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Cover of The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

racecoming-of-age
Cover of Gender Queer: A Memoir

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

lgbtqgender
Cover of All Boys Aren't Blue

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

lgbtqrace
Cover of Beloved

Beloved

Toni Morrison

racehistory
Cover of The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

racecoming-of-age
Cover of 1984

1984

George Orwell

politicscensorship
Cover of Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

censorshippolitics
Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

racecoming-of-age
Cover of The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

genderpolitics
Cover of Maus

Maus

Art Spiegelman

historywar
Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

warviolence
Cover of The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

racegender
Cover of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

coming-of-agemental-health
Cover of Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska

John Green

coming-of-agesexuality
Cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

racecoming-of-age
Cover of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

racehistory
Cover of This Book Is Gay

This Book Is Gay

Juno Dawson

lgbtqsexuality
Cover of Flamer

Flamer

Mike Curato

lgbtqcoming-of-age
Cover of Lawn Boy

Lawn Boy

Jonathan Evison

lgbtqrace
Cover of Out of Darkness

Out of Darkness

Ashley Hope Pérez

racehistory
Cover of The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

violencerace
Cover of Speak

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

coming-of-ageviolence
Cover of Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

politicssexuality
Cover of The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

coming-of-agemental-health
Cover of Fun Home

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

lgbtqfamily
Cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

racecoming-of-age
Cover of Drama

Drama

Raina Telgemeier

lgbtqcoming-of-age
Cover of And Tango Makes Three

And Tango Makes Three

Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell

lgbtqfamily
Cover of The Giver

The Giver

Lois Lowry

politicsviolence
Cover of Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

mental-healthcoming-of-age
Cover of Ulysses

Ulysses

James Joyce

sexualitycensorship
Cover of Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence

sexualityclass
Cover of Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

sexualitycensorship
Cover of Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

sexualitycensorship
Cover of Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

drugssexuality
Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

racehistory
Cover of The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

classpolitics
Cover of Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

classlanguage
Cover of Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

politicscensorship
Cover of Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

violencepolitics
Cover of The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

historywar
Cover of Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

warcensorship
Cover of A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

violencepolitics
Cover of American Psycho

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

violencesexuality
Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X & Alex Haley

racepolitics
Cover of Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

raceidentity
Cover of Native Son

Native Son

Richard Wright

raceviolence
Cover of Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

lgbtqsexuality
Cover of The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

lgbtqgender
Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

racegender
Cover of The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

religionsexuality
Cover of The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

sexualityreligion
Cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

censorshippolitics
Cover of The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

warsexuality
Cover of A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

warsexuality
Cover of Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

sexualitycensorship
Cover of The Jungle

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

classpolitics
Cover of An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

classsexuality
Cover of Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

sexualityreligion
Cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

classcensorship
Cover of Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

religionrace
Cover of As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

familyreligion
Cover of The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

familyrace
Cover of Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

sexualityclass
Cover of Howl and Other Poems

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

censorshippolitics
Cover of The Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra

Vatsyayana

sexualityreligion
Cover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

mental-healthcensorship
Cover of Main Street

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

classgender
Cover of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Nikolai Leskov

sexualityviolence
Cover of The Trial

The Trial

Franz Kafka

politicscensorship