Sexual Assault Awareness Reading List
This is a list of books for and about sexual assault survivors.
Queer Books
Queering Sexual Violence by Jennifer Patterson
Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Nonbinary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence ed. by Lexie Bean
Consent, Boundaries, & Rape Culture
Unfuck Your Boundaries by Faith Harper
Ask: Building Consent Culture ed. by Kitty Stryker
Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support by Cindy Crabb
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture ed. by Roxane Gay
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities ed. by Ching-in Chen, Jai Dulani, & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Picture books & chapter books
C is for Consent by Eleanor Morrison
Let’s Talk About Body Boundaries, Respect, and Consent by Jayneen Sanders
My Body! What I Say Goes! by Jayneen Sanders
Not in Room 204: Breaking the Silence of Abuse by Shannon Riggs
Please Tell: A Child’s Story About Sexual Abuse by Jessie
YA/Teens
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It by Kate Harding
I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope by Chessy Prout
Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore
For Masc Sexual Assault Survivors
Nice to Meet Me by Chris Carlton
Victims No Longer (Second Edition): The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew
Young Men of Color and the Other Side of Harm--Addressing Disparities in our Reaction to Violence free PDF
For BIPOC Survivors
I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse by Lori Robinson
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer
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 by Danielle L. McGuire
Recovery
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Aftershocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events ed. by Tom Lombardo
Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault by Julie Peters
Even If You’re Broken: Essays on Sexual Assault and #MeToo by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse (3rd Edition) by Wendy Maltz
Support: Feminist Relationship Tools to Heal Yourself and End Rape Culture by Cindy Crabb
Survivor Stories
I Still Believe Anita Hill ed. by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg
Breaking the Ruhls: A Memoir by Larry Ruhl
Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay
Mean by Myriam Gurba