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About Censorship and Advocating for the right to read!

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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.  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). 

Rally Against Book Banning

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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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. 


Everyone should be able to read, and everyone should be able to read what they want.

Gender Queer: A Memoir in a Graphic Novel

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Go Ask Alice

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Rally for the Right to Read

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Revolutionary Voices

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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The Handmaid's Tale

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Call of the Wild

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next

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I Am Jazz

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Leaves of Grass

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The Color Purple

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Banned Book Information

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12th Night

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Articles and Reports on Book Banning

Essence Enterprises Readers UnitedTikTok Video Rally for the Right to ReadChallenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reportsALA Fight CensorshipUnite Against Banned BooksRally for the Right To ReadMore Information on Book BanningNew PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans

Banned, Burned, Challenged, & Controversial Books

Top 4 Most Banned books

  • The Holy Bible
  • The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engles and Karl Marx
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London



Banned, Burned, Challenged and Controversial

The Books

1984, George Orwell

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

Almost Perfect, Brian Katcher

American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis

And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Awakening, Kate Chopin

Bad Kitty (series), Nick Bruel

Beloved, Toni Morrison

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

Bone (series), Jeff Smith

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Burned, Ellen Hopkins

Captain Underpants (series), Dav Pilkey

Catch 22, Joseph Heller

Crank, Ellen Hopkins

Deliverance by James Dickey

Drama, Raina Telgemeier

Draw Me a Star, Eric Carle

Dreaming In Cuban, Cristina Garcia

Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

Fade, Lisa McMann

Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers

Feed, M.T. Anderson

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

Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, 

George, Alex Gino

Glass, Ellen Hopkins

Go Ask Alice, Anonymous

Go the Fuck to Sleep (Boxed Set), Adam Mansbach

Goosebumps (series), R.L. Stine

Gossip Girl (series), Cecily von Ziegesar

Habibi, Craig Thompson

Heather Has Two Mommies, by Lesléa Newman (Author), Laura Cornell (Illustrator) 

House of Night (series), P.C. Cast

House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

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 a Book, Lane Smith

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

Lawn Boy, Jonathan Evison

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Looking for Alaska, John Green

Lush, Natasha Friend

Madeline and the Gypsies, Ludwig Bemelmans

Malcolm X: By Any Mean's Necessary, Walter Dean Myers

Monster, 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

Native Son, Richard Wright

Neonomicon, Alan Moore

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

Saga, Brian K. Vaughan

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 Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

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 Family Book, Todd Parr

The Giver, Lois Lowry

The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

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 Book is Gay, Juno Dawson

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

Tricks, Ellen Hopkins

Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan

Ulysses, James Joyce

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

Push, Sapphire

The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

Forever…, Judy Blume

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

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball, Mark Weakland

Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle

Five, Six, Seven, Nate, Tim Federle

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

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 

New Kid, Jerry Craft

Class Act, Jerry Craft

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

Flamer, Mike Curato

Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur



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Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

 This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."


Ken Kesey- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. 



Jack London- The Call of the Wild

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

B.P. Smythe - Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into service as sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. 

B.P. Smythe - Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

B.P. Smythe - Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

B.P. Smythe - Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

Vincent Pollack is a serial killer, whose evil roots were planted during a traumatic childhood, with an agenda to rob and kill women for financial gain. It is down to Mavis Bone, a forty-year-old Australian, lesbian Private investigator, and her German lesbian secretary, Gertrude Stick, to try and foil his murderous plans. Together they make up the Mavis Bone Detective Agency based in Wimbledon Broadway, London SW19.



The Covid Prophecies by Abdiel LeRoy

B.P. Smythe - Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

The Covid Prophecies by Abdiel LeRoy

When Covid first showed up in 2020, it presented us with a choice: to respond with fear, or to respond with love. This book is an appeal to love, seeing in the 'virus' an agent of social reform, setting us free from the structures of exploitation and enslavement that have assailed mankind for millennia.





Alice Walker- The Color Purple

B.P. Smythe - Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

The Covid Prophecies by Abdiel LeRoy

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.



Anne Frank- Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank- Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank- Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl

In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. 

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Anne Frank- Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank- Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic.

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Anne Frank- Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)

When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems--but none matched the raw power and immediacy of the first edition.


This beautifully-designed volume presents the original edition Leaves of Grass in its entirety, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous letter to Whitman. 

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)

The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere


From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.



Maia Kobabe - Gender Queer: A Memoir

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)

Maia Kobabe - Gender Queer: A Memoir

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.


Anonymous- Go Ask Alice

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)

Maia Kobabe - Gender Queer: A Memoir

January 24th

After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs…

It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth—and ultimately her life.

Read her diary.

Enter her world.

You will never forget her.

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