Inebriated by Katey Taylor 

Inebriated by Katey Taylor

Barely seventeen and as pretty as can be: the summer is their playground. Cait and her best friends Steph and Allie take on San Francisco’s party scene with fake IDs and short dresses. When Cait meets Adrien Cross, the charismatic lead singer of her favourite indie band, she’s introduced to a hedonistic world of liquor and lust that she never wants to leave.

But then that world spirals out of control and the harsh realities of reckless living take a toll on Cait… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Addiction
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use
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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Carina Taylor 

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Carina Taylor

Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary’s, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don’t do ‘time-travel’ – they ‘investigate major historical events in contemporary time’. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power – especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.

Meet the disaster magnets of St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of a friend
  • Fire
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The Ashes of London by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Ashes of London by Taylor Jenkins Reid

London, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes everything in its path, the body of a man is found in the ruins of St Paul’s Cathedral – stabbed in the neck, thumbs tied behind his back.

The son of a traitor, James Marwood is forced to hunt the killer through the city’s devastated streets. There he encounters a determined young woman, who will stop at nothing to secure her freedom… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Eyeball trauma
  • Murder
  • Fire
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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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