Banned Books Week 2025 🚫

Banned Books Week has been held annually since 1982 to raise awareness of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools, and highlight the value of free and open access to information.

The 2025 theme is Censorship Is So 1984—Read for Your Rights

Updated June 17, 2025
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Banned Books Week 2025 🚫

Banned Books Week has been held annually since 1982 to raise awareness of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools, and highlight the value of free and open access to information.

The 2025 theme is Censorship Is So 1984—Read for Your Rights

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The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret 1939-
Paper Book
Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. The Handmaid's Tale is an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times) The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its...
1984 : a novel
Orwell, George 1903-1950
Paper Book
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... This 75th Anniversary Edition includes: *...
Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni
Paper Book
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend...
Persepolis : the story of a childhood
Satrapi, Marjane 1969-
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a...
On censorship : a public librarian examines cancel culture in the US
LaRue, James 1954-
Paper Book
In America today, more books are being banned than ever before. This censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities. In On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US, respected long-time public librarian...
The Constitution explained : a guide for every American
Hudson, David L. 1969-
Paper Book
The United States Constitution is a short document, and it is written in general language, which leaves much of the meaning unwritten and open to interpretation. Dig into this important document and watershed in the history of governments! Explore the history, the various...
The Banned Books Club
Novak, Brenda
Paper Book
"A sharply plotted, emotionally intense novel of family secrets, fresh starts and community" --Jayne Ann Krentz She left her hometown following a scandal--but family loyalty is dragging her back... Despite their strained relationship, when Gia...
The satanic verses
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil.
A stolen life : a memoir
Dugard, Jaycee Lee 1980-
Ebook
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not...
The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them
Freedom Writers
Paper Book
An idealistic 23-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School, Long Beach, California confronted a room of unteachable, at-risk' students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only...
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