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Duma Key by Stephen King

Duma Key by Stephen King

When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn’t expect to find much there.

But Duma has been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.

Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island’s secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon – and a family’s buried past reaching long hands into the present.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic violence
Suicidal ideation
Attempted suicide by gunshot recounted
Dementia
Blood depiction
Physical injuries from a workplace accident, including an amputated right arm and a head injury impairing speech, vision and memory
Death of a wife & daughter recounted
Death of a sister by drowning
Paternal flicide by drowning

It by Stephen King

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Homomisia
Hate crimes
Sexual assault
Domestic abuse
Suicide
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including broken bones & amputation
Dead bodies
Decapitation
Hospitalisation
Death of a child
Death of a father
Death of a friend
Murder & attempted murder
Bullying
Animal death

Misery by Stephen King

Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his number one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader—she is Paul’s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.

Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life—just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an axe. And if they don’t work, she can get really nasty.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Nightmares
Suicidal ideation
Alcoholism & substance addiction
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Physical injuries, including broken bones
Amputation (nonconsensual)
Needles
Murder & infanticide mentioned
Knife & axe violence
Torture, including deprivation of food, water & medication
Kidnapping
Car accident
Animal death (rat)

Everyday Monsters by Travis Betz

Everyday Monsters by Travis Betz

Derek Stabbers wants revenge. He’s been planning to get it ever since his parents were convicted of the brutal murders of several neighbors. The state blamed mental illness; Derek blames monsters.

Paxton Hellswood wants to be left alone. She’s barely made it out of the house in the hundred years since she was reborn from the dead, and that’s just fine by her. She’ll take the comfortable embrace of her couch over human interaction any day.

After a series of violent misfortunes, Paxton’s incorporeal form becomes stuck inside Derek, forcing the two enemies to begrudgingly share a body.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia & body shaming
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking

The Magician King by Lev Grossman

The Magician King by Lev Grossman

Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent’s house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia
Graphic rape, on-page
Suicidal ideation
Self harm
Blood-letting

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Will Graham stands in a silent, empty house communing with a killer. An FBI instructor with a gift for hunting madmen, Graham knows what his murderer looks like, how he thinks, and what he did to his victims after they died. Now Graham must try to catch him. But to do it, he must feel the heat of a killer’s brain, draw on the macabre advice of a dangerous mental patient, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and follow a trail of microscopic clues to the place where another family has already been chosen to die–and where an innocent woman has found the Dragon first.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Fatmisia & body shaming
Transmisia
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Cannibalism
Murder
Gun violence
Kidnapping

Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde by Jeff Guinn

Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde by Jeff Guinn

In Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame. Their timing could not have been better — the Barrow Gang pulled its first heist in 1932 when most Americans, reeling from the Great Depression, were desperate for escapist entertainment. Thanks to newsreels, true crime magazines, and new-fangled wire services that transmitted scandalous photos of Bonnie smoking a cigar to every newspaper in the nation, the Barrow Gang members almost instantly became household names on a par with Charles Lindbergh, Jack Dempsey, and Babe Ruth. In the minds of the public, they were cool, calculating bandits who robbed banks and killed cops with equal impunity.

Nothing could have been further from the truth.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Classism
Racism & racial slurs
Sexism & misogyny
Adult-minor relationships
Sexual abuse
Sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Forced marriage
Child abuse
Estrangement
Abusive relationship
Intimate partner abuse & violence
Parental abuse & abandonment
Physical abuse
Suicidal ideation
Alcoholism
Infertility themes
Medical treatment & procedures
Chronic illness & pain
Death of a friend
Death of a sibling
Dead bodies & body parts
Blood & gore depiction
Flogging & whipping
Gun violence
Mugging
Home invasion
Kidnapping
Hostage situation
Imprisonment
Hazing

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall—named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Smoking mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Kidnapping
Animal death

World War Z by Max Brooks

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Rape
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Cannibalism
Pandemic
Death of a child

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth’s magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires – the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa’s best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.

After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir’s Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Homomisia
Slut shaming
Sexual harassment
Teacher-student relationship
Depression
Self harm
Blood depiction
Animal death