Kuklin said when she wrote 'Beyond Magenta,' there was nothing like it on the market. And we can either choose to grow as human beings or stay the same.' Life is changing, science is making changes, politics are changing - everything's changing. 'I think what we're learning is the country is more frightened than we thought it was,' she replied. Nair asked Kuklin, 'What do you think can be learned just from this list?' The concern when the first Harry Potter books were published, Larue said, 'was that this was a glorification of witchcraft and Satanism it was just this terrible fear that someone would be exposed to a non-Christian worldview, and then being somehow seduced and corrupted by it.' Larue says most books stay on the list for about five years, and then become mainstream. So often, actions like this, when any one group steps forward and says, 'It needs to be like this,' then there's a pushback.' 'It's clear that if you look back over the past year or so, we've had a surge of 'religious liberty' bills, transgender people use a public restroom, or an attempt to, say, adopt the Bible as the state book of Tennessee. 'You know, it's whatever part of our society that mainstream Americans still feel some discomfort with.

Nair asked, 'What is the broad theme amongst the books that you have people saying, 'These shouldn't be in libraries'?' James, which was initially self-published erotica that has since sold more than 125 million copies worldwide. The list also contains two books about Islam ('Habibi,' by Craig Thompson and 'Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan,' by Jeanette Winter) two about mental disability ('The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,' by Mark Haddon, and 'Looking for Alaska,' by John Green) the Bible, which Larue says has appeared many times before and 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' by E.L. (In addition to 'Beyond Magenta,' they included 'Fun Home,' by Alison Bechdel, source of the Tony-winning Broadway musical 'I Am Jazz,' by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings and 'Two Boys Kissing,' by David Levithan). Librarian James Larue, who helped compile the list, told Nair that four of the 10 titles were about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. 'Beyond Magenta' was among the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2015, as noted in the American Library Association's 'State of America's Libraries' report.

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