The Names 'the Best Debut Novel in Years' Sunday Times
Florence Knapp
2025 · 2026 edition
384 pages
The most popular domestic abuse books of 2025
Books about domestic abuse describe violence and control inside a relationship or a home. They show how it begins, why leaving is so hard and what freedom looks like afterward. Novels and survivors' memoirs here are tense, truthful and often quietly triumphant. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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I'll Never Call Him Dad Again Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission Into a Collective Fight
Caroline Darian
Published 2025
224 pages
The Abduction The True* Story of How the Legal System Failed a Child
DARRELL. BRANTLEY
Published 2025
472 pages
The Cost of Fear Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
Meg Stone
Published 2025
232 pages
Do No Evil Exit from the Family Cult
Lane Michaels
Published 2025
238 pages
Marriage Migrants' Way Out of Intimate Partner Violence The Tense Relationship Between the Private and the Public Sphere
Marion Uhle
Published 2025
420 pages
Lady Smith
Jess Smith
Published 2025
87 pages
In Love With A Ghost I Just Made You Up to Hurt Myself
William Brown
Published 2025
64 pages
Learning from Victims' Family Narratives The Impact of Offline and Online Harm in Cases of Intimate Partner Homicide
Morag C. Kennedy
Published 2025
152 pages
Islāmically Integrated Psychotherapy and Domestic Abuse
Khalida Haque
Published 2025
142 pages
Chasing Rescue Surviving Narcissistic Abuse
Tonya McBean M. S., Mishel Rych
Published 2025
134 pages
Domestic Violence, Islam and Gender in Indonesia
Balawyn Jones
Published 2025
196 pages
The Names
Florence Knapp
Published 2025
336 pages
No Ordinary Love
Bb Gabriel
Published 2025
338 pages
An Empty Plate at the Table
Sharon Pughsley
Published 2025
212 pages
Crucifix of Awareness Battle to Self-Mastery
Ralph Anthony Kemmerlin Sr.
Published 2025
200 pages
Escaping the House of Mirrors Surviving Marriage to a Narcissist
SA Parks
Published 2025
144 pages
A Proper Mother 'Scarily Good. ' Guardian, Crime and Thrillers of the Month
Isobel Shirlaw
Published 2025
320 pages
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again
Caroline Darian
Published 2025
224 pages
Every Man Why Violence Against Women Is a Men's Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference
Jackson Katz
Published 2025
256 pages
Breaking Trauma Bonds with Narcissists and Psychopaths Stop the Cycle of Manipulation, Exploitation, and Abuse in Your Romantic Relationships
Shahida Arabi
Published 2025
224 pages
Learning From Victims' Family Narratives
Morag Kennedy
Published 2025
No Rain, No Roses
Cindy Bozell
Published 2025
184 pages
Overcoming the Narcissist, Sociopath, Psychopath, and Other Domestic Abusers Workbook for Support Groups & Bible Studies to Recognize, Remove, & Recover from Abuse
Charlene D. Quint
Published 2025
272 pages