A Wikipedia-style website has compiled a list of trigger warnings for more than 6,000 books – including classics from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

A Wikipedia-style website has compiled a list of trigger warnings for more than 6,000 books – including classics from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.  

The titles may have been celebrated as cla’s Harry Potter series and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are also on the list.  

Users are able to search for specific books on the site and are also able to look for different ‘trigger warnings’ to avoid encountering uncomfortable topics, including child abuse, cancer and miscarriage.   

A Wikipedia-style website has compiled a list of trigger warnings for more than 6,000 books - including classics from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

A Wikipedia-style website has compiled a list of trigger warnings for more than 6,000 books - including classics from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

A Wikipedia-style website has compiled a list of trigger warnings for more than 6,000 books – including classics from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (pictured left, Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, and slot paling gacor right, Emma by Jane Austen) 

Meanwhile users can also look for books within certain ‘tropes’ to either find new titles to read, or know which to avoid.

Tropes include ‘government conspiracies’, ‘haunted houses’ and ‘boarding schools.’ 

It describes itself as ‘a site dedicated to helping readers feel more prepared, better informed, and safer with their books.’

An online description continues: ‘This site was created as a wiki in order to allow everyone in the Book Community to contribute to our efforts.

The website includes a list of 6,701 books, with the titles listed alphabetically, and, includes classics like The Great Gatsby - with readers warned over 'wealth hoarding'

The website includes a list of 6,701 books, with the titles listed alphabetically, and, includes classics like The Great Gatsby – with readers warned over ‘wealth hoarding’ 

‘If you are familiar with warnings/tropes/rep for a specific book, please add them here! 

‘It should be noted that on BTW, we use the words ‘trigger warnings’ and ‘content warnings’ to be synonymous, despite several nuances between the two.’

Among those books listed on the website are a host of classic titles, including The Great Gatsby, Emma and Bridget Jones’s Diary. 

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