Book Bingo: Censorship
Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Censorship. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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Brother Brontë
Fiction. Flores presents a mind-bending novel set in a near, not unimaginable future in which oddly charming Latinx characters inhabit and pass through the viscerally repulsive border town of Three Rivers, Texas, surrounded by decay, debris, and desperation. Reading and books are illegal there, and worker-mothers must slave away at the fish factory. (Booklist)
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Yes I Can Say That
Nonfiction. A comedy veteran, in 10 impassioned polemics, frames comedy as a tool of empowerment -- a way to reclaim hateful rhetoric and battle the democracy-crushing plight of censorship. (NoveList)
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Dangerous Fictions
Nonfiction. What good is fiction? Journalist Gold makes an incisive book debut with a thoughtful, often witty, examination of the causes and consequences of banning novels. (Kirkus)
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That Librarian
Nonfiction. A memoir by a middle school librarian from Louisiana who fought censorship. (Kirkus)
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The Librarian of Burned Books
Fiction. Set against the backdrop of WWII, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. (NoveList)
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On Censorship
Nonfiction. In America today, more books are being banned than ever before. This censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities. In On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US, respected long-time public librarian James LaRue issues a balanced and reasonable call to action for all citizens. (NoveList)
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Riot Act
Teen Fiction. Under the authoritarian government of an alternate 1991, Anti-American Thought is illegal. (Kirkus)
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Radio Free Afghanistan
Nonfiction. The chairman and CEO of Afghanistan's largest media company chronicles his 20-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, capturing the spirit and resilience of the Afghan people, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban's return to power in 2021. (NoveList)
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Fiction. A satiric novel looks at a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books and a little lending library that changes everything. (NoveList)
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The Future of Another Timeline
Fiction. Time travelers battle for the future in this feminist sci-fi thriller. (Kirkus)
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