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Suzanne Collins, “The Hunger Games”

September 16, 2019 Agatha Woodbury

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel written from the perspective of a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen.…

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Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451”

September 12, 2019 Artemis Carpenter

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 American novel by Ray Bradbury, set in a future dystopia where books are banned, TV…

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Judy Blume, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”

Elizabeth Camele

“But if you aren’t any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the…

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Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”

Megan Henriksen

Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical science fiction novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, follows protagonist Billy Pilgrim as he becomes unstuck in time and abducted by…

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Khaled Hosseini, “The Kite Runner”

Puja Dutta

Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, The Kite Runner is set Afghanistan during the Soviet military intervention and depicts the…

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Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Kevin Liu

First published in 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is considered an American classic and won the Pulitzer Prize…

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Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”

Sophie Zhang

Brave New World is a dystopian novel written by British author Aldous Huxley in 1931. The novel is set in…

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Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”

Nikita Sareen

My Sister’s Keeper tells the story of a thirteen-year-old named Anna Fitzgerald, who sues her parents for medical emancipation. Referred…

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Lois Duncan, “Killing Mr. Griffin”

Carley Johnson

Lois Duncan’s Killing Mr. Griffin was first published in 1978. The summary from the Banned Library podcast provides all of…

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J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye”

Kaylyn Clairmont

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is about a boy struggling to grow up in 1950’s New York. The…

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