Tag: banned books

This banned books list looks at graphic novels and memoirs that have been pulled, restricted, or fought over in libraries and schools, with the real story behind each ban, sourced from library associations, publishers and the creators themselves. That visual element has made graphic novels and memoirs disproportionately likely to end up on challenge lists in recent years, even when

This is a slightly different kind of list. Rather than books that were banned for unrelated reasons, these are books about banned books. A striking number of them have gone on to be challenged or banned themselves, which tends to prove their own point rather better than any critic could. If you’re after books about censorship for Banned Books Week,

Book bans tend to make headlines as an American story (school boards, library committees, parents at the podium), but censorship has a much bigger and stranger history. The following list is a world tour of banned books, featuring three of the most famous banned books per continent. Together, they show just how differently, and how similarly, societies decide a book

Look closely at these banned books by women writers, and a throughline appears fairly quickly: so many of these novels and memoirs were challenged for being honest about things women weren’t supposed to say out loud, about their bodies, anger, histories and independence. For each book, I’ve dug into what actually happened and who objected. If you’re putting together a

Banned books by queer writers have a habit of outlasting the people who tried to suppress them, from a 1928 obscenity trial in a London courtroom to school board meetings happening right now. This banned books list looks at works spanning classic literature to contemporary YA, written by queer authors and repeatedly pulled from shelves, courtrooms and curricula, with the

This young adult banned books list explores the most frequently challenged works of YA fiction and nonfiction, and unpacks the real reasons behind each ban, drawing on reporting from the American Library Association (ALA), PEN America and other verified sources. It’s fascinating to look at banned young adult books and discover exactly why they rattled parents, school boards and censors.