Banned Books - 2021

Censorship

Burning the Books
Dangerous Ideas
Banned Books
Book Banning and Other Forms of Censorship
Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control

Banned & Challenged Books Through the Years

Books have faced challenges & bans for many years - the titles may change, but the reasons often do not.

Have you read some of the most challenged & banned titles from last year? 10 years ago? 20 years ago?

2020 & 2010 - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2001 - Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2020 - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
2001 - Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
2000 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
2010 - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2001 - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2001 - The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
2010 - Crank by Ellen Hopkins
2001 - Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
2020 - George by Alex Gino
2001 - Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
2001 - Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
2020 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
2010 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2001 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
2010 - Lush by Natasha Friend
2010 - Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
2020 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2020 & 2001 - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
2020 - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
2020 - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
2010 - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2010 - What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones