A mix of memoir, fiction, and psychology exploring the impact of complex trauma - and the ways people survive, create meaning, and heal.
created by ash.isreading
last updated July, 2026
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor Maté
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Terry Tempest Williams
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Room
Emma Donoghue
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard C. Schwartz
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Judith Lewis Herman
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
Pete Walker
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Mark Wolynn
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
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