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Banned Books/Censorship in the 2020's Resources: Lists/LibraryResources

ALA's Top 100 Most Challenged Books from Last Decade

Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books 2010-2019

ALA's Top 13 Most Challenged Books in 2022

Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022

Trends of Challenged/Banned Books in the Past Ten Years

Challenges to the Freedom of Read 2013-2022
Hit the right arrow button to see each year. The last year not only lists frequency for each state but also what is the most challenged book in that particular state.

Sample of Books in the Library's Collection (Ebooks and/or for Checkout)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) by Sherman Alexie
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551 .L35774 A27 2007
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
Call Number: STACKS: PS1294 .C63 A6 2004
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: STACKS: PS3563.O8749 B4 1987
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551 .N75 B5 1999
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Call Number: STACKS: PS3563 .O8749 B55 2007
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: STACKS: PS3537.A426 C3 2001
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Call Number: Science Fiction: PR6052 .U638 C5 1987
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: STACKS: PS3573.A425 C6 1992
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: STACKS: DS135 .P63 S68 1997
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Call Number: URBAN FICTION: PZ7.5 .H67 Cr 2013
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; B. M. Mooyaart (Translator); Eleanor. Roosevelt (Introduction by)
Call Number: STACKS: D810.J4 F719 1993
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Call Number: STACKS: PS3557.A66 D74 1993
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: STACKS: PR9199.3 .A8 H3613 1986
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman; Laura Cornell (Illustrator)
Call Number: CHILDREN'S: PN1009 .Z614 N49HE 2015
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Call Number: STACKS: PQ8098.1.L54 C313 2005
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou;
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3551 .N464 Z466 2015
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: STACKS: PS3608.O832 K58 2003
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Call Number: STACKS: PZ7 .G8233 Lo 2005
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Call Number: STACKS: PZ7 .A56726 Me 2012
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Call Number: STACKS: HD4918 .E375 2008
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Call Number: STACKS: PS3553 .H3469 P47 1999
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Call Number: STACKS: PS3565.B75 T48 1991
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: STACKS: PS3562 .E353 T6338 1994