ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools. OIF tracked 377 challenges to library, school and university materials and services in 2019. This is a complete list of book titles that were banned, challenged, or restricted during the year.
Title Author 47 Walter Mosley 50 Shades of Grey E. L. James The 57 Bus Dashka Slater 100 Years of Lynchings Ralph Ginzburg A Court of Mist and Fury Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas A Court of Wings and Ruin Sarah J. Maas A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Jill Twiss A Polar Bear in Love (vol 2) Koromo A Profile of the Negro American Thomas F. Pettigrew A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to Leila Ahmed America A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their David W. Blight Own Narratives of Emancipation A Visit to the Big House Oliver Butterworth The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie The Acid King Jesse P. Pollack Advanced Procedure and Axioms L. Ron Hubbard The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Goblins Clint McElroy Adventures of an African Slaver Capt. Theodore Canot The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain African-American Firsts: Famous Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs Joan Potter of Blacks in America The African Slave Trade Basil Davidson All American Boys Jason Reynolds All's Faire in Middle School Victoria Jamieson Almost Perfect Brian Katcher Althea and Oliver Cristina Moracho Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things Lenore Look Amazing Bugs Miranda MacQuitty America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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American Dirt Jeanine Cummins American Sisters: A Journey Across the Sea Laurie Lawlor The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control Malcom W. Klein An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, William Doyle Mississippi, 1962 An Unfortunate Coincidence: A Mother's Life inside the Autism Julie Obradovic Controversy "And Don't Call Me a Racist!": A Treasury of Quotes on the Past, Ella Mazel Present and Future of the Color Line in America And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of the Ralph Cintron Everyday Anglo-Saxon Ideologies in the 1920s-1930s: Their Impact on the Martha Menchaca Segregation of Mexican Students in California Annie's Baby Anonymous Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War Ishamael Reed Appaloosa Robert B. Parker Arrebatos Carnales Francisco Martin Moreno Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation Beth Richie Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel Diana Lopez Assassination Classroom (graphic novel series) Yusei Matsui The Awakening Kate Chopin Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity Ann Arnett Ferguson Be Prepared Vera Brosgol Beautiful Bastard Christina Lauren Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America Lerone Bennett Jr. Being Jazz Jazz Jennings Beloved Toni Morrison The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond Sheldon S. Wolin The Best We Could Do Thi Bui Beyond Black and White: Rethinking Race in American Politics and Manning Marable Society Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out Susan Kuklin Big Bob, Little Bob James Howe Big Book of Girl Stuff Bart King Bingo Love Tee Franklin
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The Black Church in the African American Experience Eric Lincoln The Black Extended Family Elmer P. Martin Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Patricia Hill Collins Empowerment Black Hole Charles Burns Black Ice Lorene Cary The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State Basil Davidson Black Power on Campus: University of Illinois 1965-75 Joy Ann Williamson Black Robes, White Justice Bruce Wright Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Michael Javen Fortner Punishment Black Students. Middle Class Teachers Jawanza Kunjufu Black Widow: The Name of the Rose Marjorie Liu Black Women in White America Gerda Lerner Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker Blackout Gianluca Morozzi Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves Robert S. Starobin Blasphemy Sherman Alexie Blood Heir Amelie Wen Zhao Blood Will Tell April Henry The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Bone Jeff Smith The Book of Tree Spells Cheralyn Darcey Boot Camp Todd Strasser The Boy with Perpetual Nervousness Graham Caveney Brain Camp Susan Kim The Breakaways Cathy G. Johnson Bunnybear Andrea Loney Burned Ellen Hopkins The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Tim Madigan By the People: A History of the United States James W. Fraser Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North Clifton Ellis American Slavery The Cambridge Companion to The African American Novel Maryemma Graham Can't Get There from Here Todd Strasser Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Eric Stanley Complex The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
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Challenging the Monetized Template John Gallagher Chew: International Flavor John Layman Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise, and Ethnicity Ko-lin Chin Chocolate Me Taye Diggs Chokehold: Policing Black Men Paul Butler Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die: The Complexities of Assisted Dying Nikki Tate City of Bastards Andrew Shvarts The Classic Slave Narratives Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Classroom and The Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America Mumia Abu-Jamal, Marc Lamont Hill Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner Elijah Anderson City The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century Farai Chideya Colored People: A Memoir Henry Louis Gates Jr. Colored White: Transcending Racial Past David R. Roediger Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-being and Inclusion of Linda Goldman Gay Youth in Mainstream Society The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities Nicholas L. Syrett Contradictions of the Welfare State Claus Offe Corduroy's Hike Don Freeman Cracked Coverage: Television News, The Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and Jimmie L. Reeves the Reagan Legacy The Creation of Human Ability: A Handbook for Scientologists L. Ron Hubbard Critical Rhetorics of Race Michael G. Lacy Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory Francisco Valdez Cuervo Leo Timmers Cunt Inga Muscio The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Cut Patricia McCormick Daddy, Papa, and Me Lesléa Newman Daddy's Roommate Michael Willhoite The Dangerous Alphabet Neil Gaiman The Dark and Tangled Path: Race in America David D. Anderson Dear Martin Nic Stone Death at an Early Age: The Classic Indictment of Inner-City Education Jonathan Kozol Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America Randall Robinson Delirium Lauren Oliver Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science L. Ron Hubbard
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Dianetics: The Original Thesis L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health L. Ron Hubbard The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. John M. Sloop Culture Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in David M. Kennedy Inner-City America The Door to Witchcraft Tonya A. Brown Dragons in a Bag Zetta Elliott Drama Raina Telgemeier Draw Me a Star Eric Carle Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia Drug War Heresies: Learning from other Vices, Times & Places Robert J. MacCoun Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays LeRoi Jones Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Waskar Ari Intellectuals Eichmann and the Holocaust Sannah Urendt English Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet and World Wide Eric Crump Web Esto no es un Libro de Sexo Chusita Fashion Fever Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropoligical Perspectives Thomas Hylland Eriksen Eva: Eloge De Ma Fille Irina Ionesco Everything You Need: 8 Essential Steps to A Life of Confidence in the David Jeremiah Promises of God Everywhere Babies Susan Myer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Foer Families Shelley Rotner The Family Book Todd Parr The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island Dana Alison Levy Fart Patrol Bambi Smyth Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime Meda Chesney-Lind Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word Anastasia Higginbotham Feminist Baby Loryn Brantz Feminist Cross-Stitch : 40 Bold & Fierce Patterns Stephanie Rohr Feminist Queer Crip Alison Kafer Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s Gerald Horne First and Then Emma Mills
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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence Geoffrey Canada Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy Robert Farris Thompson Flowers from Mariko Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks Fly on the Wall E. Lockhart For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Al Vernacchio Sexuality Freckleface Strawberry, Backpacks! Julianne Moore Freedom is an Inside Job Azinab Salbi Frida Kahlo: Una Biografia Maria Hesse Friends with Boys Faith Erin Hicks The Friendship Mildred D. Taylor Frightlopedia Julie Winterbottom From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans John Hope Franklin Full Disclosure Stormy Daniels Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel Gabi, a Girl in Pieces Isabel Quintero Game of Thrones (graphic novel series) Daniel Abraham, Tommy Patterson, George R. R. Martin The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Kyra D. Gaunt Hip Hop Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets Sudhir Venkatesh The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld Herbert Asbury Gay and Lesbian History for Kids Jerome Pohlen Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide Cynthia Winfield Gender Queer Maia Kobabe George Alex Gino Germans into Nazis Peter Fritzsche Ghost Jason Reynolds Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share Kevin O'Malley Girls Like Me Nina Packebush Girls on the Verge Sharon Biggs Waller The Giver (graphic novel) Lois Lowry, P. Craig Russell Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy God Save Texas Lawrence Wright Going Green Heather Ransom
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing Ruth Wilson Gilmore California Goldie Vance Hope Larson Gone Michael Grant grl2grl Julie Anne Peters Gym Candy Carl Deuker Handbook for Preclears L. Ron Hubbard The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale (graphic novel) Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault Harbor Me Jacqueline Woodson Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto Gilbert Osofsky Harry Potter (series) J. K. Rowling The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Heather has Two Mommies Lesléa Newman Help for Kids!: Understanding your Feelings about having a Parent in Carole Gesme Prison or Jail Hey Kiddo Jarrett Krosoczka High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing Audrey Petty The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich Ian Kershaw Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Raffael Scheck Soldiers in 1940 Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Africans and Clarence Lusane African Americans During the Nazi Era The Holy Bible Various Home at Last Vera B. Williams, Chris Raschka How I Came to Be Katerina Janouch How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the David R. Roediger Obama Phenomenon How to be Black Baratunde Thurston How to Fight Rachel Neumann How to Make a Wish Ashley Herring Blake How to Walk an Ant Cindy Derby Howl Allen Ginsberg Hurricane Child Kheryn Callender I Am Jazz Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant Jose Angel N.
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Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Alison Bashford Public Health Implementing Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Best Practices Helen A. Neville at Predominantly White Universities In the Night Kitchen Maurice Sendak Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet A. Jacobs Inside the Third Reich Albert Speer Interview with Harry the Tarantula Leigh Ann Tyson Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship Jessica Walton, Jessica Love, Michael Barakiva Introduction to Scientology Ethics L. Ron Hubbard The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America Daniel J. Sharfstein It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity Theresa Thorn It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Dan Savage Worth Living It's a Small World Richard M. Sherman It's Kind of a Funny Story Ned Vizzini It's Okay to be Different Todd Parr It's Perfectly Normal Robie H. Harris Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World Ashley Herring Blake Jack (Not Jackie) Erica Silverman Jacob's Room to Choose Sarah Hoffman Jamie is Jamie Afsaneh Moradian Japanese American Internment Camps Bryan J. Grapes Julian is a Mermaid Jessica Love Just for Now Abbi Glines Just Listen Sarah Dessen Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Killing Mr. Griffin Lois Duncan Kindred (graphic novel) Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings The Kingdom Emmanuel Carrere The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Last Hunger Season Roger Thurow Learning to be White: Money, Race and God in America Thandeka Letters & Papers from Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer Life and Death in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche
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Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and Peter D. Kramer the Remaking of the Self Little House in the Big Woods Laura Inglas Wilder Little White Duck: A Childhood in China Andres Vera Martinez Lizzie Dawn Ius Lock and Key Sarah Dessen Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prisons Don't Work and How We Can Maya Schenwar Do Better Lost Girls Alan Moore Lou: Summertime Blues Julian Neel Love and Other Four-Letter Words Carolyn Mackler Madeline and the Gypsies Ludwig Bemelmans Make Your Home Among Strangers Jennine Capó Crucet Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls Rights Malala Yousafzai Mama Get the Hammer: There’s a Fly on Papa's Head Barbara Johnson The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline Me and Neesie Eloise Greenfield Mighty Heart of St. James Ashley Herring Blake Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur The Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction John Austin Minute Magic Spells Skye Alexander Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Cool-kyou Shinja Mommy's Khimar Jamilah Thompkins- Bigelow Monster Walter Dean Myers More Happy than Not Adam Silvera My Body My Choice Robin Stevenson My Brother's Husband Gengoroh Tagame My Daddy Is in Jail Janet M. Bender My First Book of Quantum Physics Sheddad Kaid-Sala Ferron My Friend Dahmer Derf Backderf My Princess Boy Cheryl Kilodavis My Two Mommies Tierra Williams My Year in the Middle Lila Quintero Weaver The Negro & the 1st Amendment Harry Kalven Jr. The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers Brian Dolinar
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The Negro People in American W.Z. Foster Neither Airlie Anderson The New Rulers of the World John Pilger Nicaragua: The Revolution and the Ethnic Question A. Sivanandan Nigger Heaven Carl Van Vechten Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Jay Dobyns Hells Angels No More Kisses Margaret Wild No More Poems Rhett Miller Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Official Overstreet Indian Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide Steven Cooper On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Gary Ezzo Sleep On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power Erich Fromm On Killing: The psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Lt. Col. Dave Grossman Society Once Upon a Star James Carter One Man Guy Michael Barakiva Only the Good Spy Young Ally Carter Other Broken Things C. Desir P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book Golbarg Bashi P.S. I still love you Jenny Han Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale Duncan Tonatiuh Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention Jamal Joseph The Pants Project Cat Clarke The Peacock among Pigeons Tyler Curry Perfect Putdowns: A Collection of Acid Wit Laura Ward The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo Pride Colors Robin Stevenson The Pride Guide Jo Langford Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag Rob Sanders Prince and Knight Daniel Haack Prince and the Dressmaker Jen Wang Princess Puffybottom… and Darryl Susin Nielsen
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in Marie Gottschalk America Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write Terri LeClercq Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School Shamus Rahman Khan The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World L. Ron Hubbard The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease Jonathan M. Metzl The Purim Superhero Elisabeth Kushner Queer Heroes Arabelle Sicardi Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the 21st Century Herb Boyd The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Ellis Cose Why should America Care? Race Matters Cornel West Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class Robin D.G. Kelley Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Joseph F. Healey Change Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s Michael Omi Radical School Reform Ronald Gross Rani Patel In Full Effect Sonia Patel Real Live Boyfriends E. Lockhart Red: A Crayon's Story Michael Hall Redwood and Ponytail K.A. Holt Regeneration Pat Barker Renegades Marissa Mayer Research Matters: A Guide to Research Writing Rebecca Moore Howard Respect in a World of Inequality Richard Sennett Rethinking our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice Wayne Au Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility Tony Gaskew The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/O Alan Eladio Gomez Radicalism, Solidarity Politics and Latin American Social Movements Rhyme Schemer K.A. Holt The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture Daniel Harris The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany William L. Shirer The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture took Us from Girl Susan J. Douglas Power to Girls Gone Wild Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Eugene D. Genovese S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Heather Corinna Your Teens and Twenties The Science and Politics of Racial Research William H. Tucker Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics L. Ron Hubbard
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The Scientology Handbook L. Ron Hubbard Scientology: A New Slant on Life L. Ron Hubbard Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought L. Ron Hubbard The Season of You & Me Robin Constantine Seedfolks Paul Fleischman Self Analysis L. Ron Hubbard Sex is a Funny Word Cory Silverberg Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body Laci Green Sex, Puberty and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up Jacqui Bailey The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in Johnathan Kozol America Shoot Your Shot Vernon Brundage Jr. The Siege of Tel Aviv Hesh Kestin Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad James Rumford Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli Sing No Evil J.P. Ahonen, K.P. Alare Skippyjon Jones (series) Judith Schachner Slave William Malliol Sloppy Firsts Megan McCafferty Smoke Ellen Hopkins The Snake Head: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the Patrick Radden Keefe American Dream So Hard to Say Alex Sanchez Sold Patricia McCormick South of Sunshine Dana Elmendorf Sparkle Boy Lesléa Newman Speak Laurie Halse Anderson Stella Brings the Family Miriam Schiffer The Stickup Kids; Race, Drugs, Violence and the American Dream Randol Contreras The Story of Punishment: A Record of Man's Inhumanity to Man Harry Elmer Barnes Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song David Margolick Street God: The Explosive True Story of a Former Drug Boss on the Dimas Salaberrios Run from the Hood--and the Courageous Mission that Drove Him Back The Stupids Die Harry Allard Sunny Side Up Jennifer Holm Surviving Schizophrenia E. Fuller Torrey M.D. Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice Hunter Cutting Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms Venus E. Evans-Winters
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Teaching on the Inside: A Survival Handbook for the New Correctional Pauline Geraci Educator There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom Louis Sachar They Were Strong and Good Robert Lawson Think Like A Shrink: 100 Principles for Seeing Deeply into Yourself and Emanual H. Rosen Others Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher This Book is Gay Juno Dawson This Day in June Gayle E. Pitman This Is Where It Ends Marieke Nijkamp This One Summer Mariko Tamaki Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk, The Booker T. Washington, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man William E. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson Through the Eyes of the Judged: Autobiographical Sketches by Simeon Terry Incarcerated Young Men To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Totally Awkward Love Story Tom Ellen, Lucy Ivison Travels of Babar Jean de Brunhoff Tricks Ellen Hopkins The Truth about Alice Jennifer Mathieu The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle Leslie Connor Tugs: The World's Hardest Working Boats Josh Leventhal Tulip Sees America Cynthia Rylant The Turner Diaries William Luther Pierce Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! Lynne Truss Two Boys Kissing David Levithan Two Dads Carolyn Robertson Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal Andrew Hacker Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Jonna Perrillo Equity Undocumented Duncan Tonatiuh Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great Bob Shea Unpresidented Martha Brockenbrough Until the Last Star Fades Jacquelyn Middleton Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington The Vaccine Friendly Plan Paul Thomas Varieties of African American Religious Experience Anthony B. Pinn The Vincent Boys Abbi Glines
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Violence and its Alternatives Manfred Steger Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic James Gilligan, M.D. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections Slavoj Zizek Visiting Day Jacqueline Woodson The Walking Dead (graphic novel series) Robert Kirkman Want to Play Trucks? Ann Stott The War Within These Walls Aline Sax The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living L. Ron Hubbard We March Shane W. Evans Weird Girl and What's His Name Meagan Brothers What is Humanism? How Do You Live Without a God? And Other Big Michael Rosen Questions for Kids What Is Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard What the Moon Saw Laura Resau What Was Stonewall? Nico Medina When a Parent Goes to Jail Rebecca M. Yaffe When Aidan Became a Brother Kyle Lukoff White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Who are You? the Kid's Guide to Gender Identity Brook Pessin- Whedbee Who Was Harriet Tubman? Yona Zeldis McDonough "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Beverly Daniel Tatum Other Conversations about Race Ph.D Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail Matthys Levy Wicca Harmony Nice Willow and the Wedding Denise Brennan- Nelson Winning the Race to Unity: Is Racial Reconciliation Really Working? Clarence Shuler The Witch Boy Molly Ostertag The Women of Brewster's Place Gloria Naylor Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History Walter Mosley Worm Loves Worm JJ Austrian Zora and Me Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
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