With a book as beloved as The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, an adaptation was always going to be a challenge – but an inevitable one. The incredibly unique tale, narrated by death himself ...

Markus Zusak’s international bestseller “The Book Thief” has been brought to the screen with quiet effectiveness and scrupulous taste by director Brian Percival and writer Michael Petroni.

The Book Thief is a sleek production that is often treacly and strangely dull — the antithesis of what a wartime drama should be.

Few recent novels have made as much of a splash as Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, which quickly became a worldwide bestseller upon its publication in 2005. The book — which focuses on an adopted ...

Although there have been many great works of fiction about World War II that have emerged since the conclusion of the conflict itself, The Book Thief almost immediately announced itself as a ...

Some of the best movies ever made have been adapted from equally iconic books, and these great works of fiction shouldn't be forgotten. Though there are cases when the film iteration of a novel is ...

There are too many to name, but here are a few: “A Long Walk to Water,” by Linda Sue Park; “Refugee,” by Alan Gratz; “The Book Thief,” by Markus Zusak; “When You Reach Me,” by ...

Last year I was in the middle of a rehearsal for The Book Thief’s premiere, watching a prop book being burned, when I learned that one of my novels had been banned in a school district in Florida.

If you're looking for emotional historical fiction, try The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. And when you need something light and ...