Some Traditional Resources
The American Library Association - Complied data on banned and challenged books across the United States.
Some Non-traditional Resources
The Uncensored Library for Reporters Without Borders - Utilizing the most popular game in the world to circumvent internet censorship
Personal Recommendations
10 most Challenged books of 2023
Living List of Banned or Challenged Books
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie
“Captain Underpants” (series) by Dav Pilkey
“Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher
“Looking for Alaska” by John Green
“George” by Alex Gino
“And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
“Drama” by Raina Telgemeier
“Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James
“Internet Girls” (series) by Lauren Myracle
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
“Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
“I Am Jazz” by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“Bone” (series) by Jeff Smith
“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls
“Two Boys Kissing” by David Levithan
“A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo” by Jill Twiss
“Sex is a Funny Word” by Cory Silverberg
“Alice McKinley” (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie H. Harris
“Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult
“Scary Stories” (series) by Alvin Schwartz
“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson
“A Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out” by Susan Kuklin
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
“Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” by Alison Bechdel
“It’s a Book” by Lane Smith
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
“What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones
“A Child Called ‘It’” by Dave Pelzer
“Bad Kitty” (series) by Nick Bruel
“Crank” by Ellen Hopkins
“Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich
“Madeline and the Gypsies” by Ludwig Bemelmans
“My Princess Boy” by Cheryl Kilodavis
“Prince and Knight” by Daniel Haack
“Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology” by Amy Sonnie
“Skippyjon Jones” (series) by Judith Schachner
“So Far from the Bamboo Grove” by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
“The Color of Earth” (series) by Tong-hwa Kim
“The Librarian of Basra” by Jeanette Winter
“The Walking Dead” (series) by Robert Kirkman
“Tricks” by Ellen Hopkins
“Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” by Sarah S Brannen
“Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks
“Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi
“The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby” by Dav Pilkey
“This Day in June” by Gayle E. Pitman
“This One Summer” by Mariko Tamaki
“A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl” by Tanya Lee Stone
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
“Goosebumps” (series) by R.L. Stine
“In Our Mothers’ House” by Patricia Polacco
“Lush” by Natasha Friend
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon
“The Holy Bible”
“This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson
“Eleanor & Park” by Rainbow Rowell
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer
“Gossip Girl” (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar
“House of Night” (series) by P.C. Cast
“My Mom’s Having A Baby” by Dori Hillestad Butler
“Neonomicon” by Alan Moore
“The Dirty Cowboy” by Amy Timberlake
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank
“Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya
“Draw Me a Star” by Eric Carle
“Dreaming In Cuban” by Cristina Garcia
“Fade” by Lisa McMann
“The Family Book” by Todd Parr
“Feed” by M.T. Anderson
“Go the Fuck to Sleep” by Adam Mansbach
“Habibi” by Craig Thompson
“House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende
“Jacob’s New Dress” by Sarah Hoffman
“Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
“Monster” by Walter Dean Myers
“Nasreen’s Secret School” by Jeanette Winter
“Saga” by Brian K. Vaughan
“Stuck in the Middle” by Ariel Schrag
“The Kingdom of Little Wounds” by Susann Cokal
“1984” by George Orwell
“A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess
“Almost Perfect” by Brian Katcher
“Awakening” by Kate Chopin
“Burned” by Ellen Hopkins
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
“Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers
“Glass” by Ellen Hopkins
“Heather Has Two Mommies” by Lesle´a Newman
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou