Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted for us book blogger types by the Broke and the Bookish. They provide a topic, and all of us participants post our answers on our blogs and we hop around checking out one another’s answers! This week’s topic is:
1. If You Find Me – Emily Murdoch
Subject: Abandonment, Sexual Abuse, 6 Stages of Grief, Adaptation
2. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
Subject: Eating Disorders, Anorexia, Death
3. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Subject: Rape, Selective Mutism, Mental Abuse
4. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Subject: The Holocaust, Death, Racism, Genocide
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Subject: Rape, Abortion, Homosexuality, Drugs
6. Life is But a Dream – Brian Jones
Subject: Schizophrenia, Mental Illness, Medication
7. Beneath a Meth Moon – Jacqueline Woodson
Subject: Addiction
8. The Probability of Miracles – Wendy Wunder
Subject: Cancer, Death, Love
9. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
Subject: Suicide, Depression, Isolation, Death
10. Stolen – Lucy Christopher
Subject: Kidnapping, Stockholm Syndrome, Isolation
What books do you consider the best at handling tough subjects?
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