Let It Shine by Alyssa Cole 

Let It Shine by Alyssa Cole

Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo, but it’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie’s spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved—as if that could bring her mother back—but the nonviolent protests happening across the South bring out her inner agitator.

Ivan Friedman has devoted his life to boxing, loving the finesse of a well-delivered punch… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Antisemitism & antisemitic slurs
  • Racism & white supremacy
  • Abortion & miscarriage mentioned
  • Cancer
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • The Holocaust mentioned
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena 

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena

Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk-taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school.  You don’t want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Slut shaming
  • Victim blaming
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Sexual harassment
  • Physical & psychological child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Depression
  • Nonconsensual drugging
  • Death of a parent
  • Graphic car accident
  • Death of a pet
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including—

Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Lesbomisia mentioned
  • Slut shaming
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Adoption (theme)
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett 

Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett

Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it’s not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there.

What she doesn’t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel…and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the newly returned Josie… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Nonconsensual distribution of private images
  • Car accident
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

Obie knew his transition would have ripple effects. He has to leave his swim coach, his pool, and his best friends. But it’s time for Obie to find where he truly belongs. As Obie dives into a new team, though, things are strange. Obie always felt at home in the water, but now he can’t get his old coach out of his head. Even worse are the bullies that wait in the locker room and on the pool deck. Luckily, Obie has family behind him. And maybe some new friends too, including Charlie, his first crush. Obie is ready to prove he can be one of the fastest boys in the water–to his coach, his critics, and his biggest competition: himself.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Homomisia
  • Transmisia & transmisic slurs
  • Deadnaming
  • Misgendering
  • Outing
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a grandparent
  • Physical assault
  • Bullying
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…

Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte’s life is turned upside down once again… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Slut-shaming
  • Rape
  • Parental abandonment
  • Spousal abandonment due to infertility
  • Graphic physical injuries
  • Death of a friend

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by AS King

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Domestic violence (off-page)
  • Alcohol consumption & drug abuse
  • Death of a friend
  • Bullying

The Fandom by Anna Day

The Fandom by Anna Day

Violet’s in her element. Cosplay at the ready, she can’t wait to feel part of her favourite fandom: The Gallows Dance, a mega book and movie franchise that she and her friends know EVERY WORD of (canon and fanfic included). But at Comic Con, a freak accident transports Violet and her friends into the story for real. And in just the first five minutes, they cause the death of the heroine and get taken prisoner by the rebel group she was supposed to lead to victory… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Micah: The Good Girl by Ashley Woodfolk 

Micha: The Good Girl by Ashley Woodfolk

Micah Dupree had always liked being the “good girl.” She was happy painting, going to church, and acing her school projects. After all, she had a perfect older brother to live up to. But when he unexpectedly dies, Micah’s world is turned upside-down. With her anxiety growing, a serious boyfriend in the picture, and new feelings emerging, Micah begins to question what being the “good girl” really means…and if it’s worth it, anyway.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Slut shaming
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Death of a sibling
  • Car accident
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Losing Streak by Kristine Wyllys 

Losing Streak by Kristine Wyllys

Rosemary Young knows the Lane. It’s where she grew up, raising a brother barely younger than she was. It’s where she served drinks, wearing a gaudy uniform in a low-lit bar to support her mama. It’s where she fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Brandon Williams might’ve had a taste for gambling and been headed nowhere fast, but something about him made her almost forget every promise she ever made. These days when Rosie walks the Lane, it’s on the orders of the man who owns it. The man who owns her—Joshua King. A bet gone wrong ties her to him… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Slut-shaming
  • Sexual assault
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking
  • Parent with myeloma (blood cancer)
  • Pregnancy from rape mentioned
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Physical assault
  • Arson
  • Poverty
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com