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Banned Books Week 2025

A guide focusing on Banned Books Week 2025, and events on campus related to this.

Looking to read a Banned Book? We have PLENTY! Find the perfect one via our lists below.

Frequently Banned YA Books

Crank by Ellen Hopkins
ISBN: 9780689865190

Publication Date: 2004-10-01
The Hate U Give Movie Tie-In Edition by Angie Thomas; Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS 3620 .H62462 H38 2018

ISBN: 9780062871350

Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Call Number: GREEN J 2007

ISBN: 9780142402511

Publication Date: 2006-12-28

Frequently Banned Children's Book

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0439756685

Publication Date: 2005-09-01
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier
ISBN: 0590073397

Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525471349

Publication Date: 2003-09-15

Banned for LGBTQ themes

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 0151191549

Publication Date: 1992-05-22
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780553380019

Publication Date: 1997-05-12
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
ISBN: 9780671027346

Publication Date: 1999-02-01

Banned for racial topics

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780812993547

Publication Date: 2015-07-14
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 0375411550

Publication Date: 1993-12-28
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ISBN: 9780446310789

Publication Date: 1988-10-11

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