Finding info on books

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Want to find out more about a book or author?

Here are some places to start...

Book summaries and reviews

Goodreads

  • short book summaries and lots of reader reviews

  • must create a free account

  • with your account you can also create reading lists of your own

Trigger Warnings / Spoiler Sites

Book Trigger Warnings

  • a wiki site that is "dedicated to helping readers feel more prepared, better informed, and safer with their books"


Does the Dog Die?

  • crowd sourced list of books, movies, tv shows, etc. that contain potentially triggering scenes

  • search by a title or by type of trigger (over 70+ categories)

  • warning: lots of spoilers (obviously!) as contributors write descriptions of the potentially problematic scenes

The Book Spoiler

  • crowd sourced plot summaries