As efforts to restrict the access to a growing array of books in school libraries across the country continues, it also evolves. In a recent "Banned in the USA" report, PEN America says that book banning in many more recent cases are no longer obvious in the standard removed-from-shelves way, but in what they call “soft censorship.”
“The movement to ban books in public schools does not stop at book bans themselves; ‘quiet’ or ‘soft’ censorship can also silence specific authors, viewpoints, and books with diverse representation,” the report states. “Soft censorship is when fears of real censorship may cause educators and librarians, school administrators, and school boards to self-censor or suppress speech well beyond what may have been banned or prohibited.”
Accompanying the "Banned in the USA" report is PEN America’s latest Index of School Book Bans, published in November. Comparing this latest list of books banned in Texas school districts, taken from the 2023–24 school year and comparing it to the previous list is jarring for a couple of reasons. First, Texas districts banned about 1,000 fewer books that school year than in the previous year. And second, the districts with the largest number of banned books in 2022–23 barely even register in the latest list.
One surprise was that Frisco ISD, where more than 350 books were banned in the 2022–23 year, didn’t show a single banned book in 2023–24. Other districts, such as Fort Worth ISD, showed a distinct decrease in the number of banned books this time. Given the overall lower number in book bans across the state, one might assume that the movement to ban as many books from school shelves as possible has started to wane. But that would likely be incorrect, according to PEN America.
Texas ranked third in the nation with 538 banned books from 12 districts. Clearly, a small number of districts are carrying the heaviest loads when it comes to banning books. The study noted a few Texas cases that stood out to researchers as extreme examples: Fort Worth ISD was called out for shutting down some school libraries to conduct an audit and then removing more than 100 books from circulation.
“These overzealous responses to a single complaint or pending state law resulted in the removal of access to entire library collections out of fear, depriving students of ready access to a key educational resource,” PEN America noted.
Sabrina Baete, a researcher who worked on the index, said that the list is compiled with publicly available data, which is a factor in her estimation that the number of titles on the banned book index is likely lower than what is truly the case across the country.
There’s also the rather simple math that states a book can be removed from a school’s library only once. Maia Kobabe’s controversial graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir, one of the books districts across the United States have banned the most, for example, can in fact, be taken away permanently by a district just once.
But then there’s the “soft censorship” element. PEN America’s research suggests that librarians and decision makers are preemptively deciding to not add books they fear could elicit a negative response from some parents, rather than stocking some titles that discuss gender, LGBTQ issues, race or ethnicity.
“The restrictions on books and access to authors, stories, and information are today having far-reaching implications,” the study’s conclusion reads. “In the third year of this worsening book banning crisis, the defense of the core principles of public education and the freedom to read, learn, and think is as necessary now as ever.”
Book Ban Definition
Over the past few years, debate centering on the definition of “banned” and what constitutes a book ban has become a hot topic. In the study, PEN America details exactly how it comes to its conclusions. “PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by lawmakers or other governmental officials, that leads to a previously accessible book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished, either temporarily or permanently,” the study explains.
Here's a look at some of the books banned by various school districts across Texas.
Brownsville (5 books)
Flamer - Curato, MikeThe Big Questions Book of Sex and Consent - Freitas, Donna
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health - Harris, Robie H.
Jay's Gay Agenda - June, Jason
Juliet Takes a Breath - Rivera, Gabby
Conroe (106 books)
The Poet X - Acevedo, Elizabeth Half of a Yellow Sun - Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Cool for the Summer - Adler, Dahlia
The Upside of Unrequited - Albertalli, Becky
Giant Days - Allison, John and Cogar, Whitney
Speak - Anderson, Laurie Halse
Twisted - Anderson, Laurie Halse
What Girls Are Made Of - Arnold, Elana K.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Andrews, Jesse
The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Beah, Ishmael
The Immortalists - Benjamin, Chloe
Forever… - Blume, Judy
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders - Boylan, Jennifer Finney
Felix Ever After - Callender, Kacen
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Callender, Kacen
I Am Margaret Moore - Capin, Hannah
Marked - Cast, P. C. and Cast, Kristin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky, Stephen
Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up - Corinna, Heather
Drown - Diaz, Junot
Perfect Chemistry - Elkeles, Simone
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Foer, Jonathan Safran
The Carnival at Bray - Foley, Jessie Ann
Dime - Frank, E. R.
Grit - French, Gillian
American Gods - Gaiman, Neil
Melissa (George) - Gino, Alex
Rick - Gino, Alex
Looking for Alaska - Green, John
Water for Elephants - Gruen, Sara
The Freedom Writers Diary - Gruwell, Erin
Homegoing - Gyasi, Yaa
The Pretty Committee Strikes Back - Harrison, L.
Geography Club - Hartinger, Brent
Practical Magic - Hoffman, Alice
Crank - Hopkins, Ellen
Impulse - Hopkins, Ellen
Rumble - Hopkins, Ellen
The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Khaled
We Are the Ants - Hutchinson, Shaun David
Brave New World - Huxley, Aldous
Allegedly - Jackson, Tiffany D.
Grown - Jackson, Tiffany D.
Monday's Not Coming - Jackson, Tiffany D.
Almost Perfect - Katcher, Brian
Ask the Passengers - King, A. S.
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A Life Reclaimed: A Memoir - Knight, Michelle and Burford, Michelle
Openly Straight - Konigsberg, Bill
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out - Kuklin, Susan
Girl in Translation - Kwok, Jean
She's Come Undone - Lamb, Wally
A Lesson in Vengeance - Lee, Victoria
The Best Laid Plans - Lund, Cameron
Boy Toy - Lyga, Barry
Empire of Storms - Maas, Sarah J.
Kingdom of Ash - Maas, Sarah J.
The Truth About Alice: A Novel - Mathieu, Jennifer
Bumped - McCafferty, Megan
Man o' War - McCarthy, Cory
Sold - McCormick, Patricia
Heroine - McGinnis, Mindy
The Female of the Species - McGinnis, Mindy
Fade - McMann, Lisa
Vanilla - Merrell, Bill
All the Things We Do in the Dark - Mitchell, Saundra
Beloved - Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye - Morrison, Toni
Shine - Myracle, Lauren
Like a Love Story - Nazemian, Abdi
I'll Give You the Sun - Nelson, Jandy
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, 2nd Edition - Newton, Michael
Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir - Nguyen, Bich Minh
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe - Norton, Preston
Asking for It - O'Neill, Louise
Heartstopper, Vol. 1 - Oseman, Alice
Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens, Delia
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Pessl, Marisha
My Sister's Keeper - Picoult, Jodi
Nineteen Minutes - Picoult, Jodi
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces - Quintero, Isabel
Juliet Takes a Breath - Rivera, Gabby
Eleanor and Park - Rowell, Rainbow
The Midnight Lie - Rutkoski, Marie
Getting It - Sanchez, Alex
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Sánchez, Erika L.
Living Dead Girl - Scott, Elizabeth
Lucky - Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones - Sebold, Alice
More Happy Than Not - Silvera, Adam
The Opposite of Innocent - Sones, Sonya
Go Ask Alice - Sparks, Beatrice
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Stein, Garth
Shiver - Stiefvater, Maggie
This One Summer - Tamaki, Mariko
Drama: A Graphic Novel - Telgemeier, Raina
Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire - The Nib
The Hate U Give - Thomas, Angie
American Girls - Umminger, Alison
Same Difference - Vivan, Siobhan
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
The Color Purple - Walker, Alice
The Glass Castle - Walls, Jeannette
Salvage the Bones - Ward, Jesmyn
The Underground Railroad - Whitehead, Colson
Red at the Bone - Woodson, Jacqueline
Fort Bend (17 books)
Call Me By Your Name - Aciman, AndréWhat Girls Are Made Of - Arnold, Elana K.
Oryx and Crake - Atwood, Margaret
The Year of the Flood - Atwood, Margaret
Crank - Hopkins, Ellen
Fallout - Hopkins, Ellen
Identical - Hopkins, Ellen
Impulse - Hopkins, Ellen
Traffick - Hopkins, Ellen
Triangles - Hopkins, Ellen
All Boys Aren't Blue - Johnson, George M.
A Court of Mist and Fury - Maas, Sarah J.
House of Earth and Blood - Maas, Sarah J.
Push - Sapphire
Lucky - Sebold, Alice
The Almost Moon - Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones - Sebold, Alice
Fort Worth (123 books)
The Poet X - Acevedo, Elizabeth The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Alexie, Sherman and Forney, Ellen
The Haters - Andrews, Jesse
Damsel - Arnold, Elana K.
Infandous - Arnold, Elana K.
Red Hood - Arnold, Elana K.
What Girls Are Made Of - Arnold, Elana K.
Oryx and Crake - Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel - Atwood, Margaret
Killer Spirit - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
The Immortalists - Benjamin, Chloe
Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard - Bertie, Alex
Forever… - Blume, Judy
Firekeeper's Daughter - Boulley, Angeline
Victoria and the Rogue - Cabot, Meg
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Callender, Kacen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky, Stephen
Emergency Contact - Choi, Mary H.K.
Yolk - Choi, Mary H.K.
Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up - Corinna, Heather
Flamer - Curato, Mike
Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL - Drill, Esther
A Stolen Life - Dugard, Jaycee
Perfect Chemistry - Elkeles, Simone
The Dead Inside - Etler, Cyndy Drew
We Can't Be Friends: A True Story - Etler, Cyndy Drew
Lawn Boy - Evison, Jonathan
The Carnival at Bray - Foley, Jessie Ann
Dime - Frank, E. R.
Life is Funny - Frank, E. R.
American Gods - Gaiman, Neil
Forever for a Year - Gottfred, B. T.
The Nerdy and the Dirty - Gottfred, B. T.
Looking for Alaska - Green, John
Water for Elephants - Gruen, Sara
The Freedom Writers Diary - Gruwell, Erin
What We Saw - Hartzler, Aaron
All Your Perfects - Hoover, Colleen
It Ends With Us - Hoover, Colleen
Burned - Hopkins, Ellen
Crank - Hopkins, Ellen
Fallout - Hopkins, Ellen
Glass - Hopkins, Ellen
Identical - Hopkins, Ellen
Impulse - Hopkins, Ellen
People Kill People - Hopkins, Ellen
Perfect - Hopkins, Ellen
Rumble - Hopkins, Ellen
Smoke - Hopkins, Ellen
The You I've Never Known - Hopkins, Ellen
Tilt - Hopkins, Ellen
Traffick - Hopkins, Ellen
Triangles - Hopkins, Ellen
Tricks - Hopkins, Ellen
I Never - Hopper, Laura
The Misfits - Howe, James
Allegedly - Jackson, Tiffany D.
Grown - Jackson, Tiffany D.
All Boys Aren't Blue - Johnson, George M.
Almost Perfect - Katcher, Brian
Milk and Honey - Kaur, Rupi
The Sun and Her Flowers - Kaur, Rupi
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend - Keplinger, Kody
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A Life Reclaimed: A Memoir - Knight, Michelle and Burford, Michelle
Gender Queer: A Memoir - Kobabe, Maia
The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth - Langford, Jo
The Grace Year - Liggett, Kim
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - Liu, Marjorie and Takeda, Sana
Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - Liu, Marjorie
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - Liu, Marjorie
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen - Liu, Marjorie
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Lo, Malinda
Boy Toy - Lyga, Barry
A Court of Frost and Starlight - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Mist and Fury - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Silver Flames - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Wings and Ruin - Maas, Sarah J.
Empire of Storms - Maas, Sarah J.
Kingdom of Ash - Maas, Sarah J.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Maguire, Gregory
A Clash of Kings - Martin, George R. R.
A Dance with Dragons - Martin, George R. R.
A Feast for Crows - Martin, George R. R.
A Game of Thrones - Martin, George R. R.
A Storm of Swords - Martin, George R. R.
Sold - McCormick, Patricia
Fade - McMann, Lisa
Cut Both Ways - Mesrobian, Carrie
What Goes Around - Millner, Denene and Miller, Mitzi
All the Things We Do in the Dark - Mitchell, Saundra
Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human (A Graphic Novel) - Moen, Erika and Nolan, Matthew
The Bluest Eye - Morrison, Toni
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami, Haruki
l8r, g8r - Myracle, Lauren
Shine - Myracle, Lauren
The Infinite Moment of Us - Myracle, Lauren
Yolo - Myracle, Lauren
Skin - Napoli, Donna Jo
Like a Love Story - Nazemian, Abdi
Breathless - Niven, Jennifer
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe - Norton, Preston
Asking for It - O'Neill, Louise
Out of Darkness - Pérez, Ashley Hope
Nineteen Minutes - Picoult, Jodi
Scars - Rainfield, Cheryl
The Nowhere Girls - Reed, Amy
Juliet Takes a Breath - Rivera, Gabby
Push - Sapphire
Jesus Land: A Memoir - Scheeres, Julia
Living Dead Girl - Scott, Elizabeth
Lucky - Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones - Sebold, Alice
Chicken Girl - Smith, Heather
Forbidden - Suzuma, Tabitha
This One Summer - Tamaki, Mariko and Tamaki, Jillian
Blankets - Thompson, Craig
We Know It Was You - Thrash, Maggie
#Hockey - Ukazu, Ngozi
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt, North, Ryan, Monteys, Albert
Spinning - Walden, Tillie
Katy (19 books)
The Haters - Andrews, Jesse Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens - Belge, Kathy and Bieschke, Marke
Draw Me a Star - Carle, Eric
Flamer - Curato, Mike
This Book is Gay - Dawson, Juno
Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression - Gottlieb, Iris
Looking for Alaska - Green, John
Crank - Hopkins, Ellen
Identical - Hopkins, Ellen
The Girl Guide: 50 Ways to Love Your Changing Body - Ibrahim, Marawa
Milk and Honey - Kaur, Rupi
Boy Toy - Lyga, Barry
You Do You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality - Mirk, Sarah
Girl: Love, Sex, Romance and Being You - Rayne, Karen and Beyer, Ramsey
The Almost Moon - Sebold, Alice
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Tamaki, Mariko and Valero-O'Connell, Rosemary
Ares: God of War - Temple, Teri and Squier, Robert
Sex Smarts: You and Your Sexuality - Traugh, Susan M.
Nine Months Luciana - Wells, Maggie
Keller (5 books)
Storm and Fury - Armentrout, Jennifer L. Collected Poems 1947-1980 - Ginsberg, Allen
Fade - McMann, Lisa
Pumpkin - Murphy, Julie
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare, William
Klein (13 books)
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel - Atwood, Margaret and Nault, ReneeFun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Bechdel, Alison
Forever for a Year - Gottfred, B. T.
The Nerdy and the Dirty - Gottfred, B. T.
Regretting You - Hoover, Colleen
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Kendi, Ibram X.
Assassination Classroom (Series, Title Not Specified) - Matsui, Yūsei
Soul Eater, Vol. 1 - Ohkubo, Atsushi
How Prevalent Is Racism in Society? - Parks, Peggy J.
Feeling Wrong in Your Own Body: Understanding What It Means to Be Transgender - Seba, Jaime A.
Grasshopper Jungle - Smith, Andrew
Golden Boy: Blue-eyed Boy or Girl Next Door - Tarttelin, Abigail
Black Butler (Series, Title Not Specified) - Toboso, Yana
Lake Travis (7 books)
The Haters - Andrews, JesseAwkward - Chmakova, Svetlana
The Other Boy - Hennessey, M. G.
A is for Activist - Nagara, Innosanto
Ghost Boys - Rhodes, Jewel Parker
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women - Terciero, Rey and Alcott, Louisa May
Fourth Wing - Yarros, Rebecca
Midland (4 books)
Shout - Anderson, Laurie Halse Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Andrews, Jesse
Identical - Hopkins, Ellen
Push - Sapphire
North East (San Antonio) (171 books)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Abdo, Kenny The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister - Agell, Charlotte
The Usborne First Thousand Words in Spanish : With Easy Pronunciation Guide - Amery, Heather
Shout - Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak - Anderson, Laurie Halse
Wishtree - Applegate, Katherine and Santoso, Charles
Fullmetal Alchemist (Series, Title Not Specified) - Arakawa, Hiromu
World Trigger (Series, Title Not Specified) - Ashihara, Daisuke
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood, Margaret
My Friend Dahmer - Backderf, Derf
The House of One Thousand Eyes - Barker, Michelle
Critical Perspectives on Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence - Being, Bridey
Little Blog on the Prairie - Bell, Cathleen Davitt
Everything You Need to Know About Birth Control - Benson, Alana
Far from the Tree - Benway, Robin
Chance Fortune and the Outlaws - Berryhill, Shane
Tangerine - Bloor, Edward
Fighting Words - Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
The Game of Love and Death - Brockenbrough, Martha
Chlorine Sky - Browne, Mahogany L.
The Manny Files - Burch, Christian
Girls Like Me - Butcher, Kristin
All-American Girl - Cabot, Meg
Girl, Unframed - Caletti, Deb
Dragon's Keep - Carey, Janet Lee
Chosen - Cast, P. C. and Cast, Kristin
Moon Chosen - Cast, P. C.
Sun Warrior: Tales of a New World - Cast, P. C.
When Dinosaurs Walked - Chaikin, Andrew
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky, Stephen
Permanent Record - Choi, Mary H. K.
Datos geniales sobre béisbol/Cool Baseball Facts - Clay, Kathryn
Things That Are - Clements, Andrew
Dear Medusa - Cole, Olivia A.
All the Invisible Things - Collins, Orlagh
Billie Standish Was Here - Crocker, Nancy
Vigilante - Cross, Kady
The Leading Edge of Now - Curtis, Marci Lyn
Everything You Need to Know About the Risks of Unprotected Sex - DeCarlo, Carolyn
Beverly, Right Here - DiCamillo, Kate
Darkness Before Dawn - Draper, Sharon M.
The Man in the Iron Mask - Dumas, Alexandre and Francine Du Plessix-Gray
The Three Musketeers - Dumas, Alexandre
The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of September 11 - Editors of One Nation
Deadly Drive - Fontes, Justine
Shadow Wand - Forest, Laurie
The Black Witch - Forest, Laurie
The Iron Flower - Forest, Laurie
Full Disclosure - Garrett, Camryn
Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black: and Other Stories - Gordimer, Nadine
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba (Series, Title Not Specified) - Gotoge, Koyoharu
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir - Grande, Reyna
Maybe I Will - Gray, Laurie
300 years of San Antonio and Bexar County - Guerra, Claudia R.
After the Ink Dries - Gustafson, Cassie
Caught - Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Revealed - Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Sent - Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Torn - Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Uprising - Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Can We Talk About Consent: A Book About Freedom, Choices and Agreement - Hancock, Justin
Ouran High School Host Club (Series, Title Not Specified) - Hatori, Bisco
The Ominous Eye - Hecht, Tracey
The Black Book of Secrets - Higgins, F. E.
After the Fire - Hill, Will
Vampire Knight (Series, Title Not Specified) - Hino, Matsuri
Vampire Knight: Official Fanbook - Hino, Matsuri
My Hero Academia (Series, Title Not Specified) - Horikoshi, Kōhei
My Hero Academia: Origin (Series, Title Not Specified) - Horikoshi, Kōhei
Attack on Titan (Series, Title Not Specified) - Isayama, Hajime
Tokyo Ghoul (Series, Title Not Specified) - Ishida, Sui
Magus of the Library (Series, Title Not Specified) - Izumi, Mitsu
Beyond the Red - Jae, Ava
Devil in the Device - Johnson, Lora Beth
No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture - Keyser, Amber J.
The Year of the Bomb - Kidd, Ronald
Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf - Krischer, Hayley
Hexed - Krys, Michelle
Bleach (Series, Title Not Specified) - Kubo, Tite
Pieces of a Girl - Kuehnert, Stephanie
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out - Kuklin, Susan
Living in a Violent Household - La Bella, Laura
Escape By Sea - Lawrence, L. S.
Furyborn - Legrand, Claire
Kingsbane - Legrand, Claire
Another Day - Levithan, David
Every Day - Levithan, David
Ryan and Avery - Levithan, David
Someday - Levithan, David
The Little Book of Snowflakes - Libbrecht, Kenneth George
The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty - Libbrecht, Kenneth George
Monstress (Series, Title Not Specified) - Liu, Marjorie and Takeda, Sana
Irreversible - Lynch, Chris
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Maas, Sarah J.
Crown of Midnight - Maas, Sarah J.
Throne of Glass - Maas, Sarah J.
The Degenerates - Mann, Jennifer Ann and Mann, J. Albert
A Madness So Discreet - McGinnis, Mindy
What Unbreakable Looks Like - McLaughlin, Kate
New Book of Herbs - McVicar, Jekka
Just a Girl - Mesrobian, Carrie
Dragons of Darkness - Michaelis, Antonia
Hoop City: Baltimore - Moussavi, Sam
Hoop City: Chicago - Moussavi, Sam
Hoop City: Detroit - Moussavi, Sam
Hoop City: Los Angeles - Moussavi, Sam
Hoop City: New York City - Moussavi, Sam
Hoop City: Washington, D.C. - Moussavi, Sam
Texas Fridays: Austin - Moussavi, Sam
Texas Fridays: Dallas - Moussavi, Sam
Texas Fridays: El Paso - Moussavi, Sam
Texas Fridays: Houston - Moussavi, Sam
Texas Fridays: Odessa - Moussavi, Sam
Texas Fridays: San Antonio - Moussavi, Sam
Bird - Murphy, Rita
Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom (Series, Title Not Specified) - Nakajo, Hisaya
Girls of Storm and Shadow - Ngan, Natasha
Bakuman (Series, Title Not Specified) - Ohba, Tsugumi and Obata, Takeshi
Death Note (Series, Title Not Specified) - Ohba, Tsugumi and Obata, Takeshi
Death Note: Black Edition (Series, Title Not Specified) - Ohba, Tsugumi and Obata, Takeshi
A Silent Voice (Series, Title Not Specified) - Ōima, Yoshitoki
Replica: Gemma Lyra - Oliver, Lauren
Ringer - Oliver, Lauren
One-Punch Man (Series, Title Not Specified) - Murata, Yusuke
Coping with Breakups and Jealousy - Orr, Tamra B.
Unleaving - Ostrom, Melissa
Crazy House - Patterson, James
Demons and Druids - Patterson, James
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - Patterson, James
Watch the Skies - Patterson, James
Explorers and Discoverers: from Alexander the Great to Sally Ride - Pear, Nancy
The Storm in the Barn - Phelan, Matt
It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff - Pinsky, Drew and Pinsky, Paulina
The First 7 - Pohl, Laura
The Last 8 - Pohl, Laura
Dealing With Dating and Romance - Poole, H. W.
I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope - Prout, Chessy and Abelson, Jenn
Fever Crumb - Reeve, Philip
Tag-along Timothy Tours Texas - Richardson, Jean
Eleanor and Park - Rowell, Rainbow
Introducing Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man - Roza, Greg
Bone Gap - Ruby, Laura
Plague Land - Scarrow, Alex
Keeping Corner - Sheth, Kashmira
The Promised Neverland - Shirai, Kaiu and Demizu, Posuka
Thunderhead - Shusterman, Neal
Somebody Told Me - Siegert, Mia
Sinews of Thy Heart - Skogen, Jennifer
Peak - Smith, Roland
Zen and the Art of Faking It - Sonnenblick, Jordan
The Visual Dictionary of the Civil War - Stanchak, John E.
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda - Stassen, Jean-Philippe
All the Rage - Summers, Courtney
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Series, Title Not Specified) - Takeuchi, Naoko
Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura (Series, Title Not Specified) - Tanemura, Arina
Virtually Yours - Tash, Sarvenaz
Black Butler (Series, Title Not Specified) - Toboso, Yana
Honey and Clover (Series, Title Not Specified) - Umino, Chika
Perpetual Check - Wallace, Rich
Escape the Mask - Ward, David
Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection - Warren, Mary Anne
Captivated, By You - Wayama, Yama, Blackman, Abigail and Harvey, Leighann
No Child's Game: Reality TV 2083 - White, Andrea
Sexual Predators - Willis, Laurie
The Dragon's Tooth - Wilson, Nathan D.
Another Brooklyn - Woodson, Jacqueline
Parachutes - Yang, Kelly
Everything, Everything - Yoon, Nicola
Angel Sanctuary (Series, Title Not Specified) - Yuki, Kaori
Library Wars: Love and War (Series, Title Not Specified) - Yumi, Kiiro
Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters - Zeitlin, Meredith
Plano (64 books)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziMe and Earl and the Dying Girl - Andrews, Jesse
The Haters - Andrews, Jesse
Damsel - Arnold, Elana K.
Red Hood - Arnold, Elana K.
What Girls Are Made Of - Arnold, Elana K.
Oryx and Crake - Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel - Atwood, Margaret and Nault, Renee
Forever… - Blume, Judy
Running with Scissors: A Memoir - Burroughs, Augusten
Foul is Fair - Capin, Hannah
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity - Cart, Michael
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky, Stephen
Forever for a Year - Gottfred, B. T.
The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy - Gottfred, B. T.
The Nerdy and the Dirty - Gottfred, B. T.
Hooked - Greenman, Catherine
Water for Elephants - Gruen, Sara
The Freedom Writers Diary - Gruwell, Erin and The Freedom Writers
Homegoing - Gyasi, Yaa
Collateral - Hopkins, Ellen
Crank - Hopkins, Ellen
Identical - Hopkins, Ellen
People Kill People - Hopkins, Ellen
Perfect - Hopkins, Ellen
Tilt - Hopkins, Ellen
Tricks - Hopkins, Ellen
I Never - Hopper, Laura
All Boys Aren't Blue - Johnson, George M.
The Sun and Her Flowers - Kaur, Rupi
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend - Keplinger, Kody
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Lo, Malinda
Boy Toy - Lyga, Barry
A Court of Frost and Starlight - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Mist and Fury - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Silver Flames - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Maas, Sarah J.
A Court of Wings and Ruin - Maas, Sarah J.
Empire of Storms - Maas, Sarah J.
House of Earth and Blood - Maas, Sarah J.
House of Sky and Breath - Maas, Sarah J.
Kingdom of Ash - Maas, Sarah J.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Maguire, Gregory
Sold - McCormick, Patricia
The Bluest Eye - Morrison, Toni
Shine - Myracle, Lauren
The Infinite Moment of Us - Myracle, Lauren
Yolo - Myracle, Lauren
Skin - Napoli, Donna Jo
Like a Love Story - Nazemian, Abdi
I'll Give You the Sun - Nelson, Jandy
Breathless - Niven, Jennifer
Choke - Palahniuk, Chuck
Nineteen Minutes - Picoult, Jodi
The Nowhere Girls - Reed, Amy
Normal People - Rooney, Sally
And They Lived… - Salvatore, Steven
Lucky - Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones - Sebold, Alice
Embrace - Shirvington, Jessica
Blankets - Thompson, Craig
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex - Witton, Hannah
Southside (Bexar County) (4 books)
The Haters - Andrews, Jesse Man o' War - McCarthy, Cory
Choke - Palahniuk, Chuck
Damned - Palahniuk, Chuck
