Red Wine & Blue Holiday Gift Guide 2024
This holiday season, we’re all in on banned books, and you can be too! We’ve got something for every reader on your list, from toddlers to grandparents, and everyone in-between.
BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS
Find stories of LGBTQ expression, romance, and triumph told through memoirs, essays, and fiction.
- Red, White & Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston
- Pageboy: A Memoir – Elliot Page
- The Henna Wars – Adiba Jaigirdar
- All Boys Aren’t Blue – George M. Johnson
- Cinderella Is Dead – Kalynn Bayron
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
HISPANIC BANNED BOOKS
Explore a list featuring Hispanic authors writing about Hispanic people.
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alvarez
- The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter – Erika Sánchez
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States – Paul Ortiz
ANTI-RACISM BOOKS
Confront internal biases and learn about making the world a better place with the picks from this list.
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together – Heather McGhee
- Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You – Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, et al.
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor – Layla Saad (Author) Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
- Hood Feminism – Mikki Kendall
AAPI BANNED BOOKS
Explore stories on this list by AAPI authors featuring AAPI people.
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- milk and honey – Rupi Kaur
- This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
BANNED BOOKS BY JEWISH AUTHORS
Explore stories told by Jewish authors.
- Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook – Christopher Noxon
- Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History – Art Spiegelman
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (translation)
- The Blood Years – Elana K. Arnold
BANNED BOOKS BY INDIGENOUS AUTHORS
Explore stories on this list by Indigenous authors featuring Indigenous people.
- Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
- Moon Within – Aida Salazar
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- A Snake Falls to Earth – Darcie Little Badger
YOUNG ADULT BANNED BOOKS
Consider this list for the teens (and adults!) in your life.
- The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
- A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas
- What Girls Are Made of- Elana K. Arnold
- The Magic Fish (A Graphic Novel) – Trung Le Nguyen
- The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
BANNED PICTURE BOOKS
Nurture a lifelong love for reading with books for the little ones in your life.
- Dumpling Soup – Jama Kim Rattigan and Lillian Hsu-Flanders
- Ais for Activist – Innosanto Nagara
- And Tango Makes Three – Peter Parnell, Justin Richardson, et al.
- What Riley Wore – Elana K. Arnold and Linda Davick
- Fry Bread: A Native American Story – Kevin Noble Maillard
STAFF FAVORITES
Discover staff favorites from 2024’s banned book week.
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country -Amanda Gorman
- The Cider House Rules – John Irving
- This Book Is Gay (Revised) – Juno Dawson
- The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
You can purchase any of these banned books, along with many others at our Bookshop.org store. When you purchase a banned book through our bookshop, you support our work in the community, while supporting small independent bookstores and you help fight book bans.