Rebellious Readers Banned Books Challenge

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20 participants (45 books)

18 Mar 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

As books continue to be banned and challenged, and libraries, schools, and universities are at risk of losing funding, let's use our libraries and our library apps too check out books from the Banned and Challenged Book list.  One of the indexes can be found here: https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/

Let's see how many we can get through for the rest of the year, and show our libraries how much we love and appreciate them. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

480 pages • 2007 • 90 editions

fiction contemporary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Greer Family #1

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

232 pages • 1988 • 39 editions

fiction literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • 2016 • 19 editions

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

The Wicked Years #1

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire

412 pages • 1995 • 164 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark slow-paced
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy #1

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead

332 pages • 2007 • 130 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious fast-paced
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Color Purple Collection #1

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

298 pages • 1982 • 224 editions

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Dear Martin #1

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

210 pages • 2017 • 29 editions

fiction contemporary race young adult challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
11/22/63 by Stephen King

11/22/63

Stephen King

849 pages • 2011 • 149 editions

fiction historical science fiction thriller adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Regretting You

Colleen Hoover

354 pages • 2019 • 79 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional fast-paced
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

367 pages • 2007 • 206 editions

fiction contemporary historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced