Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores and schools. The annual event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community—librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers and readers of all types —in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.

Updated August 17, 2025
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The perks of being a wallflower
Chbosky, Stephen.
Paper Book
Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting...
The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of the Lord of the rings
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, The Lord of the Rings, begins with this classic high fantasy set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in...
Of mice and men
Steinbeck, John
His dark materials
Pullman, Philip

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