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Holocaust
9 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
9 posts
Where to Start with Anne Frank: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Frank — how to approach The Diary of a Young Girl, the most widely read Holocaust document in history. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Georgia Hunter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Georgia Hunter — how to approach We Were the Lucky Ones, her true-story novel about a Polish Jewish family scattered across four continents during the Second World War. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Heather Morris: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heather Morris — whether to begin with The Tattooist of Auschwitz or Cilka's Journey. A complete reading guide to the New Zealand historical novelist.
Best Books About the Holocaust: Essential Reading List
The best books about the Holocaust — memoirs, novels, and history that bear witness honestly. From The Diary of a Young Girl and Night to Maus and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Best Books About World War II: Fiction, Non-Fiction & Memoirs
The best World War II books across fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and military history — from The Diary of a Young Girl and All the Light We Cannot See to Antony Beevor's Stalingrad and Band of Brothers.
Best Holocaust Books: Essential Reading on the Shoah
The best Holocaust books — from Night and Man's Search for Meaning to The Diary of a Young Girl, The Book Thief, and Fatelessness. Essential reading on the Shoah.
Where to Start with William Styron: A Reading Guide
Where to start with William Styron — whether to begin with Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, or Darkness Visible. A complete reading guide.
Books Like Everything Is Illuminated: Memory, the Holocaust, and Comedy as a Vehicle for Horror
Jonathan Safran Foer's novel — a young American traveling to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, accompanied by a translator who speaks gloriously broken English — is one of the most formally inventive Holocaust novels. These books share its use of comedy to carry unbearable weight.
Books Like Man's Search for Meaning: Finding Purpose in Suffering
Viktor Frankl's account of surviving Auschwitz — and the logotherapy he developed from that experience — is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. These books share its insistence that meaning can be found even in the worst circumstances, and the particular authority of testimony written from inside suffering.
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