Get ready to put on your anti-censorship hard hats and join us in celebrating the freedom to read during Banned Books Week. Given the severity of current attacks on books and their authors, we hope you will stand in solidarity with us against the banning of books. Browse our selection of “dangerous” books, which includes titles by Nobel prize winner, Toni Morrison, and internationally acclaimed author, Salman Rushdie, among others. Spoiler alert! The most dangerous thing about these books is the people banning them.

 


Reason: LGBTQ

GENDER QUEER by Maia Kobabe

 

FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel

LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by Malinda Lo

ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE by George M. Johnson

AND TANGO MAKES THREE by Justin Richardson

ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner

 


Reason: PROFANITY

 

 

 

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

 

 

MAUS by Art Spiegelman

 

SONG OF SOLOMON by Toni Morrison

 

 

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

 

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

 

 

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston


Reason: WITCHCRAFT / SATANISM

 

 

BLESS ME ULTIMA by Rudolfo Anaya

 

 

HARRY POTTER series by JK Rowling

 

THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl

 

A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L’Engle

 

CHARLOTTE’S WEB by E.B. White

 

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkein


Reason: RELIGIOUS / POLITICAL

 

 

PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi

 

 

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

 

 

ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT’S ME MARGARET by Judy Blume

 

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

 

 

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell


Reason: SMOKING/DRINKING

 

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY OF A PART TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie

 

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky

 

NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

 

THE OUTSIDERS by S.E. Hinton

 

 

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

HOWL by Allen Ginsburg


Reason: RACISM

 

 

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou

 

 

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain

 

 

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

 

 

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

 

 

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

 

 

BELOVED by Toni Morrison