Trigger Warnings


Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1)
Den of Vipers
God of Malice (Legacy of Gods, #1)
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
Hooked (Never After, #1)
Little Stranger (The Web of Silence Duet, #1)
Does It Hurt?
Still Beating
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
Hunger for Life by Andy  MarrWintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Best Little Girl in the World by Steven LevenkronThree Women by Lisa TaddeoI Should Have Worn A Curtain by Samyra Alexander
Content Warning—Eating Disorders
39 books — 23 voters
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleBlack Beauty by Anna SewellCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Content Warning—Animal Abuse/Cruelty
204 books — 38 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
Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenCarve the Mark by Veronica RothA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Content Warning—Self-Harm
41 books — 13 voters

Jean M. Twenge
Some suggest that this cocoon mentality is behind recent campus trends such as "trigger warnings" to alert students that a reading or lecture material might be disturbing and "safe spaces" where students can go if they are upset by a campus speaker's message. One safe space, for example, featured coloring books and videos of frolicking puppies, neatly connecting the idea of safe spaces with that of childhood. ...more
Jean M. Twenge, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Clementine Ford
Our 'sensitivities' are treated as evidence of our incapacity to participate in a grown-up sphere, even as the men angrily lashing out against them are framed as ideological defenders of free speech and the open exchange of ideas. ...more
Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

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