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
2203 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2481 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
3243 Death Is My Trade Robert Merle 1952 French French
3637 Armenian Atrocities Arnold J. Toynbee 1915 British English
3895 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
4934 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
5132 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5260 Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga 2006 French French
5406 Murambi, The Book Of Bones Boubacar Boris Diop 2000 Senegalese French
5599 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
7806 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung 2000 Cambodian English
7872 The Book Of Whispers Varujan Vosganian 2009 Romanian Romanian
7881 Safe Area Joe Sacco 2000 American English
8144 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8352 The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat 1998 Haitian English
9315 Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist 1992 Swedish Swedish
9324 Terra Nullius Sven Lindqvist 2007 Swedish Swedish
10442 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10942 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
11140 A Problem from Hell Samantha Power 2002 American English
12326 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12326 To End A War Richard Holbrooke 1998 American English
12326 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12740 Small Country Gaël Faye 2016 French French
13316 Who Will Remember The People... Jean Raspail 1986 French French
14599 Running The Rift Naomi Benaron 2010 American English
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
15833 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
16537 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
17160 Xenocide Orson Scott Card 1991 American English
17160 The Blood Telegram Gary J. Bass 2013 American English
17160 When Victims Become Killers Mahmood Mamdani 2001 American English
17160 Season Of Blood Fergal Keane 1996 British English
17160 A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton 2000 Canadian French
17160 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17160 Baking Cakes In Kigali Gaile Parkin 2009 South African English