Our library staff members are challenging each other to see how many books from the display we have read. Our current leading readers have a score of 15 out of 20 on the table; what about you?
Celebrate Banned Books Week (Oct. 4–10, 2026) by reading a banned or challenged book. You can also learn what causes books to be challenged at our table. Book censorship is on the rise in the United States, and libraries are being asked to remove these books at an alarming rate. Most of the challenges are from organizations trying to make sure that only voices they agree with are heard.
Here is the list of the books on display:
- Maus: a Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
- Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Year of Wonders: a Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Shout: a Poetry Memoir by Laurie Halse Anderson
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J K Rowling
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Novels & Story Cycles by Ray Bradbury
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October 7, 2026
