108 books
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Genocide Books
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Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,376,442 ratings — published 1956
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 — 37,213 ratings — published 1998
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,080 ratings — published 2002
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,974 ratings — published 2000
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,921 ratings — published 2003
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,232,340 ratings — published 1947
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,837 ratings — published 2006
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 55,025 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 — 70,142 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 — 378,521 ratings — published 1986
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,697 ratings — published 1946
The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as genocide)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,961 ratings — published 2012
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 87,940 ratings — published 1947
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,092 ratings — published 2010
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 822 ratings — published 2003
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 280,168 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 — 103,408 ratings — published 1970
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 34,360 ratings — published 1963
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,354 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,909,283 ratings — published 2005
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,457 ratings — published 2012
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,809 ratings — published 2006
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 978,894 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 — 159,014 ratings — published 1991
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.59 — 52,856 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 — 13,491 ratings — published 2016
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,024 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 — 25,630 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,183,686 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 — 24,019 ratings — published 1992
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.00 — 265 ratings — published 2007
"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 — 3,757 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 — 434 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,042 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 — 623 ratings — published 2001
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,166 ratings — published 1994
Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,159 ratings — published 1975
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,068 ratings — published 2000
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,486 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,298 ratings — published 1982
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 257,697 ratings — published 1980
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,658 ratings — published 2006
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,656 ratings — published 1986
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,525 ratings — published 2017
"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 — 408 ratings — published 2015
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 367 ratings — published 2009
Forgotten Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,789 ratings — published 2000
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,270 ratings — published 2023
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,627 ratings — published 2013
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.21 — 478 ratings — published 2002
War Against Hamas (Testimonies about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and the Israel-Gaza War)
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“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...”
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