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)
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
A Little Life
Still Beating
My Dark Vanessa
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Verity
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)
8 books — 4 voters
French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille GuilianoSkinny Bitch by Rory Freedman
Fatphobic Books
2 books — 1 voter

De Rerum Natura by David HillstromMillionaire Janitor by Lorn BergstresserDeep Listening by Emily KasrielThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorBreaking the Chain by Stacie  Webb
Self-Improvement for Gen Z Women
9 books — 9 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Content Warning—Suicide
194 books — 27 voters


Heather E. Heying
Humor is the mechanism by which we sort out the gray area of what can and can't be said. A humorless society, community, or group of friends likely has large problemas lurking just beneath the surface. ...more
Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Sanhita Baruah
Your triggers are pathways to your wounds. The stimulus is only a door.
Sanhita Baruah

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