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
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Nineteen eighty-four
Orwell, George
Paper Book
A deluxe hardcover edition of 1984: one of the most celebrated novels of the twentieth century, Orwell's cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before. Winston Smith spends his days rewriting history to fit the...
Persepolis : the story of a childhood
Satrapi, Marjane 1969-
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in...
A stolen life : a memoir
Dugard, Jaycee Lee
Paper Book
Jaycee Dugard's New York Times bestselling memoir chronicles her raw and powerful story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in...

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