The Greatest Books of All Time on Trauma

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
13287 Swimming Home Deborah Levy 2011 British English
13321 Mirror Dance Lois McMaster Bujold 1994 American English
13339 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13513 More Like Not Running Away Paul Shepherd 2005 Unknown English
13543 Steps Jerzy Kosinski 1968 Polish English
13564 Betty Tiffany McDaniel 2020 American English
13583 Heartland Wilson Harris 1964 Guyanese English
13593 We Were The Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates 1996 American English
13595 A Family Record Patrick Modiano 1977 French French
13600 Live Fast Brigitte Giraud 2022 French French
13600 La Maison Vide Laurent Mauvignier French French
13600 Captain Conan Roger Vercel 1934 French English
13600 Week End At Zuydcoote Robert Merle 1949 French French
13600 The Lost Shore Anna Langfus 1962 French French
13600 Momo Émile Ajar French French
13600 The Wedding Yann Queffélec 1985 French French
13600 Cry, Mother Spain Lydie Salvayre 2014 French French
13716 Kintu Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 2014 Ugandan English
13750 When My Brother Was An Aztec Natalie Diaz 2012 American English
13815 The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak 2006 Turkish English
13818 La Memoria Giambattista Angioletti 1939 Italian Unknown
13818 Passaggio In Ombra Mariateresa Di Lascia 1995 Italian Italian
13818 Darkness Dacia Maraini 1995 Italian Italian
13818 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13818 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
13886 An Unkindness Of Ghosts Rivers Solomon 2017 American English
13922 Blind Sunflowers Alberto Méndez 2004 Spanish Spanish
13941 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
13941 Ninth House Leigh Bardugo 2019 American English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
14020 The South Colm Toibin 1990 Irish English
14022 Becoming Unbecoming Una 2015 British English
14025 Split Tooth Tanya Tagaq 2018 Canadian English
14025 Heart Berries Terese Marie Mailhot 2018 Canadian English
14056 Sybil Flora Rheta Schreiber 1973 American English
14074 Pilgrim Timothy Findley 1999 Canadian English
14078 Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi 2020 American English
14078 Ordinary Girls Jaquira Díaz 2019 American English
14113 The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy 2019 British English
14113 Eyes Bottle Dark With A Mouthful Of Flowers Jake Skeets 2019 American English
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
14138 On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu 2021 American English
14156 The Poems of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen 1920 British English
14155 Mulberry And Peach Hualing Nieh 1976 Chinese Chinese
14176 Black Tickets Jayne Anne Phillips 1979 American English
14232 The Eye in the Door Pat Barker 1993 British English
14232 Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin 1987 British English
14232 Ruined Lynn Nottage 2009 American English
14232 Disoriental Négar Djavadi 2016 French French
14345 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle 1996 Irish English
14346 Reading In The Dark Seamus Deane 1996 Irish English
14348 Paco's Story Larry Heinemann 1986 American English
14348 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
14426 The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes Tatiana Țîbuleac 2016 Moldovan Romanian
14433 Fault Lines Nancy Huston 2006 French French
14491 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14493 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14548 Queenie Candice Carty-Williams 2019 British English
14554 The Deep End Of The Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard 1996 American English
14589 Primera Persona Margarita García Robayo 2017 Colombian Spanish
14629 Five Steps To Happy Ella Dove 2019 British English
14649 Wetlands Charlotte Roche 2008 German German
14698 Radiance Of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah 2014 American English
14827 Bad Habit Alana S. Portero Unknown Unknown
14899 Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly John Franklin Bardin 1948 American English
14930 Equus Peter Shaffer 1973 British English
14985 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14985 A Child Called 'It' Dave Pelzer 1995 American English
14985 Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan 2008 Nigerian English
14985 Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat 1994 Haitian English
14985 The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell 2010 British English
14985 Passage Connie Willis 2001 American English
14985 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 Emil Ferris 2017 American English
14985 The Luminous Dead Caitlin Starling 2019 American English
14985 Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson 2011 British English
14985 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 2019 British English
14985 Tender Morsels Margo Lanagan 2008 Australian English
14985 Blasted Sarah Kane 1995 British English
14985 The Pillowman Martin McDonagh 2003 Irish English
14985 Some Kind Of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce 2012 British English
14985 The Extremes Christopher Priest 1998 British English
14985 The Last House On Needless Street Catriona Ward 2021 British English
14985 Catching Fire Suzanne Collins 2009 American English
14985 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 2010 American English
14985 Dreamcatcher Stephen King 2001 American English
14985 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14985 Red Memory Tania Branigan 2023 Chinese English
14985 How To Read The Air Dinaw Mengestu 2010 American English
14985 The Night Of The Gun David Carr 2008 American English
14985 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
14985 Held Anne Michaels 2023 Unknown English
14985 All My Rage Sabaa Tahir 2022 American English
14985 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
15567 Music For Wartime Rebecca Makkai 2015 American English
15616 The Primal Scream Arthur Janov 1970 American English
15616 The New Centurions Joseph Wambaugh 1970 American English
15667 Oculus Sally Wen Mao 2019 American English
15684 Silent Island Su Wei-chen 2021 Chinese Unknown
15686 The Good Girl Vincent O'Sullivan 1933 New Zealand Unknown
15863 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
15916 Selected Papers on Hysteria Sigmund Freud 1895 Austrian German
15916 Bid Me To Live Hilda Doolittle 1960 British English
16541 The Red Laugh Leonid Andreyev 1904 Russian English
16691 I Am Fifteen--and I Don't Want To Die Arnothy Christine 1955 French French
16675 Slaughter House Five Ryan North 1969 Unknown Unknown
17163 Theory of War Joan Brady 1993 American English
17163 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
17163 The Fountains of Neptune Rikki Ducornet 1992 American English
17163 Hogg Samuel R. Delany 1995 American English
17163 Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English
17163 Delicious Foods James Hannaham 2015 American English
17163 The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker 2018 British English
17163 Auē Becky Manawatu 2019 New Zealander English
17163 The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey 2016 New Zealander English
17163 Blindsight Maurice Gee 2005 New Zealander English
17163 The Devil All The Time Donald Ray Pollock 2011 American English
17163 Alice Christina Henry 2015 American English
17163 Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk 2016 American English
17163 The Woman In The Window A. J. Finn 2018 American English
17163 Heroine Mindy McGinnis 2019 American English