Tales of Persecution & Oppression

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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,655 ratings
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,414 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,155 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,578 ratings
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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 — 365,579 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,400 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
In the Shadow of the Banyan 4.07 avg rating — 21,737 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,424 ratings
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The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,076 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,465 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 4.26 avg rating — 15,186 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,407 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,052 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,194 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,188 ratings
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I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala 3.85 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific 4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
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...I Never Saw Another Butterfly...
...I Never Saw Another Butterfly... 4.37 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
by: Lila Perl
3.99 avg rating — 7,073 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating — 244,780 ratings
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 4.05 avg rating — 311,640 ratings
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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 4.18 avg rating — 16,375 ratings
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Sold
Sold 4.23 avg rating — 63,071 ratings
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Moon at Nine
Moon at Nine 3.88 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,129 ratings
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If You Could Be Mine
If You Could Be Mine 3.71 avg rating — 10,298 ratings
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This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
by: Hyok Kang
3.84 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky 3.99 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge 4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran
Prisoner of Tehran 4.21 avg rating — 14,316 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 4.01 avg rating — 70,869 ratings
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The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating — 61,489 ratings
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Anita's Piano
Anita's Piano 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,157 ratings
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The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past 3.74 avg rating — 444 ratings
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2HVØRHVNØT: To Have Or Have Not
2HVØRHVNØT: To Have Or Have Not 4.16 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse
Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key 4.18 avg rating — 489,782 ratings
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The Snake Catcher's Daughter (Mamur Zapt, #8)
The Snake Catcher's Daughter (Mamur Zapt, #8) 4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II 4.09 avg rating — 649 ratings
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The Cage
The Cage 4.10 avg rating — 6,421 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,085 ratings
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The Proud and the Free
The Proud and the Free 3.69 avg rating — 327 ratings
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What the Moon Saw
What the Moon Saw 4.21 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating — 16,225 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The Women of Baghdad (Middle East, #1)
The Women of Baghdad (Middle East, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
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The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands
The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands 3.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust 4.25 avg rating — 6,197 ratings
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Hansi the Girl Who Left the Swastika
Hansi the Girl Who Left the Swastika 3.98 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America 3.56 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by: Loung Ung
4.20 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
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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 — 348,509 ratings
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Half-Breed
Half-Breed 4.24 avg rating — 2,948 ratings
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And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation 4.27 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi 3.93 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness 4.04 avg rating — 17,101 ratings
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Little Brother
Little Brother 3.66 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank 4.34 avg rating — 17,304 ratings
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The God Squad
The God Squad 3.85 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Letters from Burma
Letters from Burma 3.90 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree
Children of the Jacaranda Tree 3.49 avg rating — 3,731 ratings
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We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust 3.94 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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The Red Book: The Hanrahan Case Against Merck, Sharp and Dohme
The Red Book: The Hanrahan Case Against Merck, Sharp and Dohme 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dropping the Habit
Dropping the Habit 3.46 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Copper Sun
Copper Sun 4.35 avg rating — 16,907 ratings
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The Light in the Window
The Light in the Window 4.25 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,321 ratings
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Anne Frank : The Biography
Anne Frank : The Biography 4.34 avg rating — 25,515 ratings
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A Horse in My Kit Bag
A Horse in My Kit Bag 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,817 ratings
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Alicia: My Story
Alicia: My Story 4.14 avg rating — 11,729 ratings
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The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia Journalism Review Books)
The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia Journalism Review Books) 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys Path from the Sudan to America
Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys Path from the Sudan to America 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth 3.86 avg rating — 974 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,061 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago 4.37 avg rating — 11,713 ratings
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The Namesake
The Namesake 4.02 avg rating — 280,152 ratings
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Mahtab's Story
Mahtab's Story 3.58 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,414 ratings
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The Bone Sparrow
The Bone Sparrow really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,530 ratings
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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions 3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 128,893 ratings
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Red Glass
Red Glass 4.03 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
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When the Emperor Was Divine
When the Emperor Was Divine 3.81 avg rating — 29,658 ratings
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An Ocean Apart, a World Away
An Ocean Apart, a World Away 3.70 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia 3.72 avg rating — 6,008 ratings
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Promising Azra
Promising Azra 4.14 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,220 ratings
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The Snow Angel
The Snow Angel 4.18 avg rating — 233 ratings
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