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Banned Books

Read all about book challenges and bannings including top ten lists and news.

Books are still challenged and banned everyday across the USA.

See all of the books listed on ALA's top 100 lists currently available in the CSULB Library:

Banned Books Collection at CSULB

Frequently Challenged Books Links

Unite Against Book Bans This campaign is organized by the American Library Association, it is a national initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.
Freedom to Read Foundation The Freedom to Read Foundation was established in 1969 as a First Amendment legal defense organization affiliated with the American Library Association. FTRF is a separate corporation from the American Library Association, working close with the ALA.
ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
OIF Online Challenge Reporting Form Use to report a challenge.
Banned and Challenged Books (ALA)
Banned and Challenged Classics
Banned Books Week The American Library Association Banned Books Week

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Find these #1 most banned and challenged books in the CSULB University Library:

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Call Number: HQ77.8.K628 A3 2020
Most challenged book 2021 and 2022
George by Álex Gino
Call Number: PZ7.5.GINO
Most challenged book 2018, 2019, and 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Call Number: PZ7.5 .ASHE
Most Challenged Book 2017
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.5.TAMA
Most challenged book 2016
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Call Number: PZ7.5 GREE
Most challenged book 2015

Banned/Challenged High School Books

Lord of the Flies

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Handmaid's Tale

The Kite Runner

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Catcher in the Rye

Of Mice and Men

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Bless Me, Ultima

Beloved

Brave New World

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Fahrenheit 451

The Lovely Bones

The House of the Spirits

Flowers for Algernon

Banned/Challenged YA Books

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Lawn Boy

Speak

Baby Be-Bop

On My Honor

The Hunger Games (Series)

Wasteland

Tiger Eyes

You Hear Me

Girl Goddess #9

Then Again, Maybe I Won't

The Face on the Milk Carton

The Chocolate War

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Whale Talk

Fat Kid Rules the World

The Drowning of Stephan Jones

Olive's Ocean

The Outsiders

Jacob Have I Loved

His Dark Materials Series

Harry Potter (Series)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

What My Mother Doesn't Know

The Boy Who Lost His Face

Looking for Alaska

America

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Georgia Nicholson Series)

Athletic Shorts

Blood and Chocolate

Cut

Banned and Challenged Picture Books

And Tango Makes Three

Where the Wild Things Are

Crown: An Ode to a Fresh Cut

King and King

Trombone Shorty

The Lorax

In the Night Kitchen

I Am Jazz

Heather Has Two Mommies

Strega Nona

This Day in June

We Are All Born Free

Banned and Challenged Children's Fiction

Bridge to Terabithia

The Fighting Ground

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

The Devil's Storybook

The Indian in the Cupboard

The House on Mango Street

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby (Series)

A Wrinkle in Time

Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Banned and Challenged Children's Nonfiction

Gender Queer: a Memoir

Most challenged book 2021

Asking about Sex and Growing Up

It's So Amazing!

100 Questions and Answers about AIDS

How Babies Are Made

The Upstairs Room