10 Book Recommendations from Our Staff and Supporters

By Taylor Rapalyea, BARCC Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Has a book ever moved you to action or changed the way you think? Do you have a well-worn novel that makes you feel less alone? Many of our staff, volunteers, and supporters can point to such a book (or two!). Books can break silences, help to heal traumas, and shed light on someone else’s experience.

National Read a Book Day was this month: a holiday meant to encourage anyone who can to take up a new book. In honor of that holiday, we asked our staff and volunteers to recommend a book that was empowering, survivor focused, anti-oppression, or healing. We are thrilled with the variety of the responses.

Here are 10 such books out of many suggestions and links to their audiobooks. Thank you to everyone who took a moment to recommend their favorites. As with many books that address sexual violence, these books may be triggering in different ways, so we’ve included brief content notes below the book descriptions.

Surviving the Silence: Black Women’s Stories of Rape, by Charlotte Pierce-Baker, is a collection of first-person narratives.
Content note: sexual violence, racism.
Audiobook unavailable

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, coedited by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman, is a meditation on shifting from the “No Means No” model of 1974, using essays from a variety of authors. “A series of essays about what the world could look like without rape.”
Content note: racism, sexual violence.
Audiobook unavailable

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