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Banned/Challenged Books of 2021-2022 – Author List
- Acevedo, Elizabeth – The Poet X
- Ahmed, Roda – Mae Among the Stars
- Alexander, Kwame – The Undefeated
- Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak
- Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak: The Graphic Novel
- Andrews, Jesse – The Haters
- Andrews, Jesse – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Ansari, Aziz – Modern Romance: An Investigation
- Asher, Jay – Thirteen Reasons Why
- Atta, Dean – The Black Flamingo
- Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel
- Backderf, Derf – My Friend Dahmer
- Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Barker, Meg-John – Queer: A Graphic History
- Barnes, Derrick – Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
- Barnes, Derrick – I Am Every Good Thing
- Bechdel, Alison – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- Bertie, Alex – Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard
- Bexley, Jane – Freddie the Farting Snowman
- Blake, Ashley Herring – Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
- Blumenthal, Karen – Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
- Brown, Austin Channing – I Am Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Burrington, Stasia – Mae Among the Stars
- Byers, Grace – I Am Enough
- Celano, Marianne – Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
- Charles, Tami – All Because You Matter
- Chbosky, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Cherry, Matthew A. – Hair Love
- Choi, Yangsook – The Name Jar
- Christie, Agatha – And Then There Were None
- Clark, Kristin Elizabeth – Freakboy
- Cline, Ernest – Ready Player One
- Cohen, Lee – Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane
- Colbert, Brandy – Little & Lion
- Collier, Bryan – All Because You Matter
- Collins, Marietta – Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
- Cronn-Mills, Kristin – Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
- Danticat, Edwidge – Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Separation and Immigration
- Dawson, Juno – This Book is Gay
- Denise, Anika Aldamuy – Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
- DiAngelo, Robin – White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- DiCamillo, Nicola – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Draper, Sharon – Darkness Before Dawn
- Draper, Sharon – Forged by Fire
- Elvgren, Jennifer – The Whispering Town
- Evison, Jonathan – Lawn Boy: A Novel
- Faruqi, Reem – Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss – And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss – If I Ran the Zoo
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss – McElligot’s Pool
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss – On Beyond Zebra!
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss – Scrambled Eggs Super!
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss – The Cat’s Quizzer
- Gephart, Donna – Lily and Dunkin
- Gino, Alex – George
- Gino, Alex – Melissa
- Gino, Alex – Rick
- Giovanni, Nikki – Rosa
- Golabek, Mona – Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane
- Green, John – Looking for Alaska
- Gregorio, I. W. – None of the Above
- Harrington, Claudia – My Two Dads
- Harrington, Claudia – My Two Moms
- Harris, Meena – Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
- Harris, Robie – It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
- Harrison, Vashti – Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
- Harrison, Vashti – Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
- Hartzler, Aaron – What We Saw
- Hazzard, Ann – Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
- Ho, Joanna – Eyes That kKiss in the Corners
- Hoffman, Mary – The Great Big Book of Families
- Hopkins, Ellen – Crank
- Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
- Hyman, Miles- Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation
- Jackson, Tiffany – Monday’s Not Coming
- James, Gordon C. – Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
- James, Gordon C. – I Am Every Good Thing
- Jewell, Lisa – Invisible Girl: A Novel
- Johnson, Cathy G. – The Breakaways
- Johnson, George M. – All Boys Aren’t Blue
- Johnson, Maureen – How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation
- Jones, Martha S. – Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- Kaba, Mariame – Missing Daddy
- Kendi, Ibram X – Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
- Kiely, Brendan – All American Boys
- Klinenberg, Eric – Modern Romance: An Investigation
- Klise, James – Love Drugged
- Kobabe, Maia – Gender Queer: A Memoir
- Kuklin, Susan – Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
- Lambert, Megan Dowd – Real Sisters Pretend
- Laymon, Kiese – Heavy: An American Memoir
- Lê, Minh – Drawn Together
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Levithan, David – Two Boys Kissing
- Levy Debbie – I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
- Leyh, Kat – Snapdragon
- Lindstrom, Carole – We Are Water Protectors
- Lukoff, Kyle – Call Me Max
- Lukoff, Kyle – When Aidan Became a Brother
- Lyons, Kelly Starling – Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Phillip Freelon
- Lyons, Kelly Starling – Sing a Song
- Machado, Carmen Maria – In the Dream House
- Maclear, Kyo – It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
- Maillard, Kevin Noble – Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
- Markel, Michelle – Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909
- Martinez-Neal, Juana – Alma and How She Got Her Name
- May, Gary – Bending Toward Justice
- McGinnis, Mindy – Heroine
- McMillan, Dawn – I Need a New Butt
- McNeil, Gretchen – #MurderTrending
- Méndez, Yamile Saied – Where Are You From?
- Morales, Yuri – Dreamers
- Morrison, Toni – Beloved
- Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye
- Moore, Alan – V for Vendetta
- Muhammad, Ibtihaj – The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
- Nagara, Innosanto – A is for Activist
- Nault, Renee – The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel
- Nelson, Kadir – The Undefeated
- Newman, Leslea – Mommy, Mama, and Me
- Newman, Leslea – Sparkle Boy
- Ngo, Andy – Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
- Norton, Preston – Where I End and You Begin
- Nyong’o, Lupita – Sulwe
- Oelschlager, Vanita – A Tale of Two Daddies
- Paulsen, Gary – Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
- Pearlman, Robb – Pink is for Boys
- Perez, Ashley Hope – Out of Darkness
- Phi, Bao – A Different Pond
- Prager, Sarah – Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
- Quintero, Isabel – My Papi Has a Motorcycle
- Ramsey, Calvin Alexander – Ruth and the Green Book
- Reed, Amy – The Nowhere Girls
- Reynolds, Jason – All American Boys
- Reynolds, Jason – Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
- Rhodes Jewell Parker – Ghost Boys
- Roberson, David A. – When We Were Alone
- Rodger, Ellen – Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth
- Roy, Arundhati – Walking With the Comrades
- Sanchez, Erika – I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- Sanders, Joshunda – I Can Write the World
- Sanders, Rob – Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Scheele, Jules – Queer: A Graphic History
- Sendak, Maurice – In the Night Kitchen
- Shabazz, Ilyasah – Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
- Shange, Ntozake – Coretta Scott
- Shetterly, Margot Lee – Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
- Sones, Sonya – What My Mother Doesn’t Know
- Sorell, Traci – We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
- Sorell, Traci – We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
- Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
- Sterling, Michelle – When Lola Visits
- Stone, Nic – Dear Martin
- Sutherland, Tui T. – Wings of Fire series
- Sutton, Benn – Hedgehug: A Sharp Lesson in Love
- Takaki, Ronald – A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America
- Tamaki. Jillian – This One Summer
- Tamaki, Mariko – Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
- Tamaki. Mariko – This One Summer
- Taylor, Mildred D. – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Taylor, Theodore – The Cay
- Telgemeier, Raina – Drama
- Terciero, Rey – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
- Thomas, Angie – The Hate U Give
- Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah – Your Name is a Song
- Tonatiuh, Duncan – Separate is Never Equal
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Vaughan, Brian – Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1
- Venable, Colleen AF – Kiss Number 8
- Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse-Five
- Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
- Walls, Jeannettee – The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- Watson, Larry – Montana 1948
- Weatherford, Carole Boston – Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
- Weatherford, Carole Boston – Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
- Wessels, Marcie – The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box: The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer
- Woodson, Jacqueline – Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy
- Woodson, Jacqueline – The Day You Begin
- Woodson, Jacqueline – Harbor Me
- Woodson, Jacqueline – Red at the Bone
- Zivoin, Jennifer – Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
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304-696-6575
Last updated
June 23, 2023