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Literary Beacon: Banned Books/Freed Between the Lines 2024

Let the Rowan-Cabarrus Library help you navigate the world of books. Want to read the latest thought-provoking non-fiction book? How about a light-hearted fiction book? Either way, the Library has you covered.

Thank you to everybody who participated in Banned Books Week. Continue to Celebrate your Freedom to Read.

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023

Lists of Challenged or Banned Books (or just learn more)

The ALA's Website for Frequently Challenged Books Check this website and links to explore banned and challenged books by topic, genre, time, and audience.
Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom compiled this list of the most banned and challenged books from 2010-2019 by reviewing both the public and confidential censorship reports it received.
Challenges to Books with Diverse Content
Banned or Challenged Classics
BANNED IN THE USA: RISING SCHOOL BOOK BANS THREATEN FREE EXPRESSION AND STUDENTS’ FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS Excellent article from 2022 about the rise in book challenges and censorship.
What people miss in the conversation about banned books 31 minute podcast from NPR about banned books.
Banned Books Week Official website of Banned Books Week. Promotional materials, information, and advocacy tools.
Office of Intellectual Freedom
ALA's branch to field and track book challenges.
Book Bans a Focus of State of America’s Libraries 2022 Report Report features Top 10 Most Challenged Books list and a new campaign to fight censorship
Unite Against Book Bans Unite Against Book Bans is a national initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.
Intellectual Freedom Committee - North Carolina Library Association
Book Ban Data From the ALA, this report gives a lot of data about what books are challenged and how those challenges are enacted.
A History of Censorship in the United States
History of Censorship from Britannica

Hispanic Authors Banned or Challenged Books

I am not your perfect mexican daughter

How the garcia girls lost their accents

Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe

house on mango street

They both die at the end

Freedom to Read Books at Rowan-Cabarrus

They both die at the end

Book cover for Stamped

Cover of All American Boys

cover of to kill a mockingbird

Handmaid's tale cover

Harry Potter cover

Looking for Alaska

house on mango street

Aristotle and Dante Discover