10/08/2026
Banned Books Week—it’s a great time to think about banned books, read them, and learn about the history of censorship and the human behaviors/fears that drive it. What does it reveal about what people wanted to keep hidden? Were they ultimately unsuccessful, like Rumi's efforts to hide her patterns in K-Pop Demon Hunters?
Full list of the book titles in this reel about censorship:
1. Harry Potter and the Cedarsville Censors: Inside the Precedent-Setting Defeat of an Arkansas Book Ban - by Brian Meadors
2. Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America - by Zeke Jarvis
3. On censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US - by James LaRue
4. Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control - by Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis
5. "Trash," Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany - by Kara L. Ritzheimer
6. Harmful and Undesireable: Book Censorship in N**i Germany - by Guenter Lewy
7. Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain - by Robert J. Savage
8. The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God - by Robin J. E. Vose
9. The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's "Children of the Alley" - by Muhammad Shu'ayr
10. A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings - by Zhi Li, translated by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline Lee, and Haun Sassy
