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message 1: by Steve (new)
Nov 14, 2025 04:35PM

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Please post here to nominate books for the December 2025 book-of-the-month (BOTM). Must have at least 1000 ratings and be remotely related to trauma and/or dissociation. Memoir is the theme for December. Can be non-fiction memoir or something similar fiction.

Just post TITLE by AUTHOR.


message 2: by Steve (last edited Nov 14, 2025 04:42PM) (new)
Nov 14, 2025 04:37PM

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Gail Honeyman
This novel deals with childhood trauma, as it affects an adult.


message 3: by Steve (new)
Nov 14, 2025 04:41PM

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou Maya Angelou
This memoir deals with racism, rape, trauma.


message 4: by Steve (new)
Nov 14, 2025 04:46PM

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Ishmael Beah
A boy from Sierra Leone who was forced as a child to be a soldier.


message 5: by Steve (last edited Nov 14, 2025 04:50PM) (new)
Nov 14, 2025 04:48PM

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Educated by Tara Westover
Educated by Tara Westover Tara Westover
A memoir of religion and isolation … too much.


message 6: by Steve (new)
Nov 27, 2025 09:18AM

Steve Shelby | 204 comments Mod
No other nominations. Going with these 4.


message 7: by Steve (new)
Dec 02, 2025 08:01PM

Steve Shelby | 204 comments Mod
We tied. Last time, I won the time breaker. This time, the other way.


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