The Shelves

Holocaust Books

Books selected for readers looking for holocaust books.

27 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·125% reader overlap with Religious Jewish Books

1. The Girl Who Sang
Estelle Nadel, Sammy Savos
Fits this list for its focus on holocaust.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories
2. The Light in Hidden Places
Sharon Cameron
Included for strong book club alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
3. The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites
Fits this list for its focus on holocaust.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
4. When the World Was Ours
Liz Kessler
Included for strong children alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz [movie-tie-in]
Heather Morris
Fits this list for its focus on holocaust.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
6. The Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold
Included for strong year alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
7. The Silent Unseen
Amanda McCrina
Included for strong world alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
8. They Went Left
Monica Hesse
Included for strong teens alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
9. What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper
Fits this list for its focus on holocaust.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
10. Prisoner of Night and Fog
Anne Blankman, Heather Wilds
Included for strong jewish alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
11. Resistance (scholastic Gold)
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Included for strong history alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
12. The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Included for strong jewish alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories
13. Orphan Monster Spy
Saskia Maarleveld, Matt Killeen
Included for strong thrillers alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
14. The War Outside
Monica Hesse
Included for strong young alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: 21st-Century US YA
15. Song of a Blackbird
Maria van Lieshout
Included for strong historical alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories
16. Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy
Fits this list for its focus on holocaust.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories
17. This Light Between US: a Novel of World War II
Andrew Fukuda
Included for strong world alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
18. 28 Days: a Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
David Safier
Included for strong teen alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
19. Artifice
Sharon Cameron
Included for strong jewish alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
20. Uprising
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Included for strong reading alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
21. Someday We Will Fly
Jayne Entwistle, Rachel DeWoskin
Included for strong world alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens
22. When We Flew Away: a Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
Alice Hoffman
Included for strong middle alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories
23. Bluebird
Sharon Cameron
Included for strong book club alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: World War II & Holocaust
24. The Little Liar
Mitch Albom
Included for strong book club alignment with this holocaust list.
Shelf signal: Holocaust Stories for Teens