Want to find out if a book is clean, or find appropriate books without having to read them all yourself? Book X-ray is the place to find out about the content of books beyond the critical review. We let you know if a book you want to read (or your kids need to read for school, or your book club is considering) contains profanity, sexual content, violence, controversy and more...then you decide what to read.

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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Contains heavy profanity, moderate sexual content, and mild violence.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content and nudity, and moderate violence and gore.

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Contains moderate profanity and moderate sexual content.

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Contains moderate sexual content and moderate violence and gore.

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Contains moderate profanity, heavy sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

Relish by Lucy Knisley

Contains mild profanity and mild sexual content.

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Contains moderate sexual content and moderate violence and gore.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence and gore.

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Contains mild profanity and heavy sexual content.

All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry

Contains mild sexual content and moderate violence and gore.

The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset

Contains mild sexual content and mild violence and gore.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Contains no profanity, sexual content, or violence and gore.

Autocorrect Stays by Holly C. Flanagan

Does not contain any profanity, sexual content, or violence and gore.

The Martian by Andy Weir

Contains heavy profanity.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Contains heavy profanity, heavy violence and gore, moderate sexual content, and heavy drug use and abuse.

Cress by Marissa Meyer

Contains moderate violence and gore.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Contains moderate sexual content, moderate violence and gore, and somewhat disturbing fantasy elements.

A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley

Contains mild profanity and moderate violence and gore.

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Contains mild profanity and mild sexual content and nudity.

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild war-related violence.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Contains a fairly explicit 13 year old girl-on-girl sexual scene.

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Moderate profanity and moderate sexual content.

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Contains mild profanity and mild violence.

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

Contains moderate violence and gore.

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Contains moderate profanity, heavy sexual content including a rape scene, and heavy WWII related violence and gore.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and heavy violence and gore.

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Contains moderate profanity, and moderate sexual content.

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Contains mild profanity, and moderate sexual content.

These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content and nudity, and heavy violence and gore.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Contains moderate profanity, mild violence and gore, and mild sexual content and nudity.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Contains mild profanity, moderate violence and gore, and mild sexual content.

Serena by Ron Rash

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content and nudity, and heavy violence and gore.

A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss

Contains mild profanity and moderate violence and gore.

Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence.

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Contains moderate violence and gore.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Contains heavy profanity, heavy sexual content and nudity, and heavy violence and gore.

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content and nudity, and mild violence.

Soulless by Gail Carriger

Contains mild profanity, heavy supernatural related violence and gore, and heavy sexual content.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Contains moderate profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence.

Living and Dying in Brick City: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home by Sampson Davis

Contains moderate profanity, moderate sexual content, and heavy violence and gore.

The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

Contains moderate sword fighting violence and gore.

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Contains heavy profanity, moderate sexual content, and mild violence and gore.

A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend

Contains heavy profanity and moderate sexual content.

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Contains mild profantiy, mild WWI-related violence and gore, and mild sexual content.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Contains mild profanity and moderate violence and gore.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Contains moderate profanity and moderate violence and gore.

The Big Truck That Went By by Jonathan M. Katz

Moderate profanity, mild violence, and mild sexual content.

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Contains heavy profanity, heavy violence and gore, and heavy sexual content.

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Contains moderate violence and gore, and moderate nudity.

Through the Door by Jodi McIsaac

Contains moderate profanity, moderate violence and gore, and moderate sexual content and nudity.

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson

Contains moderate profanity and mild accident-related violence and gore.

This Life is in Your Hands by Meslissa Coleman

Contains moderate profanity and moderate hippie related nudity.

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Contains moderate profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence.

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Contains moderate violence and gore.

Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull

Contains moderate violence and gore.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Contains heavy profanity, mild sexual content, and heavy Vietnam war related violence and gore.

Goodreads summary.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Contains moderate profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass

Contains moderate profanity and heavy sexual content, as well as a same-sex relationship.

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and heavy violence and gore.

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Contains heavy sexual content and nudity (but it's more on the matter-of-fact side than the salacious detail side), and one incident of moderate violence.

Thanks, Heather!

The Cedar Post by Jack R. Rose

Contains moderate WWII related violence and gore.

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Contains mild profanity, moderate Holocaust related nudity, and moderate Holocaust related violence.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence and gore.

Work Song by Ivan Doig

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Contains moderate profanity, heavy sexual content and nudity (including rape of a child and same-sex encounters), and heavy violence and gore (including war related violence and abuse of women and children).

Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson

Contains mild profanity.

The Coffee Trader by David Liss

Contains moderate profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Contains moderate profanity, heavy sexual content, and moderate violence.

The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.

Austenland by Shannon Hale

Contains mild profanity and mild sexual content.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Contains mild profanity, heavy violence and gore, and mild sexual content.

The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

Contains mild profanity, mild violence, and moderate sexual content.

Rooftops of Tehran

Contains heavy profanity, mild violence and gore, and mild sexual content. Also contains references to homosexuality and masturbation.

Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy

Does not contain profanity, violence or gore, or sexual content or nudity.

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Does not contain profanity, violence or gore, or sexual content or nudity.

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Does not contain profanity, violence or gore, or sexual content or nudity.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Contains mild nudity and heavy violence and gore.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Contains mild nudity and heavy violence and gore.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Contains moderate nudity and heavy violence and gore.

The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

Contains no profanity, no sexual content, and moderate violence.

Thanks, Sheri!

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

Contains no profanity, no sexual content, and moderate violence.

Thanks, Sheri!

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Contains no profanity, no sexual content, and moderate violence.

Thanks, Sheri!

Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence.

Thanks, Sheri!