What to Read After Trauma
Readers who loved Trauma by Cathy Caruth keep reaching for these 16 books. This list is built from where Trauma is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Trauma
Writing History, Writing Trauma (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Satan's silence
The psychic life of power
The art of the ridiculous sublime
The body in pain
Unclaimed experience
Regarding the Pain of Others
Giovanni's Room
Song of Solomon
Orlando
Never Let Me Go
Beloved
A Clash of Kings
The Color Purple
The Bell Jar
The Picture of Dorian Gray