Some Banned Classics (click for more info)
Websites
- American Library Association's Annual List of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022This list goes over the 10 most challenged books of for each year between 2001 and 2021. The lists includes the reasons cited for the challenges.
- Pen American Index of School Book BansThis is a comprehensive list that details book bans that occurred in schools from 2022-2023, including the date challenged and the state.
- ALA Field Report 2020A selection of the more often challenged books from 2020.
- List of 2020 Banned and Challenged BooksHere is a list from ALA of all the books challenged in 2020.
- Banned and Challenged Classics from the ALABanned and/or challenged books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century on the American Library Association website. Includes information on why these specific books were challenged. ALA also maintains a more straightforward list of Banned and Challenged Classics.
- Challenged and Banned Books (ILA)This website from the Illinois Library Association contains PDF format lists of challenged and banned books from 1999-2016.
- Frequently Challenged Books, 2010-2019This is a collected list of frequently challenged books from the American Library Association that encompasses this decade.
- Challenged Graphic NovelsExtensive list of challenged graphic novels compiled by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
- Frequently Challenged Young Adult BooksA brief compilation of young adult books that have been frequently challenged.
- UPenn Banned Books 'Exhibit'This 'exhibit' has a large number of older books that have faced censorship, and some of the mentions have more context about the ban than the list provided above.
- PEN America's Index of School Book Bans (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022)PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. From July 2021-June 2022, PEN America tracked book bans across the country. This list includes the state and district where the book ban took place.
Subject Guide
E-Resources About Challenged Books
To access the following e-books, follow the link for "Online Access." You will need your Net-ID and Net-ID password. Each chapter is dedicated to an author, subdivided into the books that have been challenged by that author. First, click on View this eBook. Use the Contents tab in the left toolbar to jump to a particular section. Use the Next and Previous buttons at the top of the page to flip the e-book page.
The Literature Suppressed series
Volume 1: Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds
Volume 2: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds
Volume 3: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds
Volume 4: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds
These links lead to the updated electronic versions of the texts. Each volume in this series is organized alphabetically by title of the book banned. Check the index for author names, book titles, or places where banning occurs (states, cities, libraries).