City of Thieves

Author: David Benioff

This is a quick, enjoyable read about a boy's personal journey to find some eggs (for a general's party cake) during the siege of Leningrad. There's a great buddy story and some nice themes about coming of age which mix light tones (first crushes, puberty) with a serious backdrop. It's still ultimately about war, but not strictly a war book. And the characters are fun to follow with the narrator and his accomplice serving as a kind of odd couple. One of the better books I've read lately.