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THIS YEAR'S BANNED BOOK CLUB BUNDLE (ISBN: BNB2024)
Read the full list of this year's monthly Banned Book Club picks.
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: 9780060850524 $16.99
2. Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi: 9781645030393 $22.99
3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: 9780061148514 $20
4. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller: 9780802131782 $18
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: 9781594631931 $18
6. This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson: 9781728254326 $12.99
7. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume: 9781534482425 $11.99
8. Animal Farm by George Orwell: 9788194131649 $13.99
9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: 9780618711659 $18.99
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: 9780060838676 $17.99
11. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: 9780743247542 $18.99
12. Night by Elie Wiesel: 9780374221997 $25
Subtotal: $215.92
Tax 1: $15.12
Due: $231.04
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2023 (ISBN: BNBALA)
Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based on information from reports filed by library professionals and community members, as well as news stories published throughout the United States.
Because many book challenges are not reported to the ALA or covered by the press, the Top Most Challenged Books lists and data compiled by ALA represent only a snapshot of book challenges. A challenge to a book may be resolved in favor of retaining the book in the collection, or it can result in a book being restricted or withdrawn from the library.
ALA documented 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship in 2023 - a 65% surge over 2022 numbers - as well as 1,247 demands to censor library books, materials, and resources. Pressure groups focused on public libraries in addition to targeting school libraries. The number of titles targeted for censorship at public libraries increased by 92% over the previous year, accounting for about 46% of all book challenges in 2023.
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe: 9781549304002 $19.99
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson: 9781250895561 $12.99
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson: 9781728254326 $12.99
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: 9780671027346 $15.99
Flamer by Mike Curato: 9781250756145 $17.99
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison: 9780307278449 $16.00
Me, Earl, And the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews: 9781419719608 $11.99
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins: 9781481498241 $14.99
Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan: 9781984893147 $17.99
Sold by Patricia McCormick: 9780786851720 $11.99
Subtotal: $152.91
Tax: $10.71
Due: $163.62
"YEAR IN REVIEW" BANNED BOOK CLUB BUNDLE (ISBN: BNB2023)
Catch up by purchasing the books we read last year for our popular monthly Banned Book Club.
1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: 9780385333849 $18
2. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: 9780062498540 $16.99
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: 9780812980028 $18
4. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: 9780812976717 $19
5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin: 9780593468791 $10
6. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin: 9780593688977 $17
7. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur: 9781449474256 $14.99
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: 9780063354289 $20
9. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe: 9781549304002 $19.99
10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov: 9780679723165 $17
11. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: 9780618871711 $18.99
12. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank: 9780385480338 $14
Subtotal: $202.95
Tax: $14.21
Due: $217.16
Bestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaking yet funny story about a boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation who wants to break free of the life he was destined to live.
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, based on the author's own experiences and coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
Contributor Bio(s)
A National Book Award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie is one of the most well-known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His works of fiction, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Reservation Blues, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, have received numerous awards and citations. He lives in Seattle. Like Thunder Boy Jr., Sherman was named for his father.
Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.