6 Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe
Death of parent, child abuse, suicidality, cancer
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Drug use, alcoholism, homophobia, infidelity, racism, suicidality, sexual assault, death of parent
A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality by Kate Khavari
Death, kidnapping, drug use, war, murder, alcoholism, classism, sexism
A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
Sexual assault, sexism, violence, murder, war, death of parent, infidelity, alcoholism
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
Drug use, alcoholism, infidelity, suicidality
Ace of Spades by Faridah Akide-Iyimide
Racism, homophobia, alcoholism, child abuse, hate crime, suicidality, murder, classism
Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt
Abandonment, alcoholism, infidelity, suicidality
Acting the Part by Z. R. Ellor
Racism, homophobia, transphobia
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
Domestic violence, murder, violence, self harm, war, sexism
Afterglow by Phil Stamper
Homophobia, alcoholism, child abuse, infidelity
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Murder, drug use, animal cruelty, sexual assault, suicide, pedophilia, kidnapping, racism
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Murder, animal cruelty, violence, alcoholism, child abuse, suicidality, drug use
A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy
Homophobia, racism, alcoholism, infidelity, classism
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Child abuse, self harm, suicide, sexual abuse, drug use, death of child, death, sexual assault
A Little Life by Koen Tachelet, Ivo van Hove, & Hanya Yanagihara
Child abuse, self harm, suicide, sexual abuse, drug use, death of child, death, sexual assault
All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt
Suicidality, homophobia, death, death of parent, alcoholism, pedophilia
All’s Well by Mona Awad
Drug use, ableism, medical abuse, suicidality, alcoholism
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
Death, violence, death of parent, homophobia, hate crime, racism
Always the Almost by Edward Underhill
Transphobia, homophobia, infidelity, racism
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Violence, murder, domestic violence, homophobia, sexism, death of parent, classism, racism
A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow
Transphobia, homophobia, sexual assault, war, pedophilia
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Colonization, racism, homophobia, police brutality, alcoholism, domestic violence, drug use, death
A Month and a Day by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Police brutality, colonization, violence
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
War, homophobia, classism, death of child
Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
Xenophobia, racism, deportation, transphobia
Andorra by Peter Cameron
Homophobia, murder, abandonment, alcoholism, infidelity
Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki
Homophobia, racism, hate crime, sexism
Antique Roman by Syd Neben
Murder, death of parent, alcoholism, abandonment
Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden
Homophobia, Islamophobia, racism, death of parent, hate crime
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Infidelity, pedophilia, sexism, death of child
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
Murder, violence, sexism, classism, alcoholism, police brutality, racism, death of parent
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Homophobia, racism, hate crime, transphobia
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Homophobia, racism, death of parent, hate crime
As Far as You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper
Homophobia, hate crime, ableism, child abuse
As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson
Murder, kidnapping, drug use, violence, sexual assault, animal cruelty
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Homophobia, murder, self harm, suicide, drug use, racism, ableism, slavery
A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
Animal cruelty, kidnapping, homophobia, pregnancy, domestic violence, death of parent, sexual assault, suicide
Babel by R. F. Kuang
Racism, colonization, xenophobia, child abuse
Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu
Sexual assault, death, alcoholism, sexism, pregnancy, racism, police brutality, classism
Bath Haus by P. J. Vernon
Sexual assault, drug use, murder, suicidality
Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min
Transphobia, homophobia, child abuse
Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey
Child abuse, homophobia, hate crime, abandonment, suicidality, classism, alcoholism, drug use
Becoming a Visible Man Second Edition by Jamison Green
Transphobia, homophobia
Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala
Child abuse, homophobia
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
Transphobia, death, death of parent, racism, infidelity
Bits & Pieces by Joan Leslie Woodruff
Colonization
Black Superhero by Danny Lee Wynter
Drug use, racism, kink, homophobia, alcoholism, child abuse, sexual assault
Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
Death of parent, alcoholism, infidelity, drug use, suicide
Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill
Homophobia, hate crime, violence
Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby
Homophobia, child abuse, suicidality
Breaks, Volume 1 by Malin Ryden & Emma Vieceli
Hate crime, violence, homophobia, child abuse, sexual assault
Breaks, Volume 2 by Malin Ryden & Emma Vieceli
Child abuse, homophobia, violence
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Alcoholism, infidelity, classism, racism, death, homophobia, war, colonization
Camp So-and-So by Mary McCoy
Abandonment, kidnapping
Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
Death of grandparent, transphobia, homophobia, racism
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Transphobia, murder, death of parent, homophobia, death of child, child abuse, animal cruelty
Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer
Homophobia, child abuse, classism, hate crime
Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris
Racism, alcoholism. drug use, colonization, kink
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
Homophobia, racism, death, Islamophobia, xenophobia, death of parent
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Racism, suicidality, death of parent, Islamophobia, xenophobia, self harm
Darkhearts by James L. Sutter
Abandonment, alcoholism, death of child, homophobia
Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg
HIV/AIDS, homophobia, death, pedophilia
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Transphobia, miscarriage, homophobia, infidelity, hate crime, abortion, domestic violence, suicidality
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
War, death of parent, violence, alcoholism, medical abuse
Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley
Grooming, racism, sexual abuse
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Sexual assault, suicidality, sexism, alcoholism
Epically Earnest by Molly Horan
Abandonment
Evelyn in Purgatory by Topher Payne
Homophobia, pedophilia, violence
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Suicidality, death, animal cruelty, homophobia, alcoholism, self harm
Exciting Times by Naiose Dolan
Infidelity, sexism, drug use, colonization, alcoholism, domestic violence, sexual assault, homophobia
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
Sexual assault, abortion, pregnancy
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Racism, xenophobia, alcoholism, domestic violence, hate crime, war
Fat Ham by James Ijames
Homophobia, suicidality
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
Animal cruelty, medical abuse, violence, infidelity, racism
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Transphobia, hate crime, drug use, child abuse
Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing
Transphobia, homophobia, suicidality, racism, ableism, classism, self harm, drug use
Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot
Homophobia, racism, genocide, colonization, suicidality, alcoholism
Firekeeper’s Daughter
Drug use, murder, sexual assault, racism, violence, suicide, kidnapping
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins
Drug use, suicide, sexual assault
Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
Murder, sexual assault, violence, self harm, suicide, alcoholism, drug use
Fresh by Margot Wood
Sexual assault, alcoholism, infidelity, drug use
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Medical abuse, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, alcoholism
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Sexual assault, death, incest, infidelity, suicidality, alcoholism
Golden Boys by Phil Stamper
Homophobia, alcoholism, infidelity
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
Murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, death of child, drug use, child abuse
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
Death of grandparent, alcoholism, drug use, murder
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
Violence, death of parent, war, homophobia, alcoholism, child abuse, suicidality, sexism
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Domestic violence, homophobia
Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
Homophobia
Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
Self harm, homophobia
Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
Self harm, suicidality, homophobia
Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
Homophobia, suicidality
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Transphobia, violence, hate crime, death of parent, death of child, genocide, child abuse
Henry Hamlet’s Heart by Rhiannon Wilde
Alcoholism, child abuse, death of parent, homophobia
How I Learned to Hate in Ohio by David Stuart MacLean
Islamophobia, infidelity, death, hate crime, racism, xenophobia, alcoholism
How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win a Wager by D. N. Bryn
Murder, death of parent, kidnapping, self harm, suicidality, homophobia, alcoholism
How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love by D. N. Bryn
Violence, drug use, death, medical abuse, ableism, transphobia, racism, homophobia
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Sexual assault, child abuse, racism, medical abuse, ableism, self harm, suicidality
I Am Inuit by Brian Adams
Colonization, violence
Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei
Alcoholism, abandonment, suicidality, homophobia, drug use, sexism, self harm
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
Racism, homophobia, suicidality, 9/11, pedophilia, mass shooting
If I Can Give You That by Michael Gray Bulla
Suicidality, transphobia, abandonment, homophobia
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Transphobia, suicide, homophobia, hate crime, sexual assault, drug use, alcoholism
If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich
Child abuse, drug use, self harm, alcoholism, homophobia
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
Drug use, murder, domestic violence, alcoholism, self harm
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
Homophobia, transphobia, sexism, classism, child abuse, alcoholism
I’ll Take Everything You Have by James Klise
Homophobia, classism, death, violence, alcoholism, death of parent
Indecent by Paula Vogel
Homophobia, hate crime, antisemitism, violence, police brutality
Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy
Infidelity
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
War, suicidality, alcoholism, antisemitism, violence, police brutality
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Domestic violence, homophobia, sexual assault, suicidality, alcoholism, drug use, pedophilia, infidelity
Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel
Transphobia, medical abuse, sexual assault, alcoholism, drug use
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
Child abuse, transphobia, homophobia, suicidality, alcoholism
Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary
Child abuse, alcoholism, sexual assault, homophobia, death of parent, violence, drug use, pedophilia
Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram
Homophobia, racism, alcoholism, sexual assault, xenophobia, death of parent
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
Ableism, transphobia, racism, violence, sexism, homophobia
Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender
Drug use, racism, suicidality, transphobia, ableism, police brutality
Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
Homophobia, police brutality, hate crime, murder, suicidality, death of parent, alcoholism, animal cruelty
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Infidelity, alcoholism, death of parent, drug use, homophobia, xenophobia, racism
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Death, death of parent, abandonment, drug use
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
HIV/AIDS, homophobia, death, racism, police brutality
Lion’s Legacy by L. C. Rosen
Homophobia, abandonment, violence, infidelity
Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown
Death of parent, homophobia, infidelity, alcoholism, child abuse, abortion, racism
Lost Birds by Anne Hilleman
Violence, animal cruelty, colonization, racism
Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban
Murder, alcoholism, drug use, suicide, infidelity
Markings on Earth by Karenne Wood
Colonization, sexual abuse, alcoholism
“Master Harold”… and the Boys by Athol Fugard
Racism, colonization, hate crime, violence, alcoholism
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
Death, murder, abandonment
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Sexual assault, murder, war, colonization, genocide, Islamophobia, kidnapping, police brutality
Monacan Millenium by Jeffrey L Hantman
Colonization
Monacans and Miners by Samuel R. Cook
Colonization, racism
Moon Water by Pam Webber
Sexual assault, racism, death
Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa
Transphobia, sexism, homophobia, hate crime, classism, suicidality, child abuse
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
Murder, suicide, sexual assault, death of parent, transphobia, homophobia, alcoholism, pregnancy
My Contrary Mary by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, & Jodi Meadows
Kidnapping, sexism, death of parent, animal cruelty
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Homophobia, racism, death, police brutality, drug use, sexual assault
My Imaginary Mary by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, & Jodi Meadows
Sexism, violence, kidnapping, abandonment, death, alcoholism
Native America, Discovered & Conquered by Robert J. Miller
Colonization, racism
Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky
Homophobia, sexism, alcoholism, death, classism
Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
Infidelity, sexism, alcoholism. domestic violence, homophobia
New Adult by Timothy Janovsky
Abandonment, death of parent, alcoholism, drug use, pregnancy
New Animal by Ella Baxter
Death of parent, kink, suicide, sexual assault
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Sexual assault, police brutality, pedophilia, death of child, self harm, child abuse, drug use, death of parent
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
Murder, alcoholism, drug use, infidelity, suicide
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Domestic violence, suicidality, sexual assault, child abuse, alcoholism, death, sexism, death of parent
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Suicide, death, self harm, sexual assault, pedophilia, sexism, alcoholism, infidelity
Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
Drug use, alcoholism, racism, homophobia
Old Enough by Haley Jakobson
Sexual assault, alcoholism, transphobia, homophobia, pedophilia
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
Homophobia, police brutality, racism, hate crime, xenophobia, deportation, drug use, suicide
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Racism, police brutality, death, hate crime, murder, drug use, alcoholism
Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill
Drug use, suicidality, alcoholism, self harm
Pagans in the Promised Land by Steven T. Newcomb
Colonization
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Homophobia, transphobia, sexual assault, self harm, child abuse, suicidality, alcoholism, drug use
Paper Planes by Jennie Wood
Homophobia, transphobia, alcoholism, classism, racism
Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino
Death, transphobia, mass shooting
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Alcoholism, drug use, homophobia, transphobia, death
Penance by Eliza Clark
Murder, mass shooting, sexual assault, child abuse, suicidality, self harm, alcoholism, drug use
Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne
Homophobia, sexism, alcoholism
Phantom Heart by Kelly Creagh
Kidnapping, death of parent
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Alcoholism, pregnancy, death of parent, suicidality, violence
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Violence, colonization, racism, death of a parent, xenophobia
Present Laughter by Noel Coward
Infidelity, alcoholism, colonization
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
Child abuse, sexism, classism, death of parent, alcoholism, homophobia
Proof by David Auburn
Death of parent, alcoholism
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Death of parent, death, incest, suicide, alcoholism
Querelle by Jean Genet
Murder, violence, police brutality
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Sexual assault, racism, homophobia, child abuse, violence, pedophilia, suicidality
Running with Lions by Julian Winters
Homophobia, Islamophobia, racism, alcoholism
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
War, death, kidnapping, medical abuse, genocide
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber
Death, ableism
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore
Racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, sexism, alcoholism, infidelity, war
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Alcoholism, racism, child abuse, abandonment, xenophobia, drug use
She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard
Murder, kidnapping, child abuse, animal cruelty, suicidality
Shifters by Benedict Lombe
Death of grandparent, alcoholism, sexual assault
Shmutz by Felicia Berliner
Sexual assault, sexism, death, antisemitism, abortion, racism
Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw by Eddie Ndopu
Ableism, medical abuse, homophobia, classism, racism
Siren & Muses by Antonia Angress
Sexual assault, drug use, infidelity, alcoholism, classism, suicidality, sexism, domestic violence
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Racism, slavery, colonization, violence, kink
Someday this Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Homophobia, sexual assault, pedophilia, racism, 9/11
Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni
Homophobia, racism, hate crime, sexism, genocide, alcoholism, xenophobia, death of parent
Spell Bound by F. T. Lukens
Death of parent, violence, transphobia, police brutality
Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes
Homophobia, hate crime, pedophilia, violence, racism. suicide
Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender
Sexual assault, child abuse, homophobia, suicidality, drug use, alcoholism, pedophilia, racism
Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
Transphobia, hate crime, homophobia, suicidality, child abuse, sexual assault, death
Stop Kiss by Diana Son
Homophobia, hate crime, violence, sexism
Strange Unearthly Things by Kelly Creagh
Death, abandonment
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
Suicide, drug use, murder, alcoholism, homophobia, racism, transphobia
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Transphobia, sexual assault, antisemitism, racism, self harm, homophobia, hate crime, suicide
Tell Me My Name by Amy Reed
Alcoholism, drug use, classism, death, infidelity, sexual assault
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun
Racism, Islamophobia, police brutality, deportation
The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars
Transphobia, homophobia, abandonment, alcoholism
The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
Murder, death of child, drug use, alcoholism
The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram
Ableism, infidelity, abandonment
The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian
Homophobia, sexual assault, racism, child abuse, pedophilia, classism
The Charm Offensive by Allison Cochrun
Homophobia, ableism, alcoholism, sexual assault
The Days of Bluegrass Love by Edward van de Vendel
Homophobia
The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley
Homophobia, death of parent, alcoholism
The Enchanted Hacienda by J. C. Cervantes
Death of parent, infidelity
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Classism, abandonment, kidnapping, death of parent, alcoholism
The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
Alcoholism, ableism, infidelity, pregnancy, homophobia
The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver
Transphobia, homophobia, child abuse, alcoholism
The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern
Police brutality, drug use, alcoholism, suicidality, sexual assault, suicide, transphobia, racism
The Future King by Robyn Schneider
Death of parent, violence, pregnancy, alcoholism, homophobia, sexual assault
The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver
Self harm, death of child, suicidality, transphobia, homophobia
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Murder, sexual assault, death of parent, infidelity, alcoholism, classism
The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
Death of child, murder, kidnapping, drug use, alcoholism
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
Murder, homophobia, transphobia, violence, sexism, sexual assault, death of parent
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle by Neil Blackmore
Homophobia, antisemitism, murder, suicide, child abuse, pedophilia, sexual assault
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Sexual assault, classism, infidelity, abortion, violence, child abuse
The Long Run by James Acker
Homophobia, alcoholism, child abuse, death of parent
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Genocide, racism, murder, colonization, death of child, kidnapping, sexual assault, racism
The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore
Sexual assault, homophobia, racism, classism, drug use
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
Sexual assault, alcoholism, racism, death of parent, suicidality, child abuse
The New Life by Tom Crewe
Homophobia, infidelity, suicidality
The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider
Sexism, violence, alcoholism, death of parent, abandonment, homophobia
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
Violence, murder, pregnancy, alcoholism, classism, domestic violence, sexual assault
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Self harm, medical abuse, murder, death, suicide, pedophilia, sexual assault
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
Violence, death of child, homophobia, alcoholism, death
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Pedophilia, animal cruelty, violence, sexual assault, child abuse, drug use
The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath
Homophobia, suicidality, ableism, alcoholism, death of parent
The Revenant Games by Margie Fuston
Murder, death of parent, abandonment, colonization, war
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Suicide, animal cruelty, miscarriage, alcoholism
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Murder, alcoholism, suicide, incest, homophobia, drug use, sexual assault
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
Death of child, murder, violence, medical abuse, pedophilia, death of parent, infidelity
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
Murder, homophobia, child abuse, suicide, death of parent, antisemitism
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry
Antisemitism, homophobia, suicide, racism, drug use
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul
Homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexual assault, infidelity, incest, bestiality
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Violence, sexual assault, transphobia, medical abuse, ableism, child abuse, ableism, child abuse, abortion, miscarriage
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Violence, classism, death of child, child abuse, death of parent, transphobia
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Murder, violence, ableism, classism, drug use
The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill
Violence, medical abuse
The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent
Murder, violence, sexual assault, child abuse, alcoholism, suicide
The Tragedy of Dane Riley by Kat Spears
Death of parent, suicidality, drug use, alcoholism, child abuse
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
Abortion, drug use, alcoholism, suicide, infidelity, incest, self harm
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
Death, violence, death of parent, pregnancy, animal cruelty, alcoholism, infidelity
The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
Death of child, murder, kidnapping, alcoholism, drug use
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Racism, hate crime, police brutality, child abuse, death of parent, classism, death of child, animal cruelty
The Wicked Bargain by Gave Cole Novoa
Death of parent, violence, colonization, murder, transphobia, slavery, alcoholism
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
Murder, sexual assault, violence, sexism, domestic violence, suicide, pedophilia, child abuse
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
Infidelity, death of parent
This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves
Suicidality, homophobia, racism, alcoholism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, pedophilia, mass shooting
This Winter by Alice Oseman
Self harm, homophobia, suicidality
Time Out by Sean Hayes, Carlyn Greenwald, & Todd Milliner
Homophobia, hate crime, death of grandparent, violence
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
Violence, slavery, classism, racism, murder, alcoholism
Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin
Sexual assault, murder, violence, sexism, homophobia, pedophilia, child abuse
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Murder, kidnapping, death of child, death of parent, alcoholism, drug use
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Sexual assault, pedophilia, pregnancy, child abuse, alcoholism, drug use
Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston
Death of parent
Vanya by Simon Stephens
Suicide, violence, suicidality, alcoholism, infidelity, ableism
Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
Suicidality, child abuse, self harm, alcoholism, drug use
We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia
Homophobia, hate crime, alcoholism, drug use, sexism
We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra
Homophobia, child abuse, drug use, death of parent, sexual assault, alcoholism
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
Violence, murder, suicidality, genocide
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
Antisemitism, death, xenophobia, violence, death of parent, deportation
Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt
Death of parent, alcoholism
Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Sexual assault, domestic violence, homophobia, suicidality, pedophilia, drug sue, alcoholism, suicide
You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky
Classism, alcoholism, abandonment, drug use, infidelity, homophobia, miscarriage
You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
Self harm. drug use, alcoholism, homophobia
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Death, infidelity, death of parent, homophobia, alcoholism
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Sexual assault, homophobia, violence, alcoholism, pedophilia, child abuse, murder, abortion
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson
Murder, violence