Episode 30: Free People Read Freely: Banned Books Week 2023

Booklist's Shelf Care

In this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to four people addressing banned books in different ways: Cortney Hall and Matt Rodrigues from NBC Chicago Today’s Banned Book Club; Amanda ReCupido, Vice President of the Downers Grove Public Library Foundation and chair of the committee for their freedom to read fundraising gala; and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman, who shares a Booklist feature about censorship as well as a few books she’s been loving recently. Banned Books Week is October 1 – 7 this year—how are you celebrating? Here's what we talked about on the pod: All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, edited by The New York Times Magazine The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, read by a full cast @NBCChigacoToday on Instagram Downers Grove Public Library Foundation The Essentials: Banned Books and the First Amendment, by Donna Seaman Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury PBS Books Roman Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Todd Portnowitz Read-alikes: Expats and Other Outsiders, by Donna Seaman Our Strangers, by Lydia Davis The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy