These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver. One of New York City’s wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical sexism & ableism
  • Slavery
  • Forced sex work
  • Suicide
  • Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Murder of a father
  • Physical assault & kidnapping

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the genetically-engineered beasts to defend ships as they cross the pirate-infested NeoPacific. But when the pirate queen Santa Elena swoops in on Cas’s first solo mission and snatches her from the bloodstained decks, Cas’s dream of being a full-time trainer seems dead in the water. There’s no time to mourn. Waiting for her on the pirate ship is an unhatched Reckoner… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery mentioned
  • Suicide, attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Graphic animal death & cruelty

About Tomorrow by Abbi Glines

About Tomorrow by Abbi Glines

I close my eyes as I hear him speak. I take one very long and deep breath hoping to calm the immediate butterflies that take flight in my stomach and hope to slow down the racing of my heart. The voice was slightly deeper but the timbre was one that was achingly familiar. My actions did little to help, but then who was I kidding? A deep breath wasn’t going to fix the effect he had on me and my body’s inevitable reaction. Even the memories that would forever haunt me couldn’t keep my emotions from triggering at the nearness of him once again… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Cheating
  • Suicide
  • Drug overdose
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Car accident

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Too cool! At thirty-six, he’s as hip as a teenager. He’s single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He’s also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents’ groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will – and won’t let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Recreational drug use
  • Bullying
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364 Days a Year by Sarah Riad

364 Days a Year by Sarah Riad

For most people, March 29th is just another day. For me, it’s the day I wake as someone new. A different face and different hands, a body that’s not my own. And like every year, i’m only certain of three things. It’s my seventeenth birthday. I have no way of stopping this cycle.
And I’ll die again in 364 days.
This year, I’m Effy Garcia.
Something is different. Something I can’t yet place.
Since the year 1909, I have lived in 108 bodies and I have died 108 times. 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Bullying
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14 Ways to Die by Vincent Ralph

14 Ways to Die by Vincent Ralph

Ten years ago, Jess’s mother was murdered by the Magpie Man. She was the first of his victims but not the last. Now Jess is the star of a YouTube reality series and she’s using it to catch the killer once and for all. The whole world is watching her every move. And so is the Magpie Man.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide & attempted suicide
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Murder
  • Stalking
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The Mercy: Angel of Death by Sara Ennis

The Mercy: Angel of Death by Sara Ennis

Survivors are turning up dead. Who will be next? Together they survived a terrible event. Ten years ago Angel and Olivia were captives in a place called the Dollhouse. They got out alive; others did not. Now, Angel trains psychological service dogs. Olivia is a beloved author and talk-show host. They’re part of Komorebi, a private “club” of people who survived long-term captivity. Peter Baden created Komorebi to support families like his. Komorebi has two goals: to help loved ones living through the unthinkable and to help victims after recovery… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Suicide
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Running Girl by Simon Mason

Running Girl by Simon Mason

Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What’s the point, anyway? Life sucks. Nothing ever happens. Until Chloe Dow’s body is pulled from a pond. DI Singh is already on the case. Ambitious, uptight, methodical – he’s determined to solve the mystery and get promoted. He doesn’t need any ‘assistance’ from notorious slacker, Smith. Or does he?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Drug & alcohol abuse
  • Suicide
  • Murder
  • Fire
  • Stalking
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The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however: things went awry after the town’s residents summoned a protector spirit to serve as their judge and executioner. Danielle shows up in time to witness the spirit—a blood-red, three-antlered deer—begin to turn on its summoners. Danielle and her new friends have to act fast if they’re going to save the town—or get out alive.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Suicide
  • Death of a friend
  • Animal death
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Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker–she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she’s quickly packed off to live with a grandmother she’s never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father’s most iconic horror movie was shot. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map–and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away. And there’s someone… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse
  • Suicide discussed
  • Cannibalism mentioned
  • Hospitalisation of a parent
  • Blood depiction
  • Knife violence & stabbing
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