Challenged Books
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group.Banned Books
A banning is the removal of those materials.Challenges or bans do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others.
Lists of Banned or Challenged Books
- Yearly list of books banned or challenged page
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2013-2014 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2012-2013 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2011-2012 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2010-2011 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2009-2010 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2008-2009 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2007-2008 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2006-2007 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2005-2006 (PDF)
- Books Challenged and/or Banned 2004-2005 (PDF)
- 30 Years of Liberating Literature timeline
- Banned/Challenged Classics
- Frequently Challenged Books of the 21st Century
- 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books by Decade
- Most Frequently Challenged Authors pages of the 21st Century
Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2011
This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids' Right to Read Project,
a collaboration of the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers
Foundation for Free Expression. Details are available in ALA's "Books Banned and Challenged
2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010; and 2010-2013, and the "Kids' Right to Read Project Report."
View as larger map.
In his essay titled "The Bane of Banned Books," Moyers talks about how libraries provided his first opportunity to indulge his love of reading and learning, and shares his dismay over efforts to remove books from schools and libraries in modern times.
Authors discuss censorship for the Banned Books Virtual Read-out!
YouTube Banned Books Week with links to many "Virtual Read-outs."
- LA Times Article on book ban
- Video of Newman Trustees Undecided About Book Ban
- Parents censor high school literature and are allowed to burn books they find offensive
- Fired Up
News Stories
- 11 most surprising banned books
- 11 most ironically banned books
- Banned books we have loved
- 25 titles you won't believe got banned
- Banned Books 2013