Banned Book Week 2022 -Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2021-2022 – Title List

• #MurderTrending – Gretchen McNeil
• A is for Activist – Innosanto Nagara
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• All American Boys – Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• All Because You Matter – Tami Charles & Bryan Collier
• All Boys Aren’t Blue – George M. Johnson
• Alma and How She Got Her Name – Juana Martinez-Neal
• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street – Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children – Kristin Cronn-Mills
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Bending Toward Justice – Gary May
• Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy – Jacqueline Woodson
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out – Susan Kuklin
• The Black Flamingo – Dean Atta
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box: The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer – Marcie Wessels
• Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 – Michelle Markel
• The Breakaways – Cathy G. Johnson
• Call Me Max – Kyle Lukoff
• The Cat’s Quizzer – Theodor Seuss Geisel
• The Cay – Theodore Taylor
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• Coretta Scott – Ntozake Shange
• Crank – Ellen Hopkins
• Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut – Derrick Barnes * Gordon C. James
• Darkness Before Dawn – Sharon Draper
• The Day You Begin – Jacqueline Woodson
• Dear Martin – Nic Stone
• A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America – Ronald Takaki
• A Different Pond – Bao, Phi
• Drama – Raina Telgemeier
• Drawn Together – Minh Lê
• Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Phillip Freelon – Kelly Starling Lyons
• Dreamers – Yuri Morales
• Eyes That Kiss in the Corners – Joanna Ho
• Freakboy – Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Freddie the Farting Snowman – Jane Bexley
• Forged by Fire – Sharon Draper
• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story – Kevin Noble Maillard
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
• Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe
• George – Alex Gino
• Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Walls, Jeannettee
• Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
• Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America – Carole Boston Weatherford
• The Great Big Book of Families – Mary Hoffman
• Hair Love – Matthew A. Cherry
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel – Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault
• Harbor Me – Jacqueline Woodson
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• The Haters – Jesse Andrews
• Heavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon
• Heroine – Mindy McGinnis
• Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race – Margot Lee Shetterly
• Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane – Mona Golbek and Lee Cohen
• How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation – Maureen Johnson
• I Am Enough – Grace Byers
• I Am Every Good Thing – Derrick Barnes & Gordon C. James
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter – Erika Sanchez
• I Am Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
• I Can Write the World – Joshunda Sanders
• I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark – George M. Johnson
• I Need a New Butt – Dawn McMillan
• If I Ran the Zoo – Theodor Seuss Geisel
• In The Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
• In the Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
• Invisible Girl: A Novel – Lisa Jewell
• It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way – Kyo Maclear
• It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health – Robie Harris
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World – Ashley Herring Blake
• Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights – Karen Blumenthal
• Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth – Ellen Rodger
• Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea – Meena Harris
• Kiss Number 8 – Colleen AF Venable
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story – Reem Faruqi
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me – Mariko Tamaki
• Lawn Boy: A Novel – Jonathan Evison
• Lily and Dunkin – Donna Gephart
• Little & Lion – Brandy Colbert
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History – Vashti Harrison
• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History – Vashti Harrison
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• Love Drugged – James Klise
• Mae Among the Stars – Roda Ahmed and Stasia Burrington
• Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X – Ilyasah Shabazz
• Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation – Edwidge Danticat
• McElligot’s Pool – Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: A Novel – Jesse Anderson
• Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy – Rey Terciero
• Melissa – Alex Gino
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
• Missing Daddy – Mariame Kaba
• Modern Romance: An Investigation – Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
• Mommy, Mama, and Me – Leslea Newman
• Monday’s Not Coming – Tiffany Jackson
• My Friend Dahmer – Derf Backderf
• My Two Dads – Claudia Harrington
• My Two Moms – Claudia Harrington
• My Papi Has a Motorcycle – Isabel Quintero
• The Name Jar – Yangsook Choi
• None of the Above – I. W. Gregorio
• The Nowhere Girls – Amy Reed
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• On Beyond Zebra! – Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Out of Darkness – Ashley Hope Perez
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• Pink is for Boys – Robb Pearlman
• Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré – Anika Aldamuy Denise
• The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag – Rob Sanders
• The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family – Ibtihaj Muhammadl
• Queer: A Graphic History – Meg-John Barker & Jules Scheele
• Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History – George M. Johnson
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
• Real Sisters Pretend – Megan Dowd Lambert
• Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson
• Rick – Alex Gino
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
• Rosa – Nikki Giovanni
• Ruth and the Green Book – Calvin Alexander Ramsey
• Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library – Carole Boston Weatherford
• Scrambled Eggs Super! – Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Separate is Never Equal – Duncan Tonatiuh
• Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation – Miles Hyman
• Sing a Song – Kelly Starling Lyons
• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Snapdragon – Kat Leyh
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice – Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
• Sparkle Boy – Leslea Newman
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• Speak: The Graphic Novel – Laurie Halse Anderson
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You – Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• Sulwe – Lupita Nyong’o
• A Tale of Two Daddies – Vanita Oelschlager
• Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
• This Book is Gay – Juno Dawson
• This One Summer – Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard – Alex Bertie
• Two Boys Kissing – David Levithan
• The Undefeated – Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson
• Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy – Andy Ngo
• V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
• Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All – Martha S. Jones
• Walking With the Comrades – Arundhati Roy
• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga – Traci Sorell
• We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know – Traci Sorell
• We Are Water Protectors – Carole Lindstrom
• What My Mother Doesn’t Know – Sonya Sones
• What We Saw – Aaron Hartzler
• When Aidan Became A Brother – Kyle Lukoff
• When Lola Visits – Michelle Sterling
• When We Were Alone – David A. Roberson
• Where Are You From? – Yamile Saied Méndez
• Where I End and You Begin – Preston Norton
• The Whispering Town – Jennifer Elvgren
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo
• Wings of Fire series – Tui T. Sutherland
• Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1 – Brian Vaughan
• Your Name is a Song – Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

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Last updated

June 23, 2023