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UPCOMING READS > Dec 2025 BOTM: Nominate a memoir

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19 hours, 30 min ago

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Please post here to nominate books for the December 2025 book-of-the-month (BOTM). Must have at least 1000 ratings and be remotely related to trauma and/or dissociation. Memoir is the theme for December. Can be non-fiction memoir or something similar fiction.

Just post TITLE by AUTHOR.


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19 hours, 28 min ago

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Gail Honeyman
This novel deals with childhood trauma, as it affects an adult.


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19 hours, 24 min ago

Steve Shelby | 195 comments Mod
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou Maya Angelou
This memoir deals with racism, rape, trauma.


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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Ishmael Beah
A boy from Sierra Leone who was forced as a child to be a soldier.


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Educated by Tara Westover
Educated by Tara Westover Tara Westover
A memoir of religion and isolation … too much.


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