9 Must-Read Banned Books

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Lost Nation

“Lent is a skillful and confident storyteller, evoking the seasons, the dampness of the bogs and the muck and the madness that sometimes affects those living alone in the dark…

Gaddafi’s Harem

…be praised for her unveiling of Gaddafi’s sexual atrocities, but, more importantly, she has drawn attention to the severe improvement needed concerning women’s rights in Libya.” —Libya for the Free…

Shifty’s Boys

Army-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt

The Good Girls

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation…

Remembrance Day

Moon Tiger

“Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This…

The House of Wolfe

A noir of the Texas-Mexico borderland, ideal for fans of Don Winslow and Kem Nunn, in which a young member of the family is kidnapped at a wedding in Mexico…

Don’t Send Flowers

A twisty, darkly captivating novel about a police detective hired to investigate the disappearance of a rich businessman’s daughter several years after rampant corruption forced him to retire and made…