Books About Censorship

Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

“Bless your heart, Kirsten Miller. You masterfully crafted what it's like to live in a small Southern town filled with generational secrets, town gossip, and found family. 'Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books' showcases the power of reading the right book at the right time. I loved everything about this story and the positive ways... Read more

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

A Novel

By: Kirsten Miller
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Incredible read with very important themes and social observation. Read more

The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale

By: Aya Khalil
Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi
Length: 18 minutes

Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together—with their teacher’s help—they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success: the... Read more about The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale

What the Fact?

Finding the Truth in All the Noise

By: Seema Yasmin
Narrated by: Seema Yasmin
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“For anyone feeling overwhelmed by the plethora of misinformation, disinformation, falsehoods, and other methods of muddling reality, this book is a fantastic resource. In accessible, conversational language, rife with examples real and hypothetical, Dr. Seema Yasmin breaks down the different types of bad info, how it spreads, why it spreads, and... Read more

This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Kausar Mohammed
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

★ “[Ahmed] employs high stakes, increasing tensions, romantic near-misses, and adult hypocrisy to powerful effect.” –Publisher's Weekly, starred review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe. 

After her dad... Read more about This Book Won't Burn

That Librarian

The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones
Narrated by: Amanda Jones
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

“This book is the incredible - and highly stress inducing, don't read before bedtime - the memoir of a Louisiana middle-school librarian who finds herself at the front line of the culture wars. Powerful!! Read more

Free Speech

A History from Socrates to Social Media

By: Jacob Mchangama
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to todayHailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the... Read more about Free Speech

Banned Books

The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present

DK Secret Histories

By: DK
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Discover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published.

Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is "acceptable" in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.

Banned Books explores why some of the world's most important... Read more about Banned Books

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Now an animated film adaptation produced and directed by Andy Serkis George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and... Read more about Animal Farm

Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan
Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Vikas Adam & Oliver Wyman
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

“Three stories intertwining to create a masterpiece highlighting the importance of queer book representation in schools, and the dangers of book banning. David Levithan had me hooked from the first sentence and sighing with hope at the last. I fell in love with the sweet characters, becoming invested in their quirks and lives. A celebration of... Read more

Reading Lolita in Tehran

A Memoir in Books

By: Azar Nafisi
Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor... Read more about Reading Lolita in Tehran

Property of the Rebel Librarian

By: Allison Varnes
Narrated by: Monika Felice Smith
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Celebrate the freedom to read with this timely, empowering middle-grade debut about a girl who fights back against banned books in the spirit of The View from Saturday or Frindle.

When twelve-year-old June Harper's parents discover what they deem an inappropriate library book, they take strict parenting to a whole new level. And everything June... Read more about Property of the Rebel Librarian

The Last Book in the Universe

By: Rodman Philbrick
Narrated by: Jeremy Davies
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.

It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged... Read more about The Last Book in the Universe

Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: A. S. King
Narrated by: Pete Cross, Gretchen Bender, Amy Sarig King & Jane Yolen
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.Someone in... Read more about Attack of the Black Rectangles