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Banned Library Podcast

Welcome to the Banned Library, the worst library on the internet. The podcast and blog contain original fiction, book and movie reviews, and other nonsense. Thank you for visiting. Stay in and read a book.

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    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

    A man being hanged finds himself escaping back home in one last desperate hope.

  2. 229

    Peter Rugg: The Missing Man by William Austin

    Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, one of the most famous stories in its time about the most travelled man in the original American colonies that became au urban legend without ever existing.

  3. 228

    Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

    Sometimes you love your sister so much you use a publicity agent to ruin the career of her guitarist boyfriend because he doesn't love her like you do, and that's creepy and everyone involved is horrible.

  4. 227

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

    The loose autobiographical fiction of James Joyce at his most palatable in long form, Portrait tells the story of Stephen Dedalus and how he contends with being a human who sees the world differently than those around him.

  5. 226

    Ireland's Lucky Lady, Shamrock

    We talk about Ireland's Lucky Lady, the Marvel superhero known as Shamrock.

  6. 225

    Oral History - Library Anna, Ghost Librarian

    This episode we will be going on a bit of a bawdy journey into the library archive not meant for children. Sorry for the sound.

  7. 224

    My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville

    The library looks at a pre-YA classic about an alien invasion, talks about our favorite alien invasion movies, and discusses some potential ways to stop aliens in their tracks.

  8. 223

    The Glove by Fritz Leiber

    After a neighbor's assault, a young man must wrestle with the supernatural possibilities of a glove the attacker left behind.

  9. 222

    The Island by Alice Brown

    A man hears a tale of a shipwreck, a legendary island, and a lost love from a survivor of all three.

  10. 221

    Square of Canvas by Anthony M. Rud

    A female art student listens to artist Hal Pemberton tell his life story in an insane asylum.

  11. 220

    Ruby Bridges Goes to School by Ruby Bridges

    A little girl did a brave thing, and the world should remember to be kind.

  12. 219

    Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

    Mary kills her husband, and we go through her process.

  13. 218

    Episode 2: Finna and the Quantum Immortality of Dale

    A broken couple battles capitalism through the multiverse while our host talks about how his brother was lost in time and space.Special thanks to @gohomekiki for the recommendation.

  14. 217

    Episode 1: F9 and Granny's Spanish Love

    Starting the podcast fresh again, we talk F9: The Fast Saga and my Granny Wendy's lost love in Spain.

  15. 216

    Banned TV - X-Files "Home"

    Mulder and Scully fight the Peacock fam and learn what motherhood is all about. Except really disturbing

  16. 215

    Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

    Mikael and Lisbeth come together to solve a decades old mystery while things get very dark for them.

  17. 214

    Little Bill (series) written by Bill Cosby and Varnette P. Honeywood (illus.)

    Several lessons are learned including dealing with bullying, losing something you worked hard for, being a good sport, and not being a rapist.

  18. 213

    Hunger Games (2012)

    When a young girl is picked to fight to the death, she does to the detriment of the crazy dystopian society's leader.

  19. 212

    Big Hard Sex Criminals written by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (illus)

    When two people who can stop time after having orgasms start a relationship, things get complicated when they also start robbing banks to save a library.

  20. 211

    Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

    When platonic friends need money, the easiest way to get what everyone wants is to make pornography.

  21. 210

    Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth (illus.)

    This episode we learn about sex and how people get so weird about their bits and bobs and why that matters.

  22. 209

    Attack of the Vampire Weenies by David Lubar

    We're talking short stories with bite that kill little kids in this episode that will make you believe mimes can be vampires.

  23. 208

    Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss

    This book is just utter nonsense, so I make a bunch of stuff up.

  24. 207

    Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

    A whole country hated this movie that Hard Rock Cafe strangely supported, a movie about spies fighting for drug use.

  25. 206

    The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

    A kid loves this tree and the tree loves the kid back. Then the kid grows up, and the tree gets hacked to pieces.

  26. 205

    The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein and Henry Cole (Illus.)

    A small duck named Elmer does not fit in until a killing spree shows how special he really is.

  27. 204

    Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd (illus.)

    A rabbit says goodnight and outlasts the librarian who hated it.

  28. 203

    Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle (illus.)

    We learn colors and animals and that Texas looks before they leap unless by reading this book you are an activated sleeper agent.

  29. 202

    Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel

    Bad Kitty runs for neighborhood president and learns a lot along the way including some ways to not say swear words.

  30. 201

    Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack and Stevie Lewis (illus.)

    A story of a brutal monarch who kills a dragon, but is also a very sweet LGBT+ love story.

  31. 200

    Skippyjon Jones series by Judy Schachner

    A small cat decides he is a Mexican superhero and kills a bumblebee.

  32. 199

    A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Marlon Bundo and Jill Twiss, EG Keller (illus.)

    Marlon Bundo, the BOTUS, lives a lonely life until he meets Wesley. Can their love remain when the stink bug decides same sex marriage is still allowed?

  33. 198

    How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

    When a boy is bet he can't eat worms, he does despite his friends not being his friends through the pure evil that is the male ego.

  34. 197

    This Day in June by Gayle E Pitman and Kristyna Litten

    It's a parade in June that celebrates a great subculture as well as provides amazing information! Plus a pigeon.

  35. 196

    Scarlet Street (1945)

    When a painter gets involved with some criminals, things take a super dark turn in this gritty noir.

  36. 195

    Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

    A movie so funny they banned it in Norway, we're covering the life story of a man who got super killed.

  37. 194

    Dirty Harry (1971)

    There's a crazy madman running around San Francisco, and he's chasing a serial killer.

  38. 193

    Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

    For Banned Books Week 2019, we revisit a story of a deranged relationship born from the world of fanfiction and now a multimillion dollar movie.

  39. 192

    The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

    A miserly couple has a run in with a man in the woods with an ax and it goes about like you would expect.

  40. 191

    Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

    A collection of tales about humans making it to Mars and being pretty disappointed for the most part.

  41. 190

    Color Out of Space by HP Lovecraft

    A surveyor hears the story of a meteor blighting the land of a small New England farm and destroying a family.

  42. 189

    Guts by Chuck Palahniuk

    A young man tells us all about his adventure in a swimming pool.

  43. 188

    I Saw Esau by Iona and Peter Opie

    What happens when some folklorists gather together all the children's rhymes and have them illustrated by a master children's illustrator?

  44. 187

    The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    A woman told to rest for her own good goes slowly insane in a room with yellow wallpaper… or does she? She totally does.

  45. 186

    The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar

    David did a bad thing and gets cursed by an old lady while figuring out who his friends are and what middle fingers are for.

  46. 185

    The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

    We follow the ups and downs and rapes of a Chilean family for several mystical generations.

  47. 184

    Grendel by John Gardner

    We learn that a monster known to be a crazy bloodthirsty tornado of violence is really just a bit of a thinker. With claws.

  48. 183

    Voicemails (2019)

    A librarian gets in trouble when he agrees to transcribe the voicemails of an older patron.

  49. 182

    Shade's Children by Garth Nix

    When all the adults have vanished and overlords have taken over, a bunch of superpowered kids have sex and save the planet.

  50. 181

    Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger

    A not-so-banned book describing a town obsessed with high school football.

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Welcome to the Banned Library, the worst library on the internet. The podcast and blog contain original fiction, book and movie reviews, and other nonsense. Thank you for visiting. Stay in and read a book.

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