Banned Library Podcast

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck 07.08.2018 32:38 ↓

A young boy grows up on a farm and is destroyed by a bull, but he gets a pig out of it so winner winner chicken dinner.

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry 03.07.2018 24:43 ↓

Being ten is so hard, especially when you have to make lists about all the things you hate. Plus there's the cocaine addiction. Maybe?

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 05.06.2018 16:28 ↓

A man in wings jumps off the hospital where an important baby soon known as Milkman is being born.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 31.05.2018 14:05 ↓

War is hell but not in this book of truth-telling fiction. Crank up the Creedence because we're going to 'Nam and learning what the war was really like.

Always Running by Luis Rodriquez 25.05.2018 31:04 ↓

The true story of a gang member's journey into and out of la vida loca. And not one Ricky Martin joke.

The Terrorist by Caroline B Cooney 10.05.2018 24:32 ↓

A young boy gets blowed up, his family get super sad, and then we wrap it all up pretty easy with a rather genre ending to a literary tale.

Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen 01.05.2018 41:38 ↓

A boy goes to live on a farm with a complete psychopath. But in a fun way.

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes 24.04.2018 28:21 ↓

A young girl goes with her family on vacation, she reflects on a dead classmate, and her dog doesn't die but the book won a Newberry Honor anyway.

Fat Kid Rules the World by KL Going 17.04.2018 54:41 ↓

A fat kid gets introduced into the punk rock life by a manic junkie dream dude and we all learn a lesson about being aware of all the life around us.

The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole 120 11.04.2018 49:20 ↓

A young girl tells her horrifying story and if you don't need a shower after this one then you need to go to church.

You Hear Me? poems and writing by teenage boys, edited by Betsy Franco 03.04.2018 30:38 ↓

A collection of poems by teenagers so get ready for some modern angst of Holden Caulfield levels.

A Time To Kill by John Grisham 27.03.2018 1:03:02 ↓

When a black man kills the men who raped his daughter, a small southern town loses its damn mind.

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 20.03.2018 44:51 ↓

A problematic author with a story containing a very muddled message about suicide.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 13.03.2018 38:20 ↓

High school is crazy, right? Like that one time you called the cops because of a super tramatic event but all your friends thought you were being a killjoy. Memories.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 06.03.2018 34:32 ↓

It was a pleasure to burn through this book and explain that people are dummies for banning a book on book banning.

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut 27.02.2018 33:15 ↓

Vonnegut dies to bring you news from the Pearly Gates, interviewing notable dead people about their lives and thoughts on current events.

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 20.02.2018 22:35 ↓

A woman loses her husband and is not that broken up about it and that broke people up about it.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 13.02.2018 31:55 ↓

A small town holds a very special lottery and people were super mad about it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 06.02.2018 1:23:51 ↓

A man trying to escape prison finds himself locked up in the worst way in this psychadelic novel about conformity, individuality, and sanity.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 30.01.2018 38:33 ↓

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy kinda saunter into the magical world of Narnia and tear stuff up. It's good to be the Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve.

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 16.01.2018 40:00 ↓

A brat becomes an average kid with a strange family with this week's book.

Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman 09.01.2018 27:05 ↓

A crazy, racist little fairy tale, Sambo learns to steal from bullies and eat hella pancakes.

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson 02.01.2018 28:58 ↓

Banned for language and moral/religious reasons, we get into the story of a little girl with family problems and the old man she thinks is taking her friend.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor 12.12.2017 32:12 ↓

From the deep Depression-era south is a story of hope and hatred and one family's story.

William Tyndale's New Testament 05.12.2017 1:05:50 ↓

The library delves into the Gospel of Matthew with this biblical translation that brought Jesus to the English masses and totally got the author murdered by the state.