Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher
1993 · 2018 edition
352 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
My Story A Child Called It ; The Lost Boy ; A Man Named Dave
David J. Pelzer
2002 · 2004 edition
490 pages
Sleepers
Lorenzo Carcaterra
1995 · 2019 edition
432 pages
The Deepest Well Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris
Published 2018
251 pages
The Murderer's Daughters
Randy Susan Meyers
2009 · 2010 edition
320 pages
Sophie & Carter
Chelsea Fine
Published 2011
119 pages
Faith
Jennifer Haigh
Published 2011
336 pages
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Lewis Herman
Published 1997
304 pages
Jumper
Steven Gould
1993 · 2008 edition
352 pages
The Long Road Home
Danielle Steel
1998 · 2005 edition
564 pages
More Than We Can Tell
Brigid Kemmerer
Published 2018
416 pages
A Place of Execution
Val McDermid
1999 · 2020 edition
624 pages
Sex Cult Nun
Faith Jones
2021 · 2022 edition
400 pages
The Rules of Survival
Nancy Werlin
2006 · 2022 edition
282 pages
Ghost Girl
Torey L. Hayden
Published 1992
320 pages
They Cage the Animals at Night
Jennings Michael Burch
1985 · 1988 edition
293 pages
Falling Together
Marisa de los Santos
2011 · 2012 edition
384 pages
Frontier Follies Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere
Ree Drummond
2020 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Secrets of the Morning
V.C. Andrews
1991 · 2013 edition
416 pages
Mysterious Skin
Scott Heim
Published 1996
285 pages
We Were Once a Family A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Roxanna Asgarian
Published 2023
297 pages
The Attic Child
Lola Jaye
2022 · 2023 edition
480 pages
The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless, Krakauer, Jon, author of foreword
Published 2014
304 pages
Road Of Lost Innocence
Somaly w/ Marshall Mam
Published 2007
182 pages