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I've started to incorporate "who could this book harm and how is the author mitigating that harm?" into my mental list of review questions. I feel good about adding it.
I don't think we can predict every harm. And I don't think the potential to harm necessarily means pulling a book from circulation. But it does frame a cultural product (the book) as something the creator has a moral responsibility for.
If my answer to "who could this book harm?" is, for example, trans people, and my answer to, "is the author acknowledging and mitigating that potential harm?" is "they are silent on this subject," then I have serious questions about the worth of the work.
