6 must-read science books like Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz by Derek Pua

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Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz

By: Derek Pua

3.60

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, howeve…

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1. Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program

By: Hal Gold

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan d… read more

Similar categories in Hal Gold's Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program book and Derek Pua's Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • china
Cover of Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana

2. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

By: Roy Wenzl , L. Kelly , Tim Potter , Hurst Laviana

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

3. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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4. Last Days

By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more

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5. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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7. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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8. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history

9. Los demonios del Edén: El Poder Que Protege a La Pornografía Infantil

By: Lydia Cacho

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Los demonios del Eden documenta y denuncia las experiencias de abuso y explotacion sexuales sufrida… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By: Vivien Spitz

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness … read more

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11. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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12. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

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13. Broken

By: Shy Keenan

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Shy Keenan was not meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that she was dea… read more

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14. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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15. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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16. House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

By: Claire North

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

House of Odysseus is the follow up to award-winning author Claire North's Ithaca "a powerful, fresh… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery

17. Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen

By: Brian Raftery

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

By: John Lisle

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch― The Dirty Tricks De… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

19. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

20. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of This is Your Brain on Anxiety; What Happens and What Helps by Faith G. Harper

21. This is Your Brain on Anxiety; What Happens and What Helps

By: Faith G. Harper

3.41

Format: 65 pages, Unknown Binding

Anxiety .... it's the worst. Choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking, brain cutting out,… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics)

By: Hal Gold

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII.… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • china
  • audiobook
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23. Beholder

By: Ryan La Sala

3.92

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more

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  • audiobook
"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

Cover of Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why by Michael Shermer

24. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why

By: Michael Shermer

3.81

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) by Claire North

25. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

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  • audiobook
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26. Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths

By: Bernard Evslin

3.86

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling compendium of ancient Greece’s timeless tales and towering figures of mythology fro… read more

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  • audiobook
"Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it"

-Bernard Evslin, Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths

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27. The Queen

By: Nick Cutter

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The national bestselling author of #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding… read more

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28. How to Hide in Plain Sight

By: Emma Noyes

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The unbreakable bonds of family and love are explored in this brilliant and tender story from the a… read more

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  • audiobook
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29. Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz

By: Derek Pua

3.60

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, howeve… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • asia
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • china
  • audiobook
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30. Batman: Resurrection

By: John Jackson Miller

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

After The Joker’s death, Batman and Gotham City face a mysterious new threat in this direct sequel … read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Memoir by Prince Konoe: The Secret Negotiations Between Japan and the U.S. Before Pearl Harbor

By: Jenny Chan

4.50

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

On December 16, 1945, Prince Konoe committed suicide after refusing to collaborate with U.S. Army o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 must-read audiobook books like Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz by Derek Pua

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

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John Glatt

4.16

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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3.91

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3.92

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