The Greatest Books of All Time on Holocaust

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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
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
598 Night Elie Wiesel 1958 French French
803 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 American English
832 The Last Of The Just André Schwarz-Bart 1959 French French
958 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 1975 Italian Italian
975 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 1995 German German
1021 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 1982 Italian Italian
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
1104 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
1159 Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt 1963 German English
1199 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski 1947 Polish Polish
1344 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
1627 Dora Bruder Patrick Modiano 1997 French French
2203 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2356 Enemies, A Love Story Isaac Bashevis Singer 1972 American Yiddish
2398 The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi 1986 Italian Italian
2481 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
2512 Life With A Star Jiří Weil 1949 Czech Czech
2617 The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman Andrzej Szczypiorski 1986 Polish Polish
2887 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
2957 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
3243 Death Is My Trade Robert Merle 1952 French French
3638 The Language Of The Third Reich Victor Klemperer 1947 German German
3638 Doctors Of Infamy Unknown 1947 Unknown English
3880 Garden, Ashes Danilo Kiš 1965 Serbian Serbo-croatian
4081 The White Hotel D. M. Thomas 1981 British English
4372 The Long Voyage Jorge Semprún 1963 French French
5022 Hourglass Danilo Kiš 1972 Serbian Serbo-croatian
5132 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5148 Dawn Elie Wiesel 1961 Romanian French
5493 The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn 2006 American English
5531 Mr. Theodore Mundstock Ladislav Fuks 1963 Czech Czech
5531 A Prayer For Kateřina Horovitzová Arnost Lustig 1964 Czech Czech
5695 How I Came To Know Fish Ota Pavel 1971 Czech Czech
6219 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6448 Kapo Aleksandar Tišma 1987 Serbian Serbo-croatian
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6845 For Those I Loved Martin Gray 1971 French French
6951 The Invention Of Africa V. Y. Mudimbe 1988 Congolese English
7015 Trieste Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
7056 Kaddish For An Unborn Child Imre Kertész 1990 Hungarian Hungarian
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7151 The Shawl Cynthia Ozick 1989 American English
7575 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7766 Pavel's Letters Monika Maron 1999 German German
7817 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
8160 The Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen 1988 American English
8293 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8587 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8593 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
8775 See Under: Love David Grossman 1986 Israeli Hebrew
9510 Dita Saxova Arnost Lustig 1962 Czech Czech
9643 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9756 The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander 2007 Israeli English
9835 An Interrupted Life Etty Hillesum 1981 Dutch Dutch
9930 Selected Poems Dan Pagis 1976 Israeli Hebrew
10035 Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh 1971 Hungarian Hebrew
10442 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10903 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
11392 The Immortal Bartfuss Aharon Appelfeld 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11616 Utvald Att Leva Jerzy Einhorn 1996 Swedish Swedish
11662 The Abandonment Of The Jews David S. Wyman 1984 American English
11900 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11940 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12049 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12049 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12259 Dreams Of An Insomniac Irena Klepfisz 1990 American English
12326 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12326 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12409 The Scrapbook Heather Clark 2025 Unknown English
12515 Eve's Tattoo Emily Prager 1991 American English
12764 How To Share An Egg Bonny Reichert 2025 Unknown English
12775 Children Of Radium Joe Dunthorne 2025 Welsh English
12822 The Boys In The Light Nina Willner 2025 American English
12864 The Feeling Of Iron Giaime Alonge 2025 Unknown English
12877 I Seek A Kind Person Julian Borger 2025 Unknown English
13033 The Last Days Of Budapest Adam LeBor 2025 British English
13037 The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland 2025 British English
13543 Mr. Sammler's Planet Saul Bellow 1970 American English
13600 The Lost Shore Anna Langfus 1962 French French
13886 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
14491 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14985 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14985 The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku 2020 Unknown English
15834 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
15818 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15902 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
16540 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
17161 Briar Rose Jane Yolen 1992 American English
17161 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17161 All Rivers Run To The Sea Elie Wiesel 1995 American French
17161 The Book Of Aron Jim Shepard 2015 American English
17161 Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson 2002 American English
17161 Cold Crematorium József Debreczeni 2024 Unknown English
17161 Maus Ii Art Spiegelman 1992 American English
17161 A Brilliant Life Rachelle Unreich 2024 Unknown English
17161 The Traitor's Daughter Roxana Spicer 2024 Unknown Unknown
17161 Hope Shalom Auslander 2012 American English
17161 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17161 Days In The History Of Silence Merethe Lindstrøm 2011 Norwegian Norwegian
17161 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17161 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17161 The Diary Keepers Nina Siegal 2023 Unknown English
17161 Hitler, Stalin, Mum And Dad Daniel Finkelstein 2023 British English
17161 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17161 Angel Of Oblivion Maja Haderlap 2011 Austrian German
17161 A Scrap Of Time Ida Fink 1985 Polish Polish
17161 Revelation Freshly Erupting Nelly Sachs German German
17161 Poland Adam Zamoyski 2009 British English