Books About Rape and Rape Culture

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 2,323,197 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating β€” 57,733 ratings
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Speak
Speak 4.05 avg rating β€” 622,690 ratings
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It 4.37 avg rating β€” 4,206 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story 3.96 avg rating β€” 16,713 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,948,263 ratings
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape 4.20 avg rating β€” 5,237 ratings
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The Female of the Species
The Female of the Species 4.14 avg rating β€” 38,476 ratings
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 3,378,466 ratings
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All the Rage
All the Rage 3.80 avg rating β€” 15,256 ratings
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
Exit, Pursued by a Bear 3.91 avg rating β€” 12,383 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating β€” 22,350 ratings
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Transforming a Rape Culture
Transforming a Rape Culture 4.36 avg rating β€” 749 ratings
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Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis 4.13 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,267 ratings
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Asking For It
Asking For It really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 23,890 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) 4.26 avg rating β€” 968,941 ratings
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Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1) 4.07 avg rating β€” 228,799 ratings
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Lucky
Lucky 3.77 avg rating β€” 101,360 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why
by: Jay Asher
3.84 avg rating β€” 1,013,891 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,079 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating β€” 117,718 ratings
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Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating β€” 58,130 ratings
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The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating β€” 37,999 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones 3.86 avg rating β€” 2,439,526 ratings
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out 4.39 avg rating β€” 494 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating β€” 409 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1) 4.23 avg rating β€” 658,953 ratings
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women 4.08 avg rating β€” 8,546 ratings
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Some Boys
Some Boys 4.06 avg rating β€” 9,134 ratings
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Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3) 4.71 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman 4.17 avg rating β€” 62,838 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating β€” 3,602 ratings
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Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating β€” 919,233 ratings
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My Dark Vanessa
My Dark Vanessa 4.10 avg rating β€” 398,743 ratings
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Beartown (Beartown, #1)
Beartown (Beartown, #1) 4.29 avg rating β€” 549,564 ratings
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Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus 3.77 avg rating β€” 320 ratings
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Lessons from a Dead Girl
Lessons from a Dead Girl 3.84 avg rating β€” 7,391 ratings
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Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1)
Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1) 4.10 avg rating β€” 8,707 ratings
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Shout
Shout 4.25 avg rating β€” 21,797 ratings
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape 4.26 avg rating β€” 373 ratings
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Just Listen
Just Listen 4.05 avg rating β€” 249,761 ratings
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Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement 4.40 avg rating β€” 219 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating β€” 45,864 ratings
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France 3.92 avg rating β€” 381 ratings
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What We Saw
What We Saw 4.05 avg rating β€” 8,036 ratings
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
Impulse (Impulse, #1) 4.25 avg rating β€” 81,834 ratings
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape 4.39 avg rating β€” 2,406 ratings
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Sex Object: A Memoir 3.66 avg rating β€” 13,437 ratings
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A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America 4.19 avg rating β€” 8,808 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating β€” 118,957 ratings
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Know My Name
Know My Name 4.69 avg rating β€” 243,485 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating β€” 10,422 ratings
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Pornography
Pornography 3.87 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Sadie
Sadie 4.03 avg rating β€” 127,846 ratings
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The Hunting Ground: The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses
The Hunting Ground: The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses 4.05 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Intercourse
Intercourse really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2,698 ratings
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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement 4.08 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 211,431 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating β€” 27,172 ratings
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SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence
SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence 4.30 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus 3.79 avg rating β€” 188 ratings
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Carrie
Carrie 3.99 avg rating β€” 813,711 ratings
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When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery
When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery 4.50 avg rating β€” 24 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 β€” 16,869 ratings
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Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics 3.99 avg rating β€” 3,856 ratings
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation 4.40 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
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Things We Haven't Said: Sexual Violence Survivors Speak Out
Things We Haven't Said: Sexual Violence Survivors Speak Out 4.33 avg rating β€” 242 ratings
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Girl in Pieces
Girl in Pieces 3.94 avg rating β€” 251,396 ratings
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The Book of Essie
The Book of Essie 3.90 avg rating β€” 32,490 ratings
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The Tenth Circle
The Tenth Circle 3.54 avg rating β€” 135,451 ratings
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Luckiest Girl Alive
Luckiest Girl Alive 3.54 avg rating β€” 253,067 ratings
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The Nowhere Girls
The Nowhere Girls
by: Amy Reed
4.26 avg rating β€” 13,465 ratings
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On Being Raped
On Being Raped 4.62 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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White Oleander
White Oleander really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 363,349 ratings
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Rape in Marriage
Rape in Marriage 4.57 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis
Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis 4.16 avg rating β€” 224 ratings
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Love Letters to the Dead
Love Letters to the Dead 3.79 avg rating β€” 91,444 ratings
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Moxie
Moxie 4.18 avg rating β€” 34,875 ratings
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#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens
#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens 3.76 avg rating β€” 250 ratings
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Speak: The Graphic Novel
Speak: The Graphic Novel 4.39 avg rating β€” 20,750 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating β€” 33,017 ratings
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Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media
Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media 3.85 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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Caught
Caught 4.12 avg rating β€” 226 ratings
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Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death 3.93 avg rating β€” 27,810 ratings
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Unleaving
Unleaving 4.06 avg rating β€” 186 ratings
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Exposed (Wraith Royals, #1)
Exposed (Wraith Royals, #1) 3.46 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
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Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Gender and Culture Series)
Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Gender and Culture Series) 4.01 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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Identical
Identical 4.29 avg rating β€” 66,318 ratings
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Alias Omnibus
Alias Omnibus 4.42 avg rating β€” 1,937 ratings
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 4.07 avg rating β€” 11,169 ratings
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Hawkmistress!
Hawkmistress! really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,485 ratings
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Avengers (1963-1996) #200
Avengers (1963-1996) #200 2.28 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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Black Box
Black Box 4.46 avg rating β€” 2,152 ratings
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Take It as a Compliment
Take It as a Compliment 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,615 ratings
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Ungrateful
Ungrateful 4.84 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Breath of Scandal
Breath of Scandal 4.10 avg rating β€” 16,779 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by: Anonymous
4.29 avg rating β€” 17,074 ratings
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