When We Were Them by Laura Taylor Namey

When We Were Them by Laura Taylor Namey

When they were fifteen, Willa, Luz, and Britton had a friendship that was everything. When they were sixteen, they stood by one another no matter what. When they were seventeen, they went through the worst. And when they were eighteen, Willa ruined it all.

Now, the week of graduation, Willa is left with only a memory box filled with symbols of the friendship she has nearly destroyed: A book of pranks. Corsages from a nightmarish homecoming. A greasy pizza… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Near drowning
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Wither by Lauren DeStefano 

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationships included forced polygamy
  • Rape of a minor, off-page
  • Child pregnancy
  • Kidnapping
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The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling 

The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling

Long ago, during the dark days of the Great War with Pleinmar, King Thelatimos journeyed to the Oracle of the God Illior at Afra to save his warn-torn kingdom. Here he was presented with a prophecy ‘So long as a daughter of Thelatimos’s line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.’ And that is how the line of queens ruling over Skala was established… However, as generations went by the male heirs to the throne became intensely resentful of the prophecy that emasculated their claim to power. Finally Queen Agnalain took the throne and the people of Skala suffered under her erratic and selfish… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Queermisia
  • Transmisia
  • Rape
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder of children
  • Torture
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Beasts of the Frozen Sun by Cressida Cowell

Beasts of the Frozen Sun by Cressida Cowell

Every child of Glasnith learns the last words of Aillira, the god-gifted mortal whose doomed love affair sparked a war of gods and men, and Lira of clan Stone knows the story better than most. As a descendant of Aillira and god-gifted in her own right, she has the power to read people’s souls, to see someone’s true essence with only a touch of her hand.

When a golden-haired warrior washes up on the shores of her homeland–one of the fearful marauders… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape & sexual assault
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All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin 

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton. Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was.

Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long, and hard, but he finally… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Suicide
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Being Mary Bennet by JC Peterson

Being Mary Bennet by J.C. Peterson

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzie Bennet. It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzie Bennet.

For seventeen-year-old Marnie Barnes, who’s convinced she is the long-suffering protagonist of her life, this revelation comes at the end of a series of self-induced disasters that force her to confront a devast…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Statutory rape
  • Grooming
  • Cheating
  • Miscarriage
  • Car accident, off-page
  • Bullying
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Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy 

Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy

For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast Artists in Love, which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent. Until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation.

When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parent’s announcement that they’re separating coincide, Lee’s plans, her art, and her life are thrown in… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert’s poetry is a beacon to anyone who’s ever been knocked down–and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert’s Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Incest
  • Self-harm
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How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett 

How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett

On the eve of Kyle’s sentencing a year after Jamie’s death, all the other “chosen ones” are coping in various ways. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead.

Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie’s boyfriend–knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Murder
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A Taste of Seduction by Mary Campisi

A Taste of Seduction by Mary Campisi

A young woman of noble blood, raised as a peasant girl… An orphaned stable boy, now grown and the surrogate son of a powerful earl—the same earl who just so happens to be the young woman’s father

Francie Jordan and Alexander Bishop have nothing in common—she runs barefoot and talks to animals. He won’t loosen his cravat unless the bedroom door is firmly closed. She believes in love, second chances, and happily ever after. He believes in keeping a safe distance… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Domestic violence recounted
  • Death during childbirth
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
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