List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors

This article presents a list of books in which an adult is portrayed as feeling or acting on a sexual attraction to a pre-pubescent or pubescent child or an adult sexually abuses a minor child. The pedophilic attraction or sexual abuse may be central to the plot or peripheral. The attraction or abuse may be to a single individual or to several children.

The list is primarily limited to works of fiction, memoirs and non-fiction books in the English language. Books first published in other languages are listed when an English translation has been published. Scientific, professional, medical, research studies and self-help books on child sexual abuse are generally not included.

This article lists books. There are equivalent lists of films, songs, and works for the theatre.

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 * 33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp, written for young adults
 * Custis, an orphaned boy, has been sexually abused from the age of about 10 to 12, but has escaped at the start of the novel.

A

 * Abby, My Love by Hadley Irwin
 * Acid Row by Minette Walters
 * Angel With a Gun by Joe DeCicco
 * Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
 * Assumption of Guilt by Harold Mehling

B

 * Beggars' Ride by Theresa Nelson
 * The Bell by Iris Murdoch
 * Michael Meade has to leave his position as a teacher after sixteen-year-old Nick Fawley tells the Headmaster about the sexual relationship they have had.[]


 * Between Sisters by Nina Vida
 * The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
 * Bone Flute by N.A. Bourke
 * Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle, written for young adults
 * 11-year-old Martin O’Boy and his friend Billy are molested by a church organist


 * Boy Toy by Barry Lyga, written for young adults
 * 12-year-old Josh is molested by his history teacher, Mrs. Sherman.


 * Brass Ring by Diane Chamberlain
 * The Burke series by Andrew Vachss including Strega, Down in the Zero , and False Allegations
 * The series focuses on child abuse and child sexual abuse.


 * By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt

C

 * Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher
 * The Chair by Victoria M. McConaughy
 * Chasing Tail Lights by Patrick Jones
 * The main charecter, Christy, has been abused by her brother Ryan since she was eleven


 * Circle the Soul Softly by Davida Wills Hurwin
 * Claiming Georgia Tate by Gigi Amateau
 * The Color Purple by Alice Walker
 * Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin
 * Cameron Miller is aged 14. He has been sexually abused all his life by his father, a serial killer of more than 20 young boys.


 * The Creep, by Susan Dodson, written for young adults.
 * The Crucible by Gong Ji-Young

D

 * Danger Game by Julie Lawson
 * Dark Matter by Michael Perkins
 * Devil by the Sea by Nina Bawden
 * Diamond Eye by Arthur Rosenfeld

E

 * Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
 * Aphias Zhe (Fee) is aged 12 when he and other boys are molested by the choir director Big Eric Gorendt at their school in Maine.


 * Ekaterina by Donald Harington
 * 27-year-old Ekaterina has a sexual relationship with three 12-year-old boys - Kenny, Jason and then Travis Coe.


 * The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
 * A 19-year-old girl has a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy and describes what she is doing in correspondence with an imprisoned child molester.


 * Eyes of a Child by Richard North Patterson

F

 * Fatal Convictions: A Novel by Shari P. Geller
 * Father of Lies by Brian Evenson
 * A lay provost from a religious sect sexually abuses adolescent boys.


 * Fault Lines by Anna Salter
 * Fifth Born : A Novel by Zelda Lockhart
 * Flying in Place by Susan Palwick
 * Friction by E. R. Frank

G

 * Gemma by Meg Tilly
 * A young girl, Gemma, is kidnapped and molested.


 * Gillyflower by Ellen Howard
 * Gilly's Secret by Ellen Howard
 * Girl on a Stick by Kathleen Bryson
 * The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
 * Twenty Five-year-old Stuart Cuno has sexual feelings for 13-year-old Meredith McCaskerville. They spend many hours among the London's galleries, parks and museums.

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H

 * Hallie's Secret by Carole Gift Page
 * The Handless Maiden by Loranne Brown
 * Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block
 * Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
 * Theo is put into care aged 13 and brutally treated and sexually abused by Mr. Gracie, his caseworker, who protects him from other physical abuse.


 * Headhunter by Roy Lewis
 * Hey, Joe by Ben Neihart
 * The main plot concerns a lawsuit, filed by a group of orphans, alleging sexual abuse against Rae Schipke, executive director of the charitable foundation that supports their orphanage.


 * A History of Silence by Barbara Neil
 * Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
 * A man murders a young boy's family and takes the child as a sex partner in extreme sadomasochism.


 * An Honorable Profession by John L'Heureux
 * A boy in a Boston high school who has been sodomised by a group of older students develops a crush on Miles Bannon, a popular English teacher. Miles fails to discourage it and this triggers accusations of child molestation when the boy commits suicide..


 * Hot Fudge Sundae Blues : a novel by Bev Marshall
 * House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo; translated by Roseann Lloyd and Allen Simpson
 * How to Cope With Suburban Stress by David Galef: Ted Sacks fantasises in chatrooms about molesting boys, then abducts Alex.
 * Howtown, a Henry Rios mystery, by Michael Nava
 * Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
 * Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped and sold as a concubine.

I

 * I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson, written for young adults
 * In My Bedroom by Donna Hill
 * I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block

J

 * Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself by Anonymous
 * An aged Vienna prostitute recounts her first (very graphically described) sexual awakening at the age of five to twelve.


 * Jumping the Scratch by Sarah Weeks, written for young adults
 * Jamie is abused by a caretaker at the trailer park where he lives.


 * Just Get Me To Limbo by R. Muir
 * An author known only as 'Jack' finds a blank book and envisions its empty pages inscribed with an exposé recounted by Seymour Starkey, a simpleminded security guard and convicted sex offender whose alleged nine-year-old victim, one Violetta Vickers, illustrates her travails through self-drawn pen and ink tattoos that she applies to various parts of her anatomy. 'VV' is a genius. Seymour is a dolt. Neither is what Jack would lead us to believe, in his maladapted "Memoir of a Pedophile." ISBN 1449921221

K

 * Getting Even
 * A group of boys who have been sexually abused begin killing child molesters and child pornographers

L

 * Lady God by Lesa Luders
 * Legacies by F. Paul Wilson
 * Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
 * Little Chicago by Adam Rapp
 * 11-year-old Blacky Brown is abused by his single mother's boyfriend.


 * Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
 * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
 * Middle-aged Humbert Humbert kidnapps and molests his stepdaughter, Dolores.


 * Lost Innocents by Patricia MacDonald
 * Lovesong by Elizabeth Jolley
 * Dalton Foster has been released from prison after serving time for sexual offences against children.


 * Lucy's Games by Marie Thorpe

M

 * Mac by John MacLean, written for young adults
 * Mac is a 14-year-old schoolboy who is sexually assaulted by the school doctor during a routine examination.


 * Maggie Come Lately: a novel by Michelle Buckman
 * ''Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

N

 * Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
 * A small boy is molested by the Self-Taught Man (L'Autodidacte) in a library. []


 * Never so Green by Tim Johnston
 * Night Riding by Katherine Martin
 * No More Secrets by Nina J. Weinstein

O

 * Off Season by Jean Stone
 * Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
 * Digressions into titular character Oryx's past include her involvement in child pornography, which the other main characters had stumbled upon online in their youth.

P

 * Panic by Charles Spencer
 * The Paper Knife by Marc Talbert
 * 10-year-old Jeremy is sexually abused by George, his mother's live-in boyfriend.


 * Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
 * Nathanial, the 5-year-old son of a lawyer specialising in child sexual abuse is himself abused.


 * The Photographer's Sweethearts by Diana Hartog
 * Pretty Babies by Julia Grice
 * The Priestly Sins : A Novel by Andrew Greeley
 * The Primrose Path by Carol Matas
 * Prisoner of Innocence by Donna Montegna
 * Projection: a novel by Keith R. Ablow
 * Promise Not to Tell by Carolyn Polese
 * Prudence of the Flesh by Ralph McInerny
 * Push by Sapphire

R

 * Rain Ascends by Joy Kogawa
 * Reverend Shelby admits to abusing more than 300 boys


 * Riding a Blue Horse by Carter Elliott
 * Roger Fishbite by Emily Prager
 * Run Away Home by Jennie L. Hansen

S

 * Sacred Circle of the Hula Hoop by Kathy Kennedy Tapp
 * Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse by Ellery Akers.
 * This book documents 11-year old Sarah's year of healing as she joins a girl's survivor group at her new school.


 * Savage Justice by Ron Handberg
 * Secret Lessons by Don W. Weber and Charles Bosworth, Jr.
 * Secrets not Meant to be Kept by Gloria D Miklowitz
 * Set in Stone by Linda Newbery
 * The Sex Offender by Matthew Stadler
 * After abusing a 12-year-old boy, a child molester is subjected to abusive psychological experiments.


 * Shade by Judy Hogan
 * Shadow play by Frances Fyfield
 * Shiny Water by Anna Salter
 * Silver by Norma Fox Mazer
 * Singing Songs by Meg Tilly
 * Solitary Secret by Patricia Hermes
 * Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
 * 13 year old Melinda Sordino is attacked and raped by a classmate at a party.


 * The Storm's Crossing by Reanne S. Singer
 * Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
 * Meredith is raped by her father from when she was very young to age 12. He goes to jail, but gets out 3 years later. Now her father has his eyes on her again.


 * Surrounded by strangers by Josi Kilpack

T

 * Taking Ronnie to the Pictures by Gary Ley
 * Telling, by Marilyn Reynolds
 * Things are Seldom What They Seem by Sandy Asher
 * Touched by Scott Campbell
 * Child molester Jerry Houseman is in love with 12-year-old Robbie and doesn't understand why the rest of the world can't accept that the boy loves him back.


 * The Trouble With Wednesdays by Laura Nathanson

U

 * Uncle Vampire by Cynthia D. Grant
 * 16-year-old Carolyn, left alone by the rest of her family, creates a fantasy world in which her abusive uncle is portrayed as the titular vampire

V

 * A Visit Home by Will Aitken
 * Daniel was physically and sexually abused by his father from when he was an infant up to when he was a 5-year-old.

W

 * Wall of Darkness by Judy Lea Koretsky
 * The War Zone by Alexander Stuart
 * What Mr. Mattero Did by Priscilla Cummings
 * Webster Chronicle: a novel by Daniel Akst
 * Weeping Willow by Ruth White
 * When Jeff Comes Home by Catherine Atkins, written for young adults
 * 13-year-old Jeff was kidnapped by Ray from a roadside rest stop, and spent two and a half years locked in a dark basement. He was physically and sexually abused.


 * When She Hollers by Cynthia Voigt
 * Whispers in a Dark Closet by Regina Wachtel
 * Wild Iris Bloom by Mavis Jukes
 * The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein
 * 13-year-old Robin MacKenzie finds himself stuck in New York City, where he prostitutes himself with a man in his late twenties for money to get home.


 * World of Wonders by Robertson Davies.
 * A young boy is raped by a magician in a travelling fair.

In non-fiction

 * Altar Boy: A Story of Life After Abuse by Andrew Madden
 * Madden is molested by a priest, Father Ivan Payne.


 * The Death Of Narcissus by Morris Fraser
 * A survey of pedophile themes in pre-Lolita literature. It includes commentary on the pedophile content of letters written by author Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll.


 * The Facts Speak For Themselves by Brock Cole
 * My Fault by Billy Childish, an autobiography
 * Childish was molested by a family friend when he was 9.


 * The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Tresspass into Grace by Martin Moran, an autobiography
 * 12-year-old Moran is abused by Bob Doyle at his new boys' camp. The sexual relationship lasts until Moran is 15.


 * Secret Life: an autobiography by Michael Ryan
 * Ryan was molested by a neighbor from the age of 5.


 * Strong at the Heart: How it Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse, by Carolyn Lehman
 * 10-year-old Jonathan is abused by his babysitter, Father Jim, a priest; Arturo, aged 10, is groomed and then raped by two men he met in the neighborhood; Tino is only 5 when he is abused by his grandmother."Carolyn Lehman: Strong At The Heart"

Criminal investigations and trials

 * Unspeakable Acts by Jan Hollingsworth
 * The story of the Dade County daycare center sexual abuse scandal—but one that does not cover the eventual acquittal of the owners.