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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
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds
Banned and challenged because of author’s public statements, and because of claims that the book contains “selective storytelling incidents” and does not encompass racism against all people
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Banned and challenged for profanity, drug use, and alcoholism, and because it was thought to promote anti-police views, contain divisive topics, and be “too much of a sensitive matter right now”
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Banned, challenged, and restricted because it was thought to contain a political viewpoint and it was claimed to be biased against male students, and for the novel’s inclusion of rape and profanity
