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Overview
An ever growing list of the banned books in the USA and the reasons they’re banned. The reasons they are banned varied from year to year and source to source. Sources include:
American Library Association https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10/archive
PEN American
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
Barnes and Nobles
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm?page=2
Los Angeles Public Library
https://www.lapl.org/banned
Unite Against Book Banes
https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/
*All children’s picture books are bonuses in the challenge.
American Library Association https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10/archive
PEN American
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
Barnes and Nobles
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm?page=2
Los Angeles Public Library
https://www.lapl.org/banned
Unite Against Book Banes
https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/
*All children’s picture books are bonuses in the challenge.
Banned Books in the US
19 participants (40 books)
Overview
An ever growing list of the banned books in the USA and the reasons they’re banned. The reasons they are banned varied from year to year and source to source. Sources include:
American Library Association https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10/archive
PEN American
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
Barnes and Nobles
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm?page=2
Los Angeles Public Library
https://www.lapl.org/banned
Unite Against Book Banes
https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/
*All children’s picture books are bonuses in the challenge.
American Library Association https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10/archive
PEN American
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
Barnes and Nobles
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm?page=2
Los Angeles Public Library
https://www.lapl.org/banned
Unite Against Book Banes
https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/
*All children’s picture books are bonuses in the challenge.
Challenge Books
(bonus)
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Jill Twiss
challenged and vandalized for LGBTQIA+ content and political viewpoints, for concerns that it is “designed to pollute the morals of its readers,” and for not including a content warning
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Banned and challenged for profanity and because it was claimed to be sexually explicit
Crank
Ellen Hopkins
Banned and challenged for drug use and because it was claimed to be sexually explicit
