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Libro.fm values the freedom to read. We are committed to protecting the rights of readers and the importance of representation in books. Check out frequently challenged audiobooks and hear from authors, booksellers, and others speaking out against censorship.
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Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)
Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)
By: Alex Gino
Narrated by: Jamie Clayton
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
BE WHO YOU ARE.When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. Melissa really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the... Read more
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The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give
By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds"Stunning." —John Green"This story is necessary. This story is important." —Kirkus (starred... Read more
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, Jeff Woodman & Richard Ferrone
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of... Read more
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so... Read more
The Blood Years
The Blood Years
By: Elana K. Arnold
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a... Read more
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition)
By: Jesse Andrews
Narrated by: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Keith Szarabajka, Hillar...
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE HIT FILM!
Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time—when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers— making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell... Read more
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The Poet X
The Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for... Read more
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I Am Malala
I Am Malala
By: Malala Yousafzai
Narrated by: Archie Panjabi
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
As seen on Netflix with David Letterman
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to... Read more
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
By: Anne Frank
Narrated by: Selma Blair
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel... Read more
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society... Read more
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The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project
By: Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of... Read more
Banned Books: A Conversation
Listen to our episode with Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks, Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy, Nicole Lintemuth, owner of Bettie’s Pages, and Martha Hickson, a high school librarian in Annandale, NJ.
Most challenged books of 2022
In 2022, the ALA documented 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources, the highest number of attempted book bans since they began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago.
Audiobooks on censorship
From fiction to nonfiction, plenty of books examine censorship and banning books.
Resources to fight against book bans
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