Scandal in Bohemia
What's Your Fantasy?
Get Your YA-YAs Out
Desert Solitaire
Just Watch the Movie
100
Excerpts from this author’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray were introduced as evidence in his 1895 trial for “gross indecency.”
Oscar Wilde
100
In what fantasy land would you encounter elves, dwarves, hobbits, and orcs?
Middle-Earth (from The Lord of the Rings)
100
This beloved children's author is one of the most banned authors of all time thanks to her tackling of controversial topics, such as menstruation in Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.
Judy Blume
100
The TV series Outlander is based on a series of novels by this Arizona native and former ASU professor.
Diana Gabaldon
100
Jane Austen’s Emma was the basis for this classic 1995 teen film directed by Amy Heckerling.
Clueless
200
Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti awas charged with obscenity in 1957 for publishing and selling the poem Howl by this famous Beat poet
Allen Ginsberg
200
What is the title of George R.R. Martin's long-delayed, possibly-nonexistent sixth volume of the A Song of Ice and Fire series?
The Winds of Winter
200
Young Adult author Corinne Duyvis coined this term/hashtag to identify young adult books about characters from marginalized communities which are written by authors from those communities.
#OwnVoices
200
You can visit a replica of this famous Western author's cabin near Payson, Arizona.
Zane Grey
200
The 1999 teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You is based on what Shakespeare play?
The Taming of the Shrew
300
According to the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books List, this was the most banned or challenged book of 2021.
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
300
Mr. Nancy, a modern incarnation of the African trickster god Anansi, is one of the many Old Gods fighting the New Gods in this 2001 Neil Gaiman novel.
American Gods
300
S.E. Hinton began writing this 1967 Young Adult classic when she was 15.
The Outsiders
300
This 1975 novel by Edward Abbey follows a group of eco-terrorists attempting to sabotage the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona.
The Monkey Wrench Gang
300
Ryan Phillipe and Sarah Michelle Gellar star as conniving, semi-incestuous step siblings in this teen adaptation of the 18th century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.
Cruel Intentions
400
This famously unlikable author caused a scandal in 2001 when he said he did not want his novel The Corrections selected for Oprah’s Book Club.
Jonathan Franzen
400
This former star of Glee reinvented himself as a children's fantasy author with the Land of Stories series.
Chris Colfer
400
This 2007 Young Adult novel about a character who takes her own life was the basis for a controversial Netflix series.
13 Reasons Why
400
The nationally-recognized, Nogales-born poet was named Arizona's Poet Laureate in 2013.
Alberto Rios
400
Amanda Bynes stars as the cross-dressing heroine of this adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
She's the Man
500
Started by Barney Rosset in 1951, this renegade publishing company became known for challenging obscenity laws and publishing previously banned books like D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover and William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch.
Grove Press
500
This Pulitzer Prize-winning writer launched a series that has been called "an African Game of Thrones" with his novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf in 2019.
Marlon James
500
This award-winning 2021 Young Adult memoir by George M. Johnson follows Johnson's journey growing up both Black and queer.
All Boys Aren't Blue
500
Tiana Bighorse's 1990 book Bighorse the Warrior records her grandfather's memories of the Long Walk, the 1864 attempted forced removal of this Indigenous nation from their lands in northeast Arizona.
Diné (Navajo)
500
Mekhi Pfifer plays a Black basketball player attending a white private school, and dating Julia Stiles, in this controversial 2001 teen adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello.
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