In honor of Banned Books Week, the Follen Library Team recommends titles from our collection that have been challenged or banned. Challenged books have had attempts made to restrict or remove them from a library; banned books have been removed from a library after a successful challenge. These books will be on display for the next month near the Library window, or on the Library shelves. Contact library@follen.org if you need help finding anything.
Also, if you were in church October 5, you heard Rev. Carolyn speak about Pauline Boss’s book Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief. We have 2 copies in the Follen Library in the Caring for Self & Others section. Feel free to check one out with an orange circulation card!
Challenged or Banned Books in the Follen Library Collection
| Name of Book |
Where Located on Shelf |
| America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (Wallis) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family (Nutt) |
Caring for Self & Others/LGBTQ+ |
| Between the World and Me (Coates) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Wilkerson) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Colored People (Gates) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Obama, B.) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America (Kendi) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcom X and the Organization of Afro-America Unity (Sales) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (Jacob) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| How to Be an Antiracist (Kendi) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby (Morrison-Read) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Stevenson) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens (Madrone) |
Caring for Self & Others/LGBTQ+ |
| Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Stevenson) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Marable) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm (DiAngelo) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (Stampp) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| She’s My Dad: A Father’s Transition and a Son’s Redemption (Williams) |
Caring for Self & Others/LGBTQ+ |
| Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Trade (Equal Justice Initiative) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| So You Want To Talk About Race? (Oluo) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Stamped from the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Kendi) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Kendi) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Dyson) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| The ABC’s of LGBTQ+ (Mardell) |
Caring for Self & Others/LGBTQ+ |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Alexander) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (McGhee) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race (Irving) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Anderson) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Zeitoun (Eggers) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Blackmon) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Frederick Douglass (McFeely) |
Social Justice/Racism |
| Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope (Flowers) |
Social Justice/Environment |
