Banned Library Podcast

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.

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

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

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

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

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

What would happen if you took the greek myth of Hades and Persephone and made them sex a lot? Neon Gods bursts forth in a spicy story meant for those with little need for plot and big need for sexy brooding waiting around.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

A wizard with a sword rides into town to find the chosen one.

An abandoned bag on a runway causes distress for several airplane passengers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A young girl befriends wolves and makes her way across the tundra looking for where she belongs.

Moby navigates water and religion and abortion and all kinds of difficult topics that are way worse than the language for which it was challenged.

An autobiographical tale of a young Japanese girl and her family escaping Korea and surviving after World War II.

A young girl in Holland spends two years in an upstairs room hiding from Nazis during World War II.