Here you can find all of the banned books we currently feature.
| Title | Author | First published | Recent incident |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas | 2016 | 2022 |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1970 | 2022 |
| Gender Queer: A Memoir | Maia Kobabe | 2019 | 2023 |
| All Boys Aren't Blue | George M. Johnson | 2020 | 2021 |
| His Name Is George Floyd | Robert Samuels et al. | 2022 | 2023 |
| My Shadow is Purple | Scott Stuart | 2022 | 2023 |
| Ban This Book | Alan Gratz | 2017 | 2024 |
| Wishtree | Katherine Applegate | 2017 | 2024 |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | 1989 |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 2003 | 2024 |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | 2023 |
| Angels in America | Tony Kushner | 1992 | 2023 |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson et al. | 2005 | 2023 |
| Drama | Raina Telgemeier | 2012 | 2023 |
| The Rabbits' Wedding | Garth Williams | 1958 | 1959 |
| A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo | Jill Twiss | 2018 | 2022 |
| Maus | Art Spiegelman | 1986 | 2022 |
| New Kid | Jerry Craft | 2019 | 2021 |
| The Prince and the Dressmaker | Jen Wang | 2018 | 2022 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | 2013 |
| The Iron Heel | Jack London | 1908 | 1933 |
| The Bible | 4th century CE | 2023 | |
| The Qur'an | 7th century CE | 2023 | |
| The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones (ed.) | 2019 | 2020 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | 1920 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | 1944 |
| Family Limitation | Margaret Sanger | 1914 | 1915 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | 1881 |
| Areopagitica | John Milton | 1644 | 1644 |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 1623 | 1996 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | 1857 |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes | 411 BCE | 1967 |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1476 | 1995 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1885 | 1998 |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 1969 | 2025 |
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