Use Your Library! : Read Beyond the Ban

As someone who currently works for a library, I have to start this blog by acknowledging the personal link I have with this topic- yes, come to the library and support my job!

But really- in a day and age of so much uncertainty, restriction, and censorship, it is important for us to remember that we have physical and static resources. When we remember that we have the ability to educate ourselves, that's when we are able to hold more power.

Plus... We are in a recession! Save money! Get Library books :)

You can even request the book (logged into your UIC account) and the library will pull it so all you have to do is go pick it up

Link for UIC Library Website:

https://library.uic.edu/

List of Banned Books Currently available at UIC Library:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky
1984	George Orwell
Animal Farm	George Orwell
The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas
Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
All Boys Aren't Blue	George M. Johnson
Looking for Alaska	John Green
All American Boys	Jason Reynolds
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Sula	Toni Morrison
Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
The Absolute True Diary of an American Indian	Suzanne Collins
Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls
This Book is Gay	Gino Dawson
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
The Handmaids Tale	Margaret Atwood
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You	Jason Reynolds
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
Two Boys Kissing	David Levithan
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
The Color Purple	Alice Walker
The Giver	Lois Lowry
Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson
Diary of Anne Frank	Anne Frank
Ulysses	James Joyce
Lolita	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Red to the Bone	Jacqueline Woodson
Crank	Ellen Hopkins
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime	Mark Haddon
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dah
BFG	Roald Dahl
Lawn Boy	Jonathan Evison
Flamer	Mike Curato
Me Earl and the Dying Girl	Jesse Andrews
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch-22	Joseph Heller
The Adventures of Huck Finn	Mark Twain
Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
Maus	Art Spiegelman
Normal People	Sally Rooney
Holes	Louis Sachar
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
Gender Queer: A Memoir	Maia Kobabe
Tomboy	Liz Prince
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson
The Tattooist of Auschwitz	Heather Morris
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engel
Gone With the Wind	Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
Nausea	John Paul
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros
Emma	Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moxie	Jennifer Mathieu
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
Lady Chaterlys Lover	D. H. Lawrence
On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin
Slaughterhouse 5	Kurt Vonnegut
Nineteen Minutes	Jodi Picoult