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Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and #1 international bestselling author of The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and are sold all over the world.

Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. In addition to a long magazine writing career, primarily writing and reporting for PEOPLE magazine (as well as articles published in numerous other magazines, including American Baby, Men’s Health, Woman’s Day, a ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 683,968 ratings · 61,394 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Lost Names 4.44 avg rating — 275,078 ratings — published 2020 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winemaker's Wife 4.23 avg rating — 97,066 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forest of Vanishing Stars 4.25 avg rating — 90,478 ratings — published 2021 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paris Daughter 4.23 avg rating — 66,281 ratings — published 2023 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Room on Rue Amelie 4.21 avg rating — 44,386 ratings — published 2018 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sweetness of Forgetting 4.23 avg rating — 38,878 ratings — published 2012 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau 4.35 avg rating — 20,429 ratings — published 2025 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Meet Again 4.20 avg rating — 18,246 ratings — published 2016 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life Intended 4.13 avg rating — 14,019 ratings — published 2014 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Italian for Beginners 3.77 avg rating — 3,369 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Notre-Dame de Paris will rise again

As I sat yesterday in paralyzed horror watching Notre-Dame de Paris burn, I couldn’t help but think of another Notre Dame—Notre-Dame de Reims, the largest cathedral in the Champagne region of France—and the thought gave me hope. That’s because the Reims cathedral, which looks remarkably similar and was built in the same style (French Gothic) and era (Ground was broken in Paris in the year 1163, in Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 16, 2019 07:12 • Tags: champagne, notre-dame, paris, the-winemaker-s-wife, world-war-ii

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“Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

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“He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

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“But we aren’t defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

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January Side Reads Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books Move onto Final Poll

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

11 votes, 28.2%

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

8 votes, 20.5%

The Room on Rue Amelie

by Kristin Harmel

5 votes, 12.8%

Winter Counts

by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3 votes, 7.7%

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

3 votes, 7.7%

The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

3 votes, 7.7%

The Orphan Collector

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

2 votes, 5.1%

Florence Adler Swims Forever

by Rachel Beanland

2 votes, 5.1%

The Vineyards of Champagne

by Juliet Blackwell

2 votes, 5.1%

Musical Chairs

by Amy Poeppel

0 votes, 0.0%

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