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Please, please no trauma porn. This is for books that take their time to explore human relationships in all their beauty and messiness and complexity. Books that deal with big issues (mental illness, addiction, etc.) in honest, sensitive ways. Books that don't use those issues to drive the plot forward, only to drop them the second they become inconvenient.

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