The Greatest Books of All Time on Genocide

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2202 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2479 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
3242 Death Is My Trade Robert Merle 1952 French French
3638 Armenian Atrocities Arnold J. Toynbee 1915 British English
3897 The Meaning of Hitler Sebastian Haffner 1978 German German
3953 Farewell Anatolia Dido Sotiriou 1962 Greek Greek
4158 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 1998 American English
4932 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
5129 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5258 Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga 2006 French French
5403 Murambi, The Book Of Bones Boubacar Boris Diop 2000 Senegalese French
5596 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
7804 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung 2000 Cambodian English
7871 The Book Of Whispers Varujan Vosganian 2009 Romanian Romanian
7880 Safe Area Joe Sacco 2000 American English
8142 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8350 The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat 1998 Haitian English
9310 Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist 1992 Swedish Swedish
9319 Terra Nullius Sven Lindqvist 2007 Swedish Swedish
10437 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10936 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
11134 A Problem from Hell Samantha Power 2002 American English
12324 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12324 To End A War Richard Holbrooke 1998 American English
12324 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12738 Small Country Gaël Faye 2016 French French
13313 Who Will Remember The People... Jean Raspail 1986 French French
14598 Running The Rift Naomi Benaron 2010 American English
14983 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
15822 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
16516 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
17117 Xenocide Orson Scott Card 1991 American English
17117 The Blood Telegram Gary J. Bass 2013 American English
17117 When Victims Become Killers Mahmood Mamdani 2001 American English
17117 Season Of Blood Fergal Keane 1996 British English
17117 A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton 2000 Canadian French
17117 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17117 Baking Cakes In Kigali Gaile Parkin 2009 South African English