Banned Book Baddies

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66 participants (259 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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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

275 pages • paperback • 1969

fiction classics historical literary science fiction dark funny reflective medium-paced
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories #1

Alvin Schwartz

128 pages • paperback • 1981

fiction childrens horror short stories dark mysterious fast-paced
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Shiloh

Shiloh #1

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

145 pages • paperback • 1991

fiction childrens emotional fast-paced
Rule by Secrecy: Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids, the by Jim Marrs

Rule by Secrecy: Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids, the

Jim Marrs

480 pages • paperback • 2000

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Logans #4

Mildred D. Taylor

288 pages • paperback • 1975

fiction classics historical young adult emotional reflective slow-paced
Pet Cemetery by Stephen King

Pet Cemetery

Stephen King

395 pages • paperback • 1983

fiction horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

Parrotfish

Ellen Wittlinger

304 pages • paperback • 2007

fiction lgbtqia+ young adult challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

417 pages • paperback • 1967

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

281 pages • paperback • 1962

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

Out of Darkness

Ashley Hope Pérez

402 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction historical young adult emotional reflective sad slow-paced