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Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.94 — 961,522 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.27 — 997,974 ratings — published 2015
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.07 — 651,516 ratings — published 2022
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,098,919 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.15 — 541,499 ratings — published 2018
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.77 — 464,141 ratings — published 2017
As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.19 — 615,777 ratings — published 2021
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,562,052 ratings — published 2019
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,299,220 ratings — published 1954
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.88 — 60,373 ratings — published 1996
Restore Me (Shatter Me, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 452,512 ratings — published 2018
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.25 — 838,807 ratings — published 2020
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.00 — 784,571 ratings — published 2015
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.56 — 802,562 ratings — published 2016
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,804,788 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,148,697 ratings — published 2011
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,472,766 ratings — published 2014
Where the Red Fern Grows (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 449,410 ratings — published 1961
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,272,948 ratings — published 2006
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,024 ratings — published 2003
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.04 — 668,369 ratings — published 1995
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,805,844 ratings — published 2007
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,275,045 ratings — published 2025
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.78 — 628,617 ratings — published 2013
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,464 ratings — published 2009
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,300,163 ratings — published 1963
Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.26 — 264,424 ratings — published 2014
Manacled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.62 — 169,215 ratings — published 2019
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,362 ratings — published 1892
Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.77 — 452,517 ratings — published 2015
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.54 — 109,802 ratings — published 2022
Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.44 — 719,842 ratings — published 2014
Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.09 — 812,251 ratings — published 2013
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,305,463 ratings — published 2011
Borrasca (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,984 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,964,875 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,776,739 ratings — published 1945
The Push (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.03 — 465,801 ratings — published 2021
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,772 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.65 — 445,450 ratings — published 2007
The Slob (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.31 — 13,413 ratings — published 2019
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.16 — 713,065 ratings — published 2014
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.94 — 864,217 ratings — published 2009
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,051 ratings — published 1942
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,312,999 ratings — published 1986
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,602,656 ratings — published 2022
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,556 ratings — published 2021
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.26 — 192,344 ratings — published 2020
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,397,201 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as traumatizing)
avg rating 4.06 — 601,900 ratings — published 1977
“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
“Well, as I was saying," Pudding went on. "My silver spoon collection was my most prized hoard at the time, but my brother Theodore had had his eye on it for many years. He was always after my spoons. And one day...he got them." He sighed heavily. "And it was very, very, very... very traumatising.”
― Alpha Wolf
― Alpha Wolf