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Banned Books Week

Celebrate the Freedom to Read During Banned Books Week!

Banner titled “Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2024” from the American Library Association, featuring cover art from the top ten books most frequently challenged during 2024

Explore Banned Books

Unite Against Book Bans have created book résumés to help individuals learn more challenged and banned books. Below is a list of the top 10 Banned Books from 2023 and their résumés.

1. All Boys Aren't Blue: a Memoir Manifesto by George M. Johnson

2. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

3. (TIE) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

3. (TIE) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

5. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

6. (TIE) Looking for Alaska by John Green

6. (TIE) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrew

8. (TIE) Crank by Ellen Hopkins

8. (TIE) Sold by Patricia McCormick

10. Flamer by Mike Curato

 

(American Library Association-Top 10 Challenged)