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Social Creature byTara Isabella Burton

Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton

They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them… They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together when they finish their stories when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste… Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon.

Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Sexual assault
Suicide
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Drug abuse
Murder

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded?

As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misgendering
Suicide
Self-harm for blood magic
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Torture
War themes

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind.

Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery mentioned
Homomisia mentioned
Abandonment
Child abuse & neglect
Emotional & physical abuse
Suicide
Alcoholism
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Drug use
Blood depiction
Physical injury
Beheading
Forced blinding
Scarring
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Death of a child
Mass murder
Poisoning
Kidnapping
Physical assault
Imprisonment
Cult
Animal death

Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano

Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano

One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice—live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die. Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter—an immortal physical embodiment of the season on Earth. Every year, he must hunt the Season who comes before him. Summer kills Spring. Autumn kills Summer. Winter kills Autumn. And Spring kills Winter. Jack and Fleur, a Winter and a Spring, fall for each other against all odds. To be together, they’ll have to escape the cycle that’s been forcing them apart. But their creator won’t let them go…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Alcohol consumption
Terminal illness

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran

When teenage queen Lia inherits her corrupt uncle’s bankrupt kingdom, she brings a new spymaster into the fold … Xania, who takes the job to avenge her murdered father. Faced with dangerous plots and hidden enemies, can Lia and Xania learn to rely on each another, as they discover that all is not fair in love and treason? In a world where the throne means both power and duty, they must decide what to sacrifice for their country and for each other …

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Suicide
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Miscarriage mentioned
Blood & injury depiction
Dead body
Emesis
Death of a father mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Poisoning
Near-drowning incident mentioned
Kidnapping
Solitary confinement & sensory deprivation, off-page
Animal death

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before her family was cast out of their privileged life in shame. When Alu’s ruler falls deathly ill, Kammani’s beautiful little sister, Nanaea, is chosen as one of three sacred maidens to join him in the afterlife. It’s an honour. A tradition. And Nanaea believes it is her chance to live an even grander life than the one that was stolen from her. But Kammani sees the selection for what it really is-a death sentence… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Suicide
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of an infant
Death of a mother during childbirth
Murder
Poisoning
Cults

Keep My Heart in San Francisco by Amelia Diane Coombs

Keep My Heart in San Francisco by Amelia Diane Coombs

Caroline “Chuck” Wilson has big plans for spring break—hit up estate sales to score vintage fashion finds and tour the fashion school she dreams of attending. But her dad wrecks those plans when he asks her to spend vacation working the counter at Bigmouth’s Bowl, her family’s failing bowling alley. Making things astronomically worse, Chuck finds out her dad is way behind on back rent—meaning they might be losing Bigmouth’s, the only thing keeping Chuck’s family in San Francisco. And the one person other… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Depression
Bipolar Disorder
Alcohol consumption
Death of a mother from suicide
Financial difficulties

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

At Montverre, an exclusive academy tucked away in the mountains, the best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu: an arcane and mysterious contest. Léo Martin was once a student there, but lost his passion for the grand jeu following a violent tragedy. Now he returns in disgrace, exiled to his old place of learning with his political career in tatters.

Montverre has changed since he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide

The Haunting Season by Various

The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights with contributions from Bridget Collins, Natasha Pulley, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Elizabeth Macneal and Laura Purcell

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories.

From a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire, from a country estate with a dreadful secret, to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death, these are stories to make your hair stand on end, send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Post-partum depression
Drug abuse
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child

Tag Archives: Suicide & Attempted Suicide

Social Creature byTara Isabella Burton

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

Keep My Heart in San Francisco by Amelia Diane Coombs

Suggested Reading by David Connis

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

The Haunting Season by Various