For their reading challenge this year, the Build Your Library site has chosen "Reading Banned Books" as the theme.
- Written by a woman: Hello Beautiful--Ann Napolitano
- With an LGBTQ+ protagonist: Openly Straight--Bill Konigsberg
- Sapphic romance: Fingersmith--Sarah Waters
- Banned in your state:
- About immigration: The Devil's Highway--Luis Alberto Urrea
- About racism: The Blackbird Girls--Anne Blankman
- About climate change: The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel
- Fantasy: The Master and Margarita--Mikhail Bulgakov
- By a trans author: Mad Honey--Jodi Picoult
- A memoir: Be Ready When the Luck Happens--Ina Garten
- By an Indigenous author:
- About civil rights:
- Graphic novel: Banned Book Club--Kim Hyun Sook
- About suffrage: The Girls With No Names--Serena Burdick
- About a topic that is important to you:
- About banned books: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books--Kirsten Miller
- Non-fiction: Tiny Beautiful Things--Cheryl Strayed
- With a disabled protagonist:
- With chronic illness rep: The Last Letter--Rebecca Yarros
- By a woman of color: From the Desk of Zoe Washington--Janae Marks
- About reproductive rights: The Fountains of Silence--Ruta Sepetys
- Set in the 1960s:
- Written before 1960: East of Eden--John Steinbeck
- About resistance:
- Dystopian: Beautiful Creatures--Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
- About a lesser-known history: The Small and the Mighty--Sharon McMahon
- About an inspiring person:
- Apocalyptic: Cloud Atlas--David Mitchell
- About refugees:
- By a Latin American author:
- Won a award: This One Summer--Jillian Tamaki
- YA or Middle Grade: Eleven--Tom Rogers
- About witches:
- About a woman ruler:
- About or set in a library: The Reading List--Sara Nisha Adams
- By a black author:
- In translation: Before the Coffee Gets Cold--Shikazu Kawaguchi
- Debunks a historical myth:
- Released in the last 5 years:
- On the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of the last year: Tricks--Ellen Hopkins
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