Here you can find all of the banned books we currently feature.
Title | Author | First published | Recent incident |
---|---|---|---|
Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | 2023 |
Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 1623 | 1996 |
Family Limitation | Margaret Sanger | 1914 | 1915 |
Areopagitica | John Milton | 1644 | 1644 |
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas | 2016 | 2022 |
Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | 1881 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1885 | 1998 |
The Prince and the Dressmaker | Jen Wang | 2018 | 2022 |
Gender Queer: A Memoir | Maia Kobabe | 2019 | 2023 |
All Boys Aren't Blue | George M. Johnson | 2020 | 2021 |
The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | 1989 |
Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | 1944 |
The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones (ed.) | 2019 | 2020 |
Maus | Art Spiegelman | 1986 | 2022 |
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo | Jill Twiss | 2018 | 2022 |
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1970 | 2022 |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | 2013 |
New Kid | Jerry Craft | 2019 | 2021 |
And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson et al. | 2005 | 2023 |
My Shadow is Purple | Scott Stuart | 2022 | 2023 |
Angels in America | Tony Kushner | 1992 | 2023 |
Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | 1920 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | 1857 |
Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu), who is solely responsible for its content.
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