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The Book Thief Trigger Warning List

Hi everyone! As promised, here is the trigger warning list for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It is fairly long; the book is very long. As with the other books that don't number the chapters, I assigned numbers to each of the chapter titles. [Important: Please note that trigger warnings are not necessarily to make it so that you can just avoid the content. There is a fairly popular mistaken belief that trigger warnings are censorship. That is not true. Trigger warnings exist so that, if you are sensitive to the content, you are made aware of it before it occurs and surprises you. This gives you a chance to prepare yourself mentally before reading it so that it does not affect you as negatively as it might if you didn’t know that it was going to happen.Also, please note that if you rely on triggers for the shock-value or plot twists, (aka, “Well I can’t use trigger warnings because they’re spoilers!”), you aren’t a very good writer and you definitely aren’t taking into considera