22 BOOKS TO READ IN 2022

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Perfume, Patrick Suskind: murder, childbirth, capital punishment, domestic abuse (physical), child abuse (physical, neglect), disease and disease epidemics, death, child death, dead bodies, terminal illness, strangulation, racism and racist language, drowning, alcohol use, body horror, blood and gore, hunting, war, animal abuse, animal death, racist slurs, torture, sexual content, cannibalism
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini: sexism, misogyny, abandonment by a parent, seizures, childbirth, emotionally abusive parent, absent parent, suicide, death of a parent, forced marriage, child marriage, panic attacks, marital rape, miscarriage, intimate partner abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), political coup, reference to torture and political killings, war, death of a child, death of a sibling, death of a loved one, poor mental health (depression), bombing, bullying, death of a friend, vomiting, unplanned pregnancy, ableism and use of the word cr*pple (challenged), domestic abuse, religious extremism, violence, capital punishment, blood, medical procedure without anaesthetic, murder, migraines
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado: consensual sexual content, body horror, sexual assault of a child, animal death, pregnancy, childbirth, death of a loved one, illness, alcohol use, cannibalism, blood and gore, self-mutilation, relationship breakdown, epidemic/pandemic, disease, suicidal ideation and suicide, drug use, intimate partner abuse (physical, emotional), rape, murder, disordered eating, use of homophobic slurs, misogyny, graphic sexual language, medical procedures, plastic surgery, poor mental health, vomiting
The Mask Falling, Samantha Shannon: injury, violence, oppression, loss of a loved one, torture, PTSD, panic attacks, war, drugging, sickness, needles, blood and gore, medical procedures, medical experimentation, skeletons, claustrophobia, bombing, betrayal
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter: death of a parent (before the start of story), sexual content, sadomasochism, body horror, blood and gore, mutilation of a corpse, torture, murder, gun violence, gambling, rape, necrophilia, injury to animal, injury, capital punishment, stoning
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: death, death of a loved one, misogyny, domestic abuse, dead bodies, hanging, fatphobia, alcohol use, poisoning, suicide, adultery, explosions, injury, imagery similar to self-harm (e.g cutting for medical purposes), animal death, animal abuse, terminal illness, mutilation of a corpse, religious discussion, drug use, violence, plague, racist slurs and racism, blood and gore, body horror, colonialism, poor mental health, anxiety, illness, classism, anti-Semitism, murder, strangulation, open water, storms, drowning, child abuse (physical), disease, epidemic, capital punishment, torture, rats, shipwreck, ableism, fat-shaming, cannibalism