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Banned Books Week

Celebrate the Freedom to Read During Banned Books Week!

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023. Description below.

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. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
  2. All Boys Aren't Blue: a Memoir Manifesto by George M. Johnson
  3. This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
  4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
  5. Flamer by Mike Curato
  6.  The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  7. TIE: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrew
  8. TIE: Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
  9. Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan
  10. Sold by Patricia McCormick