Many books are available which provide further support and information in dealing with a crisis, surviving rape, incest, or other sexual abuse. Some of these books are self-help books which give specific suggestions on healing from abuse, while others are memoirs, written by survivors themselves. The following list includes such books that RAAP frequently recommends to clients and others who are in some way affected by sexual abuse. For further information or to purchase books, you may follow the links provided.

• Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims, Howard Zehr
  
  
  
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences, Peter Levine, Ann Fredrick
  
  
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold S. Kushner
  
  
• Living Through Personal Crisis, Ann Kaiser Sterns
  
  
• The Post–traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Glenn R. Schraldi, PhD
  
  
• I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors, Aphrodite Matsakis
  
  
• The PTSD Workbook, Mary Beth Williams, PhD, Soili Poijula, Lasse A. Nurmi
  
  
• Sensible Self-Help Book: The First Road Map for the Healing Journey, David
  
  
• Recovering from Rape, Linda E. Ledray (also has a section for teen survivors and information for partners, friends and family helping a rape survivor)
  
  
• I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape(appropriate for teens as well)
  
  
  
  
• After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back, Nancy Venable Raine
  
  
• Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery, Patricia Weaver Francisco
  
  
• The Other Side of Silence: Women Tell About Their Experiences with Date Rape, Christine Carter (ed)
  
  
• Where I Stopped: Remembering Rape at Thirteen, Martha Ramsey
  
  
• Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape, Charlotte Pierce-Baker
  
  
• Intricate Moves: Poems About Rape, Chicory Blue Press, 1997
  
  
• Still Loved By the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal, Migael Scherer
  
  
• I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass
  
  
• Who's Afraid of the Dark? A Forum of Truth, Support and Assurance for Those Affected by Rape, Cynthia Carosella (ed)
  
  
• Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
  
  
• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
  
  
• The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Laura Davis
  
  
• Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftermath in Women, Sue Blume
  
  
• Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftermath in Women, Sue Blume
  
  
• Because I Love You: The Silent Shadow of Child Sexual Abuse, Joyce Allan
  
  
• Strong at the Broken Places:Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse, Linda T. Sanford
  
  
  
  
• Not Child's Play: An Anthology on Brother-Sister Incest, (survivor's writing) Risa Shaw
  
  
• When Your Child Has Been Molested, Kathryn Hagans, Case Joyce, Kathryn Brohl
  
  
• Helping Your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse, Caren Adams, Jennifer Fay
  
  
• A Mother's Nightmare - Incest: A Practical Legal Guide for Parents and Professionals, John E.B. Myers
  
  
• The Mother's Book: How to Survive the Molestation of Your Child, Carolyn Byerly
  
  
• The Me Nobody Knows: A Guide for Teen Survivors, Barbara Bean, Shari Bennett
  
  
• How Long Does It Hurt? A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends and their families
  
  
• Victims No Longer, Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Abuse, Mike Lew
  
  
• Leaping Upon the Mountains: Men Proclaiming Victory over Sexual Child Abuse, Mike Lew, Richard Hoffman
  
  
• Everything You Need to Know When You Are the Male Survivor of Rape or Sexual Assault, John La Valle
  
  
• Working with Available Light: A Family's World After Violence, Jamie Kalven(account written by husband of a rape survivor--great book)
  
  
  
  
  
• If She Is Raped: A Guidebook for Husbands, Fathers and Male Friends, Alan W. McEvoy et al
  
  
• If He Is Raped: A Guidebook for Parents, Mates and Friends, Alan W. McEvoy, Jeff Brookings, Debbie Rollo
  
  
• Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child, Laura Davis
  
  
• When You Are the Partner of a Rape or Incest Survivor: A Workbook for You, Robert Barry Levine
  
  
• What About Me? A Guide for Men Helping Female Partners Deal with Childhood Sexual Abuse, Grant Cameron
  
  
• Outgrowing The Pain Together, Eliana Gil
  
  
• Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman
  
  
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A Complete Treatment Guide, Aphrodite Matsakis
  
  
• Healing the Incest Wound. Adult Survivors in Therapy, Christine Courtois
  
  
• Child Abuse Trauma. Theory and the Treatment of the Lasting Effects, John Briere
  
  
• Psychological Trauma and the Adult Survivor. Theory, Therapy and Transformation, McCann and Pearlman