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Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,358,743 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 — 36,693 ratings — published 1998
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,011 ratings — published 2002
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.36 — 53,924 ratings — published 2000
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,172,172 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 — 13,794 ratings — published 2003
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,403 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 — 68,645 ratings — published 1998
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 373,707 ratings — published 1986
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,354 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 870,481 ratings — published 1946
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,268 ratings — published 1947
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,657 ratings — published 2010
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response – A National Bestseller on Forgotten Heroes and the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.23 — 807 ratings — published 2003
The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as genocide)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,692 ratings — published 2012
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.37 — 275,528 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 — 102,015 ratings — published 1970
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,263 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,865,764 ratings — published 2005
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,343 ratings — published 2012
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,222 ratings — published 1963
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,788 ratings — published 2006
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 961,760 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 — 157,929 ratings — published 1991
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,994 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 — 25,322 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,158,529 ratings — published 2018
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.46 — 13,009 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 — 23,318 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 — 3,664 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 — 263 ratings — published 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,950 ratings — published 2007
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.03 — 434 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 — 609 ratings — published 2001
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.61 — 35,384 ratings — published 2025
Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,098 ratings — published 1975
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,384 ratings — published 2006
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,639 ratings — published 1986
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,018 ratings — published 2000
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,152 ratings — published 1994
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,370 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,556 ratings — published 1982
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,262 ratings — published 2017
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.58 — 252,928 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 — 400 ratings — published 2015
Forgotten Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,752 ratings — published 2000
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,584 ratings — published 2013
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.24 — 367 ratings — published 2009
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as genocide)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,147 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 — 443,269 ratings — published 2017
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in the leader's scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive. In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology–or what Rwandans call "the logic"–of genocide was promoted as a way not to create suffering but alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual–always an annoyance to totality–ceases to exist.”
― 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
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on their own land. But they have not survived genocide. You know how we survived?"
I said nothing.
"We put surviving into our poems and into our songs. We put it into our folk tales. We danced surviving in Congo Square in New Orleans and put it in our pots when we cooked pinto beans. We wore surviving on our backs when we clothed ourselves in the colors of the rainbow. We were pulled down so low we could hardly lift our eyes, so we knew, if we wanted to survive, we had better lift our own spirits. So we laughed whenever we got the chance.”
― A Song Flung Up to Heaven
I said nothing.
"We put surviving into our poems and into our songs. We put it into our folk tales. We danced surviving in Congo Square in New Orleans and put it in our pots when we cooked pinto beans. We wore surviving on our backs when we clothed ourselves in the colors of the rainbow. We were pulled down so low we could hardly lift our eyes, so we knew, if we wanted to survive, we had better lift our own spirits. So we laughed whenever we got the chance.”
― A Song Flung Up to Heaven
