Feel Free to Read

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. The books featured in this list have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. Here at MEL, we would like to show our support for the right to read and to oppose censorship. They are all available in our collection and you can check them out with your library membership.

• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

• All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

• Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alice Saenz

• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Bless Me, Última by Rodolfo Anaya

• Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman

• Call of the Wild by Jack London

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

• City of Thieves by David Benioff

• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

• Frankenstein: the 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

• Heartstopper, Vols. 1 and 2, by Alice Oseman

• Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesley Newman

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schwartz Hyman

• Looking for Alaska by John Green

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Love by Toni Morrison

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

• One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

• Paradise by Toni Morrison

• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• Sold by Patricia McCormick

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

• The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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