Pride 2025: LGBTQ+ Books Unbanned
USC Libraries is celebrating Pride 2025 by highlighting influential books by LGBTQ+ authors and/or with LGBTQ+ themes that have been banned, challenged, or censored throughout history.
This page highlights books available through USC Libraries. Check out the Freedom To Read guide to learn more about book censorship and how to get more access through your local public library and the Queer Liberation Library available through the Libby app.
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship.
Call Number: PrintISBN: 0679600817Publication Date: 1933 -
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The Color Purple
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Call Number: Ebook & PrintISBN: 9781453223970Publication Date: 1982 (original publication date) -
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Giovanni's Room
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Call Number: Ebook & PrintISBN: 9780345806567Publication Date: 1957 (original publication) -
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Call Number: PrintISBN: 0679601546Publication Date: 1953 (original publication date) -
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781588361653Publication Date: 1966 -
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Maurice
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Call Number: PrintISBN: 9780141441139Publication Date: 1914 (written); 1971 (published) -
My Ántonia
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The moving story of one woman's struggles and triumphs on the Nebraska frontier In the breathtaking final volume of her acclaimed Prairie Trilogy, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Willa Cather brings to life one of the most remarkable heroines in American literature. The eldest daughter of Bohemian emigrants, fourteen-year-old Ántonia Shimerda arrives in Black Hawk, Nebraska, blissfully unaware of the poverty and heartbreak that lie in store for her family. But as one calamity after another befalls the Shimerdas, Ántonia finds the strength not merely to survive, but to thrive. Under the watchful eye of Jim Burden, her neighbor and childhood friend, Ántonia blossoms into a woman as beautiful, captivating, and resilient as the Great Plains. My Ántonia is the 3rd book in the Prairie Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Told in lush and evocative prose, My Ántonia is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature and a stirring tribute to the homesteaders whose pioneer spirit tamed the American West. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Call Number: Ebook & PrintISBN: 9781504035354Publication Date: 1918 (original publication date) -
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
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Call Number: Ebook & PrintISBN: 0525562036Publication Date: 2019 -
Passing
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Call Number: Ebook & PrintISBN: 9781632062031Publication Date: 1929 (original publication date) -
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Call Number: Ebook & PrintISBN: 1843270730Publication Date: 1890 (original publication date) -
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The Well of Loneliness
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Call Number: PrintISBN: 0860682544Publication Date: 1928 (original publication date)
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Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Wilson Dental Library
925 W. 34th Street, DEN 21
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0641
213-740-1441
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Subjects: Dentistry, Health Sciences