Books like Homage to Catalonia

01

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer · History

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is William Shirer's comprehensive account of Nazi Germany from the early career of Adolf Hitler through the defeat of the Reich in 1945.

A kindred memoir read.

02

Night

Elie Wiesel · Memoir

Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his deportation from the Transylvanian town of Sighet in 1944 and his survival of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

A kindred memoir read.

03

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology

Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.

A kindred memoir read.

04

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque · History

All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.

Shares war and disillusionment with Homage to Catalonia.

05

Lenin

Victor Sebestyen · Biography

Victor Sebestyen's Lenin is a biography that aims to restore the man behind the mythology — both the Soviet mythology that made him a saint and the anti-communist one that made him a simple monster.

Shares political ideology and revolution with Homage to Catalonia.

06

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah · Memoir

Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when the Sierra Leone civil war reached his village and he was separated from his family.

Both dig into war.

07

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance · Memoir

Hillbilly Elegy is J.

Both dig into class.

08

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi · Memoir

Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Tehran during and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Both dig into revolution.

09

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank · Memoir

Anne Frank's diary, kept during the two years she spent hiding with her family in a concealed Amsterdam apartment, stands as one of the most widely read first-person accounts of the Holocaust.

Both dig into war.

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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

Wladyslaw Szpilman · Memoir

The Pianist is Wladyslaw Szpilman's account of surviving the German occupation of Warsaw from 1939 to 1945.

Both dig into war.

11

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Simon Schama · History

Simon Schama's Citizens was published to mark the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989 and immediately became one of the most controversial histories of the event in decades.

Both dig into revolution.

12

Common Sense

Thomas Paine · History

Common Sense, published in January 1776, is a forty-seven-page pamphlet that argued for American independence from Britain with a directness and reach that no previous colonial publication had achieved.

Both dig into revolution.