Judy Blume’s Banned Books
I can’t even begin to express just how impactful Judy Blume’s books have been to me throughout my life. The fact that they have been on banned book lists from … Read More
Banned Books
Banned Books Week 2024
As a large academic library in the United States, censoring, challenging, and banning books is out of the question. Our collection development policies allow us librarians to add pretty much … Read More
Banned Books Librarians Read
Here at Books We Read, we have shared several banned book posts over the past few weeks to celebrate Banned Books Week 2023. In addition, the New Brunswick Libraries (NBL) … Read More
Rutgers Students Stand with the Banned
Banned Books Students Read Following up on my surprising discovery about the volume of banned and challenged books Rutgers students read, I decided to make banned books the focus of … Read More
Banned Children’s Books
Do I get annoyed every time I read a banned books list? Yes. For me it is particularly frustrating to see banned and challenged children’s books. Several of my favorites … Read More
Banned Books We Read
When I was selecting the best mini posters submitted by SEBS students as their library instruction class assignment, the number of banned and challenged books Rutgers students picked took me … Read More
Banned Books Week 2023
Save the Date! Following the tradition established by the American Library Association (ALA) to observe Banned Books Week in each fall, we will dedicate a few posts to challenged and … Read More
True Crime pt.2: “True Crime-ish” & The (Slightly) Lighter Side of the Genre
In my last post, I discussed True Crime and reflected on my fraught relationship with the genre and its most popular blood-soaked titles. In this post, I’ll talk about some … Read More
Brave New World, by ChatGPT
Joining the club of the ChatGPT discussion, what’s a better experiment for a blog post on a book than Brave New World? As college professors and grade school teachers express their … Read More
Banned or Challenged
“Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us” is the theme of Banned Books Week 2022, observed from September 18 to 24 this year. Committed to intellectual freedom, Books We Read joins … Read More