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Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh · 352 pages

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel, Trainspotting, is a collection of short-stories revolving around a group of friends, their drug use, and struggles in the city of Edinburgh.

Punk SubcultureHate Speech DepictedRedemption ArcMultiple POV
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Smack

Melvin Burgess · 348 pages

After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.

Punk SubcultureEstranged FamilyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Chamber

John Grisham · 644 pages

John Grisham's bestselling backlist newly repackaged with fantastic new coversAdam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He voluntees for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client does'nt want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentent and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in

Hate Speech DepictedEstranged FamilyRedemption ArcDark
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Beige

Cecil Castellucci · 313 pages

Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.

Punk SubcultureEstranged FamilyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D Jackson · 400 pages

Hate Speech DepictedTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Lost Souls

Poppy Z. Brite · 363 pages

At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, looking for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not. Ann, longing for love, and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds - Molochai, Twig, and the

Punk SubcultureLGBTQ+ ProtagonistMultiple POVViolent
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The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult · 460 pages

Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right.

Hate Speech DepictedRedemption ArcMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 274 pages

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula

Redemption ArcEstranged FamilyLGBTQ+ ProtagonistViolent
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

Redemption ArcYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMultiple POV
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Tricks

Ellen Hopkins · 627 pages

Five teenagers find themselves stuck in a horrifying wold of sexual slavery

Estranged FamilyYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistViolent
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Allegiant

Veronica Roth · 526 pages

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's

Redemption ArcTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas · 458 pages

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter navigates between the poverty-stricken neighborhood she has grown up in and the upper-crust suburban prep school she attends. Her life is up-ended when she is the sole witness to a police officer shooting her best friend, Khalil, who turns out to have been unarmed during the confrontation – but may or may not have been a drug dealer. As Starr finds herself even more t

Hate Speech DepictedYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistViolent
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Brooklyn, Burning

Steve Brezenoff · 202 pages

Sixteen-year-old Kid, who lives on the streets of Brooklyn, loves Felix, a guitarist and junkie who disappears, leaving Kid the prime suspect in an arson investigation, but a year later Scout arrives, giving Kid a second chance to be in a band and find true love.

Punk SubcultureTeen ProtagonistLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks · 390 pages

#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her

Redemption ArcEstranged FamilyTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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Paradise

Simone Elkeles · 290 pages

YA. Love stories. Leaving Paradise: Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad -her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares has been cancelled. After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb's free if

Redemption ArcTeen ProtagonistMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Dope Sick

Walter Dean Myers · 186 pages

The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's supposed to be an easy deal, but it isn't so simple when the buyer is an undercover cop.With a gunshot wound to the arm, Rico in jail, and a police officer clinging to

Redemption ArcTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Monsters of Men

Patrick Ness · 624 pages

Redemption ArcYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMultiple POV
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My Name Is Venus Black

Heather Lloyd · 368 pages

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We Were the Mulvaneys

Joyce Carol Oates · 464 pages

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Trouble

Non Pratt · 377 pages

"When Aaron willingly signs on to be the pretend father of Hannah's unborn baby, he is looking for redemption from a past that has a stranglehold on him. Hannah, more simply, needs support in the absence of the real father, but she'll discover so much more"--

Redemption ArcTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Tithe

Holly Black · 320 pages

Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.

Punk SubcultureYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistDark
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The Summer I Wasn't Me

Jessica Verdi · 342 pages

"Ever since her mom found out she was in love with a girl, seventeen-year-old Lexi's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good. New Horizons summer camp promises a new life for Lexi--she swears she can change. She can learn to like boys. But denying her feelings is harder than she thinks"--

Estranged FamilyLGBTQ+ ProtagonistTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Luna

Julie Anne Peters · 248 pages

Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be, with help from his sister's clothes and makeup. Now, everything is about to change-Luna is preparing to emerge from he

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling · 352 pages

Redemption ArcEstranged FamilyTeen ProtagonistDark

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