📚 Child Abuse

Books with child abuse on their catalogue record, first published between 1978 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject child abuse in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,444 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Das Drama des begabten Kindes und die Suche nach dem wahren Selbst	Alice Miller	1979	20
	Toxic Parents	Susan Forward	1988	12
	Das verbannte Wissen	Alice Miller	1990	10
	Prologue to violence	Abby Stein	2006	10
	A man named Dave	David J. Pelzer	1999	9
	The Little Prisoner	Jane Elliott	2005	9
	Abbruch der Schweigemauer	Alice Miller	1991	9
	The wild truth	Carine McCandless	2014	8
	Thou shalt not be aware	Alice Miller	1984	8
	Child abuse	Ruth S. Kempe	1978	7
	Outgrowing the pain	Eliana Gil	1983	7
	Mummy Told Me Not To Tell The True Story Of A Troubled Boy With A Dark Secret	Cathy Glass	2010	7
	Sickened	Julie Gregory	2004	6
	Understanding child abuse and neglect	Cynthia Crosson-Tower	2010	5
	I Wish You All the Best	Mason Deaver	2019	5
	The Truth Will Set You Free	Alice Miller	2001	5
	The Body Never Lies	Alice Miller	2005	5
	Abused	Dee Anna Parrish	1990	4
	Hidden Girl	Shyima Hall	2014	4
	Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships	Cindy L. Miller-Perrin	2017	4
	Too Scared to Tell	Cathy Glass	2020	4
	I never told anyone	Louise Thornton	1983	3
	Healing the child within	Charles L. Whitfield	1987	3
	A Death in White Bear Lake	Barry Siegel	1990	3
	I love you baby girl	Desire Night	2013	3
	Girl alone	Cathy Glass	2015	3
	First person plural	Cameron West	1999	2
	Child Abuse	Bryan J. Grapes	2000	2
	Child maltreatment and optimal caregiving in social contexts	Diana Baumrind	1995	1
	Running on empty	Jonice Webb	2012	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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