Essential Books on the Holocaust

1.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,132 ratings
2.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,072,853 ratings
3.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating β€” 2,802,048 ratings
4.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating β€” 933,517 ratings
5.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating β€” 365,559 ratings
6.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating β€” 31,551 ratings
7.
Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key 4.18 avg rating β€” 489,766 ratings
8.
If This Is a Man β€’ The Truce
If This Is a Man β€’ The Truce 4.54 avg rating β€” 21,711 ratings
9.
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating β€” 156,017 ratings
10.
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating β€” 348,491 ratings
11.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating β€” 832,355 ratings
12.
The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating β€” 226,218 ratings
13.
Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating β€” 164,324 ratings
14.
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 4.25 avg rating β€” 79,656 ratings
15.
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 4.17 avg rating β€” 48,561 ratings
16.
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating β€” 93,607 ratings
17.
Together: A Journey for Survival
Together: A Journey for Survival 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,674 ratings
18.
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by: Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating β€” 66,127 ratings
19.
Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz 4.34 avg rating β€” 83,588 ratings
20.
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust 4.19 avg rating β€” 23,341 ratings
21.
The Seamstress
The Seamstress 4.14 avg rating β€” 7,617 ratings
22.
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,887 ratings
23.
Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel 3.92 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
24.
Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir 4.45 avg rating β€” 1,549 ratings
25.
Devil's Deceit.
Devil's Deceit. 4.82 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
26.
The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating β€” 61,486 ratings
27.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating β€” 45,958 ratings
28.
I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,266 ratings
29.
All But My Life
All But My Life 4.33 avg rating β€” 21,981 ratings
30.
Surviving The Forest
Surviving The Forest 4.22 avg rating β€” 5,293 ratings
31.
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident 4.29 avg rating β€” 5,353 ratings
32.
Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating β€” 608,382 ratings
33.
The Last Jew of Treblinka
The Last Jew of Treblinka 4.35 avg rating β€” 6,904 ratings
34.
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 4.26 avg rating β€” 15,186 ratings
35.
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz 4.29 avg rating β€” 7,849 ratings
36.
The Camp
The Camp
by: Greg Hair
3.93 avg rating β€” 191 ratings
37.
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker 4.32 avg rating β€” 639 ratings
38.
Separated Together
Separated Together 4.48 avg rating β€” 387 ratings
39.
Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us 4.11 avg rating β€” 102,912 ratings
40.
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,249 ratings
41.
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine 4.39 avg rating β€” 8,865 ratings
42.
The Boy on the Wooden Box
The Boy on the Wooden Box 4.38 avg rating β€” 29,037 ratings
43.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1) 3.99 avg rating β€” 23,722 ratings
44.
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
by: Dan Stone
3.96 avg rating β€” 117 ratings
45.
The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City
The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City 4.62 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
46.
The Last Secret of The Soul: One boy. One Holocaust. One Survivor.
The Last Secret of The Soul: One boy. One Holocaust. One Survivor. 4.43 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
47.
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival 4.40 avg rating β€” 587 ratings
48.
All My Love, Detrick (All My Love, Detrick, #1)
All My Love, Detrick (All My Love, Detrick, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 4,560 ratings
49.
You Are My Sunshine (All My Love, Detrick, #2)
You Are My Sunshine (All My Love, Detrick, #2) 4.18 avg rating β€” 5,175 ratings
50.
Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust
Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust 4.24 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
51.
The Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps
The Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
52.
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning 4.29 avg rating β€” 4,240 ratings
53.
The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures
The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures 4.27 avg rating β€” 3,548 ratings
54.
The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future
The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future 4.20 avg rating β€” 207 ratings
54.
Peeling the Onion
Peeling the Onion 3.86 avg rating β€” 2,112 ratings
56.
The Yellow Bird Sings
The Yellow Bird Sings 4.08 avg rating β€” 15,205 ratings
57.
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz 4.39 avg rating β€” 4,201 ratings
58.
The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir
The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir 4.45 avg rating β€” 321 ratings
59.
Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating β€” 16,224 ratings
60.
Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,462 ratings
61.
Lusia's Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust
Lusia's Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,587 ratings
62.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools 3.67 avg rating β€” 2,930 ratings
63.
I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish Resistance
I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish Resistance 4.23 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
64.
Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles In Poetry
Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles In Poetry 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
65.
In the Face of Evil: Based on the Life of Dina Frydman Balbien
In the Face of Evil: Based on the Life of Dina Frydman Balbien 4.28 avg rating β€” 207 ratings
65.
Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived World War II
Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived World War II 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,139 ratings
67.
Once & Then
Once & Then 4.43 avg rating β€” 1,163 ratings
68.
The Voyage
The Voyage 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,455 ratings
68.
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 4.11 avg rating β€” 22,316 ratings
70.
A Flicker of Light
A Flicker of Light 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,670 ratings
71.
If I Should Die Before I Wake
If I Should Die Before I Wake
by: Han Nolan
4.06 avg rating β€” 4,684 ratings
72.
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry 4.49 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
73.
My Bridges of Hope
My Bridges of Hope 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,502 ratings
74.
The Seventh Cross
The Seventh Cross 3.97 avg rating β€” 3,094 ratings
75.
Shoah
Shoah 4.41 avg rating β€” 479 ratings
75.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,016 ratings
77.
The Story Keeper
The Story Keeper 4.32 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
78.
The Man Across the River
The Man Across the River 4.64 avg rating β€” 307 ratings
79.
The Shawl
The Shawl 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,787 ratings
80.
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,644 ratings
81.
This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz
This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz 4.10 avg rating β€” 446 ratings
82.
Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child
Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child 4.15 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
83.
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis 4.22 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
84.
Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology
Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology 4.29 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
85.
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story 3.98 avg rating β€” 5,037 ratings
86.
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present 3.91 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
87.
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal 3.49 avg rating β€” 2,516 ratings
88.
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps 4.35 avg rating β€” 3,399 ratings
89.
Hitler's Gift: The Story of Theresienstadt
Hitler's Gift: The Story of Theresienstadt 3.70 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
90.
The Lost Wife
The Lost Wife 4.25 avg rating β€” 63,303 ratings
91.
Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs
Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs 4.51 avg rating β€” 3,729 ratings
92.
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
by: Lila Perl
3.99 avg rating β€” 7,073 ratings
93.
Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation With Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation With Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 4.37 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
94.
Hitler
Hitler 4.23 avg rating β€” 2,344 ratings
95.
The War Never Ended: Memories of Holocaust Survivors
The War Never Ended: Memories of Holocaust Survivors 4.13 avg rating β€” 83 ratings
96.
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany 3.92 avg rating β€” 299 ratings
97.
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust 4.18 avg rating β€” 979 ratings
98.
...I Never Saw Another Butterfly...
...I Never Saw Another Butterfly... 4.37 avg rating β€” 2,737 ratings
99.
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl 4.21 avg rating β€” 244 ratings
100.
Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher
Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher 4.74 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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