Trigger Warning

a statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc. alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially distressing material. source: google dictionary

likely tagged as such either because there are warnings included for upsetting themes, or tagged as a warning to the reader that there is potentially very distressing content, more often related to trauma.

note: also tagged online as TW
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It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
Thirteen Reasons Why
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Speak
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
My Dark Vanessa
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
Still Beating
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
A Little Life
Verity
French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille GuilianoSkinny Bitch by Rory Freedman
Fatphobic Books
2 books — 1 voter
Punk 57 by Penelope DouglasCredence by Penelope DouglasLords of Pain by Angel LawsonCorrupt by Penelope DouglasBirthday Girl by Penelope Douglas
Spicy Teen/college Angst Favorites
20 books — 4 voters

Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonThings You Can't Take by Erin LockwoodThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault
208 books — 59 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Snow Child by Eowyn IveyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBlood Sport by Dick FrancisThe Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Depression in Fiction (non-YA)
7 books — 3 voters

Kate Elizabeth Russell
Is it really impossible to imagine that I might emerge from this worldly and wise, a girl with a story to tell?
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

I cut because I can't deal... the world becomes an ocean... I need to hurt myself more than the world could hurt me, and then I can comfort myself. ...more
Kathleen Glasgowen

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