Suggested Reading

 The following publications are recommended. They include novels set in Asia Minor, biographies of survivors of the genocide, and books written by authors of Asia Minor heritage (Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, Turkish).


•  My Grandmother by Fetheye Çetin

•  From The Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple

•  Che Committed Suicide by Petros Markaris

•  Stealing Athena by Karen Essex

•  The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin

•  The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin

•  Lords of the Horizon by Jason Goodwin

•  Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin 

•  Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bereneies

•  Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread by Suzanna de Vries

•  Not Even My Name by Thea Halo

•  Song of Troy by Colleen McCulloch

•  Farewell Anatolia by Dido Sotirou

•  The Maze by Panos Karnezis

•  The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

•  Byzantium by Judith Herrin

•  Paradise Lost by Giles Milton

• Mother Land by Dmetri Kakmi

 The Island by Victoria Hislop

  The Thread by Victoria Hislop

•  The Anatolian by Elia Kazan

•  The Arrangement by Elia Kazan

•   Levant by Philip Mansel

•   Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread by Susana de Vries

•   Smyrna 1922 by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin

•   Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe by Renee Hirschion

•   Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenidis

•   The Promised Journey by Sophia Kappatos

•   Ships of Mercy by Christos Papoutsy

•   Twice a Stranger by Bruce Clark

•   Smyrna by Tony Maniaty

•   All over the Shop by Tony Maniaty

•   Flames on the Water Tears in the Sea by Con Aroney

•   Armenia Australia and the Great War by Vicken Babkenian

•   In Turkey I am Beautiful by Brendan Shanahan

•   Genocide Perspectives -Essays on Holocaust and Genocide

•   This is our Promised Land by Olympia Rizidis

•   The Turks all the Truth by Gregory Kossivakis

•   South From Ephesus by Brian Sewell

•   Deli Sarkis: The Scars He Carried by Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut

•   The Blight of Asia by George Horton

•   The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: still an open wound by Theodora Ioannidou

•   The Genocide of the Pontian Greeks by Konstantinos Fotiadis

•   The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries by Savvas Koktzoglou & Robert Shenk

•   Ionian Vision by Michael Llewellyn Smith