Banned Books Week

Most challenged book of 2021 and 2022.

Second most challenged book of 2022.

Third most challenged book of 2022.

Tied for fifth most challenged book of 2022.

Eighth most challenged book of 2022.

Tenth most challenged book of 2022.

Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever.

In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.

A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times).

Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

The crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America.