Violence

Books Banned for Violence

233 books · 2638 total challenges

BANNED 167 challenges

1984

by George Orwell

1984 is George Orwell's dystopian novel about Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in the totalitaria...

Political ContentSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 124 challenges

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

by Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz was the most challenged book in America from 1990 to 1999, targeted ...

ViolenceOccult/SupernaturalAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 104 challenges

A Court of Mist and Fury

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury is the second book in Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, following Feyre as she navigates the after...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 102 challenges

A Court of Wings and Ruin

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin is the third book in Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, following Feyre as she leads a dangerous m...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 96 challenges

Empire of Storms

by Sarah J. Maas

The fifth Throne of Glass novel placed #4 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list as Sarah J. Maas remained a major cen...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 64 challenges

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning dystopian novel about a society that has eliminated pain, color, and choice, challeng...

ViolenceSexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 56 challenges

The Chocolate War

by Robert Cormier

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a YA novel about a student who refuses to participate in his school's chocolate f...

Sexual ContentProfanityViolence
BANNED 52 challenges

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's Depression-era novella about two migrant workers, challenged for profanity, racial slurs, and its portr...

ProfanityRacial ContentViolence
BANNED 48 challenges

Fallen Angels

by Walter Dean Myers

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers follows young soldiers in the Vietnam War. One of the most frequently banned books in...

ProfanityViolenceRacial Content
BANNED 43 challenges

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale

by Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, ban...

ProfanityViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 42 challenges

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has been challenged and banned since 1963 for being too dark and frightening...

Occult/SupernaturalAge InappropriatenessViolence
BANNED 37 challenges

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies by William Golding follows boys stranded on an island who descend into savagery. Banned for violence, ...

ViolenceProfanityRacial Content
BANNED 36 challenges

All American Boys

by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely tackles police brutality and racism through two teens' perspective...

ProfanityDrug/Alcohol ContentPolitical Content
BANNED 34 challenges

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel about a future where books are burned by the government — itself repeatedly banned and ce...

ProfanityReligious ObjectionsViolence
BANNED 32 challenges

Shine

by Lauren Myracle

Shine by Lauren Myracle follows a teen girl investigating a hate crime against her gay best friend in a small Southern t...

LGBTQ+ ThemesViolenceDrug/Alcohol Content
BANNED 31 challenges

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel about children forced to fight to the death, challenged for violence, anti-government t...

ViolenceAge InappropriatenessPolitical Content
BANNED 30 challenges

Blubber

by Judy Blume

Blubber by Judy Blume depicts schoolyard bullying without a neat moral resolution. Banned for profanity, bullying depict...

ProfanityViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

Living Dead Girl

by Elizabeth Scott

Living Dead Girl tells the story of Alice, a girl kidnapped at age ten and held captive by a predator for five years. Wr...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is a speculative fiction novel about genetic engineering, corporate power, and humanit...

Sexual ContentViolenceProfanity
BANNED 30 challenges

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones is narrated by Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who watches from heaven as her family and killer ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 28 challenges

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a sweeping Civil War-era novel challenged for racial slurs, romanticized slav...

Racial ContentSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 26 challenges

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a satirical war novel about the absurdity of military bureaucracy. Banned for sexual conten...

Sexual ContentProfanityViolence
BANNED 25 challenges

A Clash of Kings

by George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings, the second book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, continues the epic struggle for the Iron Throne ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 25 challenges

Monster

by Walter Dean Myers

Monster by Walter Dean Myers follows a 16-year-old Black teenager on trial for felony murder, told through his screenpla...

ViolenceProfanityRacial Content
BANNED 25 challenges

People Kill People

by Ellen Hopkins

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins examines gun violence through six interconnected perspectives. Banned across multipl...

ViolencePolitical ContentProfanity
BANNED 22 challenges

Damsel

by Elana K. Arnold

Damsel is a dark feminist fairy tale in which a prince rescues a girl from a dragon, only for her to discover that the r...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 22 challenges

Glass

by Ellen Hopkins

Glass is the sequel to Crank, continuing Kristina Snow's descent into methamphetamine addiction as she loses custody of ...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 22 challenges

Storm and Fury

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Jennifer L. Armentrout's fantasy novel tied for #8 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list, reflecting how aggressively...

Sexual ContentViolenceReligious Objections
BANNED 22 challenges

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

Delia Owens' debut novel follows Kya Clark, the 'Marsh Girl' of a North Carolina coastal town, who raises herself in iso...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 21 challenges

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about nine-year-old Oskar Schell, who lost his father in the September 11 attacks and embar...

Sexual ContentViolenceSensitive Topics
BANNED 20 challenges

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis is a satirical novel about a Wall Street serial killer. Banned in Australia, restri...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 20 challenges

Impulse

by Ellen Hopkins

Impulse follows three teenagers who meet in a psychiatric hospital after each has attempted suicide. It has been challen...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is a children's fantasy about a boy who escapes his cruel aunts inside a magical...

Occult/SupernaturalProfanityDrug/Alcohol Content
BANNED 20 challenges

Kingdom of Ash

by Sarah J. Maas

Kingdom of Ash is the epic conclusion to Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, in which Aelin Galathynius fights to sa...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Lucky

by Alice Sebold

Lucky is Alice Sebold's memoir of being raped as a college freshman and the subsequent criminal trial. It has been chall...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Native Son

by Richard Wright

Richard Wright's landmark 1940 novel follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago whose life spirals after ...

ViolenceSexual ContentRacial Content
BANNED 20 challenges

Red Hood

by Elana K. Arnold

Red Hood is a feminist retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in which Bisou Martel discovers a connection between her body...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Saga (Volume 1)

by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Saga (Volume 1) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples is an epic sci-fi/fantasy comic about star-crossed parents from wa...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Scars

by Cheryl Rainfield

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield is a YA novel about a teenager recovering from childhood sexual abuse who uses self-harm to co...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 18 challenges

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's third novel follows Macon 'Milkman' Dead III on a journey through American history and his own family's ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 18 challenges

Tower of Dawn

by Sarah J. Maas

Tower of Dawn follows Chaol Westfall as he journeys to the southern continent seeking healing and an alliance against th...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 17 challenges

Grown

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Tiffany D. Jackson's thriller about Enchanted Jones, a teenage singer who catches the eye of a famous R&B artist, only t...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 17 challenges

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West...

Sexual ContentViolenceOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 16 challenges

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing traces two branches of a family tree across three centuries, from 18th-century Ghana through the slave trade t...

Sexual ContentViolenceRacial Content
BANNED 16 challenges

Monday's Not Coming

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Monday's Not Coming follows Claudia, a Black teenager whose best friend Monday goes missing and no one seems to care eno...

ViolenceLanguageRacial Content
BANNED 16 challenges

Smoke

by Ellen Hopkins

Smoke is the sequel to Burned, continuing Pattyn Von Stratten's story as she deals with devastating loss, her sister's r...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 16 challenges

The Female of the Species

by Mindy McGinnis

The Female of the Species follows Alex Craft, a girl who killed the man who raped and murdered her sister, and the two c...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 16 challenges

Traffick

by Ellen Hopkins

Traffick is the sequel to Tricks, following five teenagers trapped in sex trafficking as they fight to escape and rebuil...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 16 challenges

Vampire Academy

by Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy follows Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire guardian-in-training, and her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire p...

Sexual ContentViolenceReligious Objections
BANNED 15 challenges

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel tied for #8 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list, decades after its first censorshi...

ViolenceSexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 15 challenges

A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

Sarah J. Maas' BookTok phenomenon became the #1 NYT series. The author is now the 3rd most-banned author in America....

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 15 challenges

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an enslaved woman became a cornerstone of American literature....

ViolenceSlavery Depiction
BANNED 15 challenges

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel about masculinity, consumerism, and underground violence. Banned from the Texas...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 15 challenges

Saga, Volume One

by Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan's Eisner-winning graphic novel has ~5 bans....

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 15 challenges

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black women's lives and freedom became a film and Broadway musical....

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 15 challenges

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a theocratic regime that subjugates women has become a cultural touchstone. Now ...

Sexual ContentViolencePolitical Content
BANNED 15 challenges

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

This literary bestseller tells the story of Amir and Hassan, childhood friends in Afghanistan. Became a Broadway play an...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 15 challenges

The Walking Dead Deluxe, Vol. 1

by Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman's TV franchise graphic novel has ~5 bans for violence....

ViolenceGraphic Content
BANNED 15 challenges

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen's #1 NYT bestseller about life in a Depression-era circus became a film and Broadway show....

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

Concrete Rose

by Angie Thomas

A prequel to The Hate U Give following Maverick Carter as a 17-year-old in Garden Heights, navigating gang life, fatherh...

Drug UseViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

Crown of Midnight

by Sarah J. Maas

The second book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, following assassin Celaena Sardothien as she serves as the Ki...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

House of Earth and Blood

by Sarah J. Maas

House of Earth and Blood is the first book in Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City series, following half-fae Bryce Quinlan as ...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

More Happy Than Not

by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not follows Aaron Soto, a Bronx teenager who considers a memory-altering procedure to forget his emergin...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

The You I've Never Known

by Ellen Hopkins

The You I've Never Known follows Ariel, a teen discovering her sexual orientation while uncovering the truth about her f...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

We Are the Ants

by Shaun David Hutchinson

We Are the Ants follows Henry Denton, a teen who has been periodically abducted by aliens and is now given a choice: pre...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 13 challenges

Girls of Paper and Fire

by Natasha Ngan

A Malaysian-inspired fantasy about Lei, a girl chosen as one of the Demon King's Paper Girls, who falls in love with ano...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ContentViolence
BANNED 13 challenges

The Almost Moon

by Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold's novel about Helen Knightly, who kills her elderly mother and then spends the next 24 hours unraveling the...

ViolenceSexual ContentSensitive Topics
BANNED 12 challenges

Firekeeper's Daughter

by Angeline Boulley

An Ojibwe teenager goes undercover to investigate a meth epidemic devastating her tribal community. Challenged for drug ...

Drug UseViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 12 challenges

Heir of Fire

by Sarah J. Maas

The third book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, where Celaena travels to a distant land to train with a Fae wa...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 12 challenges

It

by Stephen King

It...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 12 challenges

Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds

A novel-in-verse about a fifteen-year-old boy who gets in an elevator with a gun, intending to avenge his brother's murd...

ViolenceProfanity
BANNED 12 challenges

Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

The first book in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling series, following Celaena Sardothien, a teenage assassin summoned from a b...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 11 challenges

One of Us Is Lying

by Karen M. McManus

A YA murder mystery about five students who enter detention but only four walk out alive. Challenged for sexual content,...

Sexual ContentDrug UseProfanity
BANNED 11 challenges

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

A retelling of Homer's Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus, exploring his love affair with Achilles from boyhood to ...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ContentViolence
BANNED 10 challenges

Carrie

by Stephen King

Carrie...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 10 challenges

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

Truman Capote's literary true-crime classic about a quadruple murder became the template for modern true crime....

ViolenceTrue Crime Content
BANNED 10 challenges

Killing Mr. Griffin

by Lois Duncan

Lois Duncan's YA thriller about students who go too far has been challenged despite its morally clear ending....

ViolenceMurder Plot
BANNED 10 challenges

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

by Dashka Slater

The true story of two Oakland teenagers: Sasha, a nonbinary teen, and Richard, a Black teen who set Sasha's skirt on fir...

Violence
BANNED 10 challenges

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson's international bestseller about journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigating a d...

Sexual ContentViolenceSexual Violence
BANNED 10 challenges

Watchmen

by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Eisner Award-winning graphic novel is considered a masterpiece....

ViolenceSexual ContentGraphic Novel Format
BANNED 9 challenges

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini's second novel follows two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become intertwined across 30 year...

ViolenceSexual ContentSensitive Topics
BANNED 9 challenges

Furyborn

by Claire Legrand

Claire Legrand's fantasy novel following two queens born 1,000 years apart: Rielle, who must prove she's the prophesied ...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 9 challenges

Iron Widow

by Xiran Jay Zhao

A sci-fi reimagining of Chinese history where Zetian, a girl from a patriarchal society, pilots giant mechs to fight ali...

Sexual ContentViolenceLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 9 challenges

The Shining

by Stephen King

The Shining...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 8 challenges

A Court of Silver Flames

by Sarah J. Maas

Sarah J. Maas' ACOTAR spinoff....

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 8 challenges

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1

by Yusei Matsui

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1...

Violence
BANNED 8 challenges

The Assassin's Blade

by Sarah J. Maas

A collection of five prequel novellas to Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, following Celaena Sardothien's adventur...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 8 challenges

The Cruel Prince

by Holly Black

A YA fantasy about Jude Duarte, a mortal girl raised in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, who schemes to win a place...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 8 challenges

The Stand

by Stephen King

The Stand...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 7 challenges

Blood & Honey

by Shelby Mahurin

The sequel to Serpent & Dove, continuing the story of a witch and a witch hunter forced into marriage who must navigate ...

Sexual ContentViolenceOccult/Witchcraft
BANNED 7 challenges

Christine

by Stephen King

Christine...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 7 challenges

Fire Force, Vol. 1

by Atsushi Ohkubo

Fire Force, Vol. 1...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 7 challenges

Legendborn

by Tracy Deonn

A YA fantasy where Bree Matthews discovers a secret society of Arthurian descendants at UNC Chapel Hill and uncovers her...

ViolenceOccult/WitchcraftSexual Content
BANNED 7 challenges

Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

Pet Sematary...

ViolenceProfanityOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 7 challenges

Punching the Air

by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

A novel-in-verse about Amal Shahid, a Black Muslim teenager wrongfully convicted of a crime and sent to a juvenile deten...

ViolenceProfanityRacial Themes
BANNED 7 challenges

Stardust

by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about young Tristran Thorn, who ventures beyond the wall of his English village into the mag...

Sexual ContentViolenceOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 7 challenges

The Weight of Blood

by Tiffany D. Jackson

A reimagining of Stephen King's Carrie set in a small Georgia town, exploring race, identity, and violence when the scho...

ViolenceRacial ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 7 challenges

White Smoke

by Tiffany D. Jackson

A YA horror novel about a biracial teen who moves into a renovated house in a gentrifying neighborhood and discovers it'...

ViolenceDrug UseProfanity
BANNED 6 challenges

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 6 challenges

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

John Knowles' classic novel about the intense friendship between Gene and Phineas at a New England boarding school durin...

ViolenceLGBTQ+ ContentLanguage
BANNED 6 challenges

Ace of Spades

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's debut thriller about two Black students at an elite prep school who become targets of an anonymo...

LGBTQ+ ContentRacial ContentViolence
BANNED 6 challenges

Dread Nation

by Justina Ireland

An alternate history where the dead rose at the Battle of Gettysburg, and Black and Indigenous children are conscripted ...

ViolenceRacial ThemesProfanity
BANNED 6 challenges

Kingsbane

by Claire Legrand

The sequel to Claire Legrand's Furyborn, continuing the dual storylines of Rielle and Eliana as their fates hurtle towar...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 6 challenges

Misery

by Stephen King

Misery...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 6 challenges

The Belles

by Dhonielle Clayton

A YA fantasy set in a world where beauty is controlled by magical women called Belles, and one Belle discovers the dark ...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 5 challenges

Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

Stephen King's gothic novel about bestselling author Mike Noonan, who retreats to his lakeside cabin in Maine after his ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 5 challenges

Cujo

by Stephen King

Cujo...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 5 challenges

Dark Places

by Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn's thriller about Libby Day, the sole survivor of a massacre that killed her family, who begins to investig...

ViolenceSexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 5 challenges

Firestarter

by Stephen King

Firestarter...

ViolenceProfanity
BANNED 5 challenges

Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

A collection of four Stephen King novellas including 'The Langoliers,' 'Secret Window, Secret Garden,' 'The Library Poli...

ViolenceLanguageSensitive Topics
BANNED 5 challenges

Grave Mercy

by Robin LaFevers

Robin LaFevers' historical fantasy about Ismae, a 17-year-old girl in medieval Brittany who escapes an abusive marriage ...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 5 challenges

House of Hollow

by Krystal Sutherland

A dark YA thriller about three glamorous sisters who went missing as children and returned... different. When the eldest...

ViolenceSexual ContentOccult/Witchcraft
BANNED 5 challenges

House of Salt and Sorrows

by Erin A. Craig

A gothic retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses set in a haunted seaside manor where sisters keep dying under myster...

ViolenceSexual ContentOccult/Witchcraft
BANNED 5 challenges

Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay

A Filipino American teenager travels to the Philippines to investigate his cousin's murder in Duterte's war on drugs. Ch...

Drug UseViolenceProfanity
BANNED 5 challenges

Picture Perfect

by Jodi Picoult

Picture Perfect...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 5 challenges

Razorblade Tears

by S. A. Cosby

A crime thriller about two ex-convict fathers, one Black and one white, who team up to avenge the murders of their gay s...

ViolenceLGBTQ+ ContentProfanity
BANNED 5 challenges

Salem's Lot

by Stephen King

Salem's Lot...

ViolenceSexual ContentOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 5 challenges

Shatter Me

by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 5 challenges

Soul Eater, Vol. 1

by Atsushi Ohkubo

Soul Eater, Vol. 1...

ViolenceOccult/SupernaturalSexual Content
BANNED 5 challenges

The Dead Zone

by Stephen King

The Dead Zone...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 5 challenges

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

The second book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, where gunslinger Roland Deschain opens doorways to 1980s New York a...

ViolenceDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 5 challenges

The Gilded Ones

by Namina Forna

A West African-inspired fantasy about Deka, a girl whose blood runs gold, marking her as impure in her village but makin...

ViolenceSexual ContentOccult/Witchcraft
BANNED 5 challenges

The Initial Insult

by Mindy McGinnis

A Poe-inspired YA thriller where a girl bricks up her former best friend in a basement wall to extract the truth about w...

ViolenceDrug UseProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

A Madness So Discreet

by Mindy McGinnis

A historical thriller set in 1890s Boston following a young woman trapped in an insane asylum after concealing horrific ...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

A River of Royal Blood

by Amanda Joy

A North African-inspired fantasy about a princess who must kill her older sister to claim the throne, but discovers a co...

ViolenceSexual ContentLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 4 challenges

A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

A Spark of Light...

Sexual ContentViolencePolitical Content
BANNED 4 challenges

City of Ghosts

by Victoria Schwab

A middle-grade fantasy about a girl who can cross into the world of the dead after a near-drowning experience, set again...

Occult/WitchcraftViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Frostbite

by Richelle Mead

Frostbite...

Sexual ContentOccult/SupernaturalViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Ignite Me

by Tahereh Mafi

Ignite Me...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Invisible Monsters

by Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Needful Things

by Stephen King

Needful Things...

ViolenceSexual ContentOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 4 challenges

Riot Baby

by Tochi Onyebuchi

A speculative novella about a Black woman with telekinetic powers and her incarcerated brother, spanning from the 1992 L...

ViolenceRacial ThemesProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation

by Duncan Tonatiuh

'Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation...

Race and RacismViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Shadow Kiss

by Richelle Mead

Shadow Kiss...

Sexual ContentOccult/SupernaturalViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Spin the Dawn

by Elizabeth Lim

A YA fantasy inspired by Mulan and Project Runway, where a girl disguises herself as a boy to compete in a tailoring con...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 4 challenges

The Eyes of the Dragon

by Stephen King

The Eyes of the Dragon...

ViolenceOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 4 challenges

The Green Mile

by Stephen King

The Green Mile...

ViolenceRacial ContentProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

The Hand on the Wall

by Maureen Johnson

The conclusion of the Truly Devious trilogy, where Stevie Bell solves both a modern murder and a 1930s kidnapping at an ...

ViolenceLGBTQ+ ContentDrug Use
BANNED 4 challenges

The Inheritance Games

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A YA thriller about a teenager who inherits a billionaire's fortune and must solve puzzles to figure out why, while his ...

ViolenceProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

The Pact

by Jodi Picoult

The Pact...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

The Project

by Courtney Summers

A YA thriller about a girl whose sister has been absorbed by a charismatic cult leader, and her desperate investigation ...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

These Hollow Vows

by Lexi Ryan

A YA romantasy about a mortal girl who makes a deal with the fae to save her sister and finds herself torn between two f...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 4 challenges

Thinner

by Stephen King

Thinner...

ViolenceProfanityOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 4 challenges

Vanishing Acts

by Jodi Picoult

Vanishing Acts...

Sexual ContentViolenceProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

We Are Not Free

by Traci Chee

A novel told through the voices of fourteen Japanese American teenagers forcibly relocated to internment camps during Wo...

ViolenceRacial ThemesProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

We Free the Stars

by Hafsah Faizal

The sequel to We Hunt the Flame, an Arabian Nights-inspired fantasy about Zafira and Nasir's quest to restore magic to t...

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Blood Promise

by Richelle Mead

Blood Promise...

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Dreamcatcher

by Stephen King

Dreamcatcher...

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Safe Haven

by Nicholas Sparks

Safe Haven...

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This Darkness Mine

by Mindy McGinnis

This Darkness Mine...

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Death Wind

by William Bell

'Death Wind...

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Gender Danger: Survivors of Rape, Human Trafficking, and Honor Killings

by Rae Simons

'Gender Danger: Survivors of Rape, Human Trafficking, and Honor Killings...

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Himawari House

by Harmony Becker

'Himawari House...

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It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

by Dan Savage

'It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living...

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Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights

by Rob Sanders

'Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights...

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Wayward Witch (Brooklyn Brujas Series)

by Zoraida Córdova

'Wayward Witch (Brooklyn Brujas Series)...

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Afterward

by Jennifer Mathieu

'Afterward...

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Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

by Eric Bell

'Alan Cole Is Not a Coward...

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Altered Carbon: One Life, One Death

by Richard K. Morgan

'Altered Carbon: One Life, One Death...

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An Introduction to Drawing: An Artist's Guide to Skills & Techniques

by Robin Hazlewood

'An Introduction to Drawing: An Artist's Guide to Skills & Techniques...

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Batman: The Killing Joke

by Alan Moore

'Batman: The Killing Joke...

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Be Strong, Be Wise: The Young Adult’s Guide to Sexual Assault Awareness and Personal Safety

by Amy R. Carpenter

'Be Strong, Be Wise: The Young Adult’s Guide to Sexual Assault Awareness and Personal Safety...

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Beware the Werewolf (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol Series)

by Andrés Miedoso

'Beware the Werewolf (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol Series)...

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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

by Charlton D. McIlwain

'Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter...

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Blood Sport

by Tash McAdam

'Blood Sport...

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Blood Water Paint

by Joy McCullough

'Blood Water Paint...

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Bloodlust and Bonnets

by Emily McGovern

'Bloodlust and Bonnets...

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Blue Bloods

by Melissa de la Cruz

'Blue Bloods...

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Blue Bloods: After Life

by Melissa de la Cruz

'Blue Bloods: After Life...

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Blue Is the Warmest Color

by Julie Maroh

'Blue Is the Warmest Color...

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Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice

by Susan Goldman Rubin

'Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice...

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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha Series)

by Tomi Adeyemi

'Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha Series)...

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Crier's War (Crier's War Series)

by Nina Varela

'Crier's War (Crier's War Series)...

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Crime and Punishment: The Graphic Novel

by Osamu Tezuka

'Crime and Punishment: The Graphic Novel...

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D-Day: The World War II Invasion that Changed History

by Deborah Hopkinson

'D-Day: The World War II Invasion that Changed History...

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Dash (Dogs of World War II Series)

by Kirby Larson

'Dash (Dogs of World War II Series)...

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Days of Blood and Starlight

by Laini Taylor

'Days of Blood and Starlight...

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Death Prefers Blondes

by Caleb Roehrig

'Death Prefers Blondes...

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Edward Hopper: A Modern Master

by Ita G. Berkow

'Edward Hopper: A Modern Master...

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice: Her Impact on the Civil Rights Movement, the White House, and the World

by Ilene Cooper

'Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice: Her Impact on the Civil Rights Movement, the White House, and the World...

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From Blood and Ash

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

'From Blood and Ash...

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Gays and Mental Health: Fighting Depression, Saying No to Suicide

by Jaime A. Seba

'Gays and Mental Health: Fighting Depression, Saying No to Suicide...

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Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series)

by Holly Jackson

'Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series)...

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Green River Killer: A True Detective Story

by Jeff Jensen

'Green River Killer: A True Detective Story...

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Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook: Somatic Skills to Help You Feel Safe in Your Body, Create Boundaries, and Live with Resilience

by Erika Shershun

'Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook: Somatic Skills to Help You Feel Safe in Your Body, Create Boundaries, and Live with Res...

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Holocaust Camps and Killing Centers

by Craig E. Blohm

'Holocaust Camps and Killing Centers...

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Homophobia: From Social Stigma to Hate Crimes

by Bill Palmer

'Homophobia: From Social Stigma to Hate Crimes...

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Ho'onani: Hula Warrior

by Heather Gale

'Ho'onani: Hula Warrior...

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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (Edward Zanni Series)

by Marc Acito

'How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (Edward Zanni Series)...

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How We Fight White Supremacy

by Akiba Solomon

'How We Fight White Supremacy...

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Iron Heart (Crier's War Series)

by Nina Varela

'Iron Heart (Crier's War Series)...

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It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff

by Drew Pinsky

'It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff...

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Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

by Karen Blumenthal

'Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights...

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 - Phantom Blood, Vol. 1

by Hirohiko Araki

'Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 - Phantom Blood, Vol. 1...

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Just Kill Me

by Adam Selzer

'Just Kill Me...

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Killer Spirit

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

'Killer Spirit...

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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

by Karen Abbott

'Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War...

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Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood

by Marjorie Liu

'Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood...

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Muffin Wars (Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Series)

by Marti Dumas

'Muffin Wars (Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Series)...

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Murder Complex

by Lindsay Cummings

'Murder Complex...

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#MurderTrending (MurderTrending Series)

by Gretchen McNeil

'#MurderTrending (MurderTrending Series)...

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Ninth Ward (The Louisiana Girls Trilogy Series)

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

'Ninth Ward (The Louisiana Girls Trilogy Series)...

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Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights

by Jamie Lawson

'Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights...

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Scene of the Crime: Tracking Down Criminals with Forensic Science

by H.P. Newquist

'Scene of the Crime: Tracking Down Criminals with Forensic Science...

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Shattered Warrior

by Sharon Shinn

'Shattered Warrior...

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Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War

by Duncan Tonatiuh

'Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War...

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¡Solo pregunta!: Sé Diferente, Sé Valiente, Sé Tú

by Sonia Sotomayor

'¡Solo pregunta!: Sé Diferente, Sé Valiente, Sé Tú...

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Something Must Be Wrong with Me: A Boy's Book about Sexual Abuse

by Doris Sanford

'Something Must Be Wrong with Me: A Boy's Book about Sexual Abuse...

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The Afterward

by E. K Johnston

'The Afterward...

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The Apparatus of Death - The Third Reich

by Thomas Flaherty

'The Apparatus of Death - The Third Reich...

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The Black Monday Murders

by Jonathan Hickman

'The Black Monday Murders...

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The Blood Countess (Lady Slayers Series)

by Lana Popović

'The Blood Countess (Lady Slayers Series)...

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The Brilliant Death (The Brilliant Death Series)

by Amy Rose Capetta

'The Brilliant Death (The Brilliant Death Series)...

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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage

by Selina Alko

'The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage...

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The Death of Bees

by Lisa O'Donnell

'The Death of Bees...

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The Essential Edward Hopper

by Justin Spring

'The Essential Edward Hopper...

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The Fight (Surviving Southside Series)

by Elizabeth Karre

'The Fight (Surviving Southside Series)...

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The Henna Wars

by Adiba Jaigirdar

'The Henna Wars...

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The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry

by David L. Carlson

'The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry...

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The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales

by Ailsa Wild

'The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales...

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The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part One

by Michael Dante DiMartino

'The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part One...

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The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Three

by Michael Dante DiMartino

'The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Three...

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The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Two

by Michael Dante DiMartino

'The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Two...

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The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes

by Duncan Tonatiuh

'The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes...

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The Storm of Life (The Brilliant Death Series)

by Amy Rose Capetta

'The Storm of Life (The Brilliant Death Series)...

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The War Outside

by Monica Hesse

'The War Outside...

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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

by Sarah McBride

'Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality...

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Victories Greater Than Death (Unstoppable Series)

by Charlie Jane Anders

'Victories Greater Than Death (Unstoppable Series)...

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War Storm

by Victoria Aveyard

'War Storm...

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Wayward Son

by Rainbow Rowell

'Wayward Son...

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Wayward Son (Simon Snow Series)

by Rainbow Rowell

'Wayward Son (Simon Snow Series)...

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Wilma's Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller

by Doreen Rappaport

'Wilma's Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller...

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You Killed Wesley Payne

by Sean Beaudoin

'You Killed Wesley Payne...

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