The Universal Justice Team at MRUCC would like to thank everyone who participated in the Blessing of the Books Event and the creation of our new MLK, Jr. Banned Books Library, a section in the church library. It was a powerful experience to name the importance of our stories and our responsibility to preserve them. Below is the list of books presently on our shelves. New banned books will be accepted at any time. Just leave them in the basket with a note.

Young Adult and Adult:
Angelou, Maya: Gather Together in My Name
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Chbosky, Stephen: the perks of being a wallflower
Coates, Ta-Nehisi: Between the World and Me
DiAngelo, Robin: White Fragility
Frank, Anne: The Diary of a Young Girl
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Gottlieb, Iris: Seeing Gender
Green, John: Turtles All the Way Down
Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants
Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Kobabe, Maia: Gender Queer
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Mafi, Tahereh: A Very Large Expanse of the Sea
Marner, Silas: George Eliot
Morrison, Toni: Beloved, Sula, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon
Oseman, Alice: Heartstopper
Rowling, J.K: Harry Potter: The Sorcerer’s Stone
Salinger, J.D: The Catcher in the Rye
Sanchez, Alex: Rainbow Boys
Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis
Spiegelman, Art: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men
Thomas, Angie: The Hate U Give
Walls, Jeanette: The Glass Castle
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple

Children’s Books:
Richardson, Justin & Parnell Peter and Tango Makes Three