The Girl in the Spider’s Web by Elif Shafak 

The Girl in the Spider’s Web by Elif Shafak

She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.

Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implication… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist slurs
  • Suicide
  • Murder
  • Torture
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The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare 

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury’s to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering, menacing London ne’er-do-wells by night. Now there’s a new item on the list. He needs an heir—which means he needs a wife. When Emma Gladstone, a vicar’s daughter turned seamstress, appears in his library wearing a wedding gown, he decides on the spot that she’ll do.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Slut-shaming
  • Disfigurmisia
  • Emotional abuse
  • Scars
  • Explosion recounted
  • War themes recounted
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The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier 

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives. With Auxier’s exquisite command of language, The Night Gardener is a mesmerizing read and a classic in the making.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Shipwreck recounted
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Pucked by Helena Hunting

Pucked by Helena Hunting

With a famous NHL player for a stepbrother, Violet Hall is well acquainted with the playboy reputation of many a hockey star. So of course she isn’t interested in legendary team captain Alex Waters or his pretty, beat-up face and rock-hard six-pack abs. But when Alex inadvertently obliterates Violet’s misapprehension regarding the inferior intellect of hockey players, he becomes much more than just a hot body with a face to match. Suffering from a complete lapse in judgment, Violet discovers just how good Alex is with the hockey stick in his pant… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Slut shaming
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Stalking
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Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Domestic abuse
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death
  • Animal cruelty
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Blameless by Gail Carriger 

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London’s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.

While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist language
  • Misogyny
  • Slut-shaming
  • Fatmisia & body-shaming
  • Classism
  • Racism
  • Cheating discussed
  • Disownment
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Drugging
  • Pregnancy (theme)
  • Miscarriage discussed in-depth
  • Forced ‘breeding’ programs discussed
  • Physical injuries, including graphic eyeball trauma
  • Blood & gore depiction, including on-page blood-drinking
  • Emesis
  • Dead bodies & body parts
  • Forced human medical experiments recounted
  • Eugenics discussed
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Death of a girlfriend recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Hostage situation
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Alpha Night by Nalini Singh

Alpha Night by Nalini Singh

Alpha wolf Selenka Durev’s devotion to her pack is equalled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care. That currently includes the empaths who’ve flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare, a powder keg just waiting for a match. Ethan Night is an Arrow who isn’t an Arrow. Numb and disengaged from the world, he’s loyal only to himself. Assigned as part of the security force at a world-first symposium, he carries a dark agenda tied to the power-hungry and murderous Consortium. Then violence erupts and Ethan finds himself crashing into the heart and soul of an alpha wolf. Mating… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Eugenics recounted
  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Psychological & physical child abuse recounted
  • Suicidal ideation mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture recounted, including involuntary sensory deprivation
  • Attempted arson
  • Imprisonment of a child recounted

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Incest (mother-son)
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Murder
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Night Shift by Stephen King

Night Shift by Stephen King

“You will encounter all manner of night creatures”, warns the author of this book. “None of them are real. The thing under my bed isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle…”

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Homomisia
  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Slut-shaming
  • Domestic abuse
  • Parental abuse
  • Suicide
  • Death of a child
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Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Brody Fair feels like nobody gets him: not his overworked parents, not his genius older brother, and definitely not the girls in the projects set on making his life miserable. Then he meets Nico, an art student who takes Brody to Everland, a “knock-off Narnia” that opens its door at 11:21pm each Thursday for Nico and his band of present-day misfits and miscreants.

Here Brody finds his tribe and a weekly respite from a world where he feels out of place… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Homomisia
  • Eating disorder
  • Agoraphobia
  • Panic attacks
  • Suicide discussed
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