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
17172 A Crime In The Neighborhood Suzanne Berne 1997 American English
17172 Starfish Peter Watts 1999 Canadian English
17172 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17172 Winter Garden Robert Edric 1985 British English
17172 A Shock Keith Ridgway 2021 Irish English
17172 Death And The Maiden Ariel Dorfman 1991 Chilean Spanish
17172 Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green 2013 British English
17172 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17172 Eva's Man Gayl Jones 1976 American English
17172 Delirium Laura Restrepo 2004 Colombian Spanish
17172 The Great World David Malouf 1990 Australian English
17172 Somebody's Daughter Ashley C. Ford 2021 American English
17172 Milk And Honey & The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur 2 Books Collection Set Rupi Kaur 2014 Canadian English
17172 Dear Medusa Olivia A. Cole 2023 American English
17172 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
17172 Making Noise Quietly Robert Holman 1986 British English
17172 Frozen Bryony Lavery 1998 British English
17172 The Inheritance Matthew Lopez 2020 American English
17172 Gloria Branden Jacob-Jenkins 2015 American English
17172 Slave Play Jeremy O. Harris 2018 American English
17172 We Had To Remove This Post Hanna Bervoets 2021 Dutch Dutch
17172 The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward 2018 British English
17172 The Last Widow Karin Slaughter 2019 American English
17172 Hollywood Park Mikel Jollett 2020 American English
17172 Thank You For Your Service David Finkel 2013 American English
17172 We Were Liars E. Lockhart 2014 American English
17172 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17172 The Art Of Starving Sam J. Miller 2017 American English
17172 End Of The World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2006 British English
17172 The Book Of Accidents Chuck Wendig 2021 American English
17172 These Violent Delights Micah Nemerever 2020 American English
17172 All Rivers Run To The Sea Elie Wiesel 1995 American French
17172 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Joy DeGruy 2005 American English
17172 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates 1987 American English
17172 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17172 The Line Becomes A River Francisco Cantú 2018 American English
17172 Moonglow Michael Chabon 2016 American English
17172 Dig A. S. King 2019 American English
17172 Bone Gap Laura Ruby 2015 British English
17172 Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman 1977 Syrian Arabic
17172 Tattoo Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie 1972 Iraqi Arabic
17172 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17172 The Story Of Zahra Hanan Al-Shaykh 1980 Lebanese Arabic
17172 Crazy Paradise Ahmed Youssef Syrian Unknown
17172 Confessions Of A Silencer Mu’nis al-Razzaz 1986 Jordanian Arabic
17172 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17172 Jisr Banat Yacoub Hassan Hamid 2017 Syrian Arabic
17172 Making History Carolyn See 1991 American English
17172 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
17172 Dog Flowers Danielle Geller 2021 American English
17172 Nothing Ever Dies Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 American English
17172 Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Chinese Chinese
17172 Zinky Boys Svetlana Alexievich 1989 Belarusian Russian
17172 Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn 2006 American English
17172 Dark Places Gillian Flynn 2009 American English
17172 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
17172 My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020 American English
17172 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate 2017 American English
17172 Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo 2016 American English
17172 Without Remorse Tom Clancy 1993 American English
17172 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
17172 When You See Me Lisa Gardner 2020 American English
17172 Look For Me Lisa Gardner 2018 American English
17172 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
17172 The Next Accident Lisa Gardner 2001 American English
17172 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
17172 All The Broken Places John Boyne 2022 Irish English
17172 Broken Glass Park Alina Bronsky 2008 German German
17172 When The Stars Go Dark Paula McLain 2021 American English
17172 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17172 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008 British English
17172 The Myth Of Normal Gabor Maté 2023 Canadian English
17172 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
17172 Edinburgh Alexander Chee 2001 American English
17172 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17172 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17172 The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp 1996 Canadian English
17172 A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest Charlie J. Stephens Unknown English
17172 Crazy Brave Joy Harjo 2012 American English
17172 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
17172 Will And Testament Vigdis Hjorth 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17172 The Walnut Mansion Miljenko Jergović 2003 Croatian Croatian
17172 Breathing Into Marble Laura Sintija 2009 Unknown Lithuanian
17172 Blood Sisters Kim Yideum 2019 Korean Korean
17172 Dear Edward Ann Napolitano 2020 American English
17172 War Sebastian Junger 2010 American English
17172 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
17172 Out Of Mesopotamia Salar Abdoh 2020 Iranian English
17172 Morrer Na Primavera Ralf Rothmann 2015 German German
17172 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
17172 Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow 2016 American English
17172 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
17172 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17172 Binding 13 Chloe Walsh 2018 Unknown English
17172 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17172 Almond Sohn Won-Pyung 2017 Korean Korean
17172 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
17172 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17172 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17172 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17172 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17172 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17172 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17172 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17172 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17172 The Weight Of Things Marianne Fritz 1978 Austrian German
17172 The Unspeakables Laverne Gay Unknown Unknown
17172 When The War Is Over Stephen Becker 1968 Unknown English
17172 The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic 2013 American English
17172 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17172 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17172 Holler, Child LaToya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17172 Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips 2023 American Unknown
17172 Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward 2023 American English
17172 A Council Of Dolls Mona Susan Power 2023 Unknown English
17172 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17172 Wound Oksana Vasyakina 2023 Russian Russian
17172 Pet Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealand English
17172 A Man Of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen 2023 American English
17172 Fire In The Canyon Daniel Gumbiner 2023 Unknown English