LibGuides: Banned Books Information and Resources: Banned & Challenged Books

Selected Banned Books Sites

Association of American Publishers: Publishers Celebrate Banned Books Week with Events, Resources and More (2014)
AAP was a founding member of Banned Books Week and continues to collaborate with libraries, schools, teachers, bookstores, authors and others on this annual celebration of the freedom to read.AAP also works year-round to promote and protect the freedom to read and the freedom to publish in the US and around the world.
ALA Banned & Challeneged Books
The American Library Association's Banned & Challenged Books site
ALA - Frequently Challenged Books
The American Library Associations Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country.
Banned Books Awareness
A worldwide literacy project to celebrate the freedom to read.
Banned Books That Shaped America
The Library of Congress created an exhibit, "Books that Shaped America," that explores books that "have had a profound effect on American life." Below is a list of books from that exhibit that have been banned/challenged.
Banned Books Online
A special exhibit by University of Pennsylvania on books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
Banned Books Week
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 22 - 28, 2013
Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Educators' and students resources for Banned Books and the freedom to read (and think)
LISTOPIA: List of Banned Books
A list of Banned books generated by Goodreads, which is an online book recommendation system.
People For the American Way
Advocacy organization defending constitutional values and freedoms such as free expression, religious liberty, equal justice, and the right to participate in democracy.
Literary Hub: The History (and Present) of Banning Books in America
Like small pox and vinyl records, book banning is something many Americans like to think of as history. But according to the American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE), the practice persists. ABFE, which from its headquarters in White Plains fights book banning across the country, keeps a list of books challenged each year by American public libraries and schools. In 2016, that list includes Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and Emily M. Danworth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Most of the titles are by LGBTQ authors and authors of color who write about life beyond white, straight, middle-class America... [read more]

Yearly Lists of Challenged and/or Banned Books

These brochures list books challenged, restricted, removed, or banned in that year as reported in the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. Click on the links below to download a PDF of each list from 2004 to the current year. Access this growing list (maintained since 2004):

Banned Books Libguides across the US - Feel free to recommend more

Books on Banned Books

Use the WorldCat link to locate not-so-banned books on banned books:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=banned%20books

Banned Books Information and Resources: Banned & Challenged Books

Search titles in the UToledo & OhioLINK Library Catalogs

Banned Books on the Internet Archive

Digital Public Library of America

Selected Banned Books Sites

Yearly Lists of Challenged and/or Banned Books

Banned Books Libguides across the US - Feel free to recommend more

Books on Banned Books