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Some books are hard to judge whether they would actually be triggers. Both Doctor Zhivago and Baby Todd and the Rattlesnake Stradivarius involve relationships of teen girls with much older men that are not described as sexual abuse, though we'd describe them as such now. In Never Fall Down a Khmer Rouge girl who was older than Arn desires him, and he lets her do what she wants with him in exchange for food and safety, but the details are not explicit. In Forrest Gump, one of Forrest's mother's older tenants directs him to do things and has sex with him as a teenager in exchange for candy, but he's not that bothered except that he wishes it was Jenny "doing those things." In Out of the Easy, Josie is desperate for money and let's herself be pressured into prostituting herself by an older man, but fights back and refuses to actually go through with it when he starts trying to touch her. To Call a Mockingbird is centered around an obviously false rape accusation, but the false testimony is somewhat detailed. It's genuinely hard for me to judge whether some of these books should be on this list.

The Packing House, by G. Donald Cribbs, April 7, 2022, is about a male survivor of sexual assault.

G. wrote: "The Packing House, by G. Donald Cribbs, April 7, 2022, is about a male survivor of sexual assault."

Thanks, G. I'll add it. Also, you can add books yourself by clicking on the "Add Books To This List" link and typing in the title in the search box. (If the book you want to add isn't in your book collection, just click on "Search" above the box and you can then search outside of your personal library.)

Thanks for adding, Caroline. I actually cannot add this book because I am the author. Only other readers can add books by an author. But I do vet a list of books under the hashtag #YASurvivorBooks on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook to support this category of books. Currently have 195 books in the list.

G. wrote: "Thanks for adding, Caroline. I actually cannot add this book because I am the author. Only other readers can add books by an author. But I do vet a list of books under the hashtag #YASurvivorBooks ..."

Ah, ok. I didn't know authors can't add their own books anymore. Thanks for the info!

Pretty much anything from Karin Slaughter is probably going to have sexual abuse/rape scenes. As if that's not bad enough, she will even describe the bloody kill scenes of the abuse/rape victims in the most gory and gruesome ways. This is just one of the reasons I don't read her anymore.

Donne wrote: "Pretty much anything from Karin Slaughter is probably going to have sexual abuse/rape scenes. As if that's not bad enough, she will even describe the bloody kill scenes of the abuse/rape victims in..."

Thank you for the warning. Having never read anything by Slaughter, I didn't know this.

Adding the recently popular My Absolute Darling to this because the descriptive paragraphs hit way too vaguely about the multiple, very graphic child rape scenes. I went into this book blind. I like a story about someone who survives abuse every once in a while, but I was not in the mood for this one and was totally blindsided by explicitness of the content.