BOOK X-RAY
Find out what's inside without cracking the cover.
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.
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.
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence and gore.
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry
Contains mild sexual content and moderate violence and gore.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence and gore.
Autocorrect Stays by Holly C. Flanagan
Does not contain any profanity, sexual content, or violence and gore.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Contains heavy profanity, heavy violence and gore, moderate sexual content, and heavy drug use and abuse.
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 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.
Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
Contains mild profanity, mild sexual content, and mild violence.
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 Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Contains heavy profanity, moderate sexual content, and mild violence and gore.
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Contains mild profantiy, mild WWI-related violence and gore, and mild sexual content.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, 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.
Through the Door by Jodi McIsaac
Contains moderate profanity, moderate violence and gore, and moderate sexual content and nudity.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Contains mild profanity and mild violence/gore.
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.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Contains heavy profanity, mild sexual content, and heavy Vietnam war related violence and gore.
Goodreads summary.
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.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson
Contains mild profanity.
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Thanks, Heather!
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.
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).
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.
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.
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
Contains no profanity, no sexual content, and moderate violence.
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The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Contains no profanity, no sexual content, and moderate violence.
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The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Contains no profanity, no sexual content, and moderate violence.
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Frostbite by Richelle Mead
Contains mild profanity, moderate sexual content, and moderate violence.
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