This week is Banned Books Week!
To celebrate, I'm posting this very simple update to list out books from my childhood and adulthood (or while working with kids that I discovered later) that have been banned/almost banned overtime that I think you should read:
A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
Animal Farm - George Orwell
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Black is a Rainbow Color - Angela Joy
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Dragon Ball (series) - Akira Toriyama
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fences - August Wilson
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Gideon the Ninth (series) - Tasmyn Muir
Goosebumps series - RL Stine
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
Hop on Pop - Dr. Seuss
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
Paper Towns - John Green
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Amulet of Samarkand series - Jonathan Stroud
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
The Lord of the Rings series - JRR Tolkien
The Witch Boy series - Molly Knox Ostertag
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Martian - Andy Weir
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Walking Dead (series) - Robert Kirkman
This Day in June - Gayle E. Pitman
When Aidan Became a Brother - Kyle Lukoff
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
It's difficult to find a complete list of books that have been censored or challenged over the decades, but of the lists I could find, these were the ones I remembered reading that are worth calling out to you all now.
Happy reading!
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