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Books Under Threat

Reports of book banning are at historic high levels. Books about LGBTQ people, people of color, and racism are being especially targeted for censorship.

Empower readers and libraries at https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/

Title	Author	Cover
It gets better : coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living
I know why the caged bird sings	Maya Angelou
Sex is a funny word : a book about bodies, feelings, and YOU	Cory Silverberg
The handmaid's tale	Margaret Atwood
I think I love you	Auriane Desombre
Will Grayson, Will Grayson	John Green
Panic	Sharon M Draper
Breathless	Jennifer Niven
It's perfectly normal : a book about changing bodies, growing up, sex and sexual health	Robie H Harris
An African American and Latinx history of the United States	Paul Ortiz
GLBTQ : the survival guide for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens	Kelly Madrone
LGBTQ : the survival guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens	Kelly Madrone
The poet X : a novel	Elizabeth Acevedo
Lucky	Alice Sebold
Citizen : an American lyric	Claudia Rankine
Gender queer : a memoir	Maia Kobabe
The confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron
This one summer	Mariko Tamaki
Little leaders : bold women in black history	Vashti Harrison
Thinking out loud : on the personal, the political, the public, and the private	Anna Quindlen
I'll give you the sun	Jandy Nelson
I am not your perfect Mexican daughter	Erika L Sánchez
Black girl unlimited : the remarkable story of a teenage wizard	Echo Brown
Sloppy firsts : a Jessica Darling novel	Megan McCafferty
The hate u give	Angie Thomas
Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity	Andrew Solomon
Wide awake	David Levithan
Fun home : una familia tragicómica	Alison Bechdel
In the dream house : a memoir	Carmen Maria Machado
Ace of spades	Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Who was Maria Tallchief?	Catherine Gourley
Fry bread : a Native American family story	Kevin Noble Maillard
Sex : an uncensored introduction	Nikol Hasler
Embrace	Jessica Shirvington
A raisin in the sun	Lorraine Hansberry
The new queer conscience	Adam Eli
Who is Derek Jeter?	Gail Herman
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz
A is for activist	Innosanto Nagara
Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes	Chris Crutcher
Not my idea : a book about whiteness	Anastasia Higginbotham
Extremely loud & incredibly close	Jonathan Safran Foer
Between the world and me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Follow your arrow	Jessica Verdi
Brave face : a memoir	Shaun David Hutchinson
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
The perks of being a wallflower	Stephen Chbosky
Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag	Rob Sanders
The miseducation of Cameron Post	Emily M Danforth
The bluest eye	Toni Morrison
If you could be mine	Sara Farizan
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Khaled Hosseini's The kite runner
We are the ants	Shaun David Hutchinson
Graceling	Kristin Cashore
This book is anti-racist	Tiffany Jewell
Sissy : a coming-of-gender story	Jacob Tobia
It feels good to be yourself : a book about gender identity	Theresa Thorn
Full disclosure	Camryn Garrett
Me and Earl and the dying girl	Jesse Andrews
The red scrolls of magic	Cassandra Clare
The Stonewall Riots : coming out in the streets	Gayle E Pitman
Pride : celebrating diversity & community	Robin Stevenson
A court of mist and fury	Sarah J Maas
Of ice and shadows	Audrey Coulthurst
Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress	Christine Baldacchino
What girls are made of	Elana K Arnold
They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Crank	Ellen Hopkins
Acting out	Laurie Halse Anderson
Who was Harriet Tubman?	Yona Zeldis McDonough
This book is gay	Juno Dawson
Jane against the world : Roe v. Wade and the fight for reproductive rights	Karen Blumenthal
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness	Michelle Alexander
Some assembly required : the not-so-secret life of a transgender teen	Arin Andrews