Hey everyone, and happy Top Ten Tuesday!
This week’s prompt is Reading Goals I Want To Accomplish Before the End of the Year, but since it is Banned Books Week, I wanted to highlight banned books I’ve read, as well as books I still want to read (and hopefully will get to by the end of the year!).
I also wanted to share this infographic and article from Harpers Bazaar (Also, I don’t know if the infographic is too flashy, but there are a lot of scrolling letters and flashing between different colors and words, so I just want to include that disclaimer). It’s a list of every banned book in the US (as of the article’s publication date on 09/11/23)
Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl hosts Top Ten Tuesdays every week, so go check out her blog (where you’ll also find more bloggers who participated in that week’s round of Top Ten Tuesdays)!
Without further ado, here is my list!
5 Banned Books I’ve Read
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
5 Banned Books I Still Want To Read
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Although this would make it more than a Top Ten list, there is another book I found during my research that I’m interested in reading, Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez. Out of Darkness is a historical YA novel about the relationship between a Mexican-American teenage girl and an African-American teenage boy right up to the 1937 New London School explosion in Texas. The novel is the ninth most challenged book of 2022 and has been challenged because of its depictions of abuse and claims of sexually explicit content.
Thanks for reading my post, and be sure to highlight the banned books you have read or want to read this year!
On that note, I will see you in the next post!
-Erin 🎃
Eclectic Erin 
I’ve read about half of these, but I definitely have some that are still on my TBR, too. I’ve loved all of Fredrik Backman’s books that I’ve read so far, so I definitely want to check out Beartown!
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I’ve only read A Man Called Ove, and I’ve been meaning to read his other work, but I end up reading other books instead 😅
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The Poet X is an excellent novel. I love everything Acevedo writes.
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I’ve heard a lot of good things about both The Poet X and Acevedo’s writing, and I can’t wait to actually read it!
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I’ve read SPEAK and THE COLOR PURPLE, but that’s it from this list. I hope you enjoy the books you read!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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They’re both great books, and I hope you enjoyed them as well! Happy (belated) TTT to you to!
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Good luck! I need to pick up more Toni Morrison books. I loved the ones I’ve read.
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Thanks, and good luck to you as well! I definitely need to read more Toni Morrison too haha
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