The Greatest Books of All Time on Holocaust

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

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.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates Countries

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
2202 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2354 Enemies, A Love Story Isaac Bashevis Singer 1972 American Yiddish
2396 The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi 1986 Italian Italian
2479 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
2510 Life With A Star Jiří Weil 1949 Czech Czech
2616 The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman Andrzej Szczypiorski 1986 Polish Polish
2885 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
2955 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
3242 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
3881 Garden, Ashes Danilo Kiš 1965 Serbian Serbo-croatian
4080 The White Hotel D. M. Thomas 1981 British English
4371 The Long Voyage Jorge Semprún 1963 French French
5018 Hourglass Danilo Kiš 1972 Serbian Serbo-croatian
5129 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5145 Dawn Elie Wiesel 1961 Romanian French
5490 The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn 2006 American English
5529 Mr. Theodore Mundstock Ladislav Fuks 1963 Czech Czech
5529 A Prayer For Kateřina Horovitzová Arnost Lustig 1964 Czech Czech
5692 How I Came To Know Fish Ota Pavel 1971 Czech Czech
6215 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6445 Kapo Aleksandar Tišma 1987 Serbian Serbo-croatian
6696 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
7574 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7764 Pavel's Letters Monika Maron 1999 German German
7816 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
8158 The Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen 1988 American English
8291 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8583 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8589 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
8770 See Under: Love David Grossman 1986 Israeli Hebrew
9505 Dita Saxova Arnost Lustig 1962 Czech Czech
9639 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9753 The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander 2007 Israeli English
9832 An Interrupted Life Etty Hillesum 1981 Dutch Dutch
9926 Selected Poems Dan Pagis 1976 Israeli Hebrew
10031 Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh 1971 Hungarian Hebrew
10437 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10897 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
11387 The Immortal Bartfuss Aharon Appelfeld 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11614 Utvald Att Leva Jerzy Einhorn 1996 Swedish Swedish
11660 The Abandonment Of The Jews David S. Wyman 1984 American English
11899 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11939 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12048 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12258 Dreams Of An Insomniac Irena Klepfisz 1990 American English
12324 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12324 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12407 The Scrapbook Heather Clark 2025 Unknown English
12513 Eve's Tattoo Emily Prager 1991 American English
12762 How To Share An Egg Bonny Reichert 2025 Unknown English
12773 Children Of Radium Joe Dunthorne 2025 Welsh English
12820 The Boys In The Light Nina Willner 2025 American English
12862 The Feeling Of Iron Giaime Alonge 2025 Unknown English
12875 I Seek A Kind Person Julian Borger 2025 Unknown English
13030 The Last Days Of Budapest Adam LeBor 2025 British English
13034 The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland 2025 British English
13542 Mr. Sammler's Planet Saul Bellow 1970 American English
13599 The Lost Shore Anna Langfus 1962 French French
13885 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
14490 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14983 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
14983 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14983 The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku 2020 Unknown English
15822 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
15800 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15888 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
16516 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
17117 Briar Rose Jane Yolen 1992 American English
17117 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17117 All Rivers Run To The Sea Elie Wiesel 1995 American French
17117 The Book Of Aron Jim Shepard 2015 American English
17117 Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson 2002 American English
17117 Cold Crematorium József Debreczeni 2024 Unknown English
17117 Maus Ii Art Spiegelman 1992 American English
17117 A Brilliant Life Rachelle Unreich 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Traitor's Daughter Roxana Spicer 2024 Unknown Unknown
17117 Hope Shalom Auslander 2012 American English
17117 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17117 Days In The History Of Silence Merethe Lindstrøm 2011 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17117 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Diary Keepers Nina Siegal 2023 Unknown English
17117 Hitler, Stalin, Mum And Dad Daniel Finkelstein 2023 British English
17117 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17117 Angel Of Oblivion Maja Haderlap 2011 Austrian German
17117 A Scrap Of Time Ida Fink 1985 Polish Polish
17117 Revelation Freshly Erupting Nelly Sachs German German
17117 Poland Adam Zamoyski 2009 British English