On today's episode, Jill and Adam talk about Banned Books Week, the National Books Awards and their newfound love of the the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Lootcrate. Below, you'll find all the books we discussed as well as the full Banned Books and National Book Award longlist collections from OverDrive.com:
OverDrive's Banned Books Week collection
The full National Book Awards longlist collection
2016's most challenged books
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Make Something up by Chuck Palahniuk
Big Hard Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
Banned books that Adam and Jill will be reading during Banned Books Week
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
National Book Award longlist titles mentioned in the episode
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman, Jr.
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