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The Authors Guild Banned Books Club

Dive into stories that challenge, provoke, and inspire.

The Authors Guild Banned Books Club is a free virtual book club on the Fable social reading app. Each month, the Banned Books Club presents a different work of fiction or nonfiction recently barred in one or more U.S. school districts or states.

Readers can log on to Fable anytime throughout the month to access the moderated book discussion as well as valuable resources to help you get the most out of your reading experience. You can also access the commentary and resources for any of the past selections.

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2025–26 Banned Books Club Lineup

MonthTitleAuthor
November 2025All Boys Aren’t BlueGeorge M. Johnson
December 20251984George Orwell
January 2026The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat FriendKody Keplinger
February 2026Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
March 2026The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
April 2026Nickel and DimedBarbara Ehrenreich
May 2026Last Night at the Telegraph ClubMalinda Lo
June 2026This Book Is Anti-RacistTiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand
July 2026All the Bright PlacesJennifer Niven
August 2026SoldPatricia McCormick
September 2026The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
October 2026The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank

Prior Selections

Discussions of prior selections are still available to read in the Fable app.

  • Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
  • All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (led by Sungjoo Yoon)
  • Crank by Ellen Hopkins
  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
  • Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
  • Long Division by Kiese Laymon
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • Push by Sapphire
  • My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

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Our Stop Book Bans Toolkit provides templates and details on how to contact your local school board, write to your state lawmakers, or submit a letter to the editor to your local newspaper or radio station.

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