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Top 10 Books to Read for Banned Books Week |
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
by Ira Wells
The freedom to read is under attack. From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases, literary controversies, and philosophical arguments, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves.
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Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present
by Victoria Heyworth-Dunne
Banned Books explores why some of the world’s most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read – whether for challenging racial or sexual norms, satirizing public figures, or simply being deemed unfit for young readers. From the banning of All Quiet on the Western Front and the repeated suppression of On the Origin of the Species, to 1984, Fahrenheit 45, Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Fin, this must-have volume examines the astonishing role that some banned books have played in changing history.
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A Kids Book About Banned Books
by National Coalition Against Censorship
"Every day in schools across the country books are challenged for telling stories, centering characters, and tackling topics that feel uncomfortable for some people. This book explains what book banning is and helps start a conversation about how readingand having access to new information and ideas helps us stop, think, and grow!"
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Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
by Ashley Hope Pâerez
A collection of fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic narratives, essays and other genres explores book bans through various lenses and empowers teens to fight back, in an anthology featuring the voices of 15 diverse award-winning authors and illustrators.
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The Book Censor's Library
by Bothayna Al-essa
A censor working to remove all mentions of queerness, unapproved religions and any mentions of life before the Revolution from books is haunted at night by the characters of literary classics enticing him to read the forbidden tomes.
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
by Kirsten Miller
When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of“pornographic” books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in“wholesome” dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
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The Cat Who Saved the Library
by Såosuke Natsukawa
A chronic asthma condition prevents thirteen-year-old Nanami from playing sports or spending time with her friends after school. But nothing can stop her from one of her favorite activities. Nanami loves to read and happily spends much of her free time in the library. Then one day, Nanami spots a suspicious man in a gray suit. Eager to discover what he’s up to, she follows him. The chase is cut short when Nanami suffers an asthma attack. That’s when Tiger, the talking tabby cat who saves books, comes to the rescue. Are Nanami and Tiger prepared to face the dangerous challenges that lie ahead?
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This Book Won't Burn
by Samira Ahmed
After her dad abruptly abandons her family, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school and plans to keep her head down until she discovers hundreds of books being removed from the library and speaks up to effect change.
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Book Comes Home: A Banned Book's Journey
by Rob Sanders
When Book is removed from her cozy shelf in the library and placed in the Banned Book Closet, she wonders...Can a book still be a book without any readers?
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