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
17165 A Crime In The Neighborhood Suzanne Berne 1997 American English
17165 Starfish Peter Watts 1999 Canadian English
17165 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17165 Winter Garden Robert Edric 1985 British English
17165 A Shock Keith Ridgway 2021 Irish English
17165 Death And The Maiden Ariel Dorfman 1991 Chilean Spanish
17165 Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green 2013 British English
17165 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17165 Eva's Man Gayl Jones 1976 American English
17165 Delirium Laura Restrepo 2004 Colombian Spanish
17165 The Great World David Malouf 1990 Australian English
17165 Somebody's Daughter Ashley C. Ford 2021 American English
17165 Milk And Honey & The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur 2 Books Collection Set Rupi Kaur 2014 Canadian English
17165 Dear Medusa Olivia A. Cole 2023 American English
17165 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
17165 Making Noise Quietly Robert Holman 1986 British English
17165 Frozen Bryony Lavery 1998 British English
17165 The Inheritance Matthew Lopez 2020 American English
17165 Gloria Branden Jacob-Jenkins 2015 American English
17165 Slave Play Jeremy O. Harris 2018 American English
17165 We Had To Remove This Post Hanna Bervoets 2021 Dutch Dutch
17165 The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward 2018 British English
17165 The Last Widow Karin Slaughter 2019 American English
17165 Hollywood Park Mikel Jollett 2020 American English
17165 Thank You For Your Service David Finkel 2013 American English
17165 We Were Liars E. Lockhart 2014 American English
17165 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17165 The Art Of Starving Sam J. Miller 2017 American English
17165 End Of The World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2006 British English
17165 The Book Of Accidents Chuck Wendig 2021 American English
17165 These Violent Delights Micah Nemerever 2020 American English
17165 All Rivers Run To The Sea Elie Wiesel 1995 American French
17165 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Joy DeGruy 2005 American English
17165 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates 1987 American English
17165 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17165 The Line Becomes A River Francisco Cantú 2018 American English
17165 Moonglow Michael Chabon 2016 American English
17165 Dig A. S. King 2019 American English
17165 Bone Gap Laura Ruby 2015 British English
17165 Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman 1977 Syrian Arabic
17165 Tattoo Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie 1972 Iraqi Arabic
17165 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17165 The Story Of Zahra Hanan Al-Shaykh 1980 Lebanese Arabic
17165 Crazy Paradise Ahmed Youssef Syrian Unknown
17165 Confessions Of A Silencer Mu’nis al-Razzaz 1986 Jordanian Arabic
17165 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17165 Jisr Banat Yacoub Hassan Hamid 2017 Syrian Arabic
17165 Making History Carolyn See 1991 American English
17165 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
17165 Dog Flowers Danielle Geller 2021 American English
17165 Nothing Ever Dies Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 American English
17165 Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Chinese Chinese
17165 Zinky Boys Svetlana Alexievich 1989 Belarusian Russian
17165 Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn 2006 American English
17165 Dark Places Gillian Flynn 2009 American English
17165 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
17165 My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020 American English
17165 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate 2017 American English
17165 Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo 2016 American English
17165 Without Remorse Tom Clancy 1993 American English
17165 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
17165 When You See Me Lisa Gardner 2020 American English
17165 Look For Me Lisa Gardner 2018 American English
17165 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
17165 The Next Accident Lisa Gardner 2001 American English
17165 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
17165 All The Broken Places John Boyne 2022 Irish English
17165 Broken Glass Park Alina Bronsky 2008 German German
17165 When The Stars Go Dark Paula McLain 2021 American English
17165 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17165 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008 British English
17165 The Myth Of Normal Gabor Maté 2023 Canadian English
17165 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
17165 Edinburgh Alexander Chee 2001 American English
17165 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17165 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17165 The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp 1996 Canadian English
17165 A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest Charlie J. Stephens Unknown English
17165 Crazy Brave Joy Harjo 2012 American English
17165 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
17165 Will And Testament Vigdis Hjorth 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17165 The Walnut Mansion Miljenko Jergović 2003 Croatian Croatian
17165 Breathing Into Marble Laura Sintija 2009 Unknown Lithuanian
17165 Blood Sisters Kim Yideum 2019 Korean Korean
17165 Dear Edward Ann Napolitano 2020 American English
17165 War Sebastian Junger 2010 American English
17165 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
17165 Out Of Mesopotamia Salar Abdoh 2020 Iranian English
17165 Morrer Na Primavera Ralf Rothmann 2015 German German
17165 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
17165 Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow 2016 American English
17165 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
17165 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17165 Binding 13 Chloe Walsh 2018 Unknown English
17165 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17165 Almond Sohn Won-Pyung 2017 Korean Korean
17165 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
17165 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17165 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17165 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17165 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17165 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17165 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17165 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17165 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17165 The Weight Of Things Marianne Fritz 1978 Austrian German
17165 The Unspeakables Laverne Gay Unknown Unknown
17165 When The War Is Over Stephen Becker 1968 Unknown English
17165 The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic 2013 American English
17165 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17165 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17165 Holler, Child LaToya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17165 Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips 2023 American Unknown
17165 Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward 2023 American English
17165 A Council Of Dolls Mona Susan Power 2023 Unknown English
17165 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17165 Wound Oksana Vasyakina 2023 Russian Russian
17165 Pet Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealand English
17165 A Man Of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen 2023 American English
17165 Fire In The Canyon Daniel Gumbiner 2023 Unknown English