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Genocide Books
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Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,384,518 ratings — published 1956
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,472 ratings — published 1998
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,105 ratings — published 2002
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 55,465 ratings — published 2000
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,978 ratings — published 2003
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,258,650 ratings — published 1947
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 48,054 ratings — published 2006
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 55,951 ratings — published 1997
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 — 71,087 ratings — published 1998
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 380,842 ratings — published 1986
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 904,750 ratings — published 1946
The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as genocide)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,081 ratings — published 2012
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 827 ratings — published 2003
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 88,629 ratings — published 1947
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,286 ratings — published 2010
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 282,355 ratings — published 2011
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,252 ratings — published 1970
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 34,856 ratings — published 1963
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,284 ratings — published 2006
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,434 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,928,561 ratings — published 2005
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,494 ratings — published 2012
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,821 ratings — published 2006
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.43 — 159,640 ratings — published 1991
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 61,433 ratings — published 2025
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,685 ratings — published 2016
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.01 — 267 ratings — published 2007
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,046 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,831 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,193,714 ratings — published 2018
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,313 ratings — published 1992
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,795 ratings — published 1992
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.03 — 439 ratings — published 2006
Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,203 ratings — published 1975
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,589 ratings — published 2007
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.08 — 627 ratings — published 2001
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,181 ratings — published 1994
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,795 ratings — published 2006
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,101 ratings — published 2000
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,619 ratings — published 2017
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,504 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,667 ratings — published 1982
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 259,916 ratings — published 1980
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,657 ratings — published 1986
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,348 ratings — published 2023
"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 — 414 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.22 — 479 ratings — published 2002
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 378 ratings — published 2009
Forgotten Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,804 ratings — published 2000
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,645 ratings — published 2013
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“In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.”
― The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
― The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
“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?”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War












