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BANNED BOOKS WEEK

Stand for the Right to Read Freely

This Banned Books Week, highlight the voices and stories threatened by censorship with booklists, giveaways, programs, and more.

Spotlight

What's On

Author Talks & Conversations
Exhibitions
Kids & Teens
Other Events

Author Talks & Conversations
- Latinx Voices in Poetry: Rio Cortez, Darrel Alejandro Holnes & More
  Tues, Sept 20 | 6:30 PM
  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online
- Restricted Access: An American History of Book Banning
  Wed, Sep 21 | 6 PM
  Schwarzman Building
- This Book Is Banned: How Book Bans Impact You, Our Society & Democracy
  Wed, Sept 21 | 6:30 PM
  Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
- Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Robert Jones Jr. & More
  Thurs, Sept 22 | 6:30 PM
  Schomburg Center

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Staff Picks

After an attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create space where they can share truths.

You Truly Assumed

NYPL Summer Reading Committee

Told in a conversational style, this scientific journey describes how one million oysters can land on top of a mountain.

One Million Oysters on Top of the Mountain

NYPL Summer Reading Committee

New & Noteworthy

Babel : Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution

Babel

R. F. Kuang

Adult

Fiction

New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza

New and Selected Stories

Cristina R. Garza

Adult

Fiction

Diary of a Misfit

Diary of a Misfit

Casey Parks

Adult

Nonfiction

Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Adult

Fiction

Fishermen and the Dragon : Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast

The Fishermen and the Dragon

Kirk W. Johnson

Adult

Nonfiction

Home Field Advantage

Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

Teens

Fiction

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

S. Moreno-Garcia

Adult

Fiction

A Visible Man

Edward Enninful

Adult

Nonfiction

My Boy Will Die of Sorrow

My Boy will Die of Sorrow

Efrén C. Olivares

Adult

Nonfiction

The Rabbit Hutch

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty

Adult

Fiction

From Our Blog

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So, Why Do We Call It Gotham, Anyway?

New York is a city of nicknames—the Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps, Empire City, The City So Nice They Named It Twice... but let’s just concentrate on one: Gotham.

Carmen Nigro

Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

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What's Your Literary Waterloo?

We asked our NYPL staff members: What’s a book you’ve never been able to conquer?

Gwen Glazer

Recommendations Editor, Readers Services

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