Banned Book Club

Labor Day

The New Britain Public Library (Main Library and Jefferson Branch) will be closed on Saturday, August 30, and Monday, September 1, in observance of Labor Day.

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Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will open on August 27, 2025 @ 2:00pm.

Program Description

Event Details

Join us for this monthly book club where we discuss books that have been banned or have been requested to be removed from public libraries or school libraries. This month's book is Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Registration is encouraged!

Upcoming selections include:

October: 1984 by George Orwell

No Banned Book Club in November and December!

January: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

February: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein

March: The Sun and Her Flowers (2017) by Rupi Kaur

April:  Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) by Alison Bechdel

May: The House on Mango Street (1983) by Sandra Cisneros

June: Heavy: An American Memoir (2018) by Kiese Laymon