Holocaust & Genocide
Individual topics classified under "Holocaust & Genocide", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
- 1
Nazi Germany
25 books
13
wins
147
score
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 · Saul Friedländer1 win · 13 score
- The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War · Lynn H. Nicholas1 win · 12 score
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich · William L. Shirer1 win · 12 score
- The Third Reich: A New History · Michael Burleigh1 win · 12 score
- Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 · Volker Ullrich with Jefferson Chase (trans.)1 win · 10 score
- 2
Holocaust
18 books
8
wins
110
score
- KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps · Nikolaus Wachsmann2 wins · 16 score
- Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews · Leonard Baker1 win · 12 score
- Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation · Isaiah Trunk1 win · 12 score
- The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945 · David S. Wyman1 win · 9 score
- Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism · Alexander Stille1 win · 8 score
- 3
Antisemitism
12 books
6
wins
54
score
- The Man on Devil's Island: The Affair that Divided France · Ruth Harris1 win · 8 score
- The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History · Louis Leo Snyder1 win · 5 score
- The Jews among the Nations · Erich Kahler1 win · 5 score
- The Leo Frank Case · Leonard Dinnerstein1 win · 5 score
- The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945 · Lucy S. Dawidowicz1 win · 5 score
- 4
Genocide
3 books
5
wins
45
score
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide · Samantha Power4 wins · 37 score
- Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others · David Livingstone Smith1 win · 5 score
- The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention · Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (editors)0 wins · 3 score
- 5
The Holocaust
6 books
3
wins
49
score
- The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million · Daniel Mendelsohn1 win · 15 score
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 · Saul Friedländer1 win · 13 score
- Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice · Mary Fulbrook1 win · 11 score
- Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust · Daniel Goldhagen0 wins · 4 score
- Hitler: Volume 2. 1936–1945 Nemesis · Ian Kershaw0 wins · 3 score
- 6
Adolf Hitler
8 books
3
wins
41
score
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich · William L. Shirer1 win · 12 score
- Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 · Volker Ullrich with Jefferson Chase (trans.)1 win · 10 score
- Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis · Ian Kershaw1 win · 8 score
- Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (about Adolf Hitler) · Ian Kershaw0 wins · 4 score
- Hitler: Volume 2. 1936–1945 Nemesis · Ian Kershaw0 wins · 3 score
- 7
Human rights atrocities
3 books
3
wins
32
score
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda · Philip Gourevitch2 wins · 20 score
- King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa · Adam Hochschild1 win · 9 score
- States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering · Stanley Cohen0 wins · 3 score
- 8
Holocaust survival
7 books
2
wins
32
score
- The Photographer at Sixteen · George Szirtes1 win · 8 score
- A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany · Mark Roseman1 win · 5 score
- A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945 · Frida Scheps Weinstein0 wins · 4 score
- Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America · Kati Marton0 wins · 4 score
- Maus II · Art Spiegelman0 wins · 4 score
- 9
Jewish history
6 books
2
wins
28
score
- European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 · Jonathan Israel1 win · 8 score
- Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust · Rebecca Clifford0 wins · 6 score
- A History of the Jews, Revised Edition · Abram L. Sachar1 win · 5 score
- Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900 · Simon Schama0 wins · 4 score
- The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews · Alexander Lee0 wins · 3 score
- 10
Jewish persecution
4 books
2
wins
18
score
- A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany · Mark Roseman1 win · 5 score
- The Destruction of the European Jews · Raul Hilberg1 win · 5 score
- I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 · Viktor Klemperer0 wins · 4 score
- The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara · David I. Kertzer0 wins · 4 score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Antisemitism0 wins
- 2Nazi Germany0 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025