It’s Banned Books Week!

Banned Books WK 2014“Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.” More information about banned books here.

In honor of Banned Books Week (Sept. 21-27, 2014) we’re giving away the following banned books:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Giver by Lois Lowry

A Time To Kill by John Grisham

(Giveaway Details will officially be announced on our blog and social media this coming Wednesday).

In the meantime, here are some of WA founder, Racquel Henry’s favorite banned books:

1. Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates

2. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

3. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

8. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

9. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

11. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

12. Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)

13. Crank by Ellen Hopkins

14. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

What are some of your favorite banned books?

 

Racquel Henry is a Trinidadian writer, editor, and writing coach with an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is a part-time English Professor and owns Writer’s Atelier. Racquel is also the co-founder and Editor at Black Fox Literary Magazine and the Editor-in-Chief at Voyage YA. She is the author of Holiday on Park, Letter to Santa, and The Writer’s Atelier Little Book of Writing Affirmations. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. When she’s not working, you can find her watching Hallmark Christmas movies.
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