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Genocide Books
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Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,349,668 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 — 36,470 ratings — published 1998
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,962 ratings — published 2002
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 53,486 ratings — published 2000
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,137,879 ratings — published 1947
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,734 ratings — published 2003
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,233 ratings — published 2006
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 — 67,883 ratings — published 1998
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,480 ratings — published 1997
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 371,101 ratings — published 1986
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 857,399 ratings — published 1946
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.22 — 801 ratings — published 2003
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 85,489 ratings — published 1947
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,386 ratings — published 2010
The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as genocide)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,573 ratings — published 2012
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 273,102 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 — 101,208 ratings — published 1970
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,218 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,843,264 ratings — published 2005
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,293 ratings — published 2012
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,694 ratings — published 1963
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,775 ratings — published 2006
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 953,064 ratings — published 2006
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.43 — 157,334 ratings — published 1991
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,974 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 — 25,083 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,145,954 ratings — published 2018
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,789 ratings — published 2016
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.11 — 22,999 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 — 3,614 ratings — published 1992
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 — 261 ratings — published 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,433 ratings — published 2007
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.02 — 432 ratings — published 2006
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.08 — 601 ratings — published 2001
Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,063 ratings — published 1975
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,206 ratings — published 2006
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,631 ratings — published 1986
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,997 ratings — published 2000
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,144 ratings — published 1994
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,332 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,180 ratings — published 1982
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,139 ratings — published 2017
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 250,643 ratings — published 1980
"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 — 389 ratings — published 2015
Forgotten Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,741 ratings — published 2000
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,559 ratings — published 2013
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 364 ratings — published 2009
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.64 — 26,158 ratings — published 2025
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,060 ratings — published 2023
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 — 437,645 ratings — published 2017
“Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitudes. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. We may have loved, but never well enough. We never truly knew ourselves. We forgot the world; now it has forgotten us.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”
― 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












