Banned Book Club meets the third Tuesday of every month, alternately in-person and virtual. We exclusively read books that have been banned or challenged, usually at schools or school libraries. Each month, the selected book is available for purchase at King's Books. To see what we're reading this month, go to the main Events page. To see a list of the most frequently challenged books, click here. If you're on Facebook, like our Page. If you have questions, please email David for more information.
Previous Reads:
December 2023: Hiroshima by John Hersey
November 2023: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
October 2023: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
September 2023: How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
August 2023: Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
July 2023: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
June 2023: Maurice by E.M. Forster
May 2023: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
April 2023: White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig
March 2023: Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
February 2023: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum
January 2023: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
December 2022: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
November 2022: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
October 2022: Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
September 2022: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
August 2022: Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran
July 2022: Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
June 2022: Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
May 2022: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
April 2022: Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
March 2022: The Call of the Wild by Jack London
February 2022: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
January 2022: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
December 2021: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
November 2021: My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Pool
October 2021: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
September 2021: Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
August 2021: Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Shannon Watters & Polterink
July 2021: Regeneration by Pat Barker
June 2021: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
May 2021: Junky by William S Burroughs
April 2021: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
March 2021: The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
February 2021: The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
January 2021: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
December 2020: George by Alex Gino
November 2020: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
October 2020: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
September 2020: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
August 2020: The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition by Phoebe Gloeckner
July 2020: The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
June 2020: Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
May 2020: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
April 2020: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
March 2020: The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
February 2020: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
January 2020: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
December 2019: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
November 2019: Bloods by Wallace Terry
October 2019: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
September 2019: Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
August 2019: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
June 2019: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
May 2019: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
April 2019: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
March 2019: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
February 2019: Sula by Toni Morrison
January 2019: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
December 2018: The Land by Mildred D Taylor
November 2018: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
October 2018: Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
September 2018: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
August 2018: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
July 2018: This One Summer by Jullian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
June 2018: Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
May 2018: Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
April 2018: Grendel by John Gardner
March 2018: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
February 2018: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
January 2018: Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
December 2017: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
November 2017: City of Thieves by David Benioff
October 2017: Drama by Raina Telgemeier
September 2017: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
August 2017: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
July 2017: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
June 2017: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
May 2017: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
April 2017: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
March 2017: The Giver by Lois Lowry
February 2017: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
January 2017: So Far From God by Ana Castillo
December 2016: Watership Down by Richard Adams
November 2016: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
October 2016: Jaws by Peter Benchley
September 2016: Candide by Voltaire
August 2016: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
July 2016: Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
June 2016: A Thousand Pieces of Gold by Adeline Yen Mah
May 2016: I, Claudius by Robert Graves
April 2016: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
March 2016: The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff
February 2016: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
January 2016: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
December 2015: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
November 2015: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
October 2015: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
September 2015: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
August 2015: Animal Farm by George Orwell
July 2015: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
June 2015: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
May 2015: The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
April 2015: Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
March 2015: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
February 2015: Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
January 2015: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
December 2014: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
November 2014: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
October 2014: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
September 2014: Lysistrata by Aristophanes
August 2014: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
July 2014: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
June 2014: Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
May 2014: To the Wedding by John Berger
April 2014: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
March 2014: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
February 2014: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
January 2014: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
December 2013: Beloved by Toni Morrison
November 2013: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
October 2013: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
September 2013: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
August 2013: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
July 2013: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
June 2013: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
May 2013: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
April 2013: Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
March 2013: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
February 2013: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
January 2013: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
December 2012: The Fighting Ground by Avi
November 2012: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
October 2012: The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight
September 2012: Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
August 2012: The Color of Earth by Dong Hwa Kim
July 2012: Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
June 2012: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
May 2012: Looking for Alaska by John Green
April 2012: The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
March 2012: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
February 2012: Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
January 2012: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
December 2011: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
November 2011: Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
October 2011: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark collected by Alvin Schwartz
September 2011: Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
August 2011: Crank by Ellen Hopkins
July 2011: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
June 2011: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
May 2011: Aura by Carlos Fuentes
April 2011: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
March 2011: Unwind by Neal Schusterman
February 2011: TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY by Jay Asher
January 2011: Jubilee by Margaret Walker
December 2010: Naked by David Sedaris
November 2010: Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
October 2010: The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
September 2010: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
August 2010: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
July 2010: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
July 2010: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
June 2010: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
May 2010: Am I Blue? edited by Marion Dane Bauer
April 2010: In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
March 2010: Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
February 2010: The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
January 2010: The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen
December 2009: Bridge to Terabithia & Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
November 2009: Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
October 2009: Luna by Julie Anne Peters
September 2009: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
August 2009: Push by Sapphire
July 2009: Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
June 2009: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
May 2009: My Father's Scar by Michael Cart
April 2009: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
March 2009: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
February 2009: Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
January 2009: Cracking India by Bapsi Sidwha
December 2008: The Misfits by James Howe
November 2008: Abduction! by Peg Kehret
October 2008: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
September 2008: Fat Kid Rules the World by KL Going
August 2008: The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
July 2008: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
June 2008: Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
May 2008: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
April 2008: Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
March 2008: America by E.R. Frank
February 2008: The God Box by Alex Sanchez
January 2008: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
December 2007: The Earth, My Butt & other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
November 2007: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
October 2007: This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
September 2007: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
August 2007: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
July 2007: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
June 2007: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
May 2007: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
April 2007: What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
March 2007: So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
February 2007: Another Country by James Baldwin
January 2007: Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
December 2006: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
November 2006: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
October 2006: James and the Giant Peach and The Witches by Roald Dahl
September 2006: The Giver by Lois Lowry
August 2006: Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
July 2006: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
June 2006: Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
May 2006: Forever by Judy Blume
April 2006: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
March 2006: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
February 2006: Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
