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Genocide Books
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Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,391,659 ratings — published 1956
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,707 ratings — published 1998
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,127 ratings — published 2002
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 55,876 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 — 14,030 ratings — published 2003
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,284,077 ratings — published 1947
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 48,251 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 — 56,734 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 — 71,831 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 — 382,774 ratings — published 1986
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 918,497 ratings — published 1946
The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as genocide)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,208 ratings — published 2012
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 830 ratings — published 2003
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 89,259 ratings — published 1947
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,476 ratings — published 2010
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 284,414 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 — 104,974 ratings — published 1970
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,477 ratings — published 2000
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 35,335 ratings — published 1963
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,946,639 ratings — published 2005
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,548 ratings — published 2012
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,853 ratings — published 2006
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 993,098 ratings — published 2006
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.57 — 68,365 ratings — published 2025
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.43 — 160,096 ratings — published 1991
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,061 ratings — published 2003
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 — 270 ratings — published 2007
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.18 — 25,963 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,202,738 ratings — published 2018
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,882 ratings — published 2016
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,576 ratings — published 1992
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.03 — 440 ratings — published 2006
"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 — 3,832 ratings — published 1992
Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,247 ratings — published 1975
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,080 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 — 629 ratings — published 2001
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,192 ratings — published 1994
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,924 ratings — published 2006
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,113 ratings — published 2000
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,523 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,006 ratings — published 1982
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 261,772 ratings — published 1980
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,663 ratings — published 1986
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,538 ratings — published 2023
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,720 ratings — published 2017
"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 420 ratings — published 2015
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 376 ratings — published 2009
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,660 ratings — published 2013
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
Forgotten Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,815 ratings — published 2000
War Against Hamas (Testimonies about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and the Israel-Gaza War)
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“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.”
― From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany
― From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany
“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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