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Night Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,362,301 ratings — published 1956
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.22 — 36,752 ratings — published 1998
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,021 ratings — published 2002
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,083 ratings — published 2000
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,813 ratings — published 2003
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The Diary of a Young Girl The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,186,398 ratings — published 1947
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,447 ratings — published 2006
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,900 ratings — published 1998
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 374,587 ratings — published 1986
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,600 ratings — published 1997
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Man's Search for Meaning Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 875,131 ratings — published 1946
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Survival in Auschwitz Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,546 ratings — published 1947
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,714 ratings — published 2010
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The Sandcastle Girls The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as genocide)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,724 ratings — published 2012
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Between Shades of Gray Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 276,316 ratings — published 2011
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,242 ratings — published 1970
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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,269 ratings — published 2000
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The Book Thief The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,874,769 ratings — published 2005
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Never Fall Down Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,364 ratings — published 2012
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,368 ratings — published 1963
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An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,788 ratings — published 2006
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 965,471 ratings — published 2006
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.43 — 158,078 ratings — published 1991
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Machete Season Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,001 ratings — published 2003
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,345 ratings — published 2018
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,163,592 ratings — published 2018
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.46 — 13,078 ratings — published 2016
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,398 ratings — published 1992
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Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.01 — 263 ratings — published 2007
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.61 — 37,813 ratings — published 2025
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,098 ratings — published 2007
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.03 — 433 ratings — published 2006
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When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.08 — 612 ratings — published 2001
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Survival in the Killing Fields Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,099 ratings — published 1975
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,421 ratings — published 2006
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,644 ratings — published 1986
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,026 ratings — published 2000
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,155 ratings — published 1994
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,380 ratings — published 2015
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Schindler’s List Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,650 ratings — published 1982
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,299 ratings — published 2017
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The Complete Maus The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 253,783 ratings — published 1980
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"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 400 ratings — published 2015
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Forgotten Fire Forgotten Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,758 ratings — published 2000
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,170 ratings — published 2023
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,590 ratings — published 2013
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Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 366 ratings — published 2009
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.14 — 445,132 ratings — published 2017
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R.F. Kuang
“How could she compare the lives lost? One genocide against another—how did they balance on the scale of justice? And who was she, to imagine that she could make that comparison?”
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

Robert Higgs
“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.”
Robert Higgs

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