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Jul 09, 2020 07:56AM
Welcome to round nine everybody! This rounds genre has been something I have been wanting to do for a while, and am very exited about. As you may or may not know, many books have been actively challenged throughout history, by being banned from communities. Some of these books are more recent then you would think, for example The Hate U Give has been banned in some communities, as well as The Harry Potter Series. We will be reading books that have been banned or challenged! If you can find one, please take a look at the trigger warnings for the books before you add it to the list and make sure you'll be comfortable with it. Of course everyone has different comfort zones, so skipping this round is a-ok. You might have to do a bit of google searching this round! As always, please put as many books as you want to suggest down in this discussion, and then we will vote on one to read!
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Beloved by Toni Morrison(tw for slavery) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian(last read in the 7th grade and loved it, tw for bullying)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou(read excerpts and really liked it)
Drama by Raina Telgemeir(LBGT+)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood(watched the hulu adaptation, tw for rape)
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki(LGBT+)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov(tw for pedophilia and rape)
China Dream by Ma Jian(written by exiled Chinese national, talks about ruling regimes injustice and infallibity)
Beartown by Frederick Backman(tw for rape)
I tried to add in a little bit about each one, if I haven't said otherwise then assume that I haven't read it.
Operation Dark Heart seems interesting. it's about a man's experiences in Afghanistan during the war and the US Army tried to censor it. Not exactly banned but still cool. I don't know if we could find full versions but it wouldn't hurt to try. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
the miseducation of cameron post (tw: conversion therapy) and hold still (tw: suicide)

