Content Warnings

Fiction

Kesha Ajose Fisher, No God Like the Mother (2019)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry, kidnapping, mental illness, substance abuse

Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever(2022)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry

Andrea Carlisle, The Riverhouse Stories (1986 / 2026)

• - None

Grace Castle, A Time to Wail(2018)

• - Death of a child, discrimination and bigotry, domestic violence, incarceration, murder, sexual assault

Linda Crew, Children of the River (1989)

• - Discrimination and bigotry, domestic violence, violence, war and displacement

Walt Curtis, Mala Noche and Other “Illegal” Adventures(1997)

• - Child abuse, discrimination and bigotry, sexual abuse, sexual content

Harold L. Davis, Honey in the Horn (1935)

• - Death, violence

Brian Doyle, Martin Marten (2015)

• - Animal cruelty, domestic violence, hospitalization

Katherine Dunn, Geek Love (1989)

• - Animal cruelty, body horror, child abuse, death, discrimination and bigotry, gun violence, incest, hospitalization, mental illness, murder, natural disaster, pregnancy loss, serious injury, sexual assault, sexual content, substance abuse, suicide, torture, violence

Eileen Garvin, The Music of Bees (2021)

• - Animal cruelty, emotional abuse, child abuse, death, discrimination and bigotry, hospitalization, incarceration, mental illness, serious injury, suicidal ideation, violence

Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek (1989)

• - Animal cruelty/death, violence

Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark (2021)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry, hate Crimes, hate speech, murder, torture, violence

Mitchell Jackson, Oversoul (2012)

• - Discrimination and bigotry, gun violence, hate crimes, hate speech, incarceration, violence

Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry, violence

Rachel King, People Along the Sand (2021)

• - None

Sydney Langford, Someone to Daydream About (2026)

• - None

John Larison, Whiskey When We’re Dry (2019)

• - Child abuse, death (major character, animal), discrimination and bigotry, gun violence, hate crimes, murder, self-harm, serious injury, sexual content, substance abuse, war and displacement

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

• - death (parent, child), discrimination and bigotry (mutual queerphobias between protagonist and other characters), gun violence, incarceration, incest, kidnapping, murder, mild sexual content, suicide, torture, war and displacement

Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood (2011)

• - Animal cruelty, child abuse, death, serious injury, stalking, torture, war and displacement

Blake Nelson, Girl(1994)

• - None

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (1996)

• - death, domestic violence, emotional abuse, gun violence, hospitalization, mental illness, murder, physical abuse, self-harm, serious injury, sexual content, stalking, substance abuse, suicide, torture, violence

Emma Pattee, Tilt (2025)

• - Death of a child, natural disaster

Beth Piatote, The Beadworkers (2019)

• Death, discrimination and bigotry, hospitalization, incarceration, war and displacement

Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island (2016)

• - Body horror, death (human death, parental death, and animal death), suicide, hospitalization, natural disasters (earthquakes and wildfires), pregnancy loss, incarceration, serious illness (cancer), serious injury, sexual content

Aiden Thomas, Lost in the Never Woods (2021)

• - Kidnapping, hospitalization, mental illness (trauma, anxiety, PTSD), substance abuse (alcohol), violence

Francesca G. Varela, Call of the Sun Child (2014)

• - Death

Wendy Wagner, Girl in the Creek (2025)

• - Body horror, death, murder, serious injury, sexual assault, suicide, violence

Renée Watson, This Side of Home (2016)

• - Gun violence, hate speech, substance abuse

Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together (2018)

• - Discrimination and bigotry, serious injury (181-183)

George Byron Wright, Tillamook 1952 (2006)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry (anti-Asian), mental illness, natural disaster, suicide, sexual content, war

Nonfiction

Eli Clare, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion (2007)

• - Child abuse, sexual abuse, sexual content, hate speech, discrimination and bigotry, torture (in “Bedrock”), pregnancy loss (in “The Stories Mama Tells”), hospitalization (in “Psych Ward in Three Voices”)

Beverly Cleary, A Girl From Yamhill (1988)

• - Animal cruelty, child abuse, death (including of animals), hospitalization, pregnancy loss, sexual assault, suicide

Abigail Rine Favale, Into the Deep (2018)

• - None

Walidah Imarisha, Angels with Dirty Faces (2016)

• - Child abuse, death, discrimination and bigotry, domestic violence, emotional abuse, gun violence, incarceration, mental illness, murder, physical abuse, pregnancy loss & abortion, self-harm, serious injury, sexual assault, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation.

Mitchell Jackson, Oversoul (2012)

• - Discrimination and bigotry, gun violence, hate crimes, hate speech, incarceration, violence

Ken Kesey, Demon Box (1986)

• - Animal cruelty, death, incarceration, mental illness, substance abuse, violence

Lauren Kessler, Stubborn Twig (2008)

• - Discrimination, hate speech/hate crime, incarceration, mental illness, suicide, war and displacement

Eileen O’Keeffe McVicker with Barbara J. Scot, Child of Steens Mountain (2008)

• - Animal cruelty, body horror, death

Marcela Mendoza and Erlinda V. Gonzales-Berry, Mexicanos in Oregon (2010)

• - Discrimination & bigotry, domestic violence, hate speech

R. Gregory Nokes, Massacred for Gold (2009)

• - Death, discrimination & bigotry, gun violence, hate crimes, hate speech, murder, torture

Putsata Reang, Ma and Me (2022)

• - Death (including of children), discrimination and bigotry, domestic violence, hospitalization, mental illness, pregnancy loss, suicidal ideation, torture, war and displacement

Linda Tamura, Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence (2012)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry, hate crimes, hate speech, war and displacement

Ellen Waterston, Walking the High Desert (2020)

• - Death, natural disaster

Wilson Wewa, Legends of the Northern Paiute (2017)

• - None

Sarah Winnemucca, Life Among the Piutes (1883 / 1994)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry, war and displacement

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (2010)

• - Child abuse, death, domestic violence, emotional abuse, mental illness. physical abuse, pregnancy loss, sexual assault, sexual content, substance abuse, violence

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (2021)

• - Death of a parent, discrimination and bigotry, domestic violence, hospitalization, pregnancy loss, serious injury, sexual assault

Poetry

Eli Clare, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion (2007)

• - Child abuse, sexual abuse, sexual content, hate speech, discrimination and bigotry, torture (in “Bedrock”), pregnancy loss (in “The Stories Mama Tells”), hospitalization (in “Psych Ward in Three Voices”)

Oliver de la Paz, Names Above Houses (2001)

• - Discrimination and bigotry, mental illness, violence

Logan Garner, The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds (2025)

• - Death

Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp (1992)

• - Discrimination, displacement, incarceration

Shuina Sko, Warrior Roses (2022)

• - Abuse, death, kidnapping, mental illness, sexual assault

Cliff Taylor, Notes of an Indigenous Futurist (2024)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry

Ellen Waterston, Between Desert Seasons (2008)

• - Death, substance abuse, violence

Elizabeth Woody, Seven Hands, Seven Hearts (1994)

• - Death, discrimination and bigotry, sexual assault

Drama

Theresa May, Salmon Is Everything (2014 / 2018)

• - Animal cruelty, death (animal), discrimination and bigotry

Beth Piatote, The Beadworkers (2019)

• Death, discrimination and bigotry, hospitalization, incarceration, war and displacement