Celebrating Banned Books Week!

How fantastic is it that the theme for this year's Banned Books Week (Sept. 25 - Oct. 1) is Frequently Challenged Books with Diverse Content? We are all about books with diverse content here (well, not ALL, but it's one of the themes we feature frequently), and books with difficult, important themes are often found among the banned and/or challenged book lists.

This year's list of Frequently Challenged Books with Diverse Content and more info can be found at this link, but I've also reprinted it below. How many have you read? I've only read 13! And parts of a couple others (y'know, lit class excerpts and such). It is an interesting list. Take a look, and let loose in the comments.

1. A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
2. A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
3. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
4. Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by  Sherman Alexie
5. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
6. Always Running by Luis J Rodriguez
7. Am I Blue?:  Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Baue
8. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
9. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Girl
10. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
11. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley
12. Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
13. Beloved by Toni Morrison
14. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out  by Susan Kuklin
15. Black Boy by Richard Wright
16. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A Anaya
17. Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
18. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
19. Drama by Raina Telgemeier
20. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
21. Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
22. Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
23. George by Alex Gino
24. Habibi by Craig Thompson
25. Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman
26. Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
27. I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
28. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
29. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
30. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
31. King & King by Linda de Haan
32. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
33. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
34. Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
35. My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
36. Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron
37. Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter
38. Palestine: A Nation Occupied by Joe Sacco
39. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
40. Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
41. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor
42. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
43. So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
44. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
45. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
46. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
47. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
48. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
49. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
50. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
51. The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter
52. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
53. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
54. The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
55. This Book is Gay by James Dawson
56. This Day in June by Gayle Pitman
57. Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan
58. Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher