Books like First They Killed My Father

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung reads as harrowing, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

So far from the bamboo grove

Yoko Kawashima Watkins · 1986

Shares the escape + history thread

84% genome match

Eva's story

Eva Schloss · 1988

Shares the escape + history thread

80% genome match

The Journey Back

Johanna Reiss · 1976

Shares the escape + history thread

80% genome match

The children of Willesden Lane

Mona Golabek · 2002

Shares the escape + history thread

77% genome match

Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank / Excerpts from Anne Frank)

Frances Goodrich · 1989

Shares the escape + history thread

73% genome match

I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Livia Bitton-Jackson · 1997

Shares the escape + history thread

71% genome match

Bag of Marbles

Joseph Joffo · 1975

Shares the escape + history thread

84% genome match

Year of Goodbyes

Debbie Levy · 2015

Shares the escape + history thread

72% genome match

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom · 1971

Shares the history thread

81% genome match

Winter in the morning

Janina Bauman · 1986

Shares the history thread

85% genome match

Barefoot Gen Vol. 4, Barefoot Gen Vol. 5 (Splitting Works needed)

中沢 啓治 · 1978

Shares the escape + history thread

84% genome match

Zlatin dnevnik

Zlata Filipović · 1993

Shares the history thread

81% genome match