Domestic Violence Essential Reads

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Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a true story (Samantha Mallon Book 1)
Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a true story (Samantha Mallon Book 1) 4.10 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men 4.48 avg rating — 16,873 ratings
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From Hurt to Happiness: Emotional Rescue from the Ground Up
From Hurt to Happiness: Emotional Rescue from the Ground Up 4.27 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]
Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]
by: Harpie
4.06 avg rating — 476 ratings
5.
October Snow
October Snow 3.90 avg rating — 412 ratings
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 4,401,293 ratings
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See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
by: Jess Hill
4.66 avg rating — 5,898 ratings
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Deirdre of the Sorrows
Deirdre of the Sorrows 4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
10.
Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman
Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman 4.42 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond 4.25 avg rating — 4,832 ratings
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Hanging On By My Fingernails: Surviving the new divorce gamesmanship, and how a scratch can land you in jail
Hanging On By My Fingernails: Surviving the new divorce gamesmanship, and how a scratch can land you in jail 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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2004 - Thanks for the Vodka
2004 - Thanks for the Vodka
by: Harpie
4.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Beaten Down: Silently Suffering Trauma
Beaten Down: Silently Suffering Trauma 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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2003 - Thanks for the Vodka
2003 - Thanks for the Vodka
by: Harpie
3.70 avg rating — 1,143 ratings
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In the Dream House
In the Dream House 4.40 avg rating — 153,076 ratings
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Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why
Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why 4.11 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
18.
Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne 3.94 avg rating — 166,150 ratings
19.
The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics
The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics 4.43 avg rating — 157 ratings
20.
A Cry for Justice: How the Evil of Domestic Abuse Hides in Your Church
A Cry for Justice: How the Evil of Domestic Abuse Hides in Your Church 4.60 avg rating — 67 ratings
21.
Sleeping with the Enemy
Sleeping with the Enemy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,185 ratings
21.
The Love that Hurts: A Story of Domestic Violence (The Relationship Quo, #6)
The Love that Hurts: A Story of Domestic Violence (The Relationship Quo, #6) 4.26 avg rating — 352 ratings
23.
Masked: Relationship Abuse and Recovery Guide
Masked: Relationship Abuse and Recovery Guide 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
24.
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of Abused Women
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of Abused Women 4.44 avg rating — 110 ratings
25.
How To Find The Right Person To Date: A Step By Step Guide To Finding The Right Partner And Detecting An Abuser
How To Find The Right Person To Date: A Step By Step Guide To Finding The Right Partner And Detecting An Abuser liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
26.
An Early Frost
An Early Frost 4.34 avg rating — 58 ratings
27.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven 4.01 avg rating — 220,456 ratings
28.
The Mother Wound
The Mother Wound 4.48 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
29.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing 4.37 avg rating — 3,479,918 ratings
30.
Perfect Match
Perfect Match 3.97 avg rating — 82,861 ratings
31.
Torn From the Inside Out
Torn From the Inside Out 4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
31.
Music Box Danseur
Music Box Danseur 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
31.
Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them
Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
31.
The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1)
The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1) 4.18 avg rating — 68 ratings
31.
A Journey through Emotional Abuse: From Bondage to Freedom
A Journey through Emotional Abuse: From Bondage to Freedom 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
31.
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating — 631 ratings
31.
The Carer
The Carer 4.18 avg rating — 92 ratings
31.
How Far Will You Go for the Ring?
How Far Will You Go for the Ring?
by: Roxie H.
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
31.
Broken Sleep (The Widening Gyre #1)
Broken Sleep (The Widening Gyre #1) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
31.
Don't Forget Steven
Don't Forget Steven 3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings
31.
Dancing with Devia
Dancing with Devia 3.93 avg rating — 111 ratings
31.
Womanarchy
Womanarchy 3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
31.
Master of the Universe: Memoirs - Book One
Master of the Universe: Memoirs - Book One 3.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
31.
The Sleeping Serpent
The Sleeping Serpent 4.18 avg rating — 138 ratings
31.
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
31.
Broken Chains
Broken Chains 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings
31.
Israel's Next War: An Exciting Epic Novel about the coming war between Israel and the countries and militias of Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
Israel's Next War: An Exciting Epic Novel about the coming war between Israel and the countries and militias of Iran, Iraq, and Syria. 4.15 avg rating — 260 ratings
31.
When I Hit You
When I Hit You 4.08 avg rating — 6,479 ratings
31.
Perfect Ten
Perfect Ten 3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings
31.
Cookie
Cookie 3.92 avg rating — 7,434 ratings
31.
The Marsh King's Daughter
The Marsh King's Daughter 3.87 avg rating — 47,605 ratings
31.
The Groundsmen
The Groundsmen 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
31.
Release: Love Defamed
Release: Love Defamed 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
31.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart 4.09 avg rating — 42,887 ratings
31.
My First Thirty Years
My First Thirty Years 3.67 avg rating — 392 ratings
31.
The Boundary Is You: A guide to creating boundaries in your relationships by loving yourself more
The Boundary Is You: A guide to creating boundaries in your relationships by loving yourself more 4.58 avg rating — 65 ratings
31.
Don't Make Me Beautiful
Don't Make Me Beautiful really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,902 ratings
31.
Goodbye to Lovely
Goodbye to Lovely really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
31.
Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
31.
Nightbird
Nightbird 4.60 avg rating — 62 ratings
61.
It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence
It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence 3.96 avg rating — 263 ratings
61.
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
61.
White Birds: Dreams for Dancers (The Widening Gyre #0)
White Birds: Dreams for Dancers (The Widening Gyre #0) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
61.
Those Who Believe
Those Who Believe 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
61.
To Murder Matt
To Murder Matt 3.94 avg rating — 174 ratings
61.
After Awareness: Advocating For Battered Women
After Awareness: Advocating For Battered Women it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
61.
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 11,665 ratings
61.
The Lost Letters: The Dark World of Narcissistic Abuse
The Lost Letters: The Dark World of Narcissistic Abuse 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
61.
Goodbye to Lovely: The harrowing true story of a woman’s struggle with urban poverty, domestic violence and addiction
Goodbye to Lovely: The harrowing true story of a woman’s struggle with urban poverty, domestic violence and addiction 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
61.
And Then Came You
And Then Came You 3.86 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
71.
An Affair of the Mind
An Affair of the Mind 4.05 avg rating — 141 ratings
71.
La Chiripa (The Widening Gyre #2)
La Chiripa (The Widening Gyre #2) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
71.
The Only Alien on the Planet
The Only Alien on the Planet 4.30 avg rating — 3,004 ratings
71.
Secrets: The Conflicted Role of First-Generation Nigerian American Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
Secrets: The Conflicted Role of First-Generation Nigerian American Women Experiencing Domestic Violence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
71.
The Alienated Mother
The Alienated Mother 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
71.
A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell
A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell 4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings
77.
Lion Within
Lion Within 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
77.
A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse
A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
79.
Battered Women In The Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses
Battered Women In The Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
80.
The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God
The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God 4.27 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
81.
Rust & Stardust
Rust & Stardust 4.14 avg rating — 9,309 ratings
82.
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Sweet Lamb of Heaven 3.02 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
83.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey 4.06 avg rating — 437 ratings
84.
"Battered, Bruised, and Inhumanly Beaten"
"Battered, Bruised, and Inhumanly Beaten" really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
85.
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 2,022,115 ratings
86.
A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917
A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917 3.36 avg rating — 2,793 ratings
87.
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
88.
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating — 333,085 ratings