What book will you recommend that deals with voilence,rape, and or trying to fit in?

iheartyoubabe: What book will you recommend that deals with voilence,rape, and or trying to fit in?
I just read Skud by Dennis Foon (which is really good by the way, i totally loved it). I want a book thats really intense with good twisted plots

What book would you recommend that youve read? Im planning on reading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, but if there is better one please let me know. 🙂

Thank you.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Lydia C
I was actually going to recommend Speak before I read the rest of this question. It’s amazing.

Answer by Morbid x Megan
Speak is the most amazing book you’ll ever read.
Seriously.
The movie doesn’t do it justice (even though it’s good).
I reccomend reading Speak before any other book.

Answer by Hanabells
Try these:
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Deception Point, Dan Brown
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
Bleed, Laurie Stolarz

Answer by BrOoKe767
SPeak is good but another good one is Crank. It has a sequel which is Glass. It has rape, drugs, sex, etc. in it, but it is great. The author is Ellen Hopkins. She’s amazing, and i think it is partially based off of a true story.

Answer by muttsr4me
Speak is really good! But if you like classics, The Color Purple is really good too. Its not as modern, but still has a great story!

Answer by Isamar V
Speak!!!!!!!!!
😀

Answer by bookloverforever
Lovely Bones
Now, this book is totally unique in its POV. It is not for the weak at heart. Most of it is terribly sad, but it has some resolution to it that will surprise you. It will be a classic for sure.

Answer by Geanie J
There’s a book called ‘Crank’ by Ellen Hopkins. It’s kind of hard to read because it’s written in kind of a poetry form, it’s hard to explain. It has some violence and rape in it plus there are some pretty big ‘no way’ twists. hOpe i helped =D

Answer by Mathlady
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush – where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself – jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante’s Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life – and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped…and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.

Answer by fort worth.tx
Somehow violence, rape, and trying to fit in don’t seem like they all go together. How does that work??