- Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown by Sikivu Hutchinson
- Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930
- Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt
- Gore Capitalism by Valencia Sayak
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
- “Life’s Quiet Companion” by Greg Lehman (within The Penguin Book of Death edited by Gabrielle Carey and Rosemary Sorenson)
- Miss Evers Boys (1997)
- Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective by Peter Stearns
- Stealing from the Dead: Scientists, Settlers, and Indian Burial Sites in Early-Nineteenth-Century Oregon” by Wendi A. Lindquist (Oregon Historical Society, 2014)
- The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosina, Croatia and Kosovo by Clea Koff
- The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- The Mapping of Massacres by Ceridwen Dovey (The New Yorker, December 6, 2017)
- Truth and Lies: Jonestown – Paradise Lost (2018)
- We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch