Libro.fm's 2023 Audiobook Challenge - hosted by sallysimply

Listen to a banned book.
Check out frequently banned and challenged audiobooks, the majority of which are by or about BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ persons. Want to learn more? Take a listen to our podcast episode with Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks Podcast, Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy, Nicole Lintemuth, owner of Bettie’s Pages bookstore, and Martha Hickson, a high school librarian in Annandale, NJ.
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I'll Take Everything You Have by James Klise

I'll Take Everything You Have

James Klise

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ young adult emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

3 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary poetry young adult emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe #1

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

359 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Dashka Slater

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ true crime young adult challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

Lawn Boy

Jonathan Evison

312 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

This Book Is Gay

Juno Dawson

6 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ funny informative medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

10 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Catch-22 #1

Joseph Heller

20 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 1961 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark funny slow-paced