The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club) A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Lara Love Hardin
2023 · 2025 edition
336 pages
The most popular dysfunctional families books of 2023
These books are about families that do not work. Cruel or absent parents, favoritism, addiction and long silences leave their mark on the children, who spend years trying to understand or escape. Some of these stories are painfully funny and some are simply painful. All of them ring true. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.
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Drama Free A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
Nedra Glover Tawwab
Published 2023
288 pages
I Didn't Know I Needed This The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Eli Rallo
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
Tiny Traumas When You Don't Know What's Wrong, But Nothing Feels Quite Right
Meg Arroll
Published 2023
301 pages
Sink A Memoir
Joseph Earl Thomas
Published 2023
249 pages
The Parenting Map Step-By-Step Solutions to Consciously Create the Ultimate Parent-Child Relationship
Shefali Tsabary
Published 2023
336 pages
The Origins of You How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love
Vienna Pharaon
Published 2023
304 pages
Still, I Cannot Save You A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
Kelly S. Thompson
Published 2023
304 pages
Last Girl Breathing
Court Stevens
Published 2023
400 pages
Little Paula
V.C. Andrews
Published 2023
304 pages
Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
Published 2023
250 pages
Daisy's War
Rowena Summers
Published 2023
298 pages
A Good Mom's Guide to Making Bad Choices
Jamilah Mapp, Erica Dickerson
Published 2023
240 pages
It All Falls Down A Novel
Daines Reed
Published 2023
262 pages
I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here Finding My Voice, Finding My People, Finding My Way
Jonathan Conyers
2023 · 2025 edition
320 pages
Owning Our Struggles A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World
Minaa B.
Published 2023
288 pages
Emo Reality The Biography of Teenage Borderline Personality Disorder
Jerold Daniels
Published 2023
262 pages
The Little Dark One A True Story of Switched at Birth
Shirley Munoz Newson
Published 2023
214 pages
Touching the Art
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Published 2023
304 pages
Slim Chances A True Story of Struggle, Hope, and Forgiveness
Jimmy "Slim" Ramsay
Published 2023
210 pages
Crossing Fifty-One Not Quite a Memoir
Debbie Russell
Published 2023
318 pages
Irma
Terry McDonell
Published 2023
336 pages
Deceit A True Story of Domestic Infidelity and Betrayal with Salacious Details Recorded by Wiretap
Vernon Baumrind
Published 2023
208 pages
Loyal to a Fault How to Establish New Patterns When Loving Others Has Left You Hurting
Courtney J. Burg
Published 2023
224 pages