Racial
Books that deal honestly with race โ using historical slurs, depicting racism, or centering the experience of marginalized communities โ face challenges from multiple directions. Huckleberry Finn has been challenged for its language by communities who object to the slur it uses; works by Black authors have been removed for making white students uncomfortable. The US school ban wave of the 2020s has a pronounced racial dimension, with books by and about people of color disproportionately targeted.
A Dry White Season
Andrรฉ Brink
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akรงam
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Book of Songs
Heinrich Heine
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Did Six Million Really Die?
Richard Verrall
Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution
Tsering Woeser
Front Desk
Kelly Yang
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Hoa Kiau
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
I Write What I Like
Steve Biko
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
Kurdistan: An Interstate Colony
ฤฐsmail Beลikรงi
Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait
Magnus Hirschfeld
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Native Son
Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo
Hergรฉ
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
The Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Malay Dilemma
Mahathir Mohamad
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Unknown
The Sleepwalkers
Stefan Zweig
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Turner Diaries
William Luther Pierce
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
They Burn the Thistles
Yaลar Kemal
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories
Luรญs Bernardo Honwana
We Uyghurs Have No Say
Ilham Tohti
Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher
Yakhal'inkomo
Mongane Wally Serote