Books like…

Books Like A Child Called "It"

by Dave Pelzer · about this book

Loved A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer? If its series, child abuse and memoir & biography hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, Good Morning, Monster and What My Bones Know. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside A Child Called "It": Series · Child Abuse · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Dark

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   If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

   Gregg Olsen

   Child Abuse · Emotional Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Neglect · Toxic Family Dynamics

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   Good Morning, Monster

   Catherine Gildiner

   Childhood Trauma · Memoir & Biography · Neglect · Emotional Abuse · Child Abuse

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   What My Bones Know

   Stephanie Foo

   Childhood Trauma · Emotional Abuse · Memoir & Biography · Child Abuse · Domestic Violence

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4. 

   I'm Glad My Mom Died

   Jennette McCurdy

   Emotional Abuse · Memoir & Biography · Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Toxic Family Dynamics

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5. 

   The Woman in Me

   Britney Spears

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Emotional Abuse · Toxic Family Dynamics · Nonfiction

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6. 

   In the Dream House

   Carmen Maria Machado

   Domestic Violence · Emotional Abuse · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Intense

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7. 

   Ham On Rye

   Charles Bukowski

   Child Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Toxic Family Dynamics · Bleak · Memoir & Biography

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8. 

   Burnt Sugar

   Avni Doshi

   Neglect · Toxic Family Dynamics · Childhood Trauma · Emotional Abuse · Bleak

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9. 

   Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

   Mary L Trump

   Memoir & Biography · Neglect · Emotional Abuse · Toxic Family Dynamics · Nonfiction

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10. 

    The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank

    Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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11. 

    Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

    Sarafina El-Badry Nance

    Memoir & Biography · Emotional Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Toxic Family Dynamics · Nonfiction

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12. 

    Brother

    Ania Ahlborn

    Emotional Abuse · Toxic Family Dynamics · Child Abuse · Bleak · Intense

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13. 

    This Is Me: A Reckoning

    Hayden Panettiere

    Memoir & Biography · Domestic Violence · Nonfiction · Toxic Family Dynamics · First Person Narrator

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14. 

    The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

    Elizabeth Kendall

    Memoir & Biography · Emotional Abuse · Nonfiction · Intense · First Person Narrator

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15. 

    Demon Copperhead

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Neglect · Child Abuse · Tearjerker · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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16. 

    Spare

    Prince Harry

    Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Toxic Family Dynamics · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator

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17. 

    The Complete Maus

    Art Spiegelman

    Memoir & Biography · Bleak · Nonfiction · Emotional · Dark

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18. 

    Carrie

    Stephen King

    Emotional Abuse · Toxic Family Dynamics · Child Abuse · Intense · Dark

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19. 

    Acheron

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Emotional Abuse · Series · Emotional

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20. 

    Gild

    Raven Kennedy

    Emotional Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Intense · First Person Narrator · Series

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