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Let books be! Protect the freedom to read.

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This month’s display brings together books that have been challenged, restricted, or banned by school boards, public libraries, and governments. Some are long-standing classics, like 1984, Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye, and Of Mice and Men. Some were suppressed by the states their authors wrote about, like Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Many are by Black, Indigenous, and queer writers, the authors today’s book bans target most: Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. The display includes titles in English and Spanish. Stop by, browse, and borrow one. Checking out a challenged book is one simple way to defend it.