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Generational Trauma Books
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I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,487,596 ratings — published 2022
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.01 — 411,305 ratings — published 2019
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.55 — 38,909 ratings — published 2016
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.67 — 67,667 ratings — published 2023
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.13 — 546,347 ratings — published 2023
The Bright Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.23 — 79,721 ratings — published 2025
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.47 — 406,091 ratings — published 2016
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.49 — 77,108 ratings — published 2022
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.34 — 632,211 ratings — published 2017
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.15 — 167,481 ratings — published 2021
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,648,054 ratings — published 2016
Strange Sally Diamond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.14 — 177,943 ratings — published 2023
Banyan Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,258 ratings — published 2023
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,230,761 ratings — published 2006
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.36 — 92,697 ratings — published 2015
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,779 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.30 — 191,235 ratings — published 2020
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.16 — 169,984 ratings — published 2024
Grown Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,117 ratings — published 2024
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,583 ratings — published 1989
Compound Fracture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,074 ratings — published 2024
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.98 — 493,010 ratings — published 1987
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.16 — 128,235 ratings — published 1977
Evil Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,947 ratings — published 2023
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.25 — 177,817 ratings — published 2019
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.83 — 613,201 ratings — published 2014
The Fortunes of Jaded Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.63 — 18,906 ratings — published 2022
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.63 — 169,530 ratings — published 2023
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.25 — 861,831 ratings — published 2022
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,274 ratings — published 1958
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.91 — 33,514 ratings — published 2021
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,714 ratings — published 2022
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,297,588 ratings — published 2021
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.24 — 138,261 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.12 — 859,320 ratings — published 2020
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,107 ratings — published 2006
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.85 — 239,214 ratings — published 1979
A Flower Traveled in My Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,053 ratings — published 2025
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.39 — 376,587 ratings — published 1986
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.94 — 842,587 ratings — published 2009
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.11 — 818,993 ratings — published 2024
Cursed Daughters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,507 ratings — published 2025
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,821 ratings — published 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,110,417 ratings — published 1967
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.84 — 58,849 ratings — published 2022
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.08 — 228,672 ratings — published 2022
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.30 — 322,182 ratings — published 1982
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.66 — 445,123 ratings — published 2020
Long Island Compromise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 3.75 — 46,975 ratings — published 2024
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generational-trauma)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,041 ratings — published 2024
“Those stolen girls are dead now. One killed herself a few years after coming home. The other girl, your maternal grandmother, had Maggie. When you hear the words 'historical trauma' or 'generational trauma,' it's because of places like this. And people in power today who still won't acknowledge the things that happened there.”
― Sisters in the Wind
― Sisters in the Wind
“Maybe my mother is God, and that's why nothing I do pleases her.
Maybe my mother is God, and that's why even though she's never once saved me, I keep praying that this time she will.”
― Model Home
Maybe my mother is God, and that's why even though she's never once saved me, I keep praying that this time she will.”
― Model Home
