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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
PROLOGUE
DEATH AND CHOCOLATE
BESIDE THE RAILWAY LINE
THE ECLIPSE
THE FLAG
PART ONE - the grave digger’s handbook
ARRIVAL ON HIMMEL STREET
GROWING UP A SAUMENSCH
THE WOMAN WITH THE IRON FIST
THE KISS - (A Childhood Decision Maker)
THE JESSE OWENS INCIDENT
THE OTHER SIDE OF SANDPAPER
THE SMELL OF FRIENDSHIP
THE HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE SCHOOL-YARD
PART TWO - the shoulder shrug
A GIRL MADE OF DARKNESS
THE JOY OF CIGARETTES
THE TOWN WALKER
DEAD LETTERS
HITLER’S BIRTHDAY, 1940
100 PERCENT PURE GERMAN SWEAT
THE GATES OF THIEVERY
BOOK OF FIRE
PART THREE - meinkampf
THE WAY HOME
THE MAYOR’S LIBRARY
ENTER THE STRUGGLER
THE ATTRIBUTES OF SUMMER
THE ARYAN SHOPKEEPER
THE STRUGGLER, CONTINUED
TRICKSTERS
THE STRUGGLER, CONCLUDED

PART FOUR - the standover man
THE ACCORDIONIST - (The Secret Life of Hans Hubermann)
A GOOD GIRL
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWISH FIST FIGHTER
THE WRATH OF ROSA
LIESEL’S LECTURE
THE SLEEPER
THE SWAPPING OF NIGHTMARES
PAGES FROM THE BASEMENT
PART FIVE - the whistler
THE FLOATING BOOK (Part I)
THE GAMBLERS - (A SEVEN-SIDED DIE)
RUDY’S YOUTH
THE LOSERS
SKETCHES
THE WHISTLER AND THE SHOES
THREE ACTS OF STUPIDITY - BY RUDY STEINER
THE FLOATING BOOK (Part II)
PART SIX - the dream carrier
DEATH’S DIARY: 1942
THE SNOWMAN
THIRTEEN PRESENTS
FRESH AIR, AN OLD NIGHTMARE, AND WHAT TO DO WITH A JEWISH CORPSE
DEATH’S DIARY: COLOGNE
THE VISITOR
THE SCHMUNZELER
DEATH’S DIARY: THE PARISIANS
PART SEVEN - the complete duden dictionary and thesaurus
CHAMPAGNE AND ACCORDIONS
THE TRILOGY
THE SOUND OF SIRENS
THE SKY STEALER
FRAU HOLTZAPFEL’S OFFER
THE LONG WALK TO DACHAU
PEACE
THE IDIOT AND THE COAT MEN
PART EIGHT - the wordshaker

DOMINOES AND DARKNESS
THE THOUGHT OF RUDY NAKED
PUNISHMENT
THE PROMISE KEEPER’S WIFE
THE COLLECTOR
THE BREAD EATERS
THE HIDDEN SKETCHBOOK
THE ANARCHIST’S SUIT COLLECTION
PART NINE - the last human stranger
THE NEXT TEMPTATION
THE CARDPLAYER
THE SNOWS OF STALINGRAD
THE AGELESS BROTHER
THE ACCIDENT
THE BITTER TASTE OF QUESTIONS
ONE TOOLBOX, ONE BLEEDER, ONE BEAR
HOMECOMING
PART TEN - the book thief
THE END OF THE WORLD (Part I)
THE NINETY-EIGHTH DAY
THE WAR MAKER
WAY OF THE WORDS
CONFESSIONS
ILSA HERMANN’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK
THE RIB-CAGE PLANES
THE END OF THE WORLD (Part II)
Acknowledgements
EPILOGUE - the last color
DEATH AND LIESEL
WOOD IN THE AFTERNOON
MAX
THE HANDOVER MAN
Copyright Page

For Elisabeth and Helmut Zusak,
with love and admiration

PROLOGUE
a mountain range of rubble
in which our narrator introduces:
himself—the colors—and the book thief

DEATH AND CHOCOLATE
First the colors.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.
HERE IS A SMALL FACT
You are going to die.
I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves
hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can
be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. Just don’t ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do
with me.