies and are likely to become very popular once again. Hopefully lots of you got new iPads or Kindles from Santa and you might be looking for books to fill them up! I thought I’d put together a list of books I have read so far this year and loved and some that I have in my Kindle that I am looking forward to reading plus a few upcoming releases of highly anticipated books.

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