Banned Books Week


Sources of possible Banned Books Week readings:


• A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness, by Paula Gobodo-Madikizela, about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2003)
• Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forché (1993)
• The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, a memoir by Sister Dianna Ortiz, with Patricia Davis (Orbis)
• Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America, by Francis Bok from Sudan (St. Martin's Press, 2003)
• Conscience Be My Guide - An Anthology of Prison Writings, edited by Geoffrey Bould (London, Zed Books Ltd, 1991)
• Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• From the Republic of Conscience - An International Anthology of Poetry (White Pine Press, 1993, with AI)
• "Human Landscapes", an epic poem by Turkish poet and human rights activist, Nazim Hikmet
• From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, by Pascal Khoo Thwe (2002)
• Letters From Robben Island by Ahmed Kathrada, friend of Nelson Mandela (Michigan State University Press, 1999)
• Love, Death & Exile, Abdul Wahab al-Bayati's poems translated by Bassam K. Frangieh (Georgetown UP, 1991)
• A Map of Hope: Women's Writings on Human Rights, edited by Marjorie Agosín (Rutgers University, 1999 [percentage of profits to benefit AIUSA])
• The Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, by Daniel Wilkinson (Houghton Mifflin)
• Naphtalene, by Alia Mamdouh, whose work has been banned in Iraq (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2005, 20 years after the novel was written)
• Secrets in the Sand: the Young Women of Juárez, poems by Marjorie Agosín (White Pine Press, 2006)
• Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy, by Ken Wiwa (Knopf, 2000)
• Speak Truth to Power - Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, with photographs by Eddie Adams (New York, Crown Publishers, 2000)
• Thoughts on Human Freedom and Dignity, edited by Amnesty International, with a forward by Arthur Miller (Universe, 1991)
• We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda , by Philip Gourevitch (1998)
• Writings from Prison, by Leyla Zana (Blue Crane Books)