My Favourite Reads

Title: Beartown
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Sports
Target Audience: Adult
Content Warnings: Body image, Child mortality (flashback), Guns, Homophobia, Rape (major trigger), Rape culture, Victim blaming, Violence, Suicide (mentions), Suicidal ideation

Title: Cemetery Boys
Author: Aiden Thomas
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult, Queer
Target Audience: Young Adult
Content Warnings: Blood magic (referenced), Character abuse (off-page), Deadnaming of a trans character, Death (parental), Gender dysphoria, Homophobia, Misgendering of a trans character, Transphobia

Title: Darius the Great is not Okay
Author: Adib Khorram
Genre: Coming of Age, Contemporary
Target Audience: Young Adult
Content Warnings: Bullying, Depression, Fat shaming, Racism

Title: Dial A for Aunties
Author: Jesse Q Sutanto
Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery, Comedy
Target Audience: Adult
Content Warnings: alcohol use, assault (sexual – attempted), car crash, death, divorce, drug use, kidnapping, murder, racism

Title: Down Comes the Night
Author: Allison Saft
Genre: Fantasy, Gothic, Romance
Target Audience: Young Adult
Content Warnings: gore, murder, implied torture, description of surgery and procedure

Title: Ophelia After All
Author: Racquel Marie
Genre: Contemporary, Queer, Coming of Age
Target Audience: Young Adult
Content Warnings: mentions of underage drinking and vaping, topical mentions of sex, cut-off use of a homophobic slur (challenged), condemned homophobia, discussion of anti-Blackness within a mixed race Latine family (challenged)

Title: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Queer, Romance
Target Audience: Adult
Content Warnings: Biphobia, Car accident, Cheating, Death, Divorce, Physical abuse, Suicide

Title: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Author: Sangu Mandanna
Genre: Contemporary, Low Fantasy, Cosy Fantasy, Romance
Target Audience: Adult
Content Warnings: discussions of parental death (past, off-page), mentions of physical and emotional abuse by family members (past, off-page), brief references to homophobia and racism