Banned Book Club | Everything, Everything
Sat, Aug 23
|Knox County Library - Lawson McGhee
A new book club is in rotation! We'll tackle our next banned book Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon.
Time & Location
Aug 23, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Knox County Library - Lawson McGhee, 500 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902, USA
About the Event
Co-led by our Bookshop Director Annastasia Williams and Michelle Christian, from UTK’s Department of Sociology, the Banned Book Club will regularly read and discuss commonly banned or challenged books in Tennessee. Join us in building an active local community to mobilize against book bans!
More About Everything, Everything
What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken.
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom…