Oddly specific maybe… but I’m a new mom and the last 3-4 books I’ve plucked off the library shelves after enjoying the covers and reading the back have destroyed me with these triggers and I guess I’m just someone who cannot handle them anymore.
I’m fine with difficult or crazy topics, or people in general dying (I guess….) but just… not the kids! No abuse! Not the happy couple falling out of love!
I particularly like books that are fantastical/dystopian and/or sci-fi or historical fiction, but really open to anything as long as no triggers please.
Random Books I like whose titles I can remember off the top of my head:
-Lord of the Rings (reread all multiple times. Maybe I should just go back to those again)
Wool
-Divergent
-Maze runner
-Hundred years of solitude
-The midnight library
-Tortilla flat
-Pride and Prejudice
-There there (by Tommy Orange)
Books that I recently read and liked otherwise but that crushed me because of triggers:
-What is the What
-Versions of Us (stopped reading)
-Seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna (so good but wished I had stopped reading)
-Walk the Vanished Earth (this one actually didn’t bother me that much, but TW for death in childbirth and weird baby stuff)
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Check out Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Beautiful, engrossing literary fantasy. No kids, couples or pregnancies. There is some tension, but nothing violent.
Pale Grey Dot, by Don Miasek. Sci-fi/dystopian a la the Expanse, but with a hint of cyberpunk. No children!
City of Sensors, by A.M. Todd. Sci-fi/dystopian noir detective. No children!
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series or Spinning Silver (stand-alone) might be good. The Scholomance trilogy has some weird baby things towards the end of it, though it’s in the past in the book, but not sure what your triggers are.
Try Emily Henry. She writes beautiful women’s fiction
In order, my favourites are :
– Beach Read
– Book Lovers
– People We Meet on Vacation
– Happy Place
Do you know the app StoryGraph? It’s like Goodreads but gives readers the ability to mark trigger warnings in a book, ranked from minor to graphic. I find it SO helpful. It would help with all the ones on your list except for couples falling out of love.