Freedom to Read Week 2025

Gender Queer

A Memoir

by Kobabe, Maia

Graphic Novel - 2019

Concern: LGBTQIA+ themes. Book Description: The mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Concern: LGBTQIA+ themes. Book Description: The mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Show less

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Finn

A Novel

by Clinch, Jon

Book - 2007

Concern: Graphic scenes and themes that are racist. Book Description: A novel inspired by Mark Twain's classic tales explores the mysterious life and stra...Show more Concern: Graphic scenes and themes that are racist. Book Description: A novel inspired by Mark Twain's classic tales explores the mysterious life and strange death of Huckleberry Finn's infamous father, describing Finn's fearsome father, the Judge; his brother, the sickly, sycophantic Will; and young Huck. Show less

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Gold Diggers

Striking It Rich in the Klondike

by Gray, Charlotte

Book - 2010

Concern: Racism. Book Description: A tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever. Concern: Racism. Book Description: A tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever. Show less

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

by McNamara, Michelle

Book - 2018

Concern: Gruesome details and content. Book Description: An account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeD...Show more Concern: Gruesome details and content. Book Description: An account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author's determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice. Show less

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Addicted

An Outlaw's Novel

by Kennedy, Elle

Paperback - 2016

Concern: Graphic description of sexual activities and low-quality plot. Book Description: After being spurned by the object of her interest, Jamie, forced...Show more Concern: Graphic description of sexual activities and low-quality plot. Book Description: After being spurned by the object of her interest, Jamie, forced out of paradise after a deadly attack, indulges in a little pleasure-filled revenge with her best friend, Lennox, who awakens unexpected desires. Show less

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The Arab of the Future

A Graphic Memoir, A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984)

by Sattouf, Riad

Graphic Novel - 2015

Concern: Stereotypes being depicted against Jewish, Arab, homosexuals, French people and women. Book Description: The author recounts his nomadic childho...Show more Concern: Stereotypes being depicted against Jewish, Arab, homosexuals, French people and women. Book Description: The author recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria, under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist, who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Show less

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Sex Criminals

Volume Three. Three the Hard Way

by Fraction, Matt

Graphic Novel - 2016

Concern: Inappropriate content. Book Description: So it turns out Jon and Suzie aren't alone ― other people around the world, like them, can freeze time. Now, the self-appointed group wants to regulate and control them through fear and intimidation. Concern: Inappropriate content. Book Description: So it turns out Jon and Suzie aren't alone ― other people around the world, like them, can freeze time. Now, the self-appointed group wants to regulate and control them through fear and intimidation. Show less

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Lolita

by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Book - 1997

Concern: Sexual inappropriateness. Book Description: A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his stepdaughter destroys the lives of those around him. Concern: Sexual inappropriateness. Book Description: A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his stepdaughter destroys the lives of those around him. Show less

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The Troop

by Cutter, Nick

Book - 2016

Concern: Extreme violence and sexual themes. Book Description: During a camping trip on an uninhabited island off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Tim a...Show more Concern: Extreme violence and sexual themes. Book Description: During a camping trip on an uninhabited island off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Tim and his Boy Scout troop encounter an unexpected intruder whose bioengineered body spreads horror faster than fear. Show less

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Snow Falling on Cedars

by Guterson, David

Book - 1995

Concern: Sexual content. Book Description: A tense courtroom drama, a poignant love story, and a haunting reflection on the delicate balance between the mind and heart. Concern: Sexual content. Book Description: A tense courtroom drama, a poignant love story, and a haunting reflection on the delicate balance between the mind and heart. Show less

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