All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr's 2014 war novel follows two young people in World War II. Marie-Laure LeBlanc goes blind at six and learns to navigate Paris with a model of the neighborhood built by her father, master of the locks at the Museum of Natural History. When the Germans occupy Paris, the two flee to her great-uncle's house in the walled town of Saint-Malo, carrying what may be the museum's most dangerous jewel. In a German mining town, the orphan Werner Pfennig grows up with his sister, enchanted by a crude radio. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and became a 2023 Netflix miniseries.

Barack Obama included it among his summer favorites in 2015.