Tune in as Katie and Kendra discuss books for Banned Books Week!

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NEWS

Anthony Award Winners Announced (Bouchercon 2022)

Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools (Pen America)

“Lechelt: On banning books. Specifically, ‘Monday’s Not Coming’” (London Times-Mirror)

“‘It’s surreal’: Collierville Schools removes LGBTQ+ books from library shelves” (ABC)

“Indian River County School Board refuses to ban most of the 156 books on group’s hit list” (TCPalm.)

“‘This is wrong’: Central York students protest ban on books about racism” (ABC)

“Klein Independent School District Book Removals” (IDRA)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Revelator – Daryl Gregory

The Jigsaw Man – Nadine Matheson

Monday’s Not Coming – Tiffany D. Jackson

White Rabbit – Caleb Roehrig

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

The New Jim Crow by Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Getaway – Lamar Giles

Next of Kin – Kia Abdullah

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