At the library now
The Friends have put together an exhibit of books which have been banned at various times and in various places. Copies of the books have been gathered from the library's collection and inside each one of them is a note with background on when and where they have been banned and the sometimes strange reasons given for doing so. This exhibit was inspired by the Banned Books Project @Carnegie Mellon University and the American Library Association's Banned Book Week (just passed).
Some of the titles may surprise you.
- Acevedo, Elizabeth, The Poet X (by Chloe Black)
- Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits (by Andrea Benatar)
- Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (by Grace LaCarte)
- Blume, Judy. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (by Liz Camele)
- Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 (by Artemis Carpenter)
- Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange (by Eliana Cohen)
- Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games (by Aggie Woodbury)
- Duncan, Lois. Killing Mr. Griffin (by Carley Johnson)
- Gaiman, Neil. Sandman (by Elizabeth Lathan)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. The Sorrows of Young Werther (by Anyi Li)
- Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 (By Emily Getty)
- Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (by Puja Dutta)
- Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World (by Sophie Zhang)
- Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (by Kevin Lui)
- Keyes, Daniel. Flowers For Algernon (by Thomas Yager)
- Knowles, John. A Separate Peace (by Emma Cohron)
- L’engle, Madeline. A Wrinkle in Time (by Carolyn Ku)
- Lowry, Lois. The Giver (by Arabella Reece)
- Morrison, Toni. Beloved (by Talia Buksbazen)
- Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon (by Cionna Sharpe)
- Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia (by Olivia Karny)
- Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper (by Nikita Sareen)
- Pullman, Phillip. His Dark Materials (by Oliva Carroll)
- Rhodes, Jewel Parker. Ghost Boys (by Charlie Botts)
- Rowell, Rainbow. Eleanor & Park (by Erica Choe)
- Rowling, JK. The Harry Potter Series (by Maddie Headrick)
- Rushdie, Salman The Satanic Verses (by Maria Hawthorne)
- Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye (by Kaylyn Clairmont)
- Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis (by Maximilian Adams)
- Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones (by Kailani Small)
- Silversteen, Shel. The Giving Tree (by Karla Bae)
- Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions (by Colin Cahill)
- Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five (by Megan Henriksen)
- Walker, Alice. The Color Purple (by Isabel Joyce)
- Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited (by Jennifer Bortner)
- Wilson, August. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (by Juju Nieto)
