Amy from Amy's Bookshelf Reviews is an advocate for reading and supporting the right to read what you want to read. Amy's Banned Book Buzz is on TikTok and YouTube. Ad of December 13, the Banned Book Buzz is no longer available. However, the discussions of banned books and censorship will still be done on Amy's Bookshelf Review's Podcast.
Amy talks about stopping censorship #ABBB #FReadom #Right2Read #ABSRBannedBooks #stopcensorship #BannedBookBuzz and also is making it her mission to read as many banned, burned, challenged or controversial books as she can (while still staying loyal to her authors that she reviews for).
January 1 to August 31 2023, there are 3923 book titles that are being challenged, and are targets of book banning. Years ago, it used to just be classics or stories that were written that may not be politically correct, but in the era the book setting was, it fit the story. So many classic books have been banned in the past, but today, most of the books that are being targets are children's books, and they have a theme of gender identity, LGBYTQ+, antiracism, and other books that children should read, because children should be able to read books that they can see themselves in the story.
What is wrong with stories that have different family dynamics? Should children not read books about other children of the same race, or maybe, they are in different situations? Of course, we don't want our children reading Adult only appropriate books, but what about the children's books that are written for children, so they can read and relate to, and know that they are not alone, or the only one who feels or sees the world a certain way.
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Banned Books Week October 1 – 7, 2023
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Amy from Amy's Bookshelf Reviews is an advocate for reading and supporting the right to read what you want to read. Amy's Banned Book Buzz is on TikTok and YouTube. Amy talks about stopping censorship #ABBB #FReadom #Right2Read #ABSRBannedBooks #stopcensorship #BannedBookBuzz and also is making it her mission to read as many banned, burned, challenged or controversial books as she can (while still staying loyal to her authors that she reviews for on Amy's Bookshelf Reviews https://amysbookshelfreviews.com/)
Amy's Banned Book Buzz is a series of short videos where Amy will discuss a banned book, give commentary, and then read an excerpt directly from the book.
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Top 4 Most Banned books
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl, Tanya Lee Stone
A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, Jill Twiss
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Alice McKinley (series), Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
All American Boys, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis
And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Bad Kitty (series), Nick Bruel
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, Susan Kuklin
Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History, Wallace Terry
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Captain Underpants (series), Dav Pilkey
Dreaming In Cuban, Cristina Garcia
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Fifty Shades of Grey (Series), E. L. James
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, Derek Humphry
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Freedom Writers Diary, The Freedom Writers
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Go the Fuck to Sleep (Boxed Set), Adam Mansbach
Goosebumps (series), R.L. Stine
Gossip Girl (series), Cecily von Ziegesar
Heather Has Two Mommies, by Lesléa Newman (Author), Laura Cornell (Illustrator)
House of Night (series), P.C. Cast
House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
I Am Jazz, Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
In Our Mothers’ House, Patricia Polacco
Internet Girls (series), Lauren Myracle
It’s Perfectly Normal, Robie H. Harris
Jacob's New Dress, Sarah Hoffman
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Madeline and the Gypsies, Ludwig Bemelmans
Malcolm X: By Any Mean's Necessary, Walter Dean Myers
My Mom's Having A Baby Dori Hillestad Butler
My Princess Boy, Cheryl Kilodavis
Naked lunch, William S. Burroughs
Nasreen’s Secret School, Jeanette Winter
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Out of Darkness, Ashley Hope Pérez
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Prince and Knight, Daniel Haack
Rainbow Boys (series), Alex Sanchez
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, Amy Sonnie
Scary Stories (series), Alvin Schwartz
Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU, Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth
Skippyjon Jones (series), Judith Schachner
Slaughterhouse-Five (A burned book), Kurt Vonnegut
So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stuck in the Middle, Ariel Schrag
Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, Dav Pilkey
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Color of Earth (series), Tong-hwa Kim
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
The Dirty Cowboy, Amy Timberlake
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Kingdom of Little Wounds, Susann Cokal
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Librarian of Basra, Jeanette Winter
The Living Bible, (A burned book), Tyndale
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The Walking Dead (series), Robert Kirkman
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Inspired Netflix Show)
This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman; Kristyna Litten (Illustrator) (A burned book)
This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan
Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, Sarah S Brannen
Water for elephants: a novel, Sara Gruen
What My Mother Doesn't Know, Sonya Sones
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball, Mark Weakland
Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle
Five, Six, Seven, Nate, Tim Federle
Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews (Inspired Sundance Film 2015)
White Bird: A Wonder Story, R.J. Palacio
Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11, Alan Gratz
Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts), L.C. Rosen
City of Thieves, David Benioff
We Are the Ants, Shaun David Hutchinson
The Breakaways, Cathy G. Johnson
All Boys Aren't Blue, George M. Johnson
Michelle Obama: Political Icon, Heather E. Schwartz
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramée
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, Louise Rennison
More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
King and the Dragonflies, Kacen Callender
Go With the Flow, Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo
Weird Girl and What's His Name, Meagan Brothers
Book List for Blog with links and genre (pdf)
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