LibGuides: Learn: Banned Books 2025

Book Lists

Frequently Banned and Challenged Books
A shortlist of frequently challenged and banned books. Note: you must be signed into your NPS Google Account to access this document.
Brown's complete list of challenged/banned books
Marshal Libraries Banned Books Database
Most Frequently Challenged Books 2010-2019
Brooklyn Library Books Unbanned
TeachingBooks: Challenged and Banned Book Lists
Includes annual lists, classics, YA, and more. TeachingBooks has additional resources for books on the lists.

Banned in the USA (report)
Extensive report from PenAmerica about challenged and banned books in the US from 2023-2024.

Banned Together by Ashley Hope Pérez (Editor)
Call Number: 808.8 BAN

Books are disappearing from shelves across the country. What does this mean for authors, illustrators, and--most crucially--for young readers? This bold collection of fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic narratives, essays, and other genres explores book bans through various lenses, and empowers teens to fight back.
You Can't Say That! by Leonard S. Marcus (Editor)
Call Number: 323.44 MAR

What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus probes the experience of thirteen leading authors of books for young people.