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Featuring morally gray men, unreliable narrators, emotional damage, dragons, serial killers, fake dating, enemies-to-lovers, and at least 47 books someone claimed “changed their life.” Proceed with caution.

Fuck censorship! This is not in support of this group but to bring awareness of their actions. Started by Cierra Clarke of Twin Falls, Idaho Moms for Liberty has challenged more than 95 books in the districts collection, two of which have been removed. This is a list of the books challenged as of 2026.

List of banned books from index

Maeve Wiley (Sex Education) + Rory Gilmore (Gilmore girls)

(Some of these books are addicting)

these are the kind of books that just feel like spring to me: cozy, soft, a little emotional, and perfect to read when everything is starting to bloom again

some of them just give me the vibe, others I just know hit different during this season

✎ᝰ. 𝓜𝔂 𝓕𝓪𝓿𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼

Promise Me Sunshine More Than Forever Reminders of Him

𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑... 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚'𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔.

𝑨𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆...𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇...𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔.

Books across genres that feature a woman as the main character, many written by women as well.