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Censorship: Banned and Challenged Books

About Challenged and Banned Books

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

Censorship by the numbers

(NOT) Banned Books at Berklee

This Book Is Gay
All Boys Aren't Blue
The Handmaid's Tale
Persepolis
Brazen
Fun Home
The 1619 Project
Maus I: a Survivor's Tale
The Bluest Eye
Gender Queer: a Memoir
Parable of the Talents
How to Be Ace
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Fire This Time
Stamped from the Beginning
The Kite Runner
Beloved
The Freedom Writers Diary
The Best We Could Do
Now That We're Men
The Odyssey of Homer

Banned Books Week

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