Banned Book Baddies

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67 participants (263 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 1 banned book of the United States (or your countries) banned book list every two months (6 total). This challenge is an attempt for us to think critically about what our systems don’t WANT us to know. 

Challenge Books

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Cut by Patricia McCormick

Cut

Patricia McCormick

151 pages • paperback • 2000

fiction contemporary young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley

288 pages • paperback • 1818

fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Cujo by Stephen King

Cujo

Stephen King

304 pages • paperback • 1981

fiction horror thriller dark sad tense medium-paced
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker

Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America

Russ Baker

577 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark

Sookie Stackhouse #1

Charlaine Harris

292 pages • paperback • 2001

fiction fantasy mystery romance adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

Jim Marrs

656 pages • paperback • 1989

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins

303 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction economics history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

336 pages • paperback • 1726

fiction classics fantasy adventurous funny slow-paced
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1037 pages • paperback • 1936

fiction classics historical romance emotional sad slow-paced
City of Thieves by David Benioff

City of Thieves

David Benioff

258 pages • hardcover • 2008

fiction historical emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced