Sexual violence

10 books tagged with this warning.

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher · 2007 · YA / Issue Novel

BESuicideSexual assault

After her suicide, Hannah leaves behind 13 cassette tapes.

Circe

by Madeline Miller · 2018 · Mythology / Historical

BittersweetSexual violenceGrief

The witch Circe across a thousand years of exile.

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood · 1985 · Dystopia / Literary

OESexual violenceAuthoritarian control

Offred lives as a Handmaid in the theocratic Republic of Gilead.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison · 1987 · Literary / Historical

BittersweetInfanticideSlavery trauma

Sethe, an escaped slave, is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed.

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty · 2014 · Thriller / Contemporary

HEDomestic abuseSexual assault

Three mothers in a primary-school parent circle become tangled in a death.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2ha)

by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou · 2017 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+

HESexual violenceTorture

Mo Ran is reborn into his youth — back when his master was still alive.

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus · 2022 · Romance / Feminist / 1960s

BittersweetSexual assaultPartner death

A 1960s woman chemist pushed out of academia accidentally becomes a TV cooking-show host who teaches housewives via chemistry.

An Ember in the Ashes

by Sabaa Tahir · 2015 · YA / Fantasy / Dystopia

OEGraphic violenceThreat of SA

Enslaved Laia infiltrates the Empire's brutal military academy to save her brother; cadet Elias plots to escape it.

The Poppy War

by R. F. Kuang · 2018 · Fantasy / Military / China-inspired

BESexual violenceWar

Orphan Rin enters a military academy, discovers shaman-fire powers, and is consumed by total war.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson · 2005 · Thriller / Nordic Noir

BittersweetGraphic sexual violenceViolence

A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a 40-year-old disappearance and tear open a family's darkness.

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