Writers at Risk
- Description
- This list is meant as a help for the theme "Writers at risk", Reading Globally, 2nd quarter 2016. I will add the link to the thread after I create it.
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13,007 members
202 reviews
4
Score 6
Added 2016-02-25, 04:13 AM
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by Anne Frank
12,744 members
242 reviews
4.1
Score 6
Added 2016-02-25, 03:59 AM
- 6 Members
- dara85, streamsong, FlorenceArt, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707
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6,920 members
254 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 6
Added 2016-02-25, 04:00 AM
- 6 Members
- streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
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- 4 Members
- dara85, streamsong, Dilara86, ahef1963
- Explanations
- Dilara86: Holocaust memoirs
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4,891 members
63 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 4
Added 2016-03-18, 09:23 AM
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9,325 members
119 reviews
4
Score 3
Added 2016-02-25, 04:06 AM
- 3 Members
- FlorenceArt, Dilara86, rileyhuff
- Explanations
- Dilara86: slavery
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347 members
10 reviews
3.8
Score 3
Added 2016-03-18, 04:44 PM
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224 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 3
Added 2016-03-18, 03:29 PM
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- 2 Members
- FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: A memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland and escape to America.
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- 2 Members
- streamsong, FlorenceArt
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: A second-hand account of the life of Spiegelman's father, a Polish Jew, as he was persecuted and later sent to Auschwitz.
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- 2 Members
- FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
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- 2 Members
- thorold, FlorenceArt
- Explanations
- thorold: Italian-Jewish chemist tries to make sense of his experience of Auschwitz
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by Loung Ung
2,203 members
60 reviews
4.1
Score 2
Added 2016-03-24, 05:25 PM
- 2 Members
- dara85, streamsong
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1,182 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 2
Added 2016-02-25, 04:05 AM
- 2 Members
- FlorenceArt, Dilara86
- Explanations
- Dilara86: slavery
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- 2 Members
- rebeccanyc, charl08
- Explanations
- rebeccanyc: Escaped from the Nazis only to be imprisoned for his work in the Free Hungary movement.
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- Member
- FlorenceArt
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: I'm including this book, which is the sequel to Angela's Ashes, because it belongs to the theme more than the first, although I understand it's not as good (I haven't read it).
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- Member
- FlorenceArt
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3,061 members
34 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2016-03-10, 10:15 AM
- Member
- FlorenceArt
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: A fictionalized account of the author's time in a Siberian prison camp.
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1,859 members
65 reviews
4.2
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 04:09 PM
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1,598 members
35 reviews
4.2
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 04:41 PM
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- Member
- streamsong
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by Waris Dirie
1,381 members
34 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 04:00 PM
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1,166 members
1 review
4.1
Score 1
Added 2016-03-21, 04:12 PM
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799 members
28 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 09:28 AM
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- Member
- chlorine
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- Member
- spiphany
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- Member
- dara85
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by Emma Goldman
610 members
5 reviews
4.2
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 09:31 AM
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- Member
- Dilara86
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- Member
- rebeccanyc
- Explanations
- rebeccanyc: Born in exile, died in exile, jailed twice by the French and once by the Soviets.
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- Member
- rebeccanyc
- Explanations
- rebeccanyc: Written back and forth on sheets of paper when Fallada was imprisoned in a Nazi mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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291 members
16 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2016-03-21, 04:28 PM
- Member
- SassyLassy
- Explanations
- SassyLassy: Two writers living in exile
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by Klaus Mann
286 members
8 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 08:35 AM
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by Václav Havel
239 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 09:36 AM
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by Christa Wolf
202 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 08:43 AM
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- Member
- FlorenceArt
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: Memoir of the author's life as a Polish Jew persecuted both by the nazis and soviets.
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by Ovid
171 members
2 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2016-03-20, 11:41 AM
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169 members
4 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2016-03-21, 04:13 PM
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by Magda Denes
151 members
3 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2016-02-25, 03:57 AM
- Member
- FlorenceArt
- Explanations
- FlorenceArt: Memoir of a child and her family trying to survive in occupied Hungary.
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74 members
½ 3.5
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 08:09 AM
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69 members
½ 3.3
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 09:33 AM
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56 members
3.8
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 03:43 PM
- Member
- SassyLassy
- Explanations
- SassyLassy: Written by Bukharin while he was in prison before his execution under Stalin
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- Member
- spiphany
- Explanations
- spiphany: Heym fled Nazi Germany to the US, where he fought with the Americans in WWII. Left the US in the 1950s because of his communist politics, emigrated to East Germany, where he was initially welcomed, but later banned from publishing due to his criticism of the government.
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by Hugh Lewin
34 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 1
Added 2016-03-21, 03:34 PM
87
32 members
1 review
4
Score 1
Added 2016-03-21, 03:43 PM
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91
14 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 08:37 AM
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- Member
- FlorenceArt
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by Odette Keun
3 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 1
Added 2016-03-18, 08:02 AM
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6,145 members
59 reviews
3.9
Score 0
Added 2016-03-20, 12:28 PM
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762 members
15 reviews
4.1
Score 0
Added 2016-03-20, 01:00 PM