The Texas Banned Book Challenge - hosted by library_dreamer

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Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Take My Hand

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional informative sad medium-paced
Dry by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman

Dry

Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman

11 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction science fiction young adult dark tense fast-paced
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

448 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman

11 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics reflective slow-paced
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

We Had to Remove This Post

Hanna Bervoets

144 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary speculative fiction dark reflective tense fast-paced
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Small Great Things

Ruth Jefferson #1

Jodi Picoult

480 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary race emotional reflective medium-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

3 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

325 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

Sesali Bowen

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Where They Burn Books by Marcos Antonio Hernandez

Where They Burn Books

Hispanic American Heritage Stories

Marcos Antonio Hernandez

286 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical dark emotional sad fast-paced