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:
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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: