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These are currently chosen titles for 2025:

1984 by George Orwell

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Crazy Lady by Jane Conlon

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

Goosebumps by R.L. Stein

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

The Odyssey by Homer

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Rabbit Run by John Updike

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson

Sold by Patricia McCormick

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

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

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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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