Happy Banned and Challenged Books Month!
The technical, officially recognized holiday is actually Banned Books Week traditionally celebrated in the last week of September, but I like to celebrate all month long by bring attention to all the books that have banned or challenged through the years.
This year, I made an informational display in the YA section of my library. It included mostly YA books, but also some classics that are not technically considered teen lit.
The text on the back of the display poster reads:
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community...librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types...in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted with removal or restrictions in libraries and schools. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of the Banned Books Week celebration is the fact that, in a majority of cases, the books have remained available. This happens only thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read.
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- Nonfiction
- The Words of Cesar Chavez by Cesar Chavez
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
- Classics
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Howl by Allen Ginsberg
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Adult Contemporary Fiction/Genre
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Children and Teen
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
- George by Alex Gino
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