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celebrate banned books week September 18-26, 2022
Sep 22 2022

UI Libraries Favorite Banned Books | Banned Books Week 2022

Posted on September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Bird flying out of cage says read a banned book

Libraries respect everyone’s freedom to read what they choose. Staff across all University of Iowa Libraries selected some of their favorite banned books this year: 

1984 George Orwell
The 1619 Project Nicole Hannah-Jones
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X and Alex Haley
120 Banned Books Nicholas J. Karolidas
All American Boys Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
All Boys Aren’t Blue George M. Johnson
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
And Tango Makes Three John Richardson and Peter Parnell
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison
Barefoot Gen Keiji Nakazawa
The Best Little Boy in the World Andrew Tobias
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Blood and Chocolate Annette Curtis Klause
Bone (GN Series) Jeff  Smith
The Book Thief Zusak
Books Under Fire Pat R. Scales
Born a Crime Trevor Noah
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown
Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey
Carrie Stephen King
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
The Chocolate War Robert Cormier
The Color Purple Alice Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time Mark Haddon
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Drama Raina Telgemeier
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Forever Judy Blume
Fun Home: A family tragicomic Alison Bechdel
gender queer Maiai Kobabe
George Alex Gino
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle: a memoir Jeannette Walls
Go Tell It On the Mountain James Baldwin
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter J.K. Rowling
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado
In the Night Kitchen Maurice Sendak
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein
Maus Art Spiegelman
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs
The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander
Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich
Olive’s Ocean Kevin Henkes
Out of darkness Ashley Hope Perez
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Rainbow Boys Alex Sanchez
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Sex is a Funny Word Cory Silverberg
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
Something Happened in our town Marianne Celano, et al
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher
This Day in June Gayle Pitman
Ulysses James Joyce
What My Mother Doesn’t Know Sonya Sones
When I was Puerto Rican Esmerelda Santiago
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L’Engle
You Can’t Say that Leonard S. Marcus (editor)
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty Greg Neri
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