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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
4.0

This book began my long love affair with historical fiction. I loved this novel. The deep relationship and romance between the main characters, young boy and older woman, is at once profoundly beautiful and deeply mournful. Woven into history following WWII, we learn much about the human condition, what one finds worthy, and at what incredible lengths people will go to keep their secrets.