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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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,529 ratings — published 2016
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.35 — 272,842 ratings — published 2014
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.01 — 397,433 ratings — published 2019
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 — 11,547 ratings — published 2017
Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.18 — 318 ratings — published
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,001 ratings — published 2023
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.51 — 52,374 ratings — published 2021
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.15 — 586 ratings — published 2017
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.31 — 34,685 ratings — published 2022
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.12 — 849,196 ratings — published 2020
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 4.36 — 88,221 ratings — published 2015
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,312 ratings — published 2018
Mapping the Interior (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.59 — 13,908 ratings — published 2017
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,088 ratings — published 2022
Surviving the City (Surviving the City, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,596 ratings — published 2019
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.64 — 164,509 ratings — published 2023
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.04 — 229 ratings — published 2023
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,181 ratings — published 2022
House of Yesterday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.68 — 384 ratings — published 2022
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
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.42 — 107,039 ratings — published 2021
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,621 ratings — published 1963
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.31 — 198,884 ratings — published 2021
Of Women and Salt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.69 — 48,989 ratings — published 2021
The Ancestor Syndrome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.79 — 696 ratings — published 1998
In Case of Emergency (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.13 — 297 ratings — published
This Strange Eventful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.56 — 5,564 ratings — published
Everything We Never Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,137 ratings — published 2024
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.07 — 943 ratings — published 2021
Glass Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.92 — 631 ratings — published 2025
Spilled Ink: A Powerful YA Contemporary Novel About a Muslim Teen and Her Fight for Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.95 — 194 ratings — published 2024
Asking for a Friend: A YA Rom-Com About a Taiwanese Teen, Her Frenemy, and Unexpected Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.62 — 329 ratings — published 2024
Play Nice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.92 — 38,144 ratings — published 2025
The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.42 — 488 ratings — published
Not the Perfect Victim (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.80 — 30 ratings — published 2025
Healer of the Water Monster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,620 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,835,161 ratings — published 2018
Blue Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.92 — 280,306 ratings — published 2024
The Unfinished: A Stunning Debut YA Horror Where Mohawk Monsters Haunt Black Water and Missing Teens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.59 — 714 ratings — published 2024
Conjure Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,692 ratings — published 2020
The Bright Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.22 — 56,619 ratings — published 2025
The Hunger We Pass Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.82 — 501 ratings — published 2025
The Color of a Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.25 — 984 ratings — published 2024
The Bone Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.96 — 753 ratings — published 2025
The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.49 — 545 ratings — published 2025
Necessary Fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.99 — 256 ratings — published 2025
Looking for Smoke (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,716 ratings — published 2024
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.08 — 293,962 ratings — published 2023
Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 4.18 — 591 ratings — published 2025
Salt Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intergenerational-trauma)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,226 ratings — published 2025
“I do think I've seen the generation that I've seen grow up have different resources, have different skills and options around dealing with that harm, and that makes a difference for me.
But I did have a hope that like, OK, we had to go through all this stuff, but at least we can have this set of children that we can see from here, this set of children that we are raising in this context and they will not have to go through things that are very similar.
And they have gone through things that are very similar, and that is something that, you know, intellectually, we understand that these things are intergenerational cycles of violence, and it's really hard to accept that it will be incrementally different, but not totally gone within the span of a decade or two.”
― Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
But I did have a hope that like, OK, we had to go through all this stuff, but at least we can have this set of children that we can see from here, this set of children that we are raising in this context and they will not have to go through things that are very similar.
And they have gone through things that are very similar, and that is something that, you know, intellectually, we understand that these things are intergenerational cycles of violence, and it's really hard to accept that it will be incrementally different, but not totally gone within the span of a decade or two.”
― Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“There is a popular misconception in many societies that offenders who are genetically related to you are entitled to forgiveness. This makes little sense.”
― You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
― You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
