These are currently chosen titles for 2025:
1984 by George Orwell
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tostoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Cinderella is Dead by Kaylynn Bayron
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Color of Earth by Tong-Hwa Kim
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Crazy Lady by Jane Conlon
Creepshow by Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Goosebumps by R.L. Stein
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Holy Bible
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Lush by Natasha Friend
Maus by Art Spiegelman
My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Odyssey by Homer
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Rabbit Run by John Updike
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Witches by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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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:
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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: