Member-only story

Interested in Personal Growth? Read All the Latest Banned Books!

Banned books? Read them all and learn — for and by yourself — why they’re being banned. And more importantly, reflect on who benefits from limiting access to information and education.

dani herrera
3 min readMar 17, 2023
Image by Canva

If you live in the USA or have been keeping up with the news, you might know that the list of “banned books” is growing by the week.

I don’t have the right words to express how dangerous and backward this is, so instead, I’m just going to tell you about the “banned books” I read and loved.

… hoping that you might want to pick them up too! For you and your little ones.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

THUG tackles police violence against Black Lives. A must-read for young adults (and adults too!)

Beloved by Toni Morrison

You should read Anything and everything by Toni Morrison! This story explored how destructive, painful, and excruciating the legacy of slavery is.

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

--

--

dani herrera
dani herrera

Written by dani herrera

DEI Consultant & Speaker | Top 100 DEI Leaders in '21 & '22 | Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Refinery 29 & more | She / Her / Ella |

No responses yet