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Traumatizing Books
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Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.94 — 903,994 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.28 — 946,357 ratings — published 2015
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,885,154 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.16 — 498,088 ratings — published 2018
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.07 — 613,192 ratings — published 2022
As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.19 — 579,773 ratings — published 2021
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.77 — 415,438 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,342,686 ratings — published 2019
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.25 — 792,891 ratings — published 2020
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.65 — 398,211 ratings — published 2007
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.00 — 733,078 ratings — published 2015
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.57 — 777,908 ratings — published 2016
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,671,208 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,031,679 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,225,133 ratings — published 1954
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,418,453 ratings — published 2014
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.88 — 59,492 ratings — published 1996
Where the Red Fern Grows (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 443,066 ratings — published 1961
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,236,759 ratings — published 2006
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,753,475 ratings — published 2007
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,116,012 ratings — published 2025
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.96 — 126,400 ratings — published 2009
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,242,178 ratings — published 1963
Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.26 — 233,891 ratings — published 2014
Manacled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.62 — 161,826 ratings — published 2019
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.07 — 365,369 ratings — published 1892
Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.78 — 433,852 ratings — published 2015
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.54 — 102,489 ratings — published 2022
Restore Me (Shatter Me, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 425,430 ratings — published 2018
Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.45 — 684,214 ratings — published 2014
Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.10 — 773,022 ratings — published 2013
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,243,305 ratings — published 2011
Borrasca (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,226 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,610,644 ratings — published 1945
The Push (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.04 — 444,659 ratings — published 2021
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,421 ratings — published 1955
The Slob (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.33 — 12,540 ratings — published 2019
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.94 — 845,565 ratings — published 2009
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,427,480 ratings — published 1942
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,281,718 ratings — published 1986
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,506,281 ratings — published 2022
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.34 — 178,235 ratings — published 2021
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.28 — 175,099 ratings — published 2020
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,333,027 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.06 — 593,294 ratings — published 1977
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,395 ratings — published 2005
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,016,434 ratings — published 1999
The Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.16 — 175,561 ratings — published 1995
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,522 ratings — published 1956
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.14 — 462,419 ratings — published 1995
“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with an event.
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“It's the person's subjective perception of danger that determines whether an incident is traumatizing or not.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
