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 2023
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:
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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:

