Abuse

These books - fiction or non-fiction - deal with abuse in all its forms. Relates to adult or/and child abuse.

Adrift
Nowhere Burning
Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (Enola Holmes #10)
This Wretched Beauty
A Scar like a River
Gloria Don't Speak
Chase Hooper Likes It Hot (Goose Run, #3)
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
I Don't Wish You Well
Darkest Destiny (Darkest Destiny Trilogy #1)
Only for Love (Only For, #2)
Better the Devil
Ziggy's Voice (The Wilde Men, #2)
Winter White: A Modern Retelling of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
His Reaper (Unexpectedly Twisted, #4)
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
Law Maker (Aristocrats of London, #1)
The Names
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Redeeming 6 (Boys of Tommen, #4)
Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)
Releasing 10 (Boys of Tommen, #6)
Comerás flores
Strange Sally Diamond
The Fix
Nesting
This Is Why We Lied (Will Trent, #12)
Delicate Escape (Sparrow Falls, #2)
Secret Haven (Sparrow Falls, #6)
Post Office by Charles BukowskiThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAre You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea HandlerThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Drunken Masters
281 books — 376 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMissoula by Jon KrakauerSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonAsking for It by Kate HardingThe V Girl by Mya Robarts
Books About Rape and Rape Culture
437 books — 193 voters

Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovLean In by Sheryl SandbergWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauNice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office by Lois P. FrankelQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth Schmitt
Inspiring Books For All Ages
2,687 books — 1,458 voters

It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
Reason to Breathe (Breathing, #1)
Speak
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Educated
Eleanor & Park
The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #1)
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
It Ain't Me, Babe (Hades Hangmen, #1)
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)
Wait for You (Wait for You, #1)
My Dark Vanessa

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Laura   Davis
Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go undergr ...more
Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

Bessel van der Kolk
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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