Banned Books at Sandman

Fight censorship - Read a banned book today! 

Around the world, even in the United States, people challenge and ban books. The ALA celebrates "Banned Books Week" each September, an event in which the literary community bands together to promote these challenged books. 

Classics like Huck Finn and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are under attack in classrooms, libraries and schools. It may seem like a crazy story from a dystopian novel, or a historical oddity from the dark ages... but censorship is REAL. 

Censorship has been a problem in the US since at least the 1600s, when Bostonians famously burned William Pynchon's Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. Over the years, hundreds of other titles have been challenged, from well-known novels like Gone with the Wind and 1984 to beloved children's titles like Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and the Harry Potter series.

For more details check out the American Library Association's Challenged and Banned Books List, the List of Books Banned By Governments on Wikipedia, or the ALA's lists of most frequently challenged books of the 1990's and most frequently challenged books of the 2000's.

The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank, B.M. Mooyaart (Translated by), Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Anne Frank, B.M. Mooyaart (Translated by), Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction by)
$5.94
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ISBN: 9780553296983
Published: Bantam - June 1st, 1993

Bless Me, Ultima By Rudolfo Anaya Cover Image
$7.64
ISBN: 9780446600255
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - April 1st, 1994

Becoming Beatrix: The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit By Amy M. O'Quinn Cover Image
$15.29
ISBN: 9781641604406
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Published: Chicago Review Press - March 22nd, 2022

An American Tragedy (Vintage Classics) By Theodore Dreiser Cover Image
$12.75
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ISBN: 9780593313329
Published: Vintage - May 25th, 2021

Tropic of Cancer (Miller) By Henry Miller Cover Image
$15.30
ISBN: 9780802131782
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Published: Grove Press - January 6th, 1994

The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author By Norman Mailer Cover Image
$22.94
ISBN: 9780312265052
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Published: Picador - August 5th, 2000

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text By William S. Burroughs Jr, James Grauerholz (Editor), Barry Miles (Editor) Cover Image
$14.45
ISBN: 9780802122070
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Published: Grove Press - July 16th, 2013

Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition By D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer (Editor), Lindeth Vasey (Editor), John Worthen (Editor), Amit Chaudhuri (Introduction by), Mark Kinkead-Weekes (Notes by) Cover Image
By D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer (Editor), Lindeth Vasey (Editor), John Worthen (Editor), Amit Chaudhuri (Introduction by), Mark Kinkead-Weekes (Notes by)
$11.05
ISBN: 9780141441542
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Published: Penguin Classics - September 25th, 2007

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Brideshead Revisited (75th Anniversary Edition) By Evelyn Waugh Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316242103
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Published: Back Bay Books - November 3rd, 2020

The Anarchist Cookbook By William Powell Cover Image
$25.49
ISBN: 9781607966128
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Published: WWW.Snowballpublishing.com - June 26th, 2013

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream By Hunter S. Thompson Cover Image
$14.45
ISBN: 9780679785897
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Published: Vintage - May 12th, 1998

Year of Wonders: A Novel By Geraldine Brooks Cover Image
$15.30
ISBN: 9780142001431
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Published: Penguin Books - April 30th, 2002

Saga Book One By Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (By (artist)) Cover Image
By Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (By (artist))
$42.49
ISBN: 9781632150783
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Published: Image Comics - November 25th, 2014

A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive By Dave Pelzer Cover Image
$11.86
ISBN: 9781558743663
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Published: Health Communications Inc - September 1st, 1995

Ordinary People: A Novel By Judith Guest Cover Image
$14.45
ISBN: 9780140065176
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Published: Penguin Books - October 28th, 1982

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage Contemporaries) By Mark Haddon Cover Image
$13.60
ISBN: 9781400032716
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Published: Vintage - May 18th, 2004

The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Art Spiegelman Cover Image
$33.25
ISBN: 9780679406419
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Published: Pantheon - November 19th, 1996

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The Book Thief By Markus Zusak Cover Image
$12.74
ISBN: 9780375842207
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers - September 11th, 2007

Baby Teeth: A Novel By Zoje Stage Cover Image
$15.29
ISBN: 9781250170767
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 16th, 2019

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel By Jonathan Safran Foer Cover Image
$16.14
ISBN: 9780618711659
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Published: Mariner Books Classics - April 4th, 2006

Dreaming in Cuban By Cristina García Cover Image
$15.30
ISBN: 9780345381439
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Published: Ballantine Books - February 10th, 1993

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