Past Book Selections

September-December 2011: Bosnia

December:  The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia, Michael A. Sells (analysis)

November:  Good People in an Evil Time: Portraits of Complicity and Resistance in the Bosnian War, Svetlana Broz (interviews)

October:  A Witness to Genocide, Roy Gutman (Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches on the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Bosnia)

September:  The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway (fiction; “an exquisite novel of war and loss, music and solace”- O, The Oprah Magazine)

 

May-August  2011: Cambodia

August:  View from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison, David Chandler (analysis)

July:  Survival in the Killing Fields, Haing Ngor (memoir)

June:  The Disappeared, Kim Echlin (fiction; Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist)

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

 

January-April 2011: Congo

April:  In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz:  Living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu’s Congo, Michela Wrong

March: All things must fight to live:  Stories of war and deliverance in Congo, Bryan Mealer

February:  The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (historical fiction)

January:  King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild (history)

 

September-December 2010:  Darfur

December: Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror, Mahmood Mamdani OR articles by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

November:  The Translator, Daoud Hari (memoir)

October:  Genocide in Darfur, Totten and Markusen (Chapters  2-13)

September:  Tears of the Desert, Halima Bashir (memoir)

 

May-August 2010:  Rwanda

August:  Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, Jean Hatzfeld

July:  A Sunday By the Pool in Kigali, Gil Courtemanche (fiction)

June:  A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power, (Chapters 1-5, 10)

May:  We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Phillip Gourevitch

 

January-April 2010:  The Holocaust

April: If the Whole Body Dies: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide, Robert Skloot (one-act play)

March: Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, James Waller

February:  Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, Francine Prose

January:  The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Anne Frank (Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0553577129)