Dua Lipa is a singer and songwriter based in London, and now she has propped up a library. I think that’s great. The world needs more book-peddlers, and everyone should read more books.Lipa is marketing her library as a repository of “banned books,” which sounds transgressive and edgy until you see her list.
I looked through the list of "banned books" and not one of them is a really banned book.Several are actually critically-acclaimed best sellers!Come on Dua Lipa, open a library containing The Camp of the Saints, The Turner Diaries, and Suicide, mode d'emploi. https://t.co/mBdt89ckXx pic.twitter.com/CQ8HDDkhPM— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) July 12, 2026
Out of these 100 books, about 15 of them were required reading for me in middle school and high school.And Lipa is advertising her collection by holding up a copy of Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale.Far from banned, this book and its cinematic adaptations have been almost impossible to avoid for the last decade, especially since Donald Trump rose to prominence and unhinged commentators decided that he was imposing a theocracy or something.My brother John made a similar point on social media:
The “banned book” she’s holding was not only a 6 season series on Hulu, owned by the biggest media companies in history, it also spawned a young adult spinoff series. It’s on many high school summer reading lists and is available in every general bookstore in America. https://t.co/ORZFMxk1Ho— John Carney (@carney) July 14, 2026
