🏷️ Trauma
10 entries tagged with this trope
And the Floorboard Creaks
senlinyu · 2018
Post-war. Hermione is assigned to monitor Draco during his house arrest. By senlinyu, who also wrote Manacled. Dark, devastating, unforgettable.
Beginning and End
mightbewriting · 2020
Post-war. Draco and Hermione are forced to confront what happened during the war — and what's happening between them now. Beautiful prose.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Four college friends in New York. Jude's past slowly unravels across 800 pages. This book will emotionally ruin you and you'll thank it. Not for the faint of heart.
we were emergencies
greenconverses · 2013
Missing scenes from Tartarus. What Percy and Annabeth went through when the page turned. Raw, terrifying, and the comfort they find in each other is everything.
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Detective Rob Ryan investigates a child murder in the woods where, as a boy, his two best friends vanished. Literary crime at its finest.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Four college friends in New York. Jude's past slowly unfolds. This book will wreck you for weeks. The most devastating novel of the decade.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
A boy survives a museum bombing and takes a painting. It haunts him for decades. Dickensian in scope, devastating in effect.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
Sam and Sadie build video games together. Their relationship is the most complicated love story that isn't quite a love story. Heartbreaking and brilliant.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Four college friends in New York. Jude carries unimaginable trauma. This book will emotionally destroy you and you'll thank it. Bring tissues.
The Women
Kristin Hannah · 2024
Frankie McGrath volunteers as a nurse in Vietnam. Coming home is harder than war. Kristin Hannah does for Vietnam nurses what she did for WWII resistance.