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These are currently chosen titles for 2026:

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1984 by George Orwell

Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Creepshow (short stories) by Stephen King

Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata

The Exorcist by Peter Blatty

Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Goosebumps by R. L. Stine

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Holy Bible

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Odyssey by Homer

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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Click here to see artists' bios and art pieces from 2024

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Curious about banned book titles?
Take a look at these resources!
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American Library Association list of banned or challenged books: 

https://www.ala.org/bbooks

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Here are the 100 most banned and challenged books of the decade: 
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/blog/here-are-the-100-most-banned-and-challenged-books-of-the-decade/

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Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023:

https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

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Banned Books Book Club:
https://www.bannedbooksbookclub.com/

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Unite Against Book Bans - Book Resumes:

https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/

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Updated statistics on censorship attempts in 2023:

https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/2023-book-bans/

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PEN America Banned Books List 2025:

https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/

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