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Markus Zusak is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief, which has topped bestseller lists ranging from the New York Times in America, the Sunday Times in the UK, as well as countries in Europe, South America and Asia.

His first three books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe and When Dogs Cry, released between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally and garnered a number of awards in Australia.

The Messenger, published in 2002, won the 2003 CBC Book of the Year Award (Older Readers) and the 2003 NSW Premier's Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize), as well as receiving a Printz Honour in America.

In 2005, The Book Thief was released and is now translated into over thirty languages. As well as re...more


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Average rating: 4.32 · 341,900 ratings · 46,399 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
The Book Thief
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 303,249 ratings — published 2005 — 117 editions
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I am the Messenger
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Getting the Girl (Wolfe Bro...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 1,993 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions
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Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,268 ratings — published 2000 — 21 editions
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Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Bridge of Clay
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NUEVA NOVELA
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The Secret History
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Peter Pan: The Forgotten Story of Phar Lap's Successor
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Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax
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The Lorax
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
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Dark Water
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The Summer I Learned to Fly
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To Be Sung Underwater
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“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger
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“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
tags: boys, hate, love
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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
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