The Book of Lost Names
Ranked #90 in 100 Most Popular BookTok and Bookstagram Books
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About The Book of Lost Names
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. Sixty-five years later, a book is discovered that appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don't know where it came from, or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
Reader guide at a glance
Use these edition facts and spoiler-light notes to decide whether this book fits your mood, time, and preferred reading experience.
- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 10.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Standard-length read
- Best for
- Readers seeking secret identity, survival, reflective, historical fiction
Why readers are finding The Book of Lost Names
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel, published in 2021, is a 416-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Secret Identity, Survival, Reflective, Historical Fiction.
This edition also appears at number 90 in our researched social reading top 100, reflecting current discussion across Bookstagram alongside longer-running reader interest. The ranking uses one verified English-language print ISBN per work so retailer links, cover metadata, and search results point to a real edition rather than a workbook, translation, or duplicate collector version.
- Print ISBN
- 978-1-982-13190-6
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 416
