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Read Banned Books!

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39 participants (36 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least one book a month that has been banned somewhere in the United States. For ideas of books check out this banned book index https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/.

Challenge Books

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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits

Del Valle Family #3

Isabel Allende

485 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Looking for Alaska

John Green

6 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional sad medium-paced
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

21 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction contemporary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Enders Game

Ender's Saga #1

Orson Scott Card

352 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced
It by Stephen King

It

Stephen King

1120 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok by Lorena a. Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt

Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

Lorena a. Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt

344 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

Susan Quinn

416 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ emotional slow-paced
Glass by Ellen Hopkins

Glass

Crank #2

Ellen Hopkins

681 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction contemporary poetry young adult dark emotional sad fast-paced
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary poetry young adult emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced