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Bookshelf: Challenged or Banned Books

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. It spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

Banned Books

Books in the A.C. Clark Library collections that have been challenged at other libraries.

Young Adult and Children

Adult

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

Bless Me, Ultima: a novel, by Rudolfo A. Anaya

Extremey Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa, by Mark Mathabane

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds

From Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernst Hemingway

Slaughter House Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

Native Son, by Richard Wright

As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Credit

This virtual book display was designed and created by Bemidji State University student Morgan Kapsner in 2021.