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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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
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.  This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly...
They came for the schools : one town's fight over race and identity, and the new war for America's classrooms
Hixenbaugh, Mike (Journalist)
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America--from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the...
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-
Paper Book
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller--Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that...

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