43rd book - "The Pillars of the Earth" - Ken Follett - 10 points

Let's go back in the 12th century. 1000 pages!
The idea to tell the story around the construction of a cathedral is perfect. It appeared to me that the stories about certain people repeated themselves, like the characters of William Hamleigh or Bishop Waleran.
Anyway, a great book and I read it within 12 days. Will read more Ken Follett.
I read the 2007 paperback version ISBN 978-0-451-22524-5. First published in 1989.

42nd book - "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows - 9 points

This book is entirely written letters from one person to another. Really incredible how the characters develop just in these letters.
I actually learned much of the history of the Channel Island between France and England which belong to the U.K.... the story takes places in 1946 right after WWII and tells many details of the 5 years German occupation until the end of WWII in May 1945 (!), not until the D-Day the year before.
As a German myself I always feel deeply ashamed what has happened during the Hitler time, for that reason I'm glad that we have books like this to remember these horrible events again and again so that it will never happen again.

I read the 2008 hardcover edition from the Dial Press. ISBN 978-0-385-34099-1.

41st book - "The White Lioness" - Henning Mankell - 9 points

"The White Lioness" is the 3rd part of the Kurt Wallender series which also takes place in South Africa.
Originally published in 1993.