Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge is a 2020 book by Bodleian Libraries Director Richard Ovenden on the history of intentional recorded knowledge destruction. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize.^[1]

The UK version of the book was published as Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack and was reviewed in The Guardian.^[2]

The book was abridged and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in six episodes, read by Anthony Head.^[3]

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• Casson, Lionel (2002). Libraries in the Ancient World. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300097214.
• Clark, John Willis (1909). The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their Fittings, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press.
• Conaway, James (2000). America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress 1800–2000. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300083088.
• Duffy, Eamon (1992). The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.1400–c.1580. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300060768.
• Gleig, George Robert (1821). A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, Under Generals Ross. John Murray.
• Harris, P.R. (1998). A History of the British Museum Library 1753–1973. British Library. ISBN 9780712345620.
• Hayner, Priscilla B. (2011). Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions. Routledge.
• Knuth, Rebecca (2003). Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century. Praeger.
• Layard, Austen H. (1853). Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. John Murray.
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• Lipstadt, Deborah (1993). Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Free Press. ISBN 9780029192351.
• Macray, William Dunn (1890). Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford.
• Makiya, Kanan (1998). Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520214392.
• Meehan, Bernard (1999). The Book of Kells. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500281468.
• Mercier, Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph (1915). Pastoral Letter of his Eminence Cardinal Mercier Archbishop of Malines Primate of Belgium Christmas 1914. Burns & Oates Ltd.
• Motion, Andrew (1993). Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. Faber & Faber.
• Orwell, George (2003). Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin.
• Peterson, William S. (1991). The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-812887-8.
• Plath, Sylvia (1983). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Foreword by Ted Hughes. Ballantyne Books. ISBN 9780345351685.
• Poole, Reginald Lane (1912). A Lecture on the History of the University Archives. Clarendon Press.
• Price, David H. (2011). Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. Oxford University Press.
• Rich, Claudius James (1836). Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh. James Duncan. ISBN 9780576034661.
• Toynbee, Arnold J. (1917). The German Terror in Belgium. Hodder & Stoughton.
• Tripp, Charles (2000). A History of Iraq. Cambridge University Press.

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