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Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & racial slur
Slut shaming
Misogyny
Blood & physical injury depiction
Drug dependency
Death of a parent recounted
Death of an aunt recounted
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity
Fire

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Murder
Torture

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Death of a child
Murder
Knife violence & stabbing

Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

In the house of Helios, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power – the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape (on-page)
Rape by coercion recounted & discussed
Incest mentioned
Emotional, verbal & physical abuse
Cheating
Arranged & forced marriage
Nightmares
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Graphic caesarean childbirth (on-page)
Pregnancy
Blood & physical injury depiction
Dead bodies
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a sibling
Death of a child
Death of a father
Death of a husband
Murder
Torture
Death from a fall
Death by drowning mentioned
Animal death (on-page)
Bestiality mentioned & recounted
Bullying

11/22/63 by Stephen King

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Maine. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Slut shaming
Racism
Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Disfigurmisia
Terminal cancer
Hospital
Emesis
Blood depiction
Graphic physical injuries & illness
Death of a child
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence
Car accident

Marked by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

After a Vampire Tracker Marks her with a crescent moon on her forehead, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends (or Nerd Herd, as Aphrodite calls them).

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Incestuous child sexual abuse (father-daughter) mentioned
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
Physical injuries

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other.

As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Homomisia & queermisia
Slut shaming
Hate crimes
Attempted rape & sexual assault
Incest
Child abuse recounted
Intimate partner violence recounted
Disownment
Hallucinations
Nightmares
Self-inflicted injuries
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
Physical injuries
Dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Death of a brother & sister
Death of a mother & father
Death of a boyfriend
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Torture
Gun violence
Poisoning
Fire
Whipping
Disappearance of a loved one

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Hate crimes
Child abuse recounted
Intimate partner violence recounted
Disownment
Substance addiction mentioned
Nightmares
Nonconsensual drugging
Infertility themes
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
Physical injuries
Dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Comas
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a brother
Death of a parent
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Explosion
War themes & battle scenes

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Atonement by Ian McEwan

On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Statutory rape

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can’t let go. Now that they’re in college, Cath must decide if she’s ready to start living her own life. But does she even want to if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Cath doesn’t need friends IRL. She has her twin sister, Wren, and she’s a popular fanfic writer in the Simon Snow community with thousands of fans online. But now that she’s in college, Cath is completely outside of her comfort zone. There are suddenly all these new people in her life. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming boyfriend, a writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome new writing partner … And she’s barely heard from Wren all semester!

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia & body shaming
Antisemitism
Starvation
Death of a child
Murder & mass murder
Chemical gassing
Concentration camp (setting)
The Holocaust & World War Two