Books Banned in Georgia

18 banned books

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

Deenie

by Judy Blume

Deenie by Judy Blume follows a teenager diagnosed with scoliosis who must wear a back brace. Banned for decades because ...

Sexual ContentAge 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 29 challenges

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical novella about a farm revolution that descends into tyranny. Banned for po...

Political ContentReligious ObjectionsSexual Content
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 22 challenges

Fifty Shades of Grey

by E.L. James

E.L. James' erotic romance novel, removed from public libraries across the country for explicit sexual content and BDSM ...

Sexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
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 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

The Infinite Moment of Us

by Lauren Myracle

The Infinite Moment of Us follows Wren and Charlie as they fall in love the summer after high school graduation, navigat...

Sexual Content
BANNED 15 challenges

l8r, g8r

by Lauren Myracle

The final book in Lauren Myracle's Internet Girls trilogy, told entirely through instant messages as three friends navig...

Sexual Content
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 Sun and Her Flowers

by Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers is Rupi Kaur's second poetry collection, exploring themes of growth, ancestry, immigration, loss...

Sexual 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 5 challenges

Juliet Takes a Breath

by Gabby Rivera

'Juliet Takes a Breath...

Sexual Content
BANNED 3 challenges

#Hockey (Check, Please! Series)

by Ngozi Ukazu

'#Hockey (Check, Please! Series)...

Sexual Content
BANNED 2 challenges

Girl Mans Up

by M-E Girard

'Girl Mans Up...

Sexual Content
BANNED 2 challenges

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V. E. Schwab

'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue...

Sexual Content
BANNED 1 challenges

After We Collided (After Series)

by Anna Todd

'After We Collided (After Series)...

Sexual Content