Pre-Goal Reads

I grew up reading mountains of books. My sister and I would bring a milk crate to the library each week to refill. We became immensely close to the children’s librarian, who would set aside titles that she felt either my sister or I would enjoy. We sometimes were the first people to read new works to the system.

While creating the list of banned books, I was surprised at how many I had already read, and further surprised as to why these titles were challenged or removed from reading lists or school and public libraries.

The following titles are all on the ALA Banned and Challenged Book list and were read prior to my personal challenge. I don’t think that I will make any reviews for them at the time. I do believe that I will re-read them when I am at a lull or need something that I won’t have to think very hard about since I had already consumed their words.

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence- Bauer, Marion

America– Frank, E. R.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Sijie, Dai

Blankets- Thomson, Craig

A Child Called It- Pelzer, Dave

Doing It- Burgess, Melvin

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphry- Haddix, Margaret

Fahrenheit 451- Bradbury, Ray

The Fault in Our Stars- Green, John

Feed- Anderson, M. T.

Fifty Shades of Grey- James, E. L.

Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent

Give a Boy a Gun- Strasser, Todd

The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette

Harry Potter series- Rowling, J. K.

The Hunger Games trilogy- Collins, Suzanne

It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robbie

Life Is Funny- Frank, E. R.

Looking For Alaska- Green John

Mick Hart Was Here- Park, Barbara

Naked- Sedaris, David

The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

Rainbow Boys trilogy- Sanchez, Alex

Shattering Glass- Giles, Gale

Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt

Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse

Stuck in Neutral- Trueman, Terry

To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper

Twilight- Myer, Stephenie

Twisted- Anderson, Laurie Halse

Two Boys Kissing- Levithan, David

When Jeff Comes Home- Atkins, Catherine