Banned Book Club Selections

"Celebrating its bicentennial in 2018, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the chilling and tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creature he brings to life. Long regarded as masterpiece of Gothic fiction, it remains one of the most widely read novels of our time, has inspired countless adaptations, and continues to capture the imaginations of readers everywhere." -- Half title page.

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Kristina Georgia Snow disappears and Bree takes her place, Bree does drugs, gets pregnant, is defiant and is fighting for her life as Kristina.

Publisher Annotation: In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a...

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW, who has in the later stage of his life become "unstuck in time" and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known events of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously.

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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...