Banned Book Club Selection: Cat’s Cradle

Available for checkout at Brown Library (in book and e-book format) and at your local public libraries. The Banned Book Club’s next selection is Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Published in 1963, Cat’s Cradle is a classic sci-fi novel, satirically taking on the subjects of religion, science, morality, and technology. Nominated for a Hugo award, the book was [...]

Banned Book Club Selection: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Available for checkout at Brown Library and at your local public libraries. The Banned Book Club’s next selection is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. Published in 1994, this was his first book, and it immediately became a New York Times bestseller. It is considered a ”non-fiction novel,” in the tradition of Truman [...]

Make a Date with a Banned Book…

Stand up for your right to read! The new Banned Book Club’s first selection is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Ms. Roy faced an obscenity trial in her native India for this, her first novel. She also won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction. To learn more about the book and [...]