Lila
Marilynne Robinson
Published 2014
272 pages
The most popular child abuse books
These books are about children who were harmed or neglected, and the adults they became. Memoirs and novels describe what happened and the long effort to understand it and heal. They are painful to read, and they are testaments to resilience.
Results
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
1992 · 2012 edition
320 pages
Wild Game
Adrienne Brodeur
2019 · 2023 edition
352 pages
Stolen Innocence
Elissa Wall
2008 · 2009 edition
448 pages
Whispers
Dean Koontz
1980 · 1981 edition
502 pages
A Man Named Dave A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
David J. Pelzer
1999 · 2000 edition
352 pages
Chesapeake Blue
Nora Roberts
2001 · 2004 edition
500 pages
Stitches
David Small
Published 2009
336 pages
Not My Father's Son A Memoir
Alan Cumming
2001 · 2015 edition
304 pages
Survivor in Death
Nora Roberts
2004 · 2005 edition
376 pages
Moonlight Mile
Dennis Lehane
Published 2010
373 pages
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali
Published 2010
189 pages
Little Princes One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan
2010 · 2011 edition
308 pages
Not That Bad Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
2018 · 2025 edition
304 pages
A List of Cages
Robin Roe
Published 2017
320 pages
The Fact of a Body A Murder and a Memoir
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Published 2017
326 pages
Me & Emma
Elizabeth Flock
2004 · 2005 edition
299 pages
A History of Loneliness
John Boyne
Published 2014
384 pages
Damaged The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child
Cathy Glass
Published 2006
309 pages
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch
Alison Arngrim
Published 2010
302 pages
Lost Girls An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker
Published 2013
399 pages
Drama Of The Gifted
Alice Miller
Published 1990
144 pages
Three Little Words A Memoir
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
2008 · 2009 edition
336 pages
Bruiser
Neal Shusterman
Published 2010
336 pages