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Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—”Cupid Day”—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is … until she dies in a terrible accident that night.

However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia
Homomisia & homomisia slurs
Slut shaming
Ableist slurs
Teacher-student relationship
Suicide & attempted suicide
Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned
Death of a friend in a car accident
Gun violence
Bullying

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn’t about to make the same mistake.

But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government’s radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Death of a mother from suicide
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual medical treatment & surgery
Suicidal ideation
Gun violence
Animal attack

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit.

Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Paedophilia
Incest
Cheating
Depression
Suicide
Self harm

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Attempted rape
Parental abandonment
Domestic abuse (theme)
Intimate partner violence
Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Death of a parent
Homelessness

Phone For the Fish Knives by Daisy Waugh

Phone For the Fish Knives by Daisy Waugh

The Todes are back, and they’re taking on Hollywood . . .

When Hollywood wants to do a remake of the film that made Tode Hall famous, India and Egbert are delighted. They envisage a summer of free money and star-studded dinner parties ahead. But the Hall is soon overrun by wardrobe trucks and catering tents, and lusty, insecure actors squabbling about nudity clauses. When the movie’s producers threaten to sue over the exact colour of Tode Hall’s rolling lawns, India and Egbert realise that having a film crew on their doorstep isn’t such a breeze after all. With so many egos in one place things were bound to end badly, but no one would have predicted quite so literal a backstabbing . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape mentioned
Child abuse & neglect
Suicide mentioned
Recreational drug use
Drugging
Stalking

The One True Me and You by Remi England

The One True Me and You by Remi K. England

Up and coming fanfic author Kaylee Beaumont is internally screaming at the chance to finally meet her fandom friends in real life and spend a weekend at GreatCon. She also has a side quest for the weekend: try out they/them pronouns to see how it feels, wear more masculine-presenting cosplay, and kiss a girl for the first time.

It’s… a lot, and Kay mostly wants to lie face down on the hotel floor. Especially when her hometown bully, Miss North Carolina, shows up in the very same hotel. But there’s this con-sponsored publishing contest, and the chance to meet her fandom idols… and then, there’s Teagan… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Transmisia
Homomisia
Lesbomisia
Public outing
Sexism
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from suicide recounted
Gender dysphoria
Bullying

One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.

Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon’s dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Racism
Sexism
Slut shaming
Homomisia & homomisia slurs
Coming out themes
Dubious consent scenario*
Nonconsensual voyeurism mentioned
Parental abandonment recounted
Cheating, recounted & discussed
Alcoholism mentioned
Bipolar Disorder
Suicide & attempted suicide
Self harm
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Recreational drug use
Death from anaphylaxis
Cancer mentioned
Heart attack
Hospital
Death of a classmate, on-page
Death of an uncle
Death of a mother recounted
Murder & attempted murder
School shooting & gun violence discussed
Strangulation
Physical assault
Car accident recounted
Blackmail
Bullying

* Note : Characters under the influence of alcohol recount having sex, and a protagonist recounts coerced ‘consent’ to sex with her boyfriend.

Firestarter by Stephen King

Firestarter by Stephen King

The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka “The Shop”) never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called “Lot Six” while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableist language
Fatmisia and body shaming
Transmisia
Misogyny
Medical abuse
Child abuse
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Suicide
Alcohol use
Nonconsensual drugging
Institutionalization
Death of a parent
Murder
Graphic fire scenes and arson
Kidnapping
Explosions
Nightmares
Mind control
War themes
Animal death

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Child marriage
Suicide
Global pandemic
Murder
Kidnapping

World War Z by Max Brooks

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Rape
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Cannibalism
Pandemic
Death of a child