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Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There’s still a yellow brick road—but even that’s crumbling… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parent with alcoholism
Alcohol consumption
Medical experimentation
Knife violence
Physical assault
Tornado
Animal death
Poverty

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim “Eph” Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Death of a child
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Murder
Animal death
Holocaust concentration camps mentioned

The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Ableism
Racism
Antiziganism
Homomisia
Graphic rape & statutory rape
Graphic sexual assault of a child
Adult-minor relationship
Trauma
Nightmares & night terrors
Graphic suicide
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Smoking
Pregnancy from rape
Abortion (theme)
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including mutilation and eye trauma
Cancer
Emesis
Hospital
Dismemberment
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father
Death of a friend
Death of a brother
Death of a fiancé
Murder
Physical assault
Drowning
Rollercoaster accident
Car accident recounted
Graphic death of a pet dog
Bullying

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbour clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Fatmisia
Incest
Alcoholism
Infertility mentioned
Physical injury
Death of a child
Murder
Car accident
Animal death
Animal cruelty

The Woods by Harlan Coben

The Woods by Harlan Coben

Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland’s sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career-a case that will change everything he believes about the past…and the truth.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Misogyny
Animal death
Animal cruelty
Mentions of children starving to death

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of 2021, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, and hope–and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflect our vast interconnectedness–with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Ableism
Suicide, off-page
Death of a sister
Animal death
Terrorism
Poverty

Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn

I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please. At the urge of her lucky-in-love brother, sixteen-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of dares on her favourite bookshop shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept. Curious, snarky Dash isn’t one to back down from a challenge – and the Book of Dares is the perfect distraction he’s been… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Animal death recounted

The Baby is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Baby is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his Uncle’s house in lock-down Lagos. He arrives during a blackout and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim to be the mother of the baby boy, fast asleep in his crib. At night Bambi is kept awake by the baby’s cries, and during the days he is disturbed by a cockerel that stalks the garden. There is sand in the rice. A blood stain appears on the wall. Someone scores tribal markings into the baby’s cheeks. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Child neglect
Cheating
Alcohol consumption, on-page
Recreational drug use, on-page
COVID-19 (theme)
Emesis
Physical illness & tribal marking disfigurement of a baby
Blood depiction
Grief & loss depiction
Death of an uncle & husband recounted
Animal slaughter, on-page

Mark of the Wicked by Georgia Bowers

Mark of the Wicked by Georgia Bowers

Magic always leaves its mark. All her life, Matilda has been told one thing about her magic: You use only when necessary. But Matilda isn’t interested in being a good witch. She wants revenge and popularity, and to live her life free of consequences, free of the scars that dark magic leaves on her face as a reminder of her misdeeds.

When a spell goes awry and the new boy at school catches her in the act, Matilda thinks her secret might be out… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Scars
Murder
Animal death, including death of a pet

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Classic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex.” Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.

Faced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life—or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she’s being…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental divorce
Drug use & abuse
Colon cancer
Attempted armed robbery
Animal attack resulting in an amputated arm (shark)