Books Banned for Language
54 books · 743 total challenges
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is narrated by Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who watches from heaven as her family and killer ...
Breathless
Breathless follows Claudine Henry through a transformative summer of first love, self-discovery, and sexual awakening be...
A Clash of Kings
A Clash of Kings, the second book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, continues the epic struggle for the Iron Throne ...
Burned
Burned tells the story of Pattyn Von Stratten, a seventeen-year-old girl raised in a strict Mormon household who begins ...
The DUFF
The DUFF follows seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper, who is labeled the 'Designated Ugly Fat Friend' and begins a complicat...
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green's bestselling novel about two teenagers, Hazel and Augustus, who meet at a cancer support group and fall in l...
This One Summer
This One Summer is a graphic novel about Rose and Windy, two girls spending the summer at a lakeside town, navigating th...
Glass
Glass is the sequel to Crank, continuing Kristina Snow's descent into methamphetamine addiction as she loses custody of ...
Native Son
Richard Wright's landmark 1940 novel follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago whose life spirals after ...
Perfect
Perfect follows four teenagers whose pursuit of perfection leads them into eating disorders, steroid abuse, drug addicti...
Tilt
Tilt follows three teenagers whose lives intersect around love, sex, and identity, told in Ellen Hopkins's signature ver...
Beautiful
Beautiful follows Cassie as she reinvents herself at a new school, falling into a world of drugs, sex, and toxic friends...
Fallout
Fallout follows the three children of Kristina Snow from the Crank trilogy as they navigate the lasting damage of their ...
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter follows Julia Reyes, a first-generation Mexican American teenager dealing with he...
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison's third novel follows Macon 'Milkman' Dead III on a journey through American history and his own family's ...
The Haters
The Haters follows three jazz camp dropouts who start a band and go on a chaotic road trip through the American South. F...
The Poet X
The Poet X follows Xiomara Batista, a Dominican American teenager in Harlem who pours her frustrations with her strict r...
What Girls Are Made Of
What Girls Are Made Of follows sixteen-year-old Nina Faye as she searches for love and validation through her relationsh...
I'll Give You the Sun
I'll Give You the Sun follows twins Jude and Noah, whose bond is shattered by secrets, grief, and the discovery of Noah'...
Monday's Not Coming
Monday's Not Coming follows Claudia, a Black teenager whose best friend Monday goes missing and no one seems to care eno...
Smoke
Smoke is the sequel to Burned, continuing Pattyn Von Stratten's story as she deals with devastating loss, her sister's r...
The Female of the Species
The Female of the Species follows Alex Craft, a girl who killed the man who raped and murdered her sister, and the two c...
Traffick
Traffick is the sequel to Tricks, following five teenagers trapped in sex trafficking as they fight to escape and rebuil...
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel tied for #8 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list, decades after its first censorshi...
Saga, Volume One
Brian K. Vaughan's Eisner-winning graphic novel has ~5 bans....
The Color Purple
Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black women's lives and freedom became a film and Broadway musical....
Forever for a Year
Forever for a Year follows Carolina and Trevor through the highs and lows of their first serious relationship, told in a...
Paper Towns
John Green's novel about Quentin Jacobsen, who spends a wild night with his enigmatic neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman bef...
Regretting You
Colleen Hoover's novel about a mother and daughter whose relationship is torn apart by secrets after a devastating famil...
The Carnival at Bray
The Carnival at Bray follows Maggie Lynch, a Chicago teenager transplanted to a small Irish town in 1993, navigating gri...
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Sun and Her Flowers is Rupi Kaur's second poetry collection, exploring themes of growth, ancestry, immigration, loss...
We Are the Ants
We Are the Ants follows Henry Denton, a teen who has been periodically abducted by aliens and is now given a choice: pre...
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner's novel told through 15 different narrators as the Bundren family transports their matriarch's body acr...
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline's science fiction novel set in a dystopian 2045, where teenager Wade Watts hunts for an Easter egg hidden i...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream
H.G. Bissinger's nonfiction account of the 1988 season of the Permian High School Panthers football team in Odessa, Texa...
Heart Bones
Colleen Hoover's novel about Beyah Grim, who escapes her difficult life to spend the summer with her estranged father on...
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
Jarrett J. Krosoczka's graphic memoir about growing up with a mother addicted to heroin, being raised by his grandparent...
Slammed
Colleen Hoover's debut novel about Layken, who moves to Michigan and falls for her neighbor Will, only to discover he's ...
Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok's semi-autobiographical novel about Kimberly Chang, a young girl who immigrates from Hong Kong to Brooklyn and...
Point of Retreat
The sequel to Colleen Hoover's Slammed, continuing the love story of Layken and Will as they navigate the challenges of ...
A Separate Peace
John Knowles' classic novel about the intense friendship between Gene and Phineas at a New England boarding school durin...
Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's debut thriller about two Black students at an elite prep school who become targets of an anonymo...
The Sky is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson's debut novel about 17-year-old Lennie Walker, who copes with her sister's sudden death by falling for two ...
This Girl
The third book in Colleen Hoover's Slammed trilogy, retelling the love story of Will and Layken from Will's perspective....
Ulysses
James Joyce's modernist masterpiece follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin on June 16, 1904. Originally ba...
An Abundance of Katherines
John Green's novel about Colin Singleton, a child prodigy and serial dater of girls named Katherine, who goes on a road ...
Bag of Bones
Stephen King's gothic novel about bestselling author Mike Noonan, who retreats to his lakeside cabin in Maine after his ...
Beauty Queens
Libba Bray's satirical novel about teen beauty pageant contestants who survive a plane crash on a deserted island and mu...
Chain Reaction
The third book in Simone Elkeles' Perfect Chemistry trilogy, following Luis Fuentes as he falls for his chemistry partne...
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn's thriller about Libby Day, the sole survivor of a massacre that killed her family, who begins to investig...
Four Past Midnight
A collection of four Stephen King novellas including 'The Langoliers,' 'Secret Window, Secret Garden,' 'The Library Poli...
On the Road
Jack Kerouac's defining Beat Generation novel, a semi-autobiographical account of cross-country road trips with his frie...
The Drawing of the Three
The second book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, where gunslinger Roland Deschain opens doorways to 1980s New York a...
With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo's novel about Emoni Santiago, a teen mother in Philadelphia who dreams of becoming a chef while juggli...