Intergenerational Trauma Books

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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.55 — 36,219 ratings — published 2016
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.36 — 263,560 ratings — published 2014
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.02 — 385,589 ratings — published 2019
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.39 — 11,375 ratings — published 2017
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Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.19 — 310 ratings — published
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Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.22 — 933 ratings — published 2023
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.16 — 579 ratings — published 2017
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.31 — 33,077 ratings — published 2022
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The Vanishing Half The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.13 — 840,404 ratings — published 2020
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.37 — 84,017 ratings — published 2015
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,083 ratings — published 2018
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,945 ratings — published 2022
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Surviving the City (Surviving the City, #1) Surviving the City (Surviving the City, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,562 ratings — published 2019
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.52 — 50,089 ratings — published 2021
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How to Sell a Haunted House How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.65 — 153,151 ratings — published 2023
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Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.05 — 229 ratings — published 2023
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Thistlefoot Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.94 — 23,631 ratings — published 2022
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House of Yesterday House of Yesterday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.67 — 382 ratings — published 2022
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Translating Your Past: Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues, and Generational Trauma Translating Your Past: Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues, and Generational Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.21 — 39 ratings — published
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What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.42 — 104,924 ratings — published 2021
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The Wall The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.02 — 29,983 ratings — published 1963
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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1) Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.31 — 192,210 ratings — published 2021
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Of Women and Salt Of Women and Salt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.69 — 48,469 ratings — published 2021
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The Ancestor Syndrome The Ancestor Syndrome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.79 — 681 ratings — published 1998
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Red River Resistance (A Girl Called Echo, #2) Red River Resistance (A Girl Called Echo, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,370 ratings — published 2019
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I Can Make This Promise I Can Make This Promise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,137 ratings — published 2019
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Solar Storms Solar Storms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,734 ratings — published 1994
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Firstborn Girls: A Memoir Firstborn Girls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.36 — 511 ratings — published 2025
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Kill Her Twice Kill Her Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,455 ratings — published 2024
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All My Rage All My Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.48 — 62,298 ratings — published 2022
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Inkflower Inkflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.27 — 408 ratings — published
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The Names The Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.16 — 82,465 ratings — published 2025
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What's Eating Jackie Oh? What's Eating Jackie Oh? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.82 — 771 ratings — published 2024
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Tastes Like War Tastes Like War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,029 ratings — published 2021
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Libertad Libertad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.52 — 411 ratings — published 2024
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Auē Auē (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.48 — 7,138 ratings — published 2019
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The Eyes Are the Best Part The Eyes Are the Best Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.81 — 41,581 ratings — published 2024
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I Hope This Finds You Well I Hope This Finds You Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.74 — 107,317 ratings — published 2024
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Convenience Store Woman Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.67 — 357,820 ratings — published 2016
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,247 ratings — published 1998
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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,049 ratings — published 2025
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Casters and Crowns (Casters and Crowns #1) Casters and Crowns (Casters and Crowns #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,294 ratings — published 2024
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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.65 — 493 ratings — published 2022
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Where There Was Fire Where There Was Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.46 — 1,624 ratings — published 2023
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Transcendent Kingdom Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.10 — 159,902 ratings — published 2020
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Pachinko Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.34 — 597,577 ratings — published 2017
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Homegoing Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.47 — 392,357 ratings — published 2016
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Everything is Illuminated Everything is Illuminated (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.89 — 183,221 ratings — published 2002
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When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,712 ratings — published 2023
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About, #1) What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.75 — 18,509 ratings — published 2019
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“If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?”
Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

“After spending five decades of being beaten down, mistreated, and stabbed in the back, little Dana grew up. Little Dana fearlessly faced her trauma wounds. Little Dana cracked open that terrifying door to process and to address everything. And when I write everything, I mean ‘every rotten thing said and done to harm me.’ Everything from my early childhood sexual abuse, child neglect, psychological abuse, physical abuse, unfit parenting by my narcissistic mother, to my sister’s spouse who sexually assaulted me, to every imaginable covert scheme by my six toxic siblings (AKA Flying Monkeys) who sadistically enjoyed hurting me. They each took great pleasure in trying to destroy me, my life, my health, my relationships, my career, and my reputation.”
Dana Arcuri CTRC, Toxic Siblings: A Survival Guide to Rise Above Sibling Abuse & Heal Trauma

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