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Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Gun violence
Explosion
Death from a fall
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor, guided by the treacherous creature Gollum, in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Suicide
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Murder
Kidnapping
Animal death
War themes & battle scenes

The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship is scattered. Some are bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some are contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor – the dark Kingdom where Sauron is supreme. Their guide is Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Recreational drug use (smoking)
Murder
Kidnapping
Animal attack
War themes

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—”Scout”—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Physical domestic & child abuse
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Alcohol consumption
Murder
Car accident
Strangulation mentioned

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & racial slurs
Rape
Substance addiction mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Animal death

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is directionless. Then an old acquaintance, the glamorous and capricious Kiran Thrash, blows back into Jane’s life and invites her to a gala at the Thrashes’ extravagant island mansion called Tu Reviens. Jane remembers her aunt telling her: “If anyone ever invites you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you’ll go.”

What Jane doesn’t know is that at Tu Reviens her story will change; the house will offer her five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her untethered life. But every choice comes with a price. She might fall in love, she might lose her life, she might come face-to-face with herself. At Tu Reviens, anything is possible.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption mentioned
Blood & physical injury depiction
Death of a parent recounted
Death of an aunt
Murder
Plane crash recounted
Death from exposure to the cold
Animal injury

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons.

But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth–putting both Bitterblue’s life and Giddon’s heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what’s wrong in Winterkeep… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slut shaming
Sexual harassment
Parental abuse
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Blood depiction
Murder
Kidnapping
Drowning
Animal abuse

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Fire by Kristin Cashore

She is the last of her kind… It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape mentioned
Attempted sexual assault
Cheating
Suicide
Pregnancy from rape mentioned
Death of a father
Murder
Torture
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Animal attack
Animal abuse

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.

She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po.

She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape mentioned
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Sexual harassment
Child abuse
Coerced suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Blood & physical injury depiction
Death of a mother
Murder
Knife violence
Near-death experience from hypothermia
Animal attack
Animal abuse

Dearly by Margaret Atwood

Dearly by Margaret Atwood

By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Murder