The Rules of Survival
Nancy Werlin
2006 · 2008 edition
261 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.
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The Long Road Home
Danielle Steel
1998 · 2006 edition
464 pages
Sex Cult Nun
Faith Jones
2021 · 2022 edition
400 pages
Ghost Girl
Haydenm Torey L.
1991 · 2006 edition
407 pages
Forged by Fire
Sharon M. Draper
Published 1997
160 pages
The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless
Published 2014
304 pages
God Don't Like Ugly
Mary Monroe
2000 · 2024 edition
432 pages
The Road of Lost Innocence
Somaly Mam
2005 · 2009 edition
210 pages
Faking Normal
Courtney C. Stevens
Published 2014
336 pages
Like a Mother A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Angela Garbes
Published 2018
256 pages
The Distance Between Us A Memoir
Reyna Grande
Published 2012
325 pages
Slave
Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis
2004 · 2007 edition
336 pages
Instrumental
James Rhodes
2015 · 2017 edition
304 pages
Dead to You
Lisa McMann
2012 · 2013 edition
288 pages
You Don't Know Me
David Klass
Published 2001
272 pages
The End of Alice
A. M. Homes
1997 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Breathing Underwater
Alex Flinn
Published 2001
272 pages
A Brother's Journey Surviving a Childhood of Abuse
Richard B. Pelzer
Published 2005
262 pages
Not Without My Sister
Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring
2007 · 2019 edition
432 pages
Kill for Me
Karen Rose
2009 · 2015 edition
608 pages
Never Mind
Edward St. Aubyn
1992 · 2012 edition
196 pages
God Still Does Not Like Ugly
Mary Monroe
Published 2003
311 pages
If I Am Missing or Dead
Janine Latus
2006 · 2008 edition
416 pages
Billy Straight
Jonathan Kellerman
1998 · 2009 edition
598 pages