• The best books on Human Rights and Literature - Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
  • The best books on Human Rights and Literature - If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
  • The best books on Human Rights and Literature - The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  • The best books on Human Rights and Literature - No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
  • The best books on Human Rights and Literature - This Mournable Body: A Novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga

The best books on Human Rights and Literature, recommended by Lyndsey Stonebridge

The connections between human rights and literature are profound and we ignore the humanities and reading at our peril, says Lyndsey Stonebridge, Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities at the University of Birmingham. She recommends books that best show the complex relationship between literature and human rights, from Auschwitz to Manus Island.