Jonathan Friedman 📚 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Director of Free Expression & Education Programs @PENAmerica | Fighting the official suppression of ideas. | TEDx: https://t.co/hubjEEJMol | #FreeTheBooks
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonJonathan Friedman 📚Book ban stat of the day: 123 copies of Beloved by Toni Morrison were recently swept off the shelves of all schools in one Florida district, because a parent complained. 16 titles and 400 books in total. 📚📚📚 let people read! https://t.co/NoKF3GJbKr
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya AngelouJonathan Friedman 📚More of the books slapped with a "warning label" in Collier, FL, along with 106 others. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things John Updike's Rabbit is Rich Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings https://t.co/er435RqBtq
Paperback, Mass Market, 2009
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The God of Small Things
Arundhati RoyJonathan Friedman 📚More of the books slapped with a "warning label" in Collier, FL, along with 106 others. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things John Updike's Rabbit is Rich Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings https://t.co/er435RqBtq
Paperback, 2008
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
And Tango Makes Three
Justin RichardsonJonathan Friedman 📚Banned book of the day is "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. With its true story of 2 male penguins raising a baby, it's been targeted for years. But we @PENamerica are seeing an uptick in efforts to ban it across FL... #FreeTheBooks https://t.co/YYkAB4mZYm
Board Book, 2015
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Andrew SolomonJonathan Friedman 📚.@Andrew_Solomon reflecting on the inclusion of his book, 'Far From the Tree', on the Krause 850 book ban intimidation list in TX. #FReadom https://t.co/9q95ENHIoX
Paperback, 2013
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Circle
Dave EggersJonathan Friedman 📚Dave Eggers dives into the book bans in Rapid City, SD which resulted in plans to "destroy" hundreds of new, unopened copies of 5 novels, incl his, 'The Circle'. He renders the absurdity of these bans & the symbolic politics driving them, plainly, in @wapo https://t.co/CcsdqJDNup https://t.co/Yby2F1EVW6
Hardcover, 2019
$29.40$14.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia KobabeJonathan Friedman 📚The fight over Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe continues in @nytimes. Don't miss the part where a school committee in Wappingers, NY decided to keep the book on library shelves... only to have the superintendent unilaterally overrule them. #bookbans https://t.co/rcl6qFK9Jr
Paperback, 2019
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore RaméeJonathan Friedman 📚Eanes ISD in TX has publicized over 100 challenge to ban library books in the district. "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramee was challenged along with any book about Black Lives Matter. Challenger suggested the books be replaced with the Bible. https://bookriot.com/eanes-independent-school-district/ https://t.co/x9s9mZtUEZ
Paperback, 2020
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forever...
Judy BlumeJonathan Friedman 📚Book banning comes to Indiana public library. A new review of all books to cost $300K, and has left teen shelves empty of books, incl Manga, Avengers graphic novels, Captain America comics, books about puberty and 'Forever' by Judy Blume. #FreeTheBooks https://t.co/aZWii28Rio
Paperback, 2024
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flamer
Mike CuratoJonathan Friedman 📚Recently I had the privilege of sitting down with @MikeCurato for @PENamerica to talk about his book FLAMER and what the experience of being banned. Inspiring, honest discussion. #FreeTheBooks 👇👇👇 https://t.co/zGIucNkHrS
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book