Non-fiction works that document some of the most catastrophic/violent events of recent history and their systemic causes.
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last updated August, 2025
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Robert Jay Lifton
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Tim Pat Coogan
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
Nick Turse
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Richard Preston
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