Young Adult Books About Rape & Sexual Abuse
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list created July 4th, 2012
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Yes. I wrote a fictional memoir from my perspective entitled Deaf, Dumb, Blind & Stupid.

Easy (NA)
Betrayal (NA)
Hopeless (NA)
Wait for You (NA)
Reconnected (adult)
Disconnected (adult)
The Year After (adult)
Mysterious Skin (adult)
She's Come Undone (adult)
The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden (NA)
The Redemption of Callie and Kayden (NA)
I'm skeptical that some of the other self-published titles on this list are properly categorized as YA, but I've left them alone for now.

Yes:
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, by Matthew Quick
The Gospel of Winter, by Brendan Kiely
Swagger, Carl Deuker
Boy Toy, Barry Lyga
Inexcusable, Chris Lynch
What We Saw, Aaron Hartzler
Dime, E.R. Frank
Run the Game, Jason Myers
Bait, Alex Sanchez
Period 8, Chris Crutcher
The Packing House, G. Donald Cribbs

Yes:
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, by Matthew Quick
The Gospel of Winter, by Brendan Kiely
Swagger, Carl Deuker
Boy Toy, Bar..."
All of what G. said plus the following book:
Deaf, Dumb, Blind & Stupid by Tremayne Moore (see my bio).

Tandia (adult)
Missoula (adult)
I See You (adult)
Wait for You (NA)
The Year After (adult)
Yes Means Yes (adult)
We Believe You (adult)
To the Survivors (adult)
Trafficked to Hell (adult)
Tears of the Silenced (adult)
To Kill a Mockingbird (adult)
The River and the Sea (adult)
Treasures of the Night (adult)
Singular Female Voices (adult)
Feminism Is For Everybody (adult)
Transforming a Rape Culture (adult)
Asking for It by Kate Harding (adult)
Skeptical about some of the other self pubbed titles. If anyone notices something that doesn't belong, let me know.

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey has a theme of sexual abuse that is revealed towards the end of the story.


Aaron (Survivor Stories #1) - J.P. Barnaby - MM romance, adult
Not listed as YA on publisher website:
"Genre Contemporary" https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/boo...
Dreamspinner's YA imprint is: Harmony Ink Press
Dreamspinner only publishes NA at the youngest, see example:
https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/boo...
All YA would be under their Harmony Ink Press and "Aaron" is not published under that imprint.
Also NOT YA --
Beartown (Beartown, #1) - Fredrik Backman - mystery thriller, adult
Danger At Her Door - Beth Cornelison - Harlequin romance, adult
Seduced in the Dark (The Dark Duet #2) - C.J. Roberts - DARK EROTICA!
Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas - historical fiction, adult
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