January-April 2012: The Holocaust

January:  Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman (the only ‘comic book’ ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize:  a graphic biography of the artist’s father’s survival during the Holocaust)

February:  Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay (novel about the Holocaust in France)

March:  Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (autobiography)

April:  Escape from Sobibor, Richard Rashke (journalist’s account of the heroic resistance and escape from the Sobibor extermination camp)

May-August 2012: South America (Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia)

May:  I, Rigoberto Menchu, Rigoberto Menchu (Nobel Peace Prize winner’s story of the Guatemalan Government’s injustices towards the indigenous Mayan people, 1960-1996)

June:  The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende (novel of magical realism about South American dictatorships and repression)

July:  A Single Numberless Death, Nora Strejilevich (fictional memoir of a Jew singled out by the Argentine junta in the Dirty War)

August: Cochabamba: Water War in Bolivia, Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewis (essays about efforts to privatize water in Bolivia and indigenous resistance)

September-December 2012: Asia (Burma, Cambodia, Korea, China)

September:  Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule, Christina Fink (historical nonfiction)

October:  First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, Luong Ung (memoir)

November:  The Great North Korean Famine, Andrew S. Natsios (analysis)

December:  Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama’s Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule, Arjia Rinpoche (memoir of the horrors of China’s Great Leap Forward on Tibet’s language, culture, and religion)

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