Banned Books
This collection shines a spotlight on banned books—works that provoke thought, challenge norms, and spark essential conversations.
Written by BIPOC authors, these stories often reflect lived experiences, cultural truths, and powerful ideas that some may find uncomfortable but are vital for fostering understanding and empathy.
Explore these transformative works that remind us of the enduring power of words and the importance of protecting every voice.
- Culture and Heritage, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia....
- by Mike Curato
- Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love. I know I’m not...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2018
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells...
- by Angie Thomas
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when...
