The X-Files Reading Challenge: Season Four - hosted by easyqueenie

Home: A Banned Book
 Home is the only X-Files episode to be rated TV-MA and was not repeated due to its “graphic content”, so read a banned book to honour a book that has been similarly restricted.
Ideas: Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 
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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

283 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

256 pages • first pub 1895 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy horror short stories dark mysterious slow-paced
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

288 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray

Valerin the Fair

Out of True #1

Rien Gray

69 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 1

Heartstopper #1

Alice Oseman

304 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary graphic novel lgbtqia+ romance young adult funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade by Albert Monteys, Ryan North, Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade

Albert Monteys, Ryan North, Kurt Vonnegut

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction graphic novel science fiction challenging dark reflective fast-paced
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Color Purple

The Color Purple Collection #1

Alice Walker

288 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction classics historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

This Book Is Gay

Juno Dawson

273 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ funny informative medium-paced
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