Intellectual Freedom Book Resumes

To help navigate the many book challenges happening in Virginia, the Virginia Library Association is creating and sharing book "resumes" for commonly challenged books. Resumes are completed by librarians throughout the state who volunteer to complete. Resumes will be uploaded to this page once they are complete and reviewed. 

If you're interested in helping with completing a resume, click here complete the Virginia Challenged Book Resume Collaboration form. You can select up to five books. Book resumes are currently being created for those books with an asterisk (*) by the title below.

• 33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses* by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
• A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines
• A Lesson in Vengeance* by Victoria Lee
• A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart by Zetta Elliott
• All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
• Allegedly: A Novel* by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
• Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison
• Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
• An Ordinary Day by Elana K. Arnold
• Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Saenz
• Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
• Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers
• Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty
• Beautify by Amy Reed
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Beetle and the Hollow Bones by Eliza Layne
• Before We Disappear* by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
• Beloved* by Toni Morrison
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Bodies are Cool by Tyler Feder
• Brazen by Julia Haart
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Burned* by Ellen Hopkins
• Call Me By Your Name (Series) by Andre Aciman
• Can I Touch Your Hair by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• Check Please* by Ngozi Ukazu
• Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
• Closer to Nowhere* by Ellen Hopkins
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Freak Boy by Kristin Clark
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook* by Christopher Noxon
• Handmaid’s Tale (The Graphic Novel)
  
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
• I'm a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni
• I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• Infandous by Elana K. Arnold
• Jesus Land* by Julia Scheeres
• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club* by Malinda Lo
• Lawn Boy* by Jonathan Evison
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Love Drugged by James Klise
• Lucky by Alic Sebold
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• #MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
• Panic by Sharon M. Draper
• People Kill People* by Ellen Hopkins
• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
• Push by Sapphire
• Red Hood* by Elana K. Arnold
• Rick by Alex Gino
• Seeing Gender by Iris Gottlieb
• Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverbert, illus. by Fiona Smyth
• Slaughterhouse-Five* by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sold* by Patricia McCormick
• The Bluest Eye* by Toni Morrison
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
• This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron Aceves
• This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
• Tilt* by Ellen Hopkins
• Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
• Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers
• What Girls are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
• What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
• YOU: A Novel by Caroline Kepnes