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Anne (librarianguish) | 636 comments Mod
Examples are many - the holocaust, salem witch trials, various and sundry assassinations...

Share your challenge books about bad events here.


message 2: by Nancy (last edited Jan 20, 2017 05:07PM) (new)

Nancy Regan The Lost A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn by Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Mendelsohn. Mendelsohn painstakingly documents his search for the fates of his great-uncle and -aunt and four of his mother's first cousins, who were known to have disappeared during the Holocaust.


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Danielle (a_bookish_shelf) | 36 comments Girl in the Bluecoat by Monica Hesse

It's about a girl living in Amsterdam during WWII


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Ducky | 46 comments El Paso. It's about the Mexican Revolution


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Kelly B (kellybey) Mischling by Affinity Konar


A novel about the infamous Josef Mengele ("Angel of Death") and his horrific experiments on twins at Auschwitz.


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Spirit-Soul-Body   (dreamsage) | 7 comments description
King Rat by James Clavell

It is historical fiction about WWII POW camp.


Spirit-Soul-Body   (dreamsage) | 7 comments description

Lajja: Shame by Taslima Nasrin

It is about 1992-93 riots.


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Adriana | 6 comments Kindred by Octavia Butler hits on the realities of slavery with a sci-fi twist.


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Cyndy (cyndy-ksreader) | 231 comments I read Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien. A doctor was accused and convicted of killing one of his four sons. Little Egypt is an area in southern Illinois. People from the area raised money to defend the doctor. The murder took place in 1984, in Saint Louis, but the jurors were brought in from Kansas City. Doctor, murdered son, and jurors from across the state made this a well known event in the Midwest. The doctor was also suspected of killing another son several years earlier. This reads more like a story than a biography of the incident. It struck me that way, at least - not that I read lots of true crime novels. There is a lot of historical information about the area, as well as about the doctor. How can a father kill his son and possibly two of his sons? I think I sort of understand why the doctor killed his son, but I still don't understand what made the doctor the way he was. Not a page turner or edge of your seat thriller, but an interesting read.


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Amanda | 229 comments The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian
I love stories about Titanic and this book fell nothing short of excellent!! This book was about the nearby ship The SS Californian that failed to respond to the Titanic's distress rockets on the night the ship sank. I have always been fascinated by this topic and what could have been if only they had ignored giving aid to the crew and passengers that fateful night.


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