Domestic Violence in Fiction

1.
October Snow
October Snow 3.90 avg rating — 412 ratings
2.
False Security
False Security 4.19 avg rating — 201 ratings
3.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,996 ratings
4.
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 2,808,785 ratings
5.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,448 ratings
6.
Picture Perfect
Picture Perfect 3.57 avg rating — 69,993 ratings
7.
The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train 3.96 avg rating — 3,202,340 ratings
8.
Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne 3.94 avg rating — 166,119 ratings
9.
Black and Blue
Black and Blue 3.89 avg rating — 83,457 ratings
10.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) 4.26 avg rating — 968,884 ratings
11.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,367 ratings
12.
Safe Haven
Safe Haven 4.22 avg rating — 397,516 ratings
13.
The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides 4.26 avg rating — 213,975 ratings
14.
The Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth 3.86 avg rating — 68,139 ratings
15.
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 11,663 ratings
16.
The Great Alone
The Great Alone 4.45 avg rating — 1,075,426 ratings
17.
Sleeping with the Enemy
Sleeping with the Enemy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,185 ratings
18.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing 4.37 avg rating — 3,478,910 ratings
19.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,152 ratings
20.
Shelter Mountain (Virgin River, #2)
Shelter Mountain (Virgin River, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 47,652 ratings
21.
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating — 137,105 ratings
22.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,057 ratings
23.
Blue-Eyed Devil (Travises, #2)
Blue-Eyed Devil (Travises, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 39,831 ratings
24.
Not Without My Daughter
Not Without My Daughter 4.18 avg rating — 37,740 ratings
25.
Rose Madder
Rose Madder 3.76 avg rating — 121,351 ratings
26.
Consequences (Consequences, #1)
Consequences (Consequences, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 43,141 ratings
27.
Brutally Beautiful (Beautiful, #1)
Brutally Beautiful (Beautiful, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 6,917 ratings
28.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,383 ratings
29.
Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill 3.39 avg rating — 29,573 ratings
30.
My Year of Meats
My Year of Meats 4.03 avg rating — 20,792 ratings
31.
When Dad Killed Mom
When Dad Killed Mom 3.65 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
32.
Me & Emma
Me & Emma 3.91 avg rating — 22,121 ratings
33.
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors 3.89 avg rating — 453 ratings
33.
Washed Up
Washed Up 4.03 avg rating — 2,594 ratings
35.
Backseat Saints
Backseat Saints 3.82 avg rating — 11,035 ratings
36.
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-2000
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-2000 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
36.
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
by: Amy Tan
4.04 avg rating — 87,067 ratings
38.
Intimacy
Intimacy 2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
38.
I Let You Go
I Let You Go 4.04 avg rating — 152,048 ratings
40.
Waverly Place
Waverly Place 3.57 avg rating — 142 ratings
41.
Summer's Child (Nova Scotia Summer, #1)
Summer's Child (Nova Scotia Summer, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 4,721 ratings
41.
Hershey Herself
Hershey Herself 3.95 avg rating — 205 ratings
41.
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife 4.08 avg rating — 6,477 ratings
44.
The Cinder Path
The Cinder Path 3.91 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
45.
This Charming Man
This Charming Man 3.79 avg rating — 39,649 ratings
46.
Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam
Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam 3.81 avg rating — 158 ratings
47.
The Day of the Butterfly
The Day of the Butterfly 3.65 avg rating — 194 ratings
47.
Journey
Journey 4.06 avg rating — 7,247 ratings
49.
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night 3.85 avg rating — 68 ratings
50.
Scent of Cloves
Scent of Cloves 3.90 avg rating — 358 ratings
51.
Crows Over A Wheatfield
Crows Over A Wheatfield 3.63 avg rating — 308 ratings
52.
The Scars Between Us
The Scars Between Us 4.10 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
52.
What Happened on Planet Kid
What Happened on Planet Kid 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
54.
Raw Power (11th Hour #1)
Raw Power (11th Hour #1) 3.77 avg rating — 316 ratings
55.
The Haunting of Maddy Clare
The Haunting of Maddy Clare 3.84 avg rating — 33,180 ratings
56.
Freaky Green Eyes
Freaky Green Eyes 3.60 avg rating — 4,060 ratings
57.
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors 3.97 avg rating — 720,089 ratings
58.
Still Life with Tornado
Still Life with Tornado
by: A.S. King
3.84 avg rating — 7,146 ratings
59.
Franny Parker
Franny Parker 3.90 avg rating — 213 ratings
60.
Telling the Sea
Telling the Sea 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings
61.
Damage Done
Damage Done 3.59 avg rating — 154 ratings
61.
A Community of Butterflies: Chrysalis
A Community of Butterflies: Chrysalis 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
61.
The Carer
The Carer 4.18 avg rating — 92 ratings
61.
Pieces of Me: Finding Heather Jones
Pieces of Me: Finding Heather Jones 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings
61.
What She Left Behind
What She Left Behind 3.84 avg rating — 2,478 ratings
61.
To Murder Matt
To Murder Matt 3.94 avg rating — 174 ratings
61.
Scream quietly
Scream quietly 3.28 avg rating — 101 ratings
61.
A Mended Life
A Mended Life
by: P.J. Mack
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
61.
The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter 3.96 avg rating — 2,989 ratings
61.
Kept: It was the only existence she knew how to live.
Kept: It was the only existence she knew how to live.
by: L.B. Plum
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
61.
The Disobedient Wife
The Disobedient Wife 4.28 avg rating — 99 ratings
61.
Secrets That Find Us
Secrets That Find Us 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
61.
Julia's Chocolates
Julia's Chocolates 3.86 avg rating — 7,900 ratings
61.
Too Close
Too Close really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 732 ratings
61.
Little Green
Little Green 3.99 avg rating — 117 ratings
61.
Release: Love Defamed
Release: Love Defamed 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
61.
The Angel in the Corner
The Angel in the Corner 3.83 avg rating — 111 ratings
61.
Cracker Jackson
Cracker Jackson 3.86 avg rating — 260 ratings
61.
The Last to Let Go
The Last to Let Go 3.70 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
61.
The Fortuna Coin
The Fortuna Coin 4.31 avg rating — 518 ratings
61.
O Lord, How Long: Wife Torture in American History
O Lord, How Long: Wife Torture in American History it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
61.
Fight for Me
Fight for Me 4.20 avg rating — 112 ratings
61.
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon 3.62 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
61.
34 Dead
34 Dead it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
85.
Dead Men Don't Kill
Dead Men Don't Kill 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
85.
Holy Bible
Holy Bible 3.85 avg rating — 81 ratings
85.
The Broken Half
The Broken Half 4.25 avg rating — 40 ratings
85.
Lights of Polaris
Lights of Polaris 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
85.
Holding Me Here
Holding Me Here 3.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
85.
Shattered
Shattered 3.83 avg rating — 99 ratings
85.
We Lived in the Almont
We Lived in the Almont 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
85.
"Battered, Bruised, and Inhumanly Beaten"
"Battered, Bruised, and Inhumanly Beaten" really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
85.
Finding My Fight
Finding My Fight
by: R.G. Corr
4.21 avg rating — 193 ratings
85.
Liza of Lambeth
Liza of Lambeth 3.40 avg rating — 2,384 ratings
95.
Dancing with Devia
Dancing with Devia 3.93 avg rating — 111 ratings
95.
Don't Tell (Romantic Suspense, #1; Chicago, #1)
Don't Tell (Romantic Suspense, #1; Chicago, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 14,862 ratings
95.
As One Door Closes
As One Door Closes 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
95.
An Early Frost
An Early Frost 4.34 avg rating — 58 ratings
95.
The Widow of Ballarat
The Widow of Ballarat 3.86 avg rating — 759 ratings
95.
Rex Zero, King of Nothing
Rex Zero, King of Nothing 3.74 avg rating — 81 ratings
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