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The Last Laugh by Mindy McGinnis

Tress Montor murdered Felicity Turnado—but she might not have to live with the guilt for long. With an infected arm held together by duct tape, the panther who clawed her open on the loose, and the whole town on the hunt for the lost homecoming queen, the odds are stacked against Tress. As her mind slides deeper into delirium, Tress is haunted by the growing sound of Felicity’s heartbeat pulsing from the “best friend” charm around her fevered neck. Ribbit Usher has been a punchline his whole life—from his nickname to his latest turn as the unwitting star of a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Cheating recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Animal abuse

Sakura’s Dedication, Volume One by Fuyu Yukimiya

Sakura’s Dedication, Vol. 1 by Fuyu Yukimiya

Sawa just got out of a relationship with her cheating boyfriend, and is on the lookout for an honest guy. But when her classmate Sakura confesses, she rejects him, as he’s not her type. But then he confesses again, and again, and again?! What’s a girl to do in the face of such honest dedication?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating mentioned

The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem

The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem

To Leila Abid’s traditional Indian parents, finding a husband in their South Asian-Muslim American community is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance which has her convinced that real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Finding the right husband was always part of her life-plan, but after 26 years of singledom, even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters worse, her parents are panicking, the aunties are talking, and she’s wondering… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Colourism

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner

Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren’t much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But then, an advice columnist unexpectedly helps Raina find new purpose in a pair of knitting needles and a politically active local yarn store. This leads to an unlikely meeting in the girls’ bathroom, where Raina inspires Millie to start a rival team. The… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia
  • Misogyny
  • Anti-abortion discussions
  • Cheating mentioned

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Greta Helsing inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills – vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta’s been groomed for since childhood. Until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice, and her life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood and gore depiction including body & eye horror

The Lost and the Found by Cat Clarke

The Lost and the Found by Cat Clarke

When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister, Faith. Faith’s childhood was dominated by Laurel’s disappearance – from her parents’ broken marriage and the constant media attention to dealing with so-called friends who only ever wanted to talk about her sister. Thirteen years later, a young woman is found in the garden of the Logans’ old house, disorientated and clutching the teddy bear Laurel was last seen with. Laurel is home at last, safe and sound. Faith always dreamed of getting her sister back, without ever truly believing it would happen. But a disturbing series of events… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Kidnapping & disappearance of a sibling (theme)

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Harper has tried to forget the past and fit in at expensive boarding school Duncraggan Academy. Her new group of friends are tight; the kind of girls who Harper knows have her back. But Harper can’t escape the guilt of her twin sister’s Jenna’s death, and her own part in it – and she knows no one else will ever really understand. But new girl Kirsty seems to get Harper in ways she never expected. She has lost a sister too. Harper finally feels secure. She finally feels…loved. As if she can grow beyond the person she was when Jenna died. Then Kirsty’s behaviour becomes… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a sister from anorexia-related medical issues

Falling by Cat Clarke

Falling by Cat Clarke

It’s the party of the year and everyone’s going to be there – the perfect opportunity for Jess to set up her newly-out best friend Tilly with the only other gay girl in school. And it’ll help her keep her mind off the fact that she cheated on her perfect boyfriend Cam last night. But this party will change everything.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Bury Your Gays trope
  • Cheating

We Are Young by Cat Clarke

We Are Young by Cat Clarke

On the same night, Evan’s mother marries local radio DJ ‘Breakfast Tim’, Evan’s brand-new step-brother Lewis is found unconscious and terribly injured, the only survivor of a horrific car crash. A media furore erupts, with the finger of blame pointed firmly at stoner, loner Lewis. Everyone else seems to think the crash was drug-related, but Evan isn’t buying it. With the help of her journalist father, Harry, she decides to find out what really happened that night. As Evan delves deeper into the lives of the three teenagers who died in the crash, she uncovers some disturbing truths and a secret that threatens to tear her family and the … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Eating disorder mentioned
  • Suicide & attempted suicide
  • Self-harm

Undone by Cat Clarke

Undone by Cat Clarke

Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal, but she’s learning to live with it. Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online … and he kills himself. Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. And she wants to take them down.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Outing
  • Slut-shaming
  • Child pornography
  • Suicide of a friend
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Cyberbullying

*Context : The main character’s best friend dies from suicide after a video of him having sex circulates and outs him to the whole school.