In February 2025, Department of Defense Educational Activity (DoDEA) school libraries globally received firm but limited guidance regarding the release of Executive Orders 14151 and 14168, respectively titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” and “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Librarians were provided the text of these executive orders and were told to remove all relevant “divisive concepts.” Curricula and programming related to Black History Month and Women’s History Month were also immediately discontinued.

These titles were later targeted in a formal list:

• A Is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
• An ABC of Equality by Chana Ginelle Ewing
• The ABC’s of LGBT1 by Ashley Mardell
• Abnormal Psychology by Helen Dwyer
• Act Cool by Tobly McSmith
• Activist Athletes: When Sports and
  Politics Mix by New York Times
  Educational Publishing
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• Afterglow by Phil Stamper
• Airlock by Tash McAdam
• Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman
• Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
• All Bodies Are Wonderful by Beth Cox
• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-
  Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• All Kinds of Other by James Sie
• All Out: No-Longer Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell
• All You Need Is Love: Celebrating
  Families of All Shapes and Sizes by Shanni Collins
• Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again by
  Shakirah Bourne
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
• Always the Almost by Edward Underhill
• Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass
• And She Was by Jessica Verdi
• Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
• Anti-Racism: Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas by Kenrya Rankin
• The Antiracism Handbook: Practical Tools to Shift Your Mindset & Uproot Racism in Your Life & Community by Thema Simone Bryant
• The Antiracist Kid: A Book About
  Identity, Justice, and Activism by
  Tiffany Jewell
• The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes) by Nadia L. Hohn
• Anything but Fine by Tobias Madden
• AP Psychology by Laura Lincoln Maitland
• AP Psychology (Barron’s) by Robert McEntarffer
• AP Psychology Prep Plus, 2020 & 2021 (Kaplan) by Kaplan Publishing
• AP Q & A Psychology: 600 Questions and Answers (Barron’s) by Robert McEntarffer
• Are America’s Wealthy Too Powerful? by Stuart A. Kallen
• Are There Two Americas? by Caleb Bissinger
• Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? by Sarah Savage
• Are You LGBTQ? by Jeanne Nagle
• The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
• As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
• Atrocities in Action by Kevin
  P. Winn
• Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero by Ellie Royce
• Baby Drag Queen by C. A. Tanaka
• Barron’s AP Psychology Premium by Robert McEntarffer
• Be Amazing: A History of Pride by
  Desmond Is Amazing
• Be Gay, Do Comics by Matt Bors
• Be Your True Self by Maribel Valdez Gonzalez
• Beast by Brie Spangler
• Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• The Beautiful Something Else by Ash Van Otterloo
• Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
• Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult by Skylar Kergil
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
• Being Transgender in America by Duchess Harris
• Bend, Don’t Shatter: Poets on the
  Beginning of Desire by T. Cole Rachel
• The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson
• Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph
• Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve
• Between the World and Me by
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Beyond Gender Binaries: The History
  of Trans, Intersex, and Third-Gender Individuals by Rita Santos
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
• Birthday by Meredith Russo
• The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
• Black Lives Matter by Marty Gitlin
• Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards
• Black Nerd Problems by William
  Evans
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• #BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism by Rachael L. Thomas
• Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda
• Blood Sport by Tash McAdam
• Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our
  Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen
• The Book of Radical Answers by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope by Jodie Patterson
• Both Can Be True by Jules Machias
• Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas
• Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe
• The Bride Was a Boy by Chii
• Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and
  Making It in America by Christopher Rivas
• Burn the Page by Danica Roem
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity by Miguel A.
  De La Torre
• Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Veronica Chambers
• Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff
• Calvin by J. R. Ford
• Camp by Lev A. C. Rosen
• Camp Quiltbag by Nicole Melleby
• Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
• Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
• Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• Challenges for LGBTQ Teens by
  Martha Lundin
• Chaz Bono by Marty Gitlin
• Cheeky Angel series by Hiroyuki Nishimori
• Chef’s Kiss: A Novel by TJ Alexander
• A Child’s Introduction to Pride: The Inspirational History and Culture of the LGBTQIA1 Community by Sarah Prager
• Ciel in All Directions by Sophie Labelle
• Click series by Youngran Lee
• Coming Out as Transgender by Corona Brezina
• Confronting LGBTQ1 Discrimination by Avery Elizabeth Hurt
• Confronting Racism by Maryellen Lo Bosco
• Confronting Racism by Scientific American Educational Publishing
• Constellations by Kate Glasheen
• Continuum by Chella Man
• Coping with Gender Dysphoria by Ellen McGrody
• Coping with Gender Fluidity by
  Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
• Coping with Hate and Intolerance by Avery Elizabeth Hurt
• Coping with Racial Inequality by Tamra Orr
• Counseling LGBTQ Americans by
  Dennis A. Frank
• Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity by Michael Beattie
• Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF Is Going On by Olivia Seltzer
• Critical Perspectives on Gender Identity by Nicki Peter Petrikowski
• Critical Perspectives on Social Justice by Jennifer Peters
• Crossing Lines by Paul Volponi
• Deadendia series by Hamish Steele
• Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
• Debbie Harry Sings in French by
  Meagan Brothers
• The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith
• The Deep Dark by Lee Knox Ostertag
• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create
  Difference by Cordelia Fine
• Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal
• The Diablo’s Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa
• Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a
  Mystery by Casey Parks
• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff
• Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students by Peter M. DeWitt
• Discrimination by Christina Fisanick
• Discrimination by Jacqueline Langwith
• Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World by Chandran Nair
• The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
• Does Equality Exist in America? by Stuart A. Kallen
• The Dog Knight by Jeremy Whitley
• Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex by Bronwen Pardes
• Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America’s First Openly
  Transgender Senator by Meeg Pincus
• Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell
• Dreadnought by April Daniels
• Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School by C. J. Pascoe
• Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn
• Ellen Outside the Lines by A. J. Sass
• Equality, Social Justice, and Our Future by Sabrina Adams
• Equality & Diversity by Charlie Ogden
• The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ1 Inclusive Guide for Kids About Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families by Rachel E. Simon
• Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School by Tiffany Jewell
• Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Gender Identities by Anita Louise McCormick
• The Fae Keeper by H. E. Edgmon
• Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports by Cyd Zeigler
• Far from the Tree: How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another, Our Differences Unite Us by Andrew Solomon
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word by Anastasia Higginbotham
• The Feminism Book by Georgie Carroll
• Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing
  Girlhood by Brittney C. Cooper
• 50 Queers Who Changed the World: A Celebration of LGBTQ1 Icons by Dan Jones
• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two
  Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
• The Fight for LGBTQ1 Rights by Devlin Smith
• Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies by Deborah T. Meem
• 500 AP Psychology Questions to Know by Test Day by Lauren Williams
• Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
• Flor Fights Back: A Stonewall Riots Survival Story by Joy Michael Ellison
• Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman
• Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
• Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Freeing Finch by Ginny Rorby
• Fresh Ink by Lamar Giles
• Friendship, Dating, and Relationships by Simone Payment
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black
  Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom
• The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian,
  Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan
• Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod
• Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities by Jerome Pohlen
• Gay Believers: Homosexuality and
  Religion by Emily Sanna
• Gay Characters in Theatre, Movies, and Television: New Roles, New Attitudes by Jaime Seba
• Gay Club! by Simon James Green
• Gay Rights by Tricia Andryszewski
• The Gay Rights Movement by Eric Braun
• The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities Around the World by Lee Wind
• Gender Dysphoria by Rose McCarthy
• Gender Identity by Nicki Peter Petrikowski
• Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms by Maria Cook
• Gender Identity: The Search for Self by Kate Light
• Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Cynthia Winfield
• The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids: A Guide to Exploring Who You Are by Kelly Sherman Storck
• Gender in the 21st Century by M. M. Eboch
• Gender Inequality in Sports: From Title IX to World Titles by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Gender Issues by Kenneth McIntosh
• Gender Politics by Susan Henneberg
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens & Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity by Rylan Jay Testa
• Gender Rebels: 30 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present by Katherine Locke
• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
• A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray
• GLBT Teens and Society by Jeanne Nagle
• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
• Golden Boy: A Novel by Abigail Tarttelin
• Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
• Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
• The Greatest Superpower by Alex Sanchez
• Green by Alex Gino
• Growing Up LGBTQ by Duchess Harris
• Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words by Lindsay Herriot
• Gumballs by Erin Nation
• Happy Families by Tanita Davis
• The Hazards of Love. Book 1, Bright World by Stan Stanley
• He/ She/ They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by
  Schuyler Bailar
• Heads Up Sociology by Chris Yuill
• The Heartbreak Bakery by Amy Rose Capetta
• Heartstopper, Vol. 3 by Alice Oseman
• Heartstopper, Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman
• Heartstopper, Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman
• The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman
• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
• A History of Racism in America by Craig E. Blohm
• Hit the Road, Manny by Christian Burch
• Home and Family Relationships by Tamra Orr
• Homebody by Theo Parish
• Homophobia: From Social Stigma to Hate Crimes by Bill Palmer
• The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
• A House for Everyone: A Story to Help Children Learn About Gender Identity and Gender Expression by Jo Hirst
• House of Rougeaux by Jenny Jaeckel
• The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson
• How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity by Michael Cart
• How Can I Be an Ally? by Fatima El-Mekki
• How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi with Nic Stone
• How to Fight Racism: A Guide to Standing Up for Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby
• How to They/ Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Stuart Getty
• I Am an Antiracist Superhero! by
  Jennifer Nicole Bacon
• I Am J by Cris Beam
• I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
• I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
• I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
• Identity: A Story of Transitioning by Corey Maison
• Identity & Gender by Charlie Ogden
• Identity Politics by Elizabeth Schmermund
• If I Can Give You That by Michael Gray Bulla
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It by Lil Miss Hot Mess
• If You’re a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist by Gavin Grimm
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a
  World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Jean Mendoza
• Inside the LGBTQ1 Movement by ­Jennifer Lombardo
• Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson
• Intersectionality and Identity Politics by M. M. Eboch
• Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship by
  Jessica Walton
• Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
• It Doesn’t Have to Be Awkward by Drew Pinsky
• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living by Dan Savage
• It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
• It’s So Amazing! A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, Gender, and
  Families by Robie H. Harris
• J Is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet by Veronica I. Arreola
• Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica Silverman
• Jackalope Springs Eternal by Shannon Watters
• Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah Hoffman
• Jacob’s Room to Choose by Sarah Hoffman
• Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel
• Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth by Ellen Rodger
• Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to
  Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Julián at the Wedding by Jessica Love
• Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
• Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• Just Ash by Sol Santana
• Just Shy of Ordinary by A. J. Sass
• The Kilroys List: 67 Monologues and Scenes by Women and Nonbinary Playwrights by Annah Feinberg
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Lana Wachowski by Jeff Mapua
• Laverne Cox by Erin Staley
• Laverne Cox by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara
• Leñadoras: Un Plan Terrible
  [Lumberjanes. A Terrible Plan] by ND Stevenson
• Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
• The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon
• LGBT Discrimination by Heidi
  Carolyn Feldman
• The LGBT Rights Movement by Pat Rarus
• LGBT Youth Issues Today: A Reference Handbook by David E. Newton
• LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for
  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens by Kelly Madrone
• LGBTQ Discrimination in America by Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ Families: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Eva Apelqvist
• LGBTQ Human Rights Movement by Theresa Morlock
• LGBTQ Rights by Susan Henneberg
• LGBTQ Rights and the Law by
  Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ Service in the Armed Forces by Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ Social Movements in America by Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ1 Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• The LGBTQ1 History Book by Michael Bronski
• LGBTQ1 Icons: A Celebration of
  Historical LGBTQ1 Icons in the Arts by Owen Keehnen
• LGBTQ1 Rights by Virginia Loh-Hagan
• Life at School and in the Community by Richard Worth
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• Linus and Etta Could Use a Win by Caroline Huntoon
• Living with Gender Dysphoria by Rachel Kehoe
• Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz
• Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Look Past by Eric Devine
• Looking at Privilege and Power by Kelly Glass
• Looking for Group by Rory Harrison
• Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford
• Love Is Love by Mette Bach
• Love Me for Who I Am series by Kata Konayama
• Lumberjanes: Bonus Tracks by ND Stevenson
• Lumberjanes series by ND Stevenson
• Lunar Boy by Jessica Wibowo
• M Is for Melanin by Tiffany Rose
• M Is for Monster by Talia Dutton
• The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
• Magical Boy. Volume 1 by The Kao
• Magical Boy. Volume 2 by The Kao
• Male Privilege by Duchess Harris
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam
  Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
• Marley’s Pride by Joëlle Retener
• Masculinity in the Twenty-First
  Century by M. M. Eboch
• May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Meet Cute anthology by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
• Melissa by Alex Gino
• Middle School’s a Drag by Greg Howard
• A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow
• Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting
  History by Blair Imani
• Molly’s Tuxedo by Vicki Johnson
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
• Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa
• My Dad Thinks I’m a Boy?! A Trans Positive Children’s Book by Sophie Labelle
• My Maddy by Gayle E. Pitman
• My Own Way: Celebrating Gender
  Freedom for Kids by Joana Estrela
• My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
• My Rainbow by Trinity Neal
• My Shadow Is Pink: You Are Loved. Exactly as You Are by Scott Stuart
• My Sister, Daisy by Adria Karlsson
• Navigating Intersectionality: How Race, Class and Gender Overlap by Jamila Osman
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
• Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella by Alice Oseman
• 19 Love Songs by David Levithan
• No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure by Susan Hughes
• No One Left but You by Tash McAdam
• None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
• Not He or She, I’m Me by A. M. Wild
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
• Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt
• Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar
• Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver
• OMG Queer: Short Stories by Queer Youth by Katie Lynch
• One Half from the East by Nadia Hashimi
• The One True Me and You by Remi England
• One True Wish by Lauren Kate
• The One Who Loves You the Most by Medina
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
• Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology by D’Lane R. Compton
• The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey
• The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely
• The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans
• Otherworldly by F. T. Lukens
• Out! How to Be Your Authentic Self by Miles McKenna
• Out of Blue Comes Green by M. E. Corey
• Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
• The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
• Parents’ Day by Shannon Watters
• Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimmons
• Payden’s Pronoun Party by Blue Jaryn
• Peanut Goes for the Gold by Jonathan Van Ness
• People of Pride: 25 Great LGBTQ Americans by Chase Clemesha
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Phoenix Gets Greater by Marty Wilson-Trudeau
• Phoenix Goes to School: A Story to
  Support Transgender and Gender
  Variant Children by Phoenix Finch
• Pink, Blue, and You! Questions for Kids About Gender Stereotypes by Elise Gravel
• Prejudice by Izzi Howell
• Pride: An Inspirational History of the LGBTQ1 Movement by S. A. Caldwell
• Pride: Celebrating Diversity &
  Community by Robin Stevenson
• Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle by Robin Stevenson
• #Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights by Rebecca Felix
• The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth by Jo Langford
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Privilege in America by Gary Wiener
• Puberty Is Gross but Also Really
  Awesome by Gina Loveless
• Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
• Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23
  People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
• Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell
• The Queer Girl Is Going to Be Okay by Dale Walls
• Queer Heroes: Meet 52 LGBTQ Heroes from Past and Present! by Arabelle Sicardi
• A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
• Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ1 Christian Teens by Leigh Finke
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G.
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/ Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni
• Quiver: A Novel by Julia Watts
• Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée
• Rachel Levine by Lisa Bunker
• Racial Bias: Is Change Possible? by
• Barbara Diggs
• Racial Discrimination by Peggy J. Parks
• Racial Justice by Virginia Loh-Hagan
• Racial Justice in America: What Is the Black Lives Matter Movement? by Hedreich Nichols
• The Racial Justice Movement by Kara L. Laughlin
• Racial Profiling: Everyday Inequality by Alison Marie Behnke
• Racism in America: A Long History of Hate by Meghan Green
• Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ1 People Who Made History by Sarah Prager
• Rainbow Village by Emmi Smid
• Raise the Stakes by Megan Atwood
• Raising the Transgender Child: A
  Complete Guide for Parents, Families & Caregivers by Michele Angello
• Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
• Respecting Diversity by Anastasia Suen
• Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in
  Transition by Katie Rain Hill
• The Ribbon Skirt by Cameron Mukwa
• Rick by Alex Gino
• Riley Reynolds series by Jay Albee
• Rise Up! How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy by Crystal Marie Fleming
• RuPaul by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara
• Ryan and Avery by David Levithan
• Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students by Michael Sadowski
• Saint Juniper’s Folly by Alex Crespo
• Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
• Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky
• Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino
• The Science of Identity by Scientific American Educational Publishing
• Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression by Iris Gottlieb
• Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
• Sexuality and Gender Identity by
  Hilary W. Poole
• She/ He/ They/ Me: For Sisters,
  Misters and the Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle
• She/ He/ They/ Them: Understanding Gender Identity by Rebecca Stanborough
• She’s My Dad! by Sarah Savage
• The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean
• Should Parents Be Allowed to Choose the Sex of Their Children? by Tamara Thompson
• Sink or Swim by Tash McAdam
• Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith
• Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost by Esme Symes-Smith
• Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
• Skate for Your Life by Leo Baker
• Skating on Mars by Caroline
  Huntoon
• A Smart Girl’s Guide: Race & Inclusion: Standing Up to Racism and Building a Better World by Deanna Singh
• Smashing the Stereotypes: What Does It Mean to Be Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgender? by Jaime Seba
• Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
• So You Want to Talk About Race by
  Ijeoma Oluo
• The Sociology Book by Christopher Thorpe
• Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews
• Some Girls Bind by Rory James
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano
• Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith
• Sovereign by April Daniels
• Sparkle Boy by Lesléa Newman
• Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus by Rachelle Lee Smith
• Spin with Me by Ami Polonsky
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
• Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
• Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Sonja Cherry-Paul, with Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Joel Christian Gill
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Stand Up and Speak Out Against
  Racism by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
• Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton
• Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
• Stay Up: Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom by Khodi Dill
• Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum
• The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni
• The Stonewall Riots: The Fight for LGBT Rights by Tristan Poehlmann
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
• Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition: An Up and Out Collection by Julia Kaye
• Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution: The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ1 History by Joy Michael Ellison
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
• Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Gender by Jacquelyn W. White
• The Talk by Alicia Williams
• The Talk by Darrin Bell
• The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth by Wade Hudson
• Teens and LGBT Issues by Hal Marcovitz
• Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our
  Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity by Winona Guo
• 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert
• A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the
  American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
• That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E. K. Johnston
• Things That Make White People
  Uncomfortable: Adapted for Young Adults by Michael Bennett
• The Third Person by Emma Grove
• This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill
• This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
• This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke
• This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
• This Winter: A Heartstopper Novella by Alice Oseman
• Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports by Robyn Ryle
• Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee
• Time After Crime by Shannon Watters
• Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• Trans Teen Survival Guide by Fox Fisher
• Trans1: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales
• Transgender Activists and Celebrities by New York Times Educational Publishing
• Transgender Child by Stephanie Brill
• Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue by Nicholas M. Teich
• Transgender Rights: Striving for Equality by New York Times Educational Publishing
• Transgender Role Models and Pioneers by Barbra Penne
• Transgender Teen by Stephanie Brill
• Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by G. Haron Davis
• Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam
• Transphobia: Deal with It and Be a Gender Transcender by J. Wallace Skelton
• True You: A Gender Journey by Gwen Agna
• The Truth About White Lies by Olivia A. Cole
• ‘Twas the Night Before Pride by Joanna McClintick
• Twelfth by Janet Key
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
• Understanding Gender by Juno Dawson
• Understanding Gender Dysphoria by Tammy Gagne
• Understanding Gender Identity by Don Nardo
• The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez
• Upstaged by Robin Easter
• Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Victories Greater Than Death by
  Charlie Jane Anders
• Wandering Son. Volume 1 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 2 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 4 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 5 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 6 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 7 by Takako Shimura
• War: How Conflict Shaped Us by
  Margaret MacMillan
• We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World by Jasmin Hernandez
• We Are Mayhem by Beck Rourke-Mooney
• We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our
  Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
• Were I Not a Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry by Lisa Robinson
• What Are Your Words? A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke
• What Causes Sexual Orientation? Genetics, Biology, Psychology by Bill Palmer
• What Does It Mean to Defund the Police? by Jessica S. Henry
• What Is Anti-Racism? by Hedreich Nichols
• What Is Black Lives Matter? by Lakita Wilson
• What Is the Black Lives Matter Movement? by Hedreich Nichols
• What Is White Privilege? by Leigh Ann Erickson
• What Makes Us Unique? Our First Talk About Diversity by Jillian Roberts
• What Makes You Beautiful by Bridget Liang
• What Riley Wore by Elana K. Arnold
• What Was Stonewall? by Nico Medina
• What We See: Women & Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens by
  Daniella Zalcman
• What’s Diversity? by David Anthony
• What’s Gender Identity? by Katie Kawa
• What’s the T by Juno Dawson
• What’s Your Name? by Bethanie
  Deeney Murguia
• What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
• When a Bully Is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times by Maya Christina Gonzalez
• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• When Women Stood: The Untold
  History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World by Alexandra Allred
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• White Privilege by M.T. Blakemore
• White Privilege Unmasked: How to Be Part of the Solution by Judy Ryde
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa
• The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon
• With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words by Máel Embser-Herbert
• Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
• You Be You! The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family by Jonathan Branfman
• You Call This Democracy? How to Fix Our Government and Return Power to the People by Elizabeth Rusch
• You Can Tell Just by Looking: And 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and
  People by Michael Bronski
• You Do You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality by Sarah Mirk
• You-ology: A Puberty Guide for Every Body by Melisa Holmes
• Your Rights as an LGBTQ1 Teen by Barbra Penne
• “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People by Laura Erickson-Schroth
• Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
• Zoom in on Equality by Heather Moore Niver

In April 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of DoDEA students, arguing that these sweeping bans violate their First Amendment rights. That October, amid pressure to collapse the lawsuit, a federal judge ruled that it may proceed. The outcome is pending.

Reported in: whitehouse.gov,
January 20, 2025, and January 29, 2025; dodea.edu, February 10, 2025; Clarksville Now, February 13, 2025,
and October 22, 2025; Task & Purpose, February 14, 2025; Independent, February 16, 2025, and August 29, 2025; Stars and Stripes (February 1, 2025; February 5, 2025; February 6, 2025; and March 27, 2026); ACLU (April 15, 2025; June 6, 2025; and October 20, 2025); military.com, May 9, 2025, and July 14, 2025; Guardian, May 10, 2025; PEN America, May 10, 2025; Gazette, June 9, 2025; au.org, July 28, 2025; USA Today, October 12, 2025; NPR, October 21, 2025; Publishers Weekly, October 21, 2025; WQED, October 23, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Alabama

Baldwin County Public Schools

In April 2025, a board member for Baldwin County Public Schools
advocated for the districtwide removal of library books discussing school shootings, suicide, and gender identity. The titles were:

• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• Endgame by Nancy Garden
• Gender Dysphoria by Rose McCarthy
• The Last Domino by Adam Meyer
• The Road to Martyrs’ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver
• Suicide Bombers: Foot Soldiers of the Terrorist Movement by Elaine Landau
• This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
• Transgender Role Models and Pioneers by Barbra Penne

Reported in: 1819 News, April 28, 2025.

Fairhope Public Library

Between December 2024 and June 2025, Fairhope Public Library retained the following challenged young adult titles:

• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Doing It! by Hannah Witton
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• Parts and Hearts: A Kids (and Grown-Ups) Guide to Transgender Transition by Jenson Hillenbrand
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick

These titles, however, were relocated to the adult section because of “objectionable” content:

• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• Like a Love Story by Abdi
  Nazemian
• Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Reported in: Alabama Political Reporter, December 16, 2024, and June 17, 2025; Gulf Coast Media, June 23, 2025, and August 19, 2025; 1819 News, August 20, 2025.

Huntsville-Madison County Public Library

In May 2025, a parent complained to a local news media about Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race by Megan Madison, from the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. They claimed that the book promotes critical race theory and said it should be removed from the library; it was not.

Reported in: 1819 News, May 4, 2025.

Alaska

Matanuska-Susitna Borough Libraries

On November 28, 2023, a patron at Matanuska-Susitna Borough Libraries formally challenged Damsel by Elana K. Arnold. They said they were “against all of that” and requested that the book be destroyed. On April 14, 2025, a review committee determined that the young adult title would be reshelved within the adult collection.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Arizona

Glendale Union High School District

In May 2025, a certified teacher librarian’s purchase order for Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros was denied by Glendale Union High School District administrators on the grounds that “the other two books in this series were not approved on other orders.”

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Queen Creek Unified School District

In February 2025, Queen Creek Unified School District removed two books from a high school library. They were The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Two other titles, also challenged, were retained. These were Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Arkansas

Faulkner-Van Buren Regional Library System

On January 17, 2025, a patron at the Faulkner-Van Buren Regional Library System formally challenged Murdered at 17 by Christine Conradt for “foul
language.” It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Palestine-Wheatley High School

In April 2025, a district board member complained about A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, from the library of Palestine-Wheatley High School. According to official policy, only “the parent of a student who was harmed by a book” can challenge materials; this individual, however, was not a parent. The outcome is unknown.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

California

Blanchard/ Santa Paula Public Library District

In June 2025, Blanchard/ Santa
Paula Public Library District received numerous complaints about a Pride Month display featuring the following titles:

• All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King
• Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
• Free to Be: Understanding Kids &
  Gender Identity by Jack Turban
• The LGBTQ1 History Book by Michael Bronski
• Marry Me a Little by Robert Kirby
• Over the Top: My Story by Jonathan Van Ness
• Rachel Maddow by Lisa Rogak
• Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

Additionally, staff members found that books from the display were repeatedly turned face down by patrons. A local group also launched an organized effort to check out large portions of the display at a time, rendering the books unavailable to other patrons. The display and all titles on it were retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Redlands Unified School
District

Beginning during the 2022–2023 school year, a local political group known as Awaken Redlands challenged these titles, which were ultimately reviewed and retained:

• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Several other challenged titles were pulled from district middle schools, including:

• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki

On July 8, 2025, the board passed two controversial new policies: a flag ban and an “explicit book” policy. That December, based on the latter policy, Push by Sapphire was withdrawn from high school libraries, and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was restricted to students eighteen years of age and older, with parent permission.

Reported in: Redlands Daily Facts, June 24, 2025, and December 9, 2025; KVCR, June 25, 2025; Community
Forward Redlands News, June 26, 2025, and December 8, 2025; Redlands
Community News, December 8, 2025; East Bay Times, December 9, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom
challenge report.

Redwood City Public Library

On June 20, 2025, Redwood City Public Library received a patron request to remove Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution: The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ1 History by Joy Michael Ellison from its collection. The title had been featured on a Pride Month display.

The complainant—who used transphobic rhetoric to justify their filing—
did not reside within the library’s
service area, so their request was
ultimately disregarded according to policy.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

San Anselmo Public Library

In June 2025, a patron at San Anselmo Public Library complained about the inclusion of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates in a list of adult summer reading recommendations. They called the author “antisemitic and biased.” The title was ultimately retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Colorado

Denver Public Library

In December 2024, My Olive Tree by Hazar Elbayya was removed from the new picture books section and hidden behind some adult materials at Denver Public Library. When it was recovered, staff members found that a page depicting soldiers razing Palestinian lands was torn out, crumpled, and tossed in a nearby trash can. The next month, The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis was found with swastikas etched into
several pages.

In March 2025, staff members
discovered that Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn by Christopher Cox had been defaced with racist “corrections.”

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Jefferson County Public Library

In June 2023, Jefferson County Public Library quietly repealed and replaced its material selection and weeding
policies. This became evident in January 2024, when a “district leadership team” overrode a review committee’s decision to retain the Assassination Classroom series by Yusei Matsui. Librarians
called for the restoration of preexisting collection-development policies.

On February 1, 2025, a patron
formally requested that Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes be removed from the library collection because the text contains profanity and mentions pedophilia. It was retained.

Reported in: Colorado Community Media, June 16, 2025; Office for
Intellectual Freedom challenge
reports.

Connecticut

Darien Public Schools

On January 17, 2025, Darien
Public Schools removed Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat from the fourth-grade curriculum. The district had received a complaint about the text teaching students the word anxious, as well as for it “negatively portray[ing] existing US immigration law.”

Reported in: Stamford Advocate,
January 17, 2025, and February 5, 2025.

Windsor Public Library

On February 12, 2025, a parent at Windsor Public Library complained about Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown, falsely claiming that the book “sexualizes cross-dressing.” It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Florida

In April 2025, an undisclosed Florida school district removed over 50 anime and manga titles from its libraries,
calling them “mental poison”; among them were:

• Attack on Titan series by Hajime Isayama
• Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
• Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotōge
• My Hero Academia series by Kōhei Horikoshi
• Naruto series by Masashi Kishimoto
• Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida

Reported in: otakukart.com, April 12, 2025.

Bay County Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, Bay County Schools removed the following challenged titles from its libraries:

• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Friction by E. R. Frank
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• ttyl by Lauren Myracle
• yolo by Lauren Myracle

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Brevard Public Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, Brevard Public Schools removed the following challenged titles from its libraries:

• Beautiful by Amy Reed
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Forever by Judy Blume
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
• Infandous by Elana K. Arnold
• The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

On March 25, 2025, a randomly selected review committee voted unanimously—and behind closed doors—to also remove these titles from district libraries:

• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Broward County Public Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, Broward County Public Schools removed the following challenged titles from its libraries:

• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Reneé Nault
• Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by Lev A. C. Rosen
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Duval County Public Schools

In 2024, Duval County Public Schools removed Identical by Ellen Hopkins from its media centers after receiving a complaint about content related to “pornography” and “incest.”

In 2025, a review committee recommended reinstating some copies of
Identical at the high school level;
however, the school board instead
permanently banned the title from the district.

Reported in: News 4 Jax, April 1, 2025; jaxtoday.org, April 2, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Escambia County Public Schools

On June 18, 2025, the board of Escambia County Public Schools voted unanimously to remove these 18 books—allegedly containing “graphic sexual content”—from district libraries and reading lists:

• Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy
• Beautiful by Amy Reed
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Home After Dark by David Small
• Home Body by Rupi Kaur
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• Lexicon by Max Barry
• Maestros by Steve Skroce
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
• Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
• Woodcuts of Women by Dagoberto Gilb
• Zahra’s Paradise by Amir Soltani

Reported in: Pensacola News Journal,
May 27, 2025; lithub.com, June 16, 2025; WUWF, June 18, 2025; northescambia.com, June 19, 2025.

Gilchrist County School District

During the 2023–2024 school year,
the board of Gilchrist County School District removed Drama by Raina
Telgemeier from a fifth-grade classroom after receiving a parent complaint.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Hernando County School
District

During the 2023–2024 school year,
the board of Hernando County School District withdrew the following titles after receiving parent complaints:

• All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
• Beautiful by Amy Reed
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Forever by Judy Blume
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Graphic Novel) by Reneé Nault
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Life Is Funny by E. R. Frank
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones
• Push by Sapphire
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

At the board meeting on December 10, 2024, the school board voted to remove three more titles outright, overruling a review committee’s recommendations to merely restrict access. These books were:

• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren’t Complicated, I Wouldn’t Be Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart

Reported in: Suncoast News, December 14, 2024; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Hillsborough County Public Schools

In May 2025, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier demanded that Hillsborough County Public Schools remove the following “inappropriate” books from its libraries:

• Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic
  Adaptation by Ari Folman
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by Lev A. C. Rosen

More than 600 additional titles were subjected to review by the Florida Department of Education, despite the lack of any formal complaints filed by local parents.

Reported in: WTVT, May 16, 2025; Florida’s Voice, May 16, 2025; Tampa Bay Times (May 20, 2025; June 3, 2025; June 4, 2025; and August 28, 2025); National Coalition Against Censorship, June 3, 2025; WFLA, June 3, 2025; PEN America, June 9, 2025; Popular Information, June 12, 2025; Guardian, August 16, 2025; Axios Tampa Bay, October 6, 2025.

Lake County Schools

In June 2024, Lake County Schools determined that classroom instruction involving The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot should be limited to a single excerpt.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Largo Public Library

On July 19, 2023, a patron at Largo Public Library formally challenged If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It by Lil Miss Hot Mess. The complainant stated—incorrectly—that drag is inherently sexual. The title was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Marion County Public Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, the board of Marion County Public Schools withdrew the following titles after receiving complaints:

• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-
  Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• Being Transgender by Robert Rodi
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Infandous by Elana K. Arnold
• Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Melissa by Alex Gino
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the
  Universe by Preston Norton
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
• Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Stained by Jennifer Jacobson
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Robert Rodi
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrel
• Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Orange County Public Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, the board of Orange County Public Schools withdrew Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson in response to a complaint.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Pinellas County School District

During the 2023–2024 school year, Pinellas County School District removed Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk in response to a complaint.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Polk County Public Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, Polk County Public Schools removed the following books:

• Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

In 2024, the conservative political group Citizens Defending Freedom filed a civil lawsuit against the district for its (mis)handling of book challenges; this lawsuit was ultimately
dismissed by a judge.

Reported in: Lakeland Ledger,
March 28, 2026; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Santa Rosa County School District

During the 2023–2024 school year, the board of Santa Rosa County School District withdrew the following titles after they were challenged:

• Alice on the Outside by Phyllis
  Reynolds Naylor
• All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Cursor’s Fury by Jim Butcher
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• Dead End by Jason Myers
• Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Fade by Robert Cormier
• Girl Parts by John M. Cusick
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal
• Kings Rising by C. S. Pacat
• Layla by Colleen Hoover
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
• Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• 33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
• The Voice of the Night by Dean R. Koontz
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

School District of Indian River County

During the 2023–2024 school year, the School District of Indian River County removed these titles following complaints:

• After Ever Happy by Anna Todd
• All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• America: A Novel by E. R. Frank
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal
  Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
• The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
• A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
• Bait by Alex Sanchez
• Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
• The Berlin Boxing Club by Rob Sharenow
• Betrayed by P. C. Cast
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
• Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Bumped by Megan McCafferty
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
• A Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
• Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
• Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fable by Adrienne Young
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• Flirtin’ with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins’ Crank and Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
• Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar
• Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
• Grit by Gillian French
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Handle with Care: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• House Rules: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
• Keeping Faith: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• Life Is Funny by E. R. Frank
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Lone Wolf: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Lush by Natasha Friend
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Mercy by Jodi Picoult
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the
  Universe by Preston Norton
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
• The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones
• The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi
  Picoult
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
• Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Push by Sapphire
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
• Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
• Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren’t Complicated, I Wouldn’t Be Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in
  Transition by Katie Rain Hill
• Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
• Second Glance: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Someone I Used to Know by Patty Blount
• Songs of a Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices by Jodi Picoult
• Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Storyteller: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
• Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Untamed by P. C. Cast
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
• Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
• Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
• The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
• Where I End & You Begin by Preston Norton
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

School District of Lee County

During the 2023–2024 school year, the School District of Lee County withdrew the following challenged titles:

• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney
• People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

School District of Manatee County

During the 2023–2024 school year, the School District of Manatee County withdrew these titles after receiving complaints:

• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-
  Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• Collected Poems, 1947–1980 by Allen Ginsberg
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Forever for a Year by B. T. Gottfred
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
• Life Is Funny by E. R. Frank
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

School District of Palm Beach County

During the 2023–2024 school year, the School District of Palm Beach County removed Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot in response to a complaint.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Seminole County School District

During the 2023–2024 school year, Seminole County School District removed the following titles in response to complaints:

• Exit Here by Jason Myers
• Push by Sapphire
• Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

St. Johns County School District

During the 2023–2024 school year, St. Johns County School District removed the following books from district high schools:

• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• Foundations in Personal Finance by Dave Ramsey
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

In June 2025, the district removed two more books from its middle school: Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood and Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D.
Jackson. These titles remained available to high school students with parent permission. There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins was also restricted but to high school seniors with parent permission.

Reported in: Action News Jax,
June 17, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Volusia County Schools

During the 2023–2024 school year, Volusia County Schools removed the following titles from district high schools:

• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-
  Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Boy Girl Boy by Ronald Koertge
• Bumped by Megan McCafferty
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy by B. T. Gottfred
• Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini
• l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
• The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Lullaby: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the
  Universe by Preston Norton
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
• SCARS by Cheryl Rainfield
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• yolo by Lauren Myracle
• You Too? 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories by Janet Gurtler

One book, Alice on the Outside by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, was removed from district middle schools, and two more books—Chosen by P. C. Cast and Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare—were removed from both middle and high schools.

Reported in: WOFL, February 14, 2025.

Wakulla County School District

During the 2023–2024 school year, Wakulla County School District removed Autonomous by Andy Marino from all district school levels.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Georgia

Barrow County School System

On December 13, 2024, a school resource officer for Barrow County School System formally challenged This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. They requested that the book be removed from high school libraries out of concern that the subject of school shootings would be too sensitive for students, who had recently experienced an actual school shooting. The outcome is pending.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Catoosa County School District

In April 2025, parents of Catoosa County School District students informally challenged the following titles, which they deemed “inappropriate,” at a school board meeting:

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Paper Towns by John Green

The books were ultimately retained—and the parents were reminded to adhere to the formal
material reconsideration process.

Reported in: WTVC, April 8, 2025, and April 9, 2025.

Cobb County School District

In January 2025, at the first school board meeting of the new year for Cobb County School District, the superintendent announced districtwide bans on A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard and Triangles by Ellen Hopkins.

Two more books were withdrawn in April, marking 36 total removals since 2023; these titles were American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Dead End by Jason Myers. The district nonetheless denied allegations of book banning.

Reported in: WXIA, January 17, 2025; artsatl.org, February 24, 2025; WAGA, April 28, 2025.

Idaho

Community Library Network, Kootenai County

In December 2024, the director of the Community Library Network removed 140 titles from circulation pending their review. The list was compiled primarily by pressure group Clean Books 4 Kids. Titles included:

• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis
• After the Game by Abbi Glines
• Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together (Sort Of) by Arden Rose
• Another Day by David Levithan
• Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
• The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
• The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
• Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
• Book of Shadows by Cate Tiernan
• Born at Midnight by C. C. Hunter
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
• City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Dare You To by Katie McGarry
• Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
• Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
• Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Fairest: Levana’s Story by Marissa Meyer
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• Frankly in Love by David Yoon
• Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
• Girl: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Karen Rayne
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
• The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Grace and Glory by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
• Grit by Gillian French
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Here’s to Us by Becky Albertalli
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
• His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler
• Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan
• I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
• I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
• Ice Breaker: A Novel by Hannah Grace
• If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
• Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk
• It Doesn’t Have to Be Awkward by Drew Pinsky
• It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
• Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli
• Kingsbane by Claire Legrand
• Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
• Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
• Lightbringer by Claire Legrand
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Live Through This by Mindi Scott
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
• Love Me Never by Sara Wolf
• Loveless by Alice Oseman
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
• My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent
• Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
• Oblivion by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson
• People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
• Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
• Release by Patrick Ness
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Rise by Andrea R. Cremer
• Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
• Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
• The Sea of Tranquility by Katie Millay
• Send Me Their Souls by Sara Wolf
• She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
• A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols
• Sweep series by Cate Tiernan
• The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
• Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
• 34 Pieces of You by Carmen Rodrigues
• This Is What Happy Looks Like by
  Jennifer E. Smith
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
• A Totally Awkward Love Story by Tom Ellen
• Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
• Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
• Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• Twisted Palace by Erin Watt
• Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
• Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
• Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
• Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
• Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt
• Vigilante by Kady Cross
• Wake by Lisa McMann
• The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• What Does Consent Really Mean? by Pete Wallis
• What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan
• With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Wither by Lauren DeStefano
• Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi

As of November 2025, these books had still not been returned to circulation.

In February 2025, these 16 titles were relocated to a new adults-only room for mature, restricted content:

• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda by
  Jean-Philippe Stassen
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Summer of Owen Todd by Tony Abbott
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• yolo by Lauren Myracle

The library declined a request to relocate The Holy Bible.

Reported in: Spokesman-Review
(January 19, 2025; February 18, 2025, and February 22, 2025); Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Illinois

Barrington 220 Community Unit School District

In spring 2025, the parent of a Barrington 220 Community Unit School District student informally complained about Flor Fights Back: A Stonewall Riots Survival Story by Joy Michael Ellison. The outcome is pending.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Indian Trails Public Library District, Cook and Lake Counties

In December 2024, staff members at Indian Trails Public Library District were informed by a patron that someone had torn the cover of the monthly TIME Magazine half off. The cover featured Donald Trump as the celebrated Person of the Year.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Indiana

Madison-Grant United School Corporation

In June 2025, the board of Madison-
Grant United School Corporation voted to remove We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson from the junior/ senior high school library collection following a parent complaint about appropriateness.

Reported in: Chronicle-Tribune, June 7, 2025; Indiana Economic Digest, June 11, 2025.

North Gibson School Corporation, Princeton

On October 26, 2024, the parent of a Princeton Community High School student formally complained about the teaching of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline in the ninth-grade curriculum. They cited concerns about profanity, drug use, sexual content, and blasphemy.

Despite their child being provided with an alternative text to read, the parent proceeded to seek full removal
of the book. The review committee’s
initial decision to unanimously retain the novel was appealed, but it was retained nonetheless.

Reported in: Princeton Clarion,
February 11, 2025; WFIE, February
12, 2025; Office for Intellectual
Freedom challenge report.

Iowa

On January 4, 2024, two mothers
from a homeschooling meet-up group challenged Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg at an undisclosed Iowa public library. They wanted the title relocated to the adult collection. The outcome is unknown.

On July 19, 2024, another public library patron complained about “child nudity and transgenderism” in Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown. This outcome is also unknown.

On September 1, 2024, Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson was deemed inappropriate and removed from an undisclosed Iowa high school library.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Adel Public Library

On May 21, 2025, a patron at Adel Public Library formally challenged The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson, expressing concerns about “depictions of nudity.” The book was reviewed and retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Lewis Central Community School District, Council Bluffs

During the 2024–2025 school year, Lewis Central Community School District removed 48 titles from high school library shelves following the passage of Senate File 496, which loosely prohibits sexually explicit materials in schools. These included:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Graphic Novel) by Reneé Nault
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Push by Sapphire
• Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• Saga series by Brian K. Vaughan
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Reported in: Daily Nonpareil,
September 7, 2024.

Kansas

Gardner Edgerton School District 231, Johnson County

On August 12, 2024, Gardner Edgerton School District 231 reviewed and subsequently withdrew Alice on the Outside by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor from district libraries.

On December 9, 2024, the district board overruled a review committee’s recommendation to retain Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart, voting instead to remove it from district libraries. In doing so, the board sided with the parent complainant, who called the book’s depiction of puberty blockers a “potential danger to children.”

Reported in: Gardner Edgerton USD 231, YouTube, December 9, 2024; Johnson County Post, December 13, 2024; KSHB, December 19, 2024;
Lawrence Times, October 8, 2025.

Hays USD 489

In February 2025, a teacher in Hays USD 489 complained to school administrators about a single paragraph they deemed inappropriate in The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce by Angie Manfredi. The principal subsequently demanded that the book be pulled from district shelves. Despite this pressure, it was retained in accordance with the formal collection policy.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Johnson County Library

On February 3, 2025, a patron at Johnson County Library formally challenged The Librarian of Auschwitz by Salva Rubio for “language” and “nudity.” It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Louisiana

Terrebonne Parish Library System, Houma

In October 2024, members of the local group We the People–Bayou Community formally challenged the following titles from Terrebonne Parish Library System:

• Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero by Ellie Royce
• Be Amazing: A History of Pride by
  Desmond Is Amazing
• Children’s Rights by Adam Hibbert
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• I’m Not a Girl: A Transgender Story by Maddox Lyons
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• #Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights by Rebecca Felix
• Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ1 People Who Made History by Sarah Prager
• Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg

The outcome is pending.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Maine

Martha Sawyer Community Library, Lebanon

In 2024, Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe was challenged at Martha Sawyer Community Library and subsequently retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Maine School Administrative District 44, Bethel

In 2024, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews was challenged within Maine School Administrative District 44. It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Maryland

Carroll County Schools

In June 2025, the board of Carroll County Schools rejected four titles from the high school English curriculum. They were:

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Future Home of the Living God by
  Louise Erdrich
• Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

Reported in: Baltimore Sun, June 13, 2025.

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis

In April 2025, following a directive from the Trump administration, the United States Naval Academy removed almost 400 books vaguely defined as being related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Affected titles overwhelmingly discussed gender, sexuality, and racial injustice, and included:

• Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope by Victoria Reyes
• Accent on Privilege: English Identities and Anglophilia in the U.S. by Katharine W. Jones
• Afro-Orientalism by Bill Mullen
• After Multiculturalism: The Politics of Race and the Dialectics of Liberty by John F. Welsh
• The Agony of Masculinity: Race,
  Gender, and Education in the Age of “New” Racism and Patriarchy by Pierre W. Orelus
• America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation
  and Imperial Violence by Rosemary Radford Ruether
• America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
• American Hate: Survivors Speak Out by Arjun Singh Sethi
• The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism by Nancy DiTomaso
• American Sexual Character: Sex,
  Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports by Miriam G. Reumann
• American Skin: Pop Culture, Big
  Business, and the End of White America by Leon E. Wynter
• American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate by Pete Simi
• Anaïs Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity by Diane Richard-Allerdyce
• Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels by James R. Keller
• The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative
  Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez
• Are We Born Racist? New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology by Jason Marsh
• As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
• Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society by Inga Muscio
• The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres
• Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South by Charles A. Gallagher
• Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama by Tim J. Wise
• Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes by Gerald N. Callahan
• Beyond the White Shadow: Philosophy, Sports, and the African American
  Experience by John H. McClendon
• Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened
  Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt
• The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema by Daniel Bernardi
• Black Bodies, White Gazes: The
  Continuing Significance of Race in America by George Yancy
• Black Is a Country: Race and the
  Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh
• Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Scott Holloway
• Blackface by Ayanna Thompson
• Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race by Charles W. Mills
• Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind
• Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices by Kristin Hass
• Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis
• Body Language by Kelly Magee
• Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness by Shari L. Dworkin
• Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
• Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Susan Lamb
• Broken Boundaries: Women & Feminism in Restoration Drama by Katherine M. Quinsey
• Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890–1930 by M. Alison Kibler
• The Changing Nature of Racial and Ethnic Conflict in United States
  History: 1492 to the Present by Leslie Vincent Tischauser
• Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse by Robert Stuart Sturges
• Cigar Smoke and Violet Water:
  Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán by Joyce Tolliver
• Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Post-Racial America by Kimberly Jade Norwood
• Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial
  Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity by Tim J. Wise
• Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood
• Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports by David J. Leonard
• A Companion to Gender History by Merry Wiesner-Hanks
• Confronting Racism in Higher Education: Problems and Possibilities for Fighting Ignorance, Bigotry and Isolation by Jeffrey S. Brooks
• Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City by George Baca
• Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same by Robert C. Smith
• Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora by Aubrey W. Bonnett
• Corporate Tribalism: White Men/ White Women and Cultural Diversity at Work by Thomas Kochman
• Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy by Cathy Marie Johnson
• Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response by Mike Cole
• Critical Rhetorics of Race by Michael G. Lacy
• Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
• Crossing: A Memoir by Deirdre N. McCloskey
• Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity by James Eli Adams
• Dazzling Dialectics: Elizabeth Bishop’s Resonating Feminist Reality by Sally Bishop Shigley
• Deciphering Culture: Ordinary Curiosities and Subjective Narratives by Jane Crisp
• Defining Difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology by Andrew S. Winston
• Deliver Us from Evil: Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression by James N. Poling
• Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude
• Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, & Health Research by John Lindsay Oliffe
• Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race by Kalpana Seshadri
• Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust by Colleen Lamos
• The Difference: How the Power of
  Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page
• Different but Equal: Communication Between the Sexes by Kay E. Payne
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action: Planning, Leadership, and
  Programming by Christine Bombaro
• The Diversity Scorecard: Evaluating the Impact of Diversity on Organizational Performance by Edward E. Hubbard
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney-López
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan Metzl
• Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage by Viviana Comensoli
• Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America by Juan Williams
• The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions by Vilna Bashi Treitler
• Every Day by David Levithan
• Everybody’s America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism by David Witzling
• Everything but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture by Greg Tate
• Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
• Evil Eye: A Novel by Etaf Rum
• Examining Identity in Sports Media by Heather L. Hundley
• Faces of Environmental Racism:
  Confronting Issues of Global Justice by Laura Westra
• Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715: Nostalgic Utopias by Lewis Carl Seifert
• Faulkner’s Sexualities: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2007 by Annette Trefzer
• Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice by Kathleen M. Blee
• Feminism Is Queer: The Intimate
  Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory by Mimi Marinucci
• Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights by Keith D. Leonard
• Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice by Mark R. Warren
• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
• For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu
• A Formula for Eradicating Racism: Debunking White Supremacy by
  Timothy McGettigan
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black
  Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop’s
  Crusade in Mormon Country by Ron Stallworth
• Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert M. Beachy
• Gender by Harriet Bradley
• Gender by Mary Evans
• Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker
• Gender, Nature, and Nurture by
  Richard A. Lippa
• Gender, Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-Shushing the Girls by Allyson Julé
• Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing by Floyd Gray
• Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives by Gerda Siann
• Gender, Youth and Culture: Young
  Masculinities and Femininities by Anoop Nayak
• Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics
  of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth-
  Century French Literature and Culture by Claudia Moscovici
• Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Marina Pérez de Mendiola
• Gender and Language in Chaucer by Catherine S. Cox
• Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England by Eve Rachele Sanders
• Gender and Medieval Drama by Katie Normington
• Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne by Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson
• Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age by Eve Shapiro
• Gender in Early Modern German History by Ulinka Rublack
• Gender Issues in Contemporary Society by Stuart Oskamp
• Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times by Michael G. Peletz
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Gender Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Literature by Christopher Parker
• Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East by Diane Bolger
• Gender Transgressions: Crossing the Normative Barrier in Old French Literature by Karen J. Taylor
• Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics by Karen Ross
• The Gendered Society Reader by Michael S. Kimmel
• Gendering Bodies by Sara L. Crawley
• Gendering the Nation: Studies in
  Modern Scottish Literature by
  C. Whyte
• Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in Your Workplace by Ron Zemke
• The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
• Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t by Frank Dobbin
• Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline Y. Hsu
• Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler
• The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence by Susan M. Ryan
• Half American: The Epic Story of
  African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
• Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender by Rhoda Kesler Unger
• The Harvest of American Racism: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967 by Robert Scott Shellow
• Hate on the Net: Extremist Sites, Neo-Fascism On-Line, Electronic Jihad by Antonio Roversi
• Hate Thy Neighbor: Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing by Jeannine Bell
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century by Zillah R. Eisenstein
• Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts by Anne Goodwyn Jones
• Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia by Christian DuComb
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Hemingway’s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood by Carl P. Eby
• Hemingway’s Genders: Rereading
  the Hemingway Text by Nancy R. Comley
• Henry James and Sexuality by Hugh Stevens
• Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female “Public” Space in Islamic/ ate Societies by Asma Afsaruddin
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoe-Jane Playdon
• The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn
• The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere by James Spooner
• Histories of Racial Capitalism by
  Destin Jenkins
• Home-Grown Hate: Gender and
  Organized Racism by Abby L. Ferber
• Homosexuality & Civilization by Louis Crompton
• Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America by David Leverenz
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable
• How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming
• How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
• I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement by Steve Estes
• I Don’t Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South by Houston A. Baker
• I Don’t See Color: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege by
  Bettina Bergo
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
  By Maya Angelou by Mildred R. Mickle
• I’m Not a Racist, But . . . : The Moral Quandary of Race by Lawrence Blum
• Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East by Mayy Ghaṣṣūb
• Implementing Diversity by Marilyn Loden
• Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries by Corliss Lee
• An Impossible Dream? Racial Integration in the United States by Sharon A. Stanley
• Impressionist Subjects: Gender,
  Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England by Tamar Katz
• In Search of Catalina de Erauso: The National and Sexual Identity of the Lieutenant Nun by Eva Mendieta
• Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement by Kathleen M. Blee
• Intelligence, Race, and Genetics:
  Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen by Arthur Robert Jensen
• Intimate Citizenships: Gender,
  Sexualities, Politics by Elżbieta H. Oleksy
• Inventing Black Women: African
  American Women Poets and Self-
  Representation, 1877–2000 by Ajuan Maria Mance
• Inventing Equal Opportunity by Frank Dobbin
• IQ, Heritability, and Racism by James M. Lawler
• Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line by Theresa Runstedtler
• Jim Crow’s Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation by Ruth Thompson-Miller
• Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, Physician, and Racial Theorist by Reginald Horsman
• Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair by Kim Scott
• Kinship and Gender: An Introduction by Linda Stone
• Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s by Felix Harcourt
• The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
• Leadership in a Diverse and Multicultural Environment: Developing Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills by Mary L. Connerley
• Legacy of Hate: A Short History of
  Ethnic, Religious, and Racial
  Prejudice in America by Philip Perlmutter
• L’Enfant de Sable [The Sand Child] by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality by Sandra Lipsitz Bem
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• The Lives of Transgender People by Genny Beemyn
• Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations by Charles P. Henry
• Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective by Robert W. Thurston
• The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization by Steve Martinot
• The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
• Male Pretense: A Gender Study of Sir Philip Sidney’s Life and Texts by Katrina Bachinger
• Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in Contemporary American Fiction by Marilyn Maxwell
• Man & Woman, Boy & Girl: Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity by John Money
• The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by J. Michael Bailey
• Managing Cultural Differences: Effective Strategy and Execution Across Cultures in Global Corporate Alliances by Piero Morosini
• Managing Diversity in the Military: Research Perspectives from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management
  Institute by Mickey R. Dansby
• Managing Diversity in the Military:
  The Value of Inclusion in a Culture of Uniformity by Daniel P. McDonald
• Mansex Fine: Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Culture by David Alderson
• Mapping Desire: Geographies of
  Sexualities by David Bell
• Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America by Kim M. Williams
• The Masculine Mystique: The Politics of Masculinity by Andrew Kimbrell
• The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany by Katie Sutton
• Masculinities Without Men? Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions by Jean Bobby Noble
• Masculinity from the Inside: Gender Theory’s Missing Piece by Bruce E. Fleming
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined by Shirley R. Steinberg
• Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory by Janet Liebman Jacobs
• Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentlemen by Catherine Robson
• Men’s College Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality: Five Pioneer Stories of Black Manliness, White Citizenship, and American Democracy by Gregory J. Kaliss
• Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America by Ian Haney-López
• Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era by David L. Brunsma
• The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime by Lisa Rado
• Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
• Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights by Gilbert Herdt
• More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Imani Perry
• Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity by Haideh Moghissi
• My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers
• The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege by Ken Wytsma
• The Myth of Racial Color Blindness: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact by Helen A. Neville
• The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou
• Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850–1877 by Linda Frost
• The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions by Billy Joe Hawkins
• The New White Nationalism in
  America: Its Challenge to Integration by Carol M. Swain
• Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
• Nigger: The Strange Career of a
  Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
• No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox
• Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources by Charlie McNabb
• Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and
  Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing by Brinda J. Mehta
• On the Fault Line: Race, Class, and
  the American Patriot Movement by Carolyn Gallaher
• Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon
• Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maugham’s Exotic Fiction by Philip Holden
• Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson by Andrea L. Harris
• Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams
• Paradoxes of Gender by Judith Lorber
• Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance by Diana E. Henderson
• Pay to Play: Race and the Perils of the College Sports Industrial Complex by Lori Latrice Martin
• Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally by Vasilikie P. Demos
• Playing While White: Privilege and Power On and Off the Field by David J. Leonard
• Police Violence and Race: The Effects of Racial Focusing Events on Attitudes About Race Relations by Gavin D. Jernigan
• Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change by Angela Hattery
• Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England by Andrew William Barnes
• Pragmatism and the Problem of Race by Bill E. Lawson
• Pretty/ Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics by Linda Mizejewski
• The Price of Progressive Politics: The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism by Emily Rose Ernst
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• The Psychoanalysis of Race by Christopher Lane
• The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism: A New View Based on Scientific Evidence by Thomas E. Bevan
• The Psychology of Gender by Anne E. Beall
• Psychology of Gender Identity by Janice W. Lee
• The Psychology of Sexual Orientation, Behavior, and Identity: A Handbook by Louis Diamant
• Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine by
  Alison Bashford
• Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics by George Yancy
• The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities by Robert McRuer
• A Question of Character: Scientific
  Racism and the Genres of American
  Fiction, 1892–1912 by Cathy Boeckmann
• Questioning the Master: Gender and Sexuality in Henry James’s Writings by Peggy McCormack
• Race, Ethnicity, and Disability:
  Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America by Larry M. Logue
• Race and the Education of Desire:
  Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler
• Race and the Making of American
  Political Science by Jessica Blatt
• Race and the Subject of Masculinities by Harry Stecopoulos
• The Race Bomb: Skin Color, Prejudice, and Intelligence by Paul R. Ehrlich
• Race in Society: The Enduring
  American Dilemma by Margaret L. Andersen
• Race Still Matters: The Reality of
  African American Lives and the Myth
  of Postracial Society by Yuya Kiuchi
• Race Traitor by Noel Ignatiev
• Race War: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire by Gerald Horne
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields
• Racial Competition and Class Solidarity by Terry Boswell
• The Racial Glass Ceiling: Subordination in American Law and Culture by Roy L. Brooks
• Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
• Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by Bryan N. Massingale
• Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook by David B. Mustard
• The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition by Thomas P. Kim
• The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide by Eileen O’Brien
• Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics by Christopher D. DeSante
• Racing for Innocence: Whiteness,
  Gender, and the Backlash Against
  Affirmative Action by Jennifer Pierce
• Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race by H. Samy Alim
• Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Racist America: Roots, Current
  Realities, and Future Reparations by Joe R. Feagin
• The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning
• Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
• Reading Race: White American
  Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
• Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture by Karen Harvey
• Regenerating the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence by James J. Miracky
• Regulating Readers: Gender and Literary Criticism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Ellen Gardiner
• The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States by Eric Arden Weed
• Reproducing Race: The Paradox of
  Generation Mix by Rainier Spencer
• Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr
• A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century by Jane E. Dabel
• Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege by Shannon Sullivan
• Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice by Jim Freeman
• Richard Wright and Racial Discourse by Yoshinobu Hakutani
• The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools by Stuart Biegel
• Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature by Carolyn Oulton
• The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook on Workplace Diversity and Stratification by Tsedale M. Melaku
• S/ he Brain: Science, Sexual Politics, and the Myths of Feminism by Robert Nadeau
• Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing
  Gender by Margaret Roman
• Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American
  Culture by Patrick B. Sharp
• Schools of Sympathy: Gender and
  Identification Through the Novel by Nancy Roberts
• The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon
• Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
• Sex/ Gender Outsiders, Hate Speech, and Freedom of Expression: Can They Say That About Me? by Martha T. Zingo
• Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
• Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James
• Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure by Hilary Radner
• The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s
  America by Benjamin Reiss
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  by Ijeoma Oluo
• A Social and Psychological Account of Gender Transition: The Diary of a Transsexual Academic by Gypsey Teague
• The Social Psychology of Interpersonal Discrimination by Bernice E. Lott
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
• The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen by Ben Beard
• Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male by Tim J. Wise
• The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States by Sally Kitch
• The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy by Michael George Hanchard
• Sportsex by Toby Miller
• Stain Removal: Ethics and Race by J. Reid Miller
• Stamped from the Beginning: The
  Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built by Tamika D. Mallory
• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
• Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar by Judith Holland Sarnecki
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
• Taliaferro: Breaking Barriers from the NFL Draft to the Ivory Tower by Dawn Knight
• Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890–1935 by Cheryl Hicks
• Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in
  Contemporary America: Adding
  Context to Colorblindness by Kristin Haltinner
• Teaching White Supremacy: America’s
  Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice: Discrimination in the United States by Samuel Roundfield Lucas
• Theorizing Gender by Rachel Alsop
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• The Third Person by Emma Grove
• This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
• This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
• Through Our Eyes: African American Men’s Experiences of Race, Gender, and Violence by Gail Garfield
• Toward a New Psychology of Gender by Mary M. Gergen
• Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities by Rogers Brubaker
• Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law by Isaac West
• Transgender Rights and Politics: Groups, Issue Framing, and Policy Adoption by Jami K. Taylor
• Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori B. Girshick
• Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul by Leslie Feinberg
• The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel by Helene Moglen
• The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by
  Barbara Smith
• Two Nations: Black and White,
  Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker
• The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together by Eleanor E. Maccoby
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
• The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
• Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self by Linda Martín Alcoff
• Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books by Philip Nel
• What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism by Joanna Russ
• What Can You Say? America’s National Conversation on Race by John Hartigan
• What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
• What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
• When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories by Natalie Angier
• White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea D. Butler
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim J. Wise
• White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism by Ashley W. Doane
• White Out: Understanding White
  Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age by Christopher S. Collins
• White Racism: The Basics by Joe R. Feagin
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-
  Racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem? by George Yancy
• White Supremacy Groups by Mitchell Young
• White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
• White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States by Louise Michele Newman
• Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States: The Politics of Remembering by Sherrow O. Pinder
• Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority by John Tehranian
• Why Didn’t We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland by Issac J. Bailey
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Winning While Losing: Civil Rights, the Conservative Movement, and the Presidency by Kenneth Alan Osgood
• Women, Men & Gender: Ongoing Debates by Mary Roth Walsh
• Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxi­eties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi
• Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment by Mari J. Matsuda
• Writing Through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by Ayesha K. Hardison
• Writing/ Teaching: Essays Toward a Rhetoric of Pedagogy by Paul Kameen

In May 2025, most of the books were returned shortly after a group of military parents initiated a First Amendment lawsuit against the Pentagon. Approximately twenty books were ultimately removed, including nine from the original list. Only these titles from the new list are known:

• Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America by Michael L. Ondaatje
• The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market by June and David O’Neill
• Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy Seal’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender by Kristin Beck

Reported in: New York Times (March 28, 2025; April 11, 2025; and April 19, 2025); Fortune, April 2, 2025; WHTM, April 2, 2025; Hill, April 3, 2025, and April 15, 2025; navy.mil, April 4, 2025; WCAU, April 4, 2025; PEN America, April 6, 2025; USA Today, April 7, 2025; Capital Gazette, April 7, 2025; ABC News, April 12, 2025; CNN, April 19, 2025; Panther, May 4, 2025; Williams Record, May 7, 2025; truthout.org, May 18, 2025; Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 2025; Associated Press, May 21, 2025; military.com, July 17, 2025.

Massachusetts

Marlborough Public Library

On March 13, 2025, a patron removed two picture books from a Transgender Day of Visibility display at Marlborough Public Library. They then brought the titles—Benny’s True Colors by Norene Paulson and I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings—into the children’s room and requested material reconsideration forms, claiming that books “about transgender people [are] not appropriate for children as they are . . . inaccurate based on the Bible.” Both titles were retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Tewksbury Public Schools

On January 28, 2025, a parent complained to Tewksbury Public Schools about An ABC of Equality by Chana Ginelle Ewing, stating that it should not be available to children on account of introducing diverse topics like social justice and sexual orientation. The outcome is pending.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Michigan

Alpena County Library

On November 13, 2024, a patron at Alpena County Library formally challenged Making a Baby by Rachel Greener, stating that children should not be introduced to two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA1) identities. This case is ongoing.

Reported in: bookriot.com, January 16, 2025.

Big Rapids Community Library

On February 6, 2025, a parent at Big Rapids Community Library formally challenged All About Penises: A Learning About Bodies Book by Dorian Solot, which they called “child porn.” The book was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Caledonia Community Schools

At a Caledonia Community Schools board meeting in September 2024, Michigan State Representative Angela Rigas (R) requested the removal of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez from Caledonia High School classrooms. She cited sexually explicit content as her rationale. At the next board meeting, a previous policy requiring parents to opt their children out of unsuitable books was replaced with a new policy for, instead, opting them in to certain materials. Teachers ultimately removed Always Running from their classroom libraries because of a lack of guidance provided by the board.

Reported in: Caledonia Community Schools, YouTube, September 20,
2024, and October 21, 2024; Office
for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Capital Area District Libraries, Ingham County

On November 19, 2024, a patron at the Capital Area District Libraries formally challenged Rick by Alex Gino, calling the book sexually explicit. It was ultimately retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Loutit District Library, Grand Haven

On May 9, 2025, a staff member at Loutit District Library found that Swordcrossed by Freya Marske had been removed from a new book display and misshelved in the stacks. The book was suspected to be hidden because of its cover, which features two men in a romantic pose.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Lowell Area Schools

In September 2024, Big Nate: From the Top by Lincoln Peirce was informally challenged by a Lowell Area Schools parent for containing “innuendos”; it was ultimately retained within a classroom library.

Throughout the year, the district also received complaints about the following titles being “porn”:

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• Skin and Bones by Sherry Shahan
• Slammed by Colleen Hoover
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by G. Haron Davis

No action was taken. However, the school librarian was targeted heavily on social media—as well as in a lawsuit brought forth by one particularly litigious community member—for making these books available to students.

Reported in: lowellsfirstlook.com, June 4, 2024; dockets.justia.com, June 4, 2024; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Vicksburg Community Schools

Between May and July 2025, two board members for Vicksburg Community Schools—also members of Moms for Liberty—used guidance from Take Back the Classroom to challenge 85 titles from the high school collection. These included:

• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
• Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
• Dumplin’: Go Big or Go Home by Julie Murphy
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
• I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
• It Starts with Us: A Novel by Colleen Hoover
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Luna by Julie Anne Peters
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• November 9 by Colleen Hoover
• Once and for All by Sarah Dessen
• Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• They Went Left by Monica Hesse
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
• The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins

Outcomes to these challenges are pending. Only these four titles were definitively retained:

• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard

Reported in: Vicksburg Community Schools, YouTube, May 12, 2025; WLKM, August 29, 2025.

Minnesota

Anoka County Library

On April 28, 2025, the Library Advisory Board of Anoka County Library unanimously recommended that It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris be retained in the juvenile nonfiction collection. The director accepted this recommendation.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Bloomington Public Schools

In March 2025, If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo was challenged and retained at a middle school in Bloomington Public Schools, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews was challenged and retained at a district high school. Both complaints were initiated by parents.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Hennepin County Library

In February 2025, 1 Hunter by Pat Hutchins was formally challenged by a patron at Hennepin County Library, who expressed concerns regarding the children’s book’s depiction of “colonialism, weaponry, [and] the hunting of endangered animals.” It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Rochester

In December 2025, Rochester Public Schools removed The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson after receiving a complaint from a first-grade student’s parent regarding its depiction of “nudity.” A review committee overwhelmingly recommended retaining the title, but the superintendent withdrew it anyway. However, the book was later returned to middle school shelves and some teachers’ classrooms.

On June 12, 2025, an individual shelving books at Rochester Public Library came across Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier and formally challenged it for containing “incorrect and harmful” information. It was retained.

Reported in: KDHL, January 6, 2025; Minnesota Star Tribune, January 8, 2025; PEN America, January 10, 2025; Post Bulletin, January 10, 2025, and December 25, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

St. Francis Area Schools

In March 2025, St. Francis Area Schools students protested the school board’s controversial book-banning policy, which solely relied not on a review committee but on the now-defunct booklooks.org. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota later co-filed a lawsuit with Education Minnesota–St. Francis, which ultimately resulted in these automatically withdrawn books being returned to shelves:

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky

One challenged title, Me and Earl
and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews,
was never removed from circulation because it had been reviewed and retained in January 2025 under a
previous policy.

Reported in: KARE, June 10, 2025; Minnesota Reformer, March 19, 2025; KMSP, March 20, 2025; ACLU Minnesota, March 24, 2025; Times of India, March 26, 2025; Hoodline, March 28, 2025; CBS Minnesota, June 10, 2025.

Scott County Library System

In April 2025, Scott County Library System received a formal challenge to What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur’an: A History of Islam & the United States by William J. Federer. The complainant described the book as “anti-Islamic.” It was reviewed and retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Stillwater Area Public Schools ISD 834

In February 2025, a staff member unpacking books donated to an elementary school in Stillwater Area Public Schools ISD 834 raised concerns about several of the titles, including:

• Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff
• Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate
• Grandad’s Pride by Harry Woodgate

They referred vaguely to “inappropriate imagery” and “mature topic[s].” Without following any formal procedure, the books were restricted to students with parent permission.

Reported in: stillwaterschools.org, March 5, 2025; kylelukoff.com, March 6, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Missouri

Crawford County Library District

In June 2025, a staff member at Crawford County Library District refused administrators’ requests to take down their small Pride Month display featuring the following titles:

• Board to Death by C. J. Connor
• The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
• The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
• Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
• Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Sense and Second-Degree Murder by Tirzah Price
• Somewhere Beyond The Sea by TJ Klune
• The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
• Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

The staff member was subsequently terminated from their position for “insubordination.”

Reported in: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 19, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Montana

Lewistown Public Library

At the Lewistown Public Library board meeting on September 21, 2023, an individual challenged the Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman. All volumes were ultimately retained.

Reported in: lewistownlibrary.org, September 21, 2023.

New Jersey

Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library, Washington Township

In February 2025, a patron signed their children up for a graphic novel book club program at Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library about Doodleville
by Chad Sell. The previous month’s
program had featured The Cardboard Kingdom, also by Chad Sell. On multiple occasions leading up to the program, this patron complained about “gay/ lesbian themes” in both titles, accusing the library of “pushing an agenda.” This eventually escalated into the parent making verbal threats against staff members. Ultimately, neither the books nor the program was affected.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District

On May 27, 2025, board members for North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District objected to two titles—copies of which were donated by Follett—that a district librarian requested to add to the collection.
The books were Sync by Ellen Hopkins and When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson, which were called “pervasively vulgar” and “pretty graphic,” respectively. This case is ongoing.

Reported in: NHV BOE, YouTube, May 27, 2025

Nevada

Boulder City Library District

On March 2, 2025, staff members at Boulder City Library District found Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison destroyed and discarded in the restroom trash. They suspected that a particular patron with a history of harassing staff about displays of “woke materials” was behind this.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

New York

Brooklyn Public Library

On June 9, 2025, staff members at Brooklyn Public Library discovered that all the titles from the Pride Month picture book display had been stolen. They included:

• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
• A Kids Book About Being Nonbinary by Hunter Chinn-Raicht
• Marley’s Pride by Jo®lle Retener
• Uncle Bobby’s Wedding by Sarah S. Brannen
• Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Cato-Meridian Central School District

On January 27, 2025, the parent of a Cato-Meridian Central School District eighth grader complained about their teacher reading excerpts from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The parent was offered an alternative assignment for their child but declined, insisting that the book be restricted from all students over their personal concerns about “wokeness” and “sexual content.”

When the principal declined to do this, the parent rallied other parents to complain at a school board meeting, where they were instructed to file a formal challenge—and did. The outcome is pending.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District

In May 2025, a parent challenged 27 books in Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District for what they called “explicit sexual content.” Of these titles, two are known: All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. This challenge is ongoing.

Reported in: Buffalo News, May 25, 2025.

Penfield Central School District

In February 2025, a board meeting for Penfield Central School District was ended prematurely after the public comment portion was taken over by a group shouting racist and queerphobic slurs about school library books. Formal challenges were not filed until April, when these three titles were targeted:

• Aliens and Other Visitors by Ruth Owen
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson

They were all reviewed and retained; however, district parents continue to have the ability to restrict materials from their own children.

Reported in: WHEC, February 11, 2025, and April 25, 2025; WXXI, February 13, 2025, and April 9, 2025; WHAM, April 26, 2025.

North Carolina

Brunswick County Library

In 2024, The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag was challenged by a patron at Brunswick County Library for depicting two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA1) identities. It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

In 2024, these titles were challenged and ultimately retained at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library:

• Better Place by Duane Murray
• The Big Bath House by Kyo Maclear
• Cultural Traditions in Australia by Molly Aloian
• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

Staff members were reportedly harassed during the material reconsideration process.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Fontana Regional Library, Bryson City

In 2024, two titles challenged at Fontana Regional Library—Pip: The Story of Olive by Kim Kane and We Are the Majority: The Life and Passions of a Patriot by Mark Robinson—were retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Gaston County Public Library

In 2024, The Ugly Dumpling by Stephanie Campisi was challenged at Gaston County Public Library by a patron who claimed the book portrayed Asian Americans negatively. It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Mooresville Public Library

In 2024, Mooresville Public Library received a complaint about a teen display featuring two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA1) identities. It was retained. One book, How Animals Have Sex by Gideon Defoe, was also challenged; this was ultimately relocated from the children’s collection to the young adult collection.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

New Hanover County Schools

On May 9, 2025, a New Hanover County Schools board member formally challenged Blended by Sharon M. Draper for its “maturity level and portrayal of racial tension.” The superintendent overruled two committee recommendations and ultimately restricted the book to fourth- and fifth-grade students with parent permission.

Reported in: WHQR (May 9, 2025; May 21, 2025; August 6, 2025; and September 23, 2025); Port City Daily, May 14, 2025, and May 18, 2025.

Rowan Public Library

In 2024, a patron at Rowan Public Library complained that Yo Duermo by Amelie Graux contained Spanish words that were not appropriate for small children. Multiple staff members—all native Spanish speakers of various dialects—agreed, and the book was replaced with a similar title.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Union County Public Schools

In June 2024, a school coordinator for Union County Public Schools was targeted by Moms for Liberty over a challenge filed against Drama by Raina Telgemeier. The book was retained; however, the coordinator ultimately relocated to another county after receiving death threats.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Wake County Public School System

In June 2025, a committee for Wake County Public School System rejected a parent’s challenge to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini as part of the sophomore English curriculum. They said that the book was not appropriate for students because it depicts rape and contains vulgar language. It was retained as required reading.

Reported in: News & Observer, June 5, 2025, and August 11, 2025.

North Dakota

City of Forman Independent School District

In November 2024, Heartstopper by Alice Oseman was challenged and
ultimately retained within the City of Forman Independent School District.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Grand Forks Public Library

In December 2023, three challenged titles at Grand Forks Public Library were restricted to the adult nonfiction section. They were:

• Growing Up, Inside and Out by Kira Vermond
• HelloFlo: The Guide, Period.: The Everything Puberty Book for the Modern Girl by Naama Bloom
• How Do You Make a Baby? by Anna Fiske

Two challenged titles were relocated to the young adult nonfiction section, including Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg and What’s Going on Down There? A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up by Karen Gravelle.

Two other titles were retained:
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H.
Harris and Will Puberty Last My Whole Life? REAL Answers to REAL Questions from Preteens About Body Changes, Sex, and Other Growing-Up Stuff by Julie Metzger.

Lastly, in 2024, Puberty Is Gross but also Really Awesome by Gina Loveless was relocated to the young adult nonfiction section.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Ohio

Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District

In April 2025, the board of
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District enacted a new policy restricting access to library and classroom books considered to contain “sexual content
and gender ideology.” This definition effectively blanketed any representation of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA1) identities. The district had not received any parent complaints to initiate this decision; rather, the board acted independently.

The implementation of these
new restrictions resulted in the high school library being closed at the start of the 2025–2026 school year to allow for a complete review of materials. Meanwhile, the following titles were flagged at some school level(s) for
“sexuality content”:

• The Baby-Sitters Club series by Raina Telgemeier
• The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
• The Marvelous Land of Oz, Vol. 1 by Eric Shanower
• The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan
• The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan
• Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland

Reported in: Dayton Daily News, August 15, 2025; WDTN, August 15, 2025; WHIO, August 15, 2025, and August 25, 2025.

Geauga County Public Library

On December 20, 2024, a patron
at Geauga County Public Library
complained to staff members about a picture book, Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! by Lindz Amer. They requested that the title be removed because
“children will believe lies.” It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Oklahoma

Tulsa City-County Library System

Between March 2024 and January 2025, Tulsa City-County Library System received formal challenges to the
following materials:

• Abolition Is Love by Syrus Marcus Ware
• Advantages of Being Evergreen by
  Oliver Bendorf
• Be Amazing: A History of Pride by
  Desmond Is Amazing
• Being You: A First Conversation About Gender by Megan Madison
• Facing the Beast by Naomi Wolf
• The First Magnificent Summer by R. L. Toalson
• Flor Fights Back: A Stonewall Riots Survival Story by Joy Michael Ellison
• Gender Identity for Kids: A Book About Finding Yourself, Understanding Others, and Respecting Everybody! by Andy Passchier
• If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
• It’s Only Teenage Wasteland by Curt Pires
• La Vispera de Orgullo [‘Twas the Night Before Pride] by Joanna McClintick
• Maudie Me and the Dirty Book by Betty Miles
• Nancy Drew TV series
• Oceanic: Aimee Nezhukumatathil by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Riley Reynolds series by Jay Albee

Most titles were challenged either for alleged sexual content or for
depicting two-spirit, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA1) identities. All were ultimately retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Oregon

On February 20, 2025, patrons at an Oregon public library formally challenged And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, which they said contained “sexual content.” Both titles were reviewed and retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Ledding Library of Milwaukie

On April 9, 2025, a patron at the Ledding Library of Milwaukie informally complained to multiple staff members about a book display celebrating National Arab American Heritage Month, demanding that it be taken down. They called the display one-sided, citing the inclusion of Young
Palestinians Speak: Living Under
Occupation by Anthony Robinson, which they claimed “spreads antisemitism.” The library declined to censor
the display.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Multnomah County Library

On December 26, 2024, a patron at Multnomah County Library informally complained to staff members about
The Art Therapy Sourcebook by Cathy A. Malchiodi, requesting that it be removed from the collection. They expressed concern about what they
considered to be outdated, harmful
terminology in the book. It was ultimately retained.

On March 30, 2025, a patron
formally challenged A Real Friend
by Jennifer Wolfthal, their rationale being that the book “was written
by a woman who was convicted of
torturing her three children nearly to the point of death.” This title was also retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

North Bend Public Library

On November 18, 2024, a patron left a material reconsideration request regarding The Best American Comics 2018 by Phoebe Gloeckner in the book drop of North Bend Public Library. They complained that this title—which was shelved in general nonfiction—depicted mature themes. It was reviewed according to library policy and subsequently retained; however, the complainant proceeded to post misleading information about these events on social media.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Salem Public Library

On March 7, 2025, a staff member at Salem Public Library discovered that a handful of books in the teen nonfiction section had been misshelved spine-in. Titles included:

• Girl: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Karen Rayne
• Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman
• Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Siuslaw School District,
Florence

On March 12, 2025, the board of Siuslaw School District overrode a review committee’s recommendation to retain Flamer by Mike Curato, instead permanently removing the title.

Reported in: National Coalition Against Censorship, March 27,
2025.

Pennsylvania

Abington School District

On March 28, 2025, a community member without children formally complained to an elementary school in Abington School District about
The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson. They claimed that the picture book was “sexually grooming elementary students.”

Instead of discussing the challenge as a group, a review committee independently voted by online survey. Ultimately, the book was removed from the school library and banned from the entire district for illustrations deemed not “age appropriate.” A group of parents submitted an appeal for reconsideration of this decision, the outcome of which is unknown.

Reported in: Abington School District, YouTube, May 13, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Delaware Valley School District, Pike County

In November 2024, I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings and Rick by Alex Gino were formally challenged
at a library in Delaware Valley School District for “promoting an LGBTQ
lifestyle.” Both titles were retained upon review.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Ephrata Area School District

On November 7, 2024, the parent of an Ephrata Area School District elementary schooler formally challenged Drama by Raina Telgemeier after first complaining to the principal. Their rationale for censoring the graphic novel included “images of boys kissing” and “lots of discussing being gay, bi, etc.” The title was relocated from the district’s libraries for grades K–4 to those for grades 5–8.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Manheim Township School District

In March 2024, a community member formally challenged This Book Is Gay
by Juno Dawson from the libraries of Manheim Township School District, calling the title “raunchy.” This challenge is ongoing.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Pennridge School District, Bucks County

Between August and October 2024, Pennridge School District removed the following materials from the high school library:

• American Psycho by Bret Easton
  Ellis
• Assassination Classroom series by Yusei Matsui
• Berserk series by Kentarō Miura
• Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
• Cantarella series by Yū Higuri
• Fairy Tail series by Hiro Mashima
• Ghost Houses by Jessica Rudolph
• Hero Heel 2 by Makoto Tateno
• The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
• Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
• Soul Eater, Vol. 1 by Atsushi Ōkubo

Two titles were restricted to circulation with parent permission. These were Identical by Ellen Hopkins and A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Pine-Richland School District, Pittsburgh

On January 13, 2025, the board of Pine-Richland School District rejected a proposal to include Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink in the ninth-grade curriculum. Public backlash failed to sway the decision.

Reported in: triblive.com, January 10, 2025, and January 14, 2025; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 14, 2025.

Rhode Island

Warwick Public Library

On January 12, 2024, a patron at
Warwick Public Library challenged
A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green, citing the use of outdated, offensive terminology. The book was retained for historical research purposes.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

South Carolina

In February 2025, South Carolina librarians learned that book vendors
were suppressing online content via DISCUS—the state’s virtual library—related to titles banned by the South Carolina Board of Education. Effectively, individuals accessing library databases from K–12 public school campuses were no longer able to access catalog metadata. EBSCO and Overdrive were among the affected databases.

Between March and May 2025, the South Carolina Board of Education banned the following books across all grade levels statewide, pointing to vague concerns about “descriptions of sexual conduct”:

• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-
  Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Push by Sapphire
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Reported in: WCCB, February 5, 2025; WYFF, February 5, 2025; Charleston City Paper, April 4, 2025; WCIV, May 6, 2025; Greenville News, February 10, 2025; South Carolina Daily Gazette; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

District 5 of Lexington & Richland Counties

In May 2025, District 5 of Lexington & Richland Counties reversed its previous decision to restrict elementary schoolers’ access to I Am Billie Jean King by Brad Meltzer for mentioning King’s queerness. The district had received
significant public backlash after requiring parent permission to borrow the title, pushing it to freely reinstate the book.

Reported in: State, May 14, 2025, and May 21, 2025; WIS, May 21, 2025.

South Dakota

Rapid City Area Schools

On January 30, 2024, an adult expressed concern about several books available in Rapid City Area Schools that they said contain “graphic” and “mature” content. These titles were:

• America by E. R. Frank
• Changing You! A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality by Gail Saltz
• Families Can by Dan Saks
• The outcome is unknown.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Tennessee

Clarksville-Montgomery County School System

In November 2024, the Clarksville-
Montgomery County School System removed the following books without adhering to any formal review process:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Accidental Bad Girl by Maxine Kaplan
• After by Amy Efaw
• After Ever Happy by Anna Todd
• After the Fire by Will Hill
• After We Collided by Anna Todd
• After We Fell by Anna Todd
• Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
• Air Gear Omnibus 1 by Oh!Great
• Akira, Volume 2 by Katsuhiro
  Otomo
• Alice 19th by Yû Watase
• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-
  Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
• All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
• All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins
• Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• Another Day by David Levithan
• Antipodes by Michele Bacon
• Any Second by Kevin Emerson
• Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way
• Arrow to the Moon by Emily X. R. Pan
• As She Fades by Abbi Glines
• Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
• The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
• The Attack by Loïc Dauvillier
• Attack on Titan series by Hajime Isayama
• Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergast
• Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski
• The Awesome by Eva Darrows
• A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
• Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Beck by Mal Peet
• Before by Anna Todd
• The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund
• Beyond the Black Door by A. M. Strickland
• Black Butler series by Yana Toboso
• Blazed by Jason Myers
• Bleach by Tite Kubo
• Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga
• Bloom into You by Nio Nakatani
• Blue Exorcist by Kazue Katō
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
• The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Bungo Stray Dogs by Kafka Asagiri
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• The Burnouts by Lex Thomas
• Camp by Lev A. C. Rosen
• Capricious by Gabrielle Prendergast
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• Case Closed series by Gōshō Aoyama
• Castle of Lies by Kiersi Burkhart
• Cherry by Lindsey Rosin
• A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Cold Day in the Sun by Sara Biren
• The Color of Earth by Dong-hwa Kim
• The Color of Heaven by Dong-hwa Kim
• The Color of Water by Dong-hwa Kim
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• Coping with Date Rape and Acquaintance Rape by Andrea Parrot
• Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Crash into You by Katie McGarry
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
• Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian
• Dallas by Gerard Way
• A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
• Dare You To by Katie McGarry
• Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• The Dark Tower series by Peter David
• Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
• Degenerates by J. Albert Mann
• Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda by
  Jean-Philippe Stassen
• Descender series by Jeff Lemire
• Dig by A. S. King
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• Dogchild by Kevin Brooks
• Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
• Durarara!! Yellow Scarves Arc by Ryōgo Narita
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
• Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Every Day by David Levithan
• Every Young Man’s Battle by Stephen Arterburn
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• Everything I Never Told You by
  Celeste Ng
• Everything’s Fine by Cecilia Rabess
• The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by
  Teenagers by Betsy Franco
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa
• Far from the Tree: How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another, Our Differences Unite Us by Andrew Solomon
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• Feral Youth by Shaun David Hutchinson
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
• Fist of the North Star series by Buronson
• The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Forever for a Year by B. T. Gottfred
• Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
• Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
• Furyborn by Claire Legrand
• Game by Barry Lyga
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
• Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
• Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
• Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
• Gone by Lisa McMann
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Guantanamo Voices by Sarah Mirk
• The Guy, the Girl, the Artist and His Ex by Gabrielle Williams
• H. G. Wells: The Time Machine by Michael Dobbs
• H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man by Michael Dobbs
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy by B. T. Gottfred
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• Have a Little Faith in Me by Sonia Hartl
• Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins
• Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
• Help for the Haunted by John Searles
• Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler
• Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• House of Night series by P. C. Cast
• Hunter x Hunter. Volume 3 by
  Yoshihiro Togashi
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican
  Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
• I Hate Everyone but You by Gabe Dunn
• I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
• I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Never by Laura Hopper
• I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski
• I Was the Cat by Paul Tobin
• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• If You’re Out There by Katy Loutzenhiser
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
• The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
• Into the River by Ted Dawn
• Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale by Rumiko Takahashi
• The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
• It by Stephen King
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 by Hirohiko Araki
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, Vol. 2 by Hirohiko Araki
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, Vol. 3 by Hirohiko Araki
• Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Just a Girl by Carrie Mesrobian
• Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco
• Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco
• Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
• Kingsbane by Claire Legrand
• Kissing Lessons by Sophie Jordan
• The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich
• The Last Duel by Eric Jager
• The Last Field Party by Abbi Glines
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• The Last Star by Rick Yancey
• The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
• Lies, Knives and Girls in Red Dresses by Ronald Koertge
• Lightlark by Alex Aster
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
• Little Peach by Peggy Kern
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• The Loners by Lex Thomas
• A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis
• Long Way Home by Katie McGarry
• Look by Zan Romanoff
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Losing the Field by Abbi Glines
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado
• Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban
• Machete Squad by Brent Dulak
• Making a Play by Abbi Glines
• Mangaman by Barry Lyga
• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, 1 Me by Ellen Forney
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
• Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
• Muted by Tami Charles
• My Hero Academia: Vigilantes series by Hideyuki Furuhashi
• My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
• The Nerdy and the Dirty by B. T. Gottfred
• The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
• Nightbane by Alex Aster
• 19 Love Songs by David Levithan
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• No Escape by Alex Scarrow
• Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer
• Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks
• Nowhere but Here by Katie McGarry
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus
• One of Us Is Next by Karen McManus
• Only a Breath Apart by Katie McGarry
• Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• The Pain Eater by Beth Goobie
• Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Parachutes by Kelly Yang
• Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki
• People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi
• Plague Land by Alex Scarrow
• Plague Land: Reborn by Alex Scarrow
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
• Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay
• The Promised Neverland series by Kaiu Shirai
• Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
• Raven Summer by David Almond
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
• Reality Boy by A. S. King
• Recipe for Hate: The X Gang by
  Warren Kinsella
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• Red Ink by Julie Mayhew
• Replica. Lyra; Replica. Gemma by
  Lauren Oliver
• Right Where You Left Me by Calla Devlin
• Ringer. Gemma; Ringer. Lyra by
  Lauren Oliver
• Rising Gold by Ava Jae
• Rosario1Vampire series by Akihisa Ikeda
• Rose Madder by Stephen King
• Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets by Carissa Phelps
• The Saints by Lex Thomas
• Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
• A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
• Skin and Bones by Sherry Shahan
• Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
• Social Intercourse by Greg Howard
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Someday by David Levithan
• Someone I Used to Know by Patty Blount
• Soul Eater, Vol. 1 by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Soul Eater, Vol. 2 by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Soul Eater, Vol. 3 by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Soul Eater, Vol. 4 by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Soul Eater, Vol. 5 by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer
• The Stan by Kevin Knodell
• The Stand-In by Steve Bloom
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
• Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King
• Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
• Strange Truth by Maggie Thrash
• The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Take Me On by Katie McGarry
• The Tempest: Manga Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• The Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn’t Have) by Sarah Mlynowski
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• They Went Left by Monica Hesse
• They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman
• 13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This Boy by Lauren Myracle
• This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• Thorn by Intisar Khanani
• Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• Tower of Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
• Trench Dogs by Ian Densford
• Tripping Back Blue by Kara Storti
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
• The Truth of Right Now by Kara Lee Corthron
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
• User by Devin Grayson
• Vampire Knight series by Matsuri Hino
• Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
• The Waiting Tree by Lindsay Moynihan
• Wake by Lisa McMann
• Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry
• The Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman
• Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• We Stand on Guard by Brian K. Vaughan
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
• Whatever: Or How Junior Year Became Totally F$@Ked: A Novel by S. J. Goslee
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
• When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
• Where We Go from Here by Lucas Rocha
• Wilder by Andrew Simonet
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan
• A Work of Art by Melody Maysonet
• yolo by Lauren Myracle
• You Against Me by Jenny Downham
• The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
• Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Knox County Schools

In December 2024, Knox County Schools announced the removal of nearly 50 books from its libraries to comply with the state’s amended Age-Appropriate Materials Act. The list included:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Attack on Titan series by Hajime Isayama
• Beautiful by Amy Reed
• Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony
• Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
• The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two
  Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by
  Matthew Quick
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican
  Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• Locke and Key series by Joe Hill
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
  Children: The Graphic Novel by
  Ransom Riggs
• Monstress, Vol 2: The Blood by
  Marjorie Liu
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Skin by Donna Jo Napoli
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard
• There’s Going to Be a Baby by John Burningham
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• The Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• You: The Owner’s Manual for Teens by Michael F. Roizen

The following titles were retained by the district:

• Achilles and the Trojan War by David L. Ferrell
• Adventures in Ancient Egypt by Linda Bailey
• The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by Dav Pilkey
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• Alice the Fairy by David Shannon
• Ancient Egypt by George Hart
• Ancient Greeks: Life in Ancient Greece by Michelle Levine
• Archeology by Jane McIntosh
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Blue, Barry & Pancakes: Escape from Balloonia by Dan Abdo
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• Butts Are Everywhere by Jonathan Stutzman
• Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
• Carrimebac: The Town That Walked by David Barclay Moore
• Champion: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu
• Cirque du Freak: Tunnels of Blood by Darren Shan
• The Color of Home by Mary Hoffman
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
• Dreamfall by Amy Plum
• Fable by Adrienne Young
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Hold Me Tight by Lorie Ann Grover
• I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont
• I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 by Lauren Tarshis
• Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
• It’s Hard to Be Five by Jamie Lee Curtis
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• King Dork by Frank Portman
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Mama Panya’s Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya by Mary Chamberlin
• Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan
• Mike Fink: A Tall Tale by Steven Kellogg
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World by Arielle North Olson
• Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
• My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
• Outside over There by Maurice Sendak
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Point of Retreat: A Novel by Colleen Hoover
• The Rains by Gregg Hurwitz
• A Sterkarm Kiss by Susan Price
• A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
• Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
• Wings of Fire: The Graphic Novel: Book One: The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland
• Zombies in Love 2 1 1 by Kelly S. DiPucchio

Reported in: WATE, December 4, 2024; WBIR, December 4, 2024, and December 9, 2024; Knoxville News Sentinel, December 5, 2024; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Loudon County Schools

In 2024, Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs was challenged within Loudon County Schools. The outcome is unknown.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Monroe County Schools

In spring 2025, Monroe County Schools removed 574 books from school libraries in the absence of any formal complaints about materials. This action was allegedly taken by the district to comply with the state’s recently amended Age-Appropriate Materials Act, which prohibits school libraries from circulating vaguely defined
“inappropriate content.”

Of those removed, the following titles are known:

• Abortion: Violence & Extremism by Gary E. McCuen
• The Abortion Controversy by Lucinda Almond
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Africa by Yvonne Ayo
• Aftermath and Remembrance by David Downing
• The Age of God-Kings: Time Frame 3000–1500 BC by Time-Life
  Books
• An Album of the Vietnam War by Don Lawson
• Alcohol: The Real Story by David R. Stronck
• Alexander and His Times by Frédéric Theulé
• Alice on the Outside by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Alice the Fairy by David Shannon
• Alien Abductions by Patricia D. Netzley
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• Allegiant by Veronica Roth
• Amber and Dusk by Lyra Selene
• America’s Children: Opposing Viewpoints by Carol Wekesser
• The American Revolution by Deborah Kent
• Amy: Rejacketed by Mary Hooper
• Ancient Egypt by Anita Ganeri
• Ancient Egypt by George Hart
• Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne
• Ancient Greece by Anne Pearson
• Ancient Incas by Michael Burgan
• Ancient Rome by Colin Hynson
• Ancient Rome by Leon Ashworth
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
• Angels by Patricia D. Netzley
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal
  Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed by Alexander Tsiaras
• Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? Fab Final Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
• Art and Culture of the Medieval World by Steven S. Delaware
• Art and Culture of the Renaissance World by Lauren Murphy
• Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World by Bernice Wilson
• The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting by Harriet Shorr
• Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
• The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
• At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
• Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka: The Holocaust Camps by Ann Byers
• Autumn’s Kiss by Bella Thorne
• Autumn’s Wish by Bella Thorne
• Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• Aztec, Inca & Maya by Elizabeth Baquedano
• Barbarian Tides: Time Frame 1500–600 BC by Time-Life Books
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• The Beat Goes On by Adele Minchin
• Because I’m Worth It: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
• The Berlin Boxing Club by Rob Sharenow
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• Bioethics: Sex, Genetics & Human Reproduction by Warren T. Reich
• Bites and Bones by Lois Metzger
• Black and White by Paul Volponi
• The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
• Black Like Me by John Griffin
• Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy by L. A. Meyer
• Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D’Aulaire
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations series by Masashi Kishimoto
• Bound: Instructional Guides for Literature by Donna Jo Napoli
• Boy v. Girl? How Gender Shapes Who We Are, What We Want, and How We Get Along by George Abrahams
• The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
• Brewster by Mark Slouka
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Buddha and Buddhism by Kerena Marchant
• Busted by Phil Bildner
• Caesar and Rome by Charlotte Bernard
• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
• Carved in Stone: Clues About Cultures by Yvonne Morrison
• Case Histories by Dianne Hales
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Cerberus by Bernard Evslin
• A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
• Charcoal & Pastel by Don Bolognese
• Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi
• Cherokee Rose by Leni Donlan
• Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul by Jack Canfield
• Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal by Jack Canfield
• Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II: More Stories of Life, Love, and Learning by Jack Canfield
• Child Abuse by William Dudley
• Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church by Louise I. Gerdes
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Children of Violence in America by Gary E. McCuen
• Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
• Choices: Making Right Decisions in a Complex World by Lewis B. Smedes
• Christianity by Jane Bingham
• The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer
• City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• Civil War by John Stanchack
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• Claywork: Form and Idea in Ceramic Design by Leon I. Nigrosh
• Cocaine by Rhoda McFarland
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Columbine by David Cullen
• Columbine High School Shooting:
  Student Violence by Judy L. Hasday
• The Columbine School Shooting by Jenny MacKay
• The Columbine School Shooting by Louise I. Gerdes
• The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam
• The Complete Book of Dogs by Rosie Pilbeam
• The Complete Kodak Book of Photography by Time-Life Books
• Coping with a Drug-Abusing Parent by Lawrence Clayton
• Coping with Weapons and Violence in School and on Your Streets by Maryann Miller
• Costume by L. Rowland-Warne
• The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan
• The Creek by Jennifer L. Holm
• Crimes Against Children: Child Abuse and Neglect by Tracee De Hahn
• Crimes and Criminals of the Holocaust by Linda Jacobs Altman
• Crimes of Gender Violence Against Women by Gary E. McCuen
• Crisis in Black and White by Charles E. Silberman
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
• Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
• Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
• The Curse of King Tut by Patricia D. Netzley
• Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady by L. A. Meyer
• Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein
• Cut by Patricia McCormick
• The Cyclopes by Bernard Evslin
• Cyclops by Don Nardo
• Dali by Jessica Toyne
• A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
• Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants! by Louise Rennison
• Darfur: African Genocide by John Xavier
• Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon M. Draper
• Date Abuse by Herma Silverstein
• Date Violence by Elaine Landau
• David & Della by Paul Zindel
• Deadly School and Campus Violence by Corona Brezina
• The Death Cure by James Dashner
• The Death Penalty for Teens: A Pro/ Con Issue by Nancy Day
• Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta
• Desert Angel by Charlie Price
• The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George
• The Digestive System by Mercè Parramón
• Dishes by Rich Wallace
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
• Doctor-Assisted Suicide and the Euthanasia Movement by Gary E. McCuen
• Dog Tags by C. Alexander London
• Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
• Drinking, Driving & Drugs by Jean McBee Knox
• Drugs and Crime by Jeffrey Shulman
• Drugs and Sports by Katherine S. Talmadge
• Drugs & the Family by Jo Martin
• Drugs and the Family by Susan Destefano
• Drugs and Your Parents by Rhoda McFarland
• Drugs on Your Streets by Gabriele I. Edwards
• Dry by Neal Shusterman
• Early Humans by DK Publishing
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Economy and Industry in Ancient Greece by Melanie Ann Apel
• Economy and Industry in Ancient Rome by Daniel C. Gedacht
• Edge by Michael Cadnum
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Empires Ascendant: Time Frame 400 BC–AD 200 by Time-Life Books
• The End and Other Beginnings by Veronica Roth
• Eon: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
• European Art Since 1850 by Nancy Malloy
• European Art to 1850 by Tony Lucchesi
• Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints by James D. Torr
• Every Day by David Levithan
• Every Last Word by Tamara Stone
• Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King
• Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
• Everything You Need to Know About Going to the Gynecologist by Shifra Diamond
• Explorers by David Marshall
• Explorers of the Ancient World by Anthony Brierley
• Extras by Scott Westerfeld
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Faceless by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
• The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• Family Violence by Diane Andrews Henningfeld
• Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
• Farm Team by Will Weaver
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
• Feed by M. T. Anderson
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• The Fever Code by James Dashner
• Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two
  Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
• Fight for Freedom: The American
  Revolutionary War by Benson Bobrick
• Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
• Firehorse by Diane L. Wilson
• The First Americans: The Story of Where They Came from and Who They Became by Anthony F. Aveni
• First Facts About the Ancient Egyptians by Jacqueline Morley
• First Facts About the Ancient Greeks by Fiona MacDonald
• First Facts About the Ancient Romans by Fiona MacDonald
• First French Kiss by Adam Bagdasarian
• Flight of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse
• For the Good of Mankind? The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Founders of Faith by Joan A. Price
• Frankly in Love by David Yoon
• Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
• Free to Be Me: An LGBTQ1 Journal
  of Love, Pride & Finding Your Inner Rainbow by Dom & Ink
• The French Revolution by Nicola Barber
• Fullmetal Alchemist series by Makoto Inoue
• The Furies by Bernard Evslin
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science by Theodore Roszak
• Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
• Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
• Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
• Getting It by Alex Sanchez
• Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
• Girls Like Us by Gail Giles
• Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
• Gladiator by Deborah Jane Murrell
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
• God’s Images by James Dickey
• Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc
• The Good Fight: How World War II was Won by Stephen E. Ambrose
• Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray
• Great Wonders of the World by Russell Ash
• Greece by Hong Nam Yeoh
• Greece, Temples, Tombs, & Treasures by Time-Life Books
• Greek and Roman Mythology, A to Z by Kathleen N. Daly
• The Greek News by Phillip Steele
• Greek Warrior by Deborah Jane Murrell
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Gun Control: Opposing Viewpoints by Lisa Idzikowski
• Guns and Violence by Debra A. Miller
• The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual for Teens: Safety, Maintenance, and Operating Instructions by Mavis Jukes
• The Haiti Earthquake by Nathan Sommer
• Half Wild by Sally Green
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide by Harvard Medical School
• Hate Groups: Opposing Viewpoints by Mary E Williams
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Haunted Homes by Barbara Cox
• Hecate by Bernard Evslin
• Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
• Heroin by Sandra Lee Smith
• A Hero’s Guide to Warriors by Deborah Jane Murrell
• The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid from the Nazis by Esther Kustanowitz
• Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
• Hinduism by Rasamandala Das
• A History of Far Eastern Art by
  Sherman E. Lee
• Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Hitler’s Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World’s Most Notorious Dictator by Bill O’Reilly
• Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
• The Holocaust by Abraham Resnick
• The Holocaust by Patricia Levy
• The Holocaust by Sean Sheehan
• The Holocaust: A Primary Source
  History by Judy Bartel
• The Holocaust and Life Under Nazi Occupation by Peter Darman
• Home Life in Ancient Egypt by Leslie C. Kaplan
• Home Life in Ancient Greece by
  Melanie Ann Apel
• Home Life in Ancient Rome by Daniel C. Gedacht
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer
• The House You Pass on the Way by
  Jacqueline Woodson
• The How and Why Wonder Book of the Human Body by Martin L. Keen
• How Our Muscles Work by Victoria Avila
• How to Make a Mummy Talk by James M. Deem
• The Human Body by Stacy Savran
• Human Body by Steve Parker
• The Human Body (Gareth Stevens Information Library) by Brian J. Ford
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Impact of the Holocaust by Linda Jacobs Altman
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• In Darkness by Nick Lake
• The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
• International Terrorism by Charlie Fuller
• The Iroquois by Liz Sonneborn
• Islam: Signs, Symbols, and Stories by Cath Senker
• It’s Christmas, David! by David Shannon
• It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura
• Italy by Josephine Sander Hausam
• Jack by A.M. Homes
• Jealousy (Frequently Asked Questions) by Roman Espejo
• Jesus and Christianity by Alan Brown
• The Jewish Victims of the Holocaust by Linda Jacobs Altman
• John Hedgecoe’s New Book of Photography by John Hedgecoe
• Judaism: Signs, Symbols, and Stories by Cath Senker
• Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Kent State by Deborah Wiles
• The Kill Order by James Dashner
• The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis
• King Arthur by Michael Wyly
• King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Kite by Ed Minus
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Knight by Deborah Jane Murrell
• Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
• Knowledge Genius! by DK Publishing
• Krishna and Hinduism by Kerena Marchant
• The Ku Klux Klan: A Century of Infamy by William Pierce Randel
• Land and Resources of Ancient Greece by Melanie Ann Apel
• Land and Resources of Ancient Rome by Daniel C. Gedacht
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
• The Last Star by Rick Yancey
• The Legend of Drizzt: Exile by R. A. Salvatore
• The Legend of Drizzt: Sojourn by R. A. Salvatore
• The Legend of Drizzt: The Halfling’s Gem by R. A. Salvatore
• The Legend of Drizzt: The Legacy by R. A. Salvatore
• Leonardo da Vinci by Catherine Nichols
• Liberation: Teens in the Concentration Camps & the Teen Soldiers Who
  Liberated Them by E. Tina Tito
• Life as a Gladiator by Michael Burgan
• Life During the Great Civilizations: Ancient Greece by Don Nardo
• Life in Ancient Egypt by Paul C. Challen
• Life in Ancient Rome by Shilpa Mehta-Jones
• Life in the Ancient Indus River Valley by Hazel Richardson
• Life of the Ancient Celts by Hazel Richardson
• Life Under Occupation by Charlie Samuels
• The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
• Living on Impulse by Cara Haycak
• The Long Road to Gettysburg by Jim Murphy
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth by Michael Cart
• Love Is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld
• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
• The Making of a Navy SEAL: My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best by Brandon Webb
• Making Up Megaboy by Virginia A. Walter
• A Man Named Dave: A Story of
  Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer
• Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen
• Margaux with an X by Ronald Koertge
• The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber by L. A. Meyer
• Massacre at Virginia Tech: Disaster & Survival by Richard Worth
• Matched; Crossed; Reached. The Trilogy by Ally Condie
• Maus: A Survivor’s Tale I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
• Mayo Clinic Family Health Book: The Ultimate Home Medical Reference by Mayo Clinic
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• Media: The Impact on Our Lives by Julian Petley
• Media Violence: Opposing Viewpoints by David M. Haugen
• Medicine by Robin Kerrodz
• Medieval Europe by Susie Hodge
• Medieval Life by Andrew Langley
• Medusa by Don Nardo
• Megan’s Law: Protection or Privacy by Margie Druss Fodor
• Mesopotamia by Phillip Steele
• Mexican, Central & South American Art by John F. Scott
• Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Peña
• Michelangelo and His Times by Véronique Milande
• Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
• The Militia Movement and Hate Groups in America by Gary E. McCuen
• The Minotaur by Bernard Evslin
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• A Moment Comes by Jennifer Bradbury
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Moneylender’s Daughter by V. A. Richardson
• Monsters of Mythology by Bernard Evslin
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• Moses and Judaism by Sharon Barron
• Mosque by David Macaulay
• Muhammad and Islam by Kerena Marchant
• Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
• My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt
• My Sad Is All Gone: A Family’s
  Triumph over Violent Autism by Thelma Wheatley
• Mysteries of History by Robert Stewart
• Mysteries of Mankind by Barbara Jampel
• Mystics and Psychics by Joanne Mattern
• Mythology by Neil Philip
• Myths and Civilization of the Ancient Greeks by Hazel Martell
• Native American Literature by
  Katherine Gleason
• The Nazi Death Camps by David Downing
• The Nervous System by Núria Roca
• Never So Green by Tim Johnston
• The New Encyclopedia of the Cat by Bruce Fogle
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Night Star by Alyson No®l
• No, David! by David Shannon
• No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin
• North American Art to 1900 by Arleen Pancza-Graham
• Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead
  Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay
• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Oklahoma City Bombing: Terror in the Heartland by Victoria Sherrow
• On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• One Hot Second: Stories About Desire by Cathy Young
• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
• Online Pornography: Opposing Viewpoints by David Erik Nelson
• Origins of the Holocaust by David Downing
• Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
• Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• The Parthenon of Ancient Greece by Don Nardo
• The Pequots by Shirlee Petkin Newman
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Period 8 by Chris Crutcher
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• Persecution and Emigration by David Downing
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love by Caroline Herter
• Physician-Assisted Suicide by Alan Marzilli
• The Pigman by Paul Zindel
• Pirate by Richard Platt
• Playing the Field by Phil Bildner
• The Poetry of the Negro: 1746–1970: An Anthology by Langston Hughes
• Poptropica Mythology by Tracey West
• Pornography: Opposing Viewpoints by Helen Cothran
• Practical Photography: How to Get the Best Picture Every Time by John Freeman
• Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
• Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ1 Christian Teens by Leigh Finke
• Quiver by Stephanie Spinner
• Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• Ramses II and Egypt by Olivier Tiano
• Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
• Read with Dick and Jane series
• Real Boys’ Voices by William S. Pollack
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn
• Reproductive Technologies by Louise I. Gerdes
• Resisters and Rescuers: Standing Up Against the Holocaust by Linda Jacobs Altman
• The Right Fight by Chris Lynch
• Ripley’s Believe It or Not! by Ripley Entertainment
• The Roman News by Andrew Langley
• Safe Teen: Powerful Alternatives to Violence by Anita Roberts
• Sarah Dessen: From Burritos to Box Office by Wendy J. Glenn
• School Violence by Jeff P. Jones
• The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
• Screenshot by Donna D. Cooner
• Scylla and Charybdis by Bernard Evslin
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister
• The Senses by Rufus Bellamy
• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Reg Cox
• The Seven Wonders of the Historic World by Neil Morris
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• Shakespeare Remains: Theater to
  Film, Early Modern to Postmodern by Courtney Lehmann
• The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
• The Short Second Life of Bree
  Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by
  Stephenie Meyer
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Sisters 5 Hermanas by Gary Paulsen
• Sisters of the Sword series by Maya Snow
• The Skeletal and Muscular Systems by Susan Glass
• The Skeletal System by Eduard Arnau
• Skeleton by Steve Parker
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• A Soaring Spirit: Time Frame,
  600–400 BC by Time-Life Books
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Soldiers by Charlie Samuels
• Sonny’s House of Spies by George Ella Lyon
• Sovay by Celia Rees
• The Spanish-American War by Kerry A. Graves
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Specials by Scott Westerfeld
• The Sphinx by Bernard Evslin
• The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
• Stained by Jennifer Jacobson
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
• Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison
• Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
• Suicide: Opposing Viewpoints by David Bender
• Suicide Bombers by Robert Greenberger
• Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
• Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo
• Swagger by Carl Deuker
• The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door by Karen Finneyfrock
• Swimwear in Vogue Since 1910 by Christina Probert
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
• Tales from My Closet by Jennifer Anne Moses
• Target by Kathleen Johnson
• Teen Pregnancy: Introducing Issues
  with Opposing Viewpoints by Emma Carlson Berne
• Teens at Risk: Opposing Viewpoints by Stephen P. Thompson
• Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust by Susan D. Bachrach
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
• Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• 33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
• This Is My America by Kim Johnson
• Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• Through Indian Eyes by Reader’s Digest
• Tide of Terror by Justin Somper
• Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
• Timeline of the Civil War: The Ultimate Guide to the War That Defined America by John D. Wright
• The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Tobacco: The Real Story by David R. Stronck
• Together Apart by Dianne E. Gray
• Top 10 Worst Creepy Egyptian Mummies by David Stewart
• Top 10 Worst Things About Ancient Egypt by Victoria England
• Top 10 Worst Things About Ancient Greece by Victoria England
• Top 10 Worst Things About Ancient Rome by Victoria England
• Toward Genocide by David Downing
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• The Trail of Tears by Michael Burgan
• Trails to the West: Beyond the Mississippi by Kathy Pelta
• The Traitor Game by B. R. Collins
• Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
• Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy
• True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
• Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Uglies: Shay’s Story by Scott Westerfeld
• The Usborne Introduction to Art by Rosie Dickins
• Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
• The Vampire Diaries series by L. J. Smith
• Vampires by Russell Roberts
• Van Gogh by Jessica Bailey
• Vietnam by Andrew D. W. Forbes
• Vietnam War by Marty Gitlin
• Vincent’s Starry Night and Other
  Stories: A Children’s History of Art by Michael Bird
• Violence: Opposing Viewpoints by Scott Barbour
• Violence Against Women by Kathryn Roberts
• Violence in Our Schools: Halls of Hope, Halls of Fear by Tamra Orr
• Violence in the Media by Dedria Bryfonski
• Vive la France: The French Resistance During World War II by Robert Green
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• The Warrior’s Heart by Eric Greitens
• We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History by Phillip M. Hoose
• Weapons of Mass Destruction by Michael Kort
• Welcome to Italy by Meredith Costain
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
• What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
• What Happens When You Grow? by Joy Richardson
• What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
• What Motivates Suicide Bombers?
• Who Uses Drugs by Peter Gwynne
• Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan
• Why Did Hiroshima Happen? by R. G. Grant
• Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America by James D. Tabor
• Witches, Magic, and Spells by Stuart A. Kallen
• Witches and Magic Makers by Douglas Arthur Hill
• With Their Eyes: September 11th, the View From a High School at Ground Zero by Annie Thoms
• World War II by Susan E. Hamen
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece! by Fiona MacDonald
• Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan

Reported in: WBIR, February 26, 2025; National Coalition Against Censorship, March 13, 2025.

Murfreesboro City Schools

On January 14, 2025, the board of
Murfreesboro City Schools voted to remove It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn from Bradley Academy. A review committee had recommended its removal after receiving a complaint about its gender-related content.

Reported in: WSMV, January 15, 2025.

Rutherford County Schools

In spring 2024, the board of Rutherford County Schools removed The Haters by Jesse Andrews from district libraries. Meanwhile, it retained The Selection by Kiera Cass, as well as The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake at the middle school level, and Pumpkin by Julie Murphy at the high school level.

Between November 2024, and April 2025, a school board member flagged an extensive list of books for immediate removal from the district, despite openly admitting to not having read them. The formal review process was, in most cases, not followed. Titles included:

• Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld
• Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
• America: A Novel by E. R. Frank
• Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
• Assassination Classroom series by Yusei Matsui
• Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
• Blazed by Jason Myers
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Chosen by P. C. Cast
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
• The Detour by S. A. Bodeen
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Fire Force by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything by E. Lockhart
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Forever for a Year by B. T. Gottfred
• Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
• Game of Thrones graphic novel series by Daniel Abraham
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and
  Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
• Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
• The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
• Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler
• The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy by B. T. Gottfred
• Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
• High School by Sara Quin
• History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
• Home Body by Rupi Kaur
• The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
• How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• I Never by Laura Hopper
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram
• The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini
• Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
• Lexicon by Max Barry
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Loveless by Alice Oseman
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover
• Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
• The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
• 101 Questions About Reproduction: Or How 1 1 1 5 3 or 4 or More by Faith Hickman Brynie
• Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
• Plan A: Her Story. Her Choice by Deb Caletti
• Private Label by Kelly Yang
• Push by Sapphire
• Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
• Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition by Katie Rain Hill
• Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
• She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• The Sin-Eater’s Confession by Ilsa J. Bick
• Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• Stained by Jennifer Jacobson
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Strange Truth by Maggie Thrash
• The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
• SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
• Trans1: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
• ttfn by Lauren Myracle
• ttyl by Lauren Myracle
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
• Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Where I End & You Begin by Preston Norton
• Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
• yolo by Lauren Myracle
• The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
• You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender,
  Puberty and Other Things! by Cory Silverberg
• You Too? 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories edited by Janet Gurtler

The ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the Rutherford County Board of Education for violating students’ First Amendment rights with this informal, mass removal of materials. In some limited instances of material review, the board voted to restrict the following titles to high school juniors and seniors:

• Bumped by Megan McCafferty
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
• Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
• Dumplin’: Go Big or Go Home by Julie Murphy
• Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
• Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
• I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
• A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend: A Novel by Emily Horner
• Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella by Alice Oseman
• Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren’t Complicated, I Wouldn’t Be Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

A single book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson, was retained as part of the curriculum.

Reported in: Murfreesboro Daily News Journal, September 19, 2024, and November 27, 2024; Tennessee Lookout, November 25, 2024; WSMV, April 9, 2025; PEN America, April 16, 2025; WKRN, April 16, 2025; LGBTQ Nation, April 18, 2025; WPLN, June 12, 2025; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Texas

Amarillo Public Library

In April 2025, Amarillo Public Library reviewed three titles challenged by a mayoral candidate. Two of the books were retained, including The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ1 Inclusive Guide for Kids About Sex, Gender, Bodies, and
Families by Rachel E. Simon. The third title, Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, was relocated from the young adult section to the adult section.

Reported in: KAMR, April 22, 2025.

Crane Independent School District

In December 2024, a student in the Crane Independent School District received Bad Kitty Meets the Baby by Nick Bruel as a prize. Their parent subsequently filed for the removal of the series from district libraries, claiming that the books insinuated “bad words.” The outcome is unknown.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Fort Bend Independent School District

Between May 2022, and April 2025, the following books were removed from Fort Bend Independent School District libraries at the high school level and placed on a formal Do Not Purchase list:

• The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Beastars. Volume 1 by Paru Itagaki
• Beastars. Volume 4 by Paru Itagaki
• Black Bird. 4 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 5 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 6 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 7 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 8 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 9 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 10 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 11 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 12 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 14 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 15 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Black Bird. 18 by Kanoko Sakurakōji
• Blindness by José Saramago
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
• Chainsaw Man. 7, In a Dream by
  Tatsuki Fujimoto
• Chainsaw Man. 9, Bath by Tatsuki Fujimoto
• Chicken Girl: Life Can Be a Tough Egg to Crack by Heather Smith
• Collected Poems, 1947–1980 by Allen Ginsberg
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
• The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa
• Fault Line by Christa Desir
• Fire Force by Atsushi Ōkubo
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
• Food Wars! by Yūto Tsukuda
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Forever for a Year by B. T. Gottfred
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
• Grit by Gillian French
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Graphic Novel) by Reneé Nault
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
• The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
• Inu x Boku SS. 4 by Cocoa Fujiwara
• Irreversible by Chris Lynch
• It by Stephen King
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
• Juliet Takes a Breath: Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gabby Rivera
• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco
• Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• Me and the Devil Blues series by Akira Hiramoto
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• My Brother’s Keeper by ReShonda Tate
• Naondel by Maria Turtschaninoff
• Neon Genesis Evangelion. Volume 1 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
• Neon Genesis Evangelion. Volume 2 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
• Neon Genesis Evangelion. Volume 3 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Push by Sapphire
• Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
• Run Away with Me by Mila Gray
• The Sandman, v11. Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Tokyo Ghoul. Volume 12 by Sui Ishida
• Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
• Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
• yolo by Lauren Myracle

These titles were removed and
prohibited from being repurchased at the middle school level:

• Assassination Classroom series by Yusei Matsui
• Attack on Titan series by Hajime Isayama
• The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
• Beasts of Abigaile series by Aoki Spica
• Black Butler series by Yana Toboso
• The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
• Blade series by Tim Bowler
• Blue Flag series by Kaito
• Carols and Chaos by Cindy Anstey
• Claymore series by Norihiro Yagi
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Dawn of the Arcana series by Rei Tōma
• The Executioner by Jay Bennett
• Fairy Tail series by Hiro Mashima
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican
  Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure series by
  Hirohiko Araki
• Losers Bracket by Chris Crutcher
• Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Munmun by Jesse Andrews
• One Piece series by Eiichirō Oda
• Ouran High School Host Club series
  by Bisco Hatori
• Pandora Hearts series by Jun Mochizuki
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Seven Deadly Sins series by Nakaba Suzuki
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
• Vampire Knight series by Matsuri Hino
• Wild Girls by Pat Murphy

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Georgetown Independent School District

In April 2025, a high school librarian spoke at a Georgetown Independent School District board meeting against a plan to remove the following books from the high school library:

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

These titles were nonetheless withdrawn.

Reported in: Austin American-
Statesman, March 25, 2025.

Houston Independent School District

At a March 2025, board meeting for Houston Independent School District, local churchgoers challenged two “sexually explicit” books: The Haters and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, both by Jesse Andrews. District librarians were subsequently instructed to remove both titles from shelves.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Katy Independent School District

Between September 2022 and April 2023, Katy Independent School District removed the following instructional materials:

• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Graphic Novel) by Reneé Nault
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

Between August 2023 and August 2024, the district removed these additional instructional resources:

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Do Animals Fall in Love? by Katharina von der Gathen
• Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Girl: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Karen Rayne
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Infandous by Elana K. Arnold
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
• Luciana by Maggie Wells
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
• Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
• Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression by Iris Gottlieb
• Sex Smarts: You and Your Sexuality by Susan Traugh
• A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• yolo by Lauren Myracle
• You Do You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality by Sarah Mirk

In early October 2024, district librarians were informed that they were prohibited from checking out over 400 books to students. This change was spurred by an August school board policy revision that prohibited library books depicting two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA1) identities at the elementary and junior high school levels. High school students could continue to access these materials, but only with parent permission.

Affected titles were:

• The ABC’s of LGBT1 by Ashley Mardell
• Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt
• Act Cool by Tobly McSmith
• Adaptation by Malinda Lo
• Airlock by Tash McAdam
• Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman
• Alex by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
• Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
• All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick
• All Kinds of Other by James Sie
• All Out: No-Longer Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell
• All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
• Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
• Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass
• And She Was by Jessica Verdi
• Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
• Answers in the Pages by David Levithan
• Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve
• Are You LGBTQ? by Jeanne Nagle
• The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
• The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis
• Asexual by Jeremy Quist
• Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
• Be Gay, Do Comics by Matt Bors
• Beast by Brie Spangler
• Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult by Skylar Kergil
• Before We Were Blue by E. J. Schwartz
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
• Being LGBTQ by Don Nardo
• Being Transgender in America by Duchess Harris
• Belly Up by Eva Darrows
• The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson
• Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve
• Beyond Clueless by Linas Alsenas
• Beyond Gender Binaries: The History
  of Trans, Intersex, and Third-Gender Individuals by Rita Santos
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Beyond Male and Female: The Gender Identity Spectrum by Anita R.
  Walker
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
• Birthday by Meredith Russo
• Bisexual and Pansexual by Lara
  Stewart Manetta
• Blood Sport by Tash McAdam
• Body and Mind: LGBTQ Health Issues by Jeremy Quist
• Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope by Jodie Patterson
• Both Can Be True by Jules Machias
• Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas
• The Boy I Love by Nina de Gramont
• Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez
• Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku
• Brooms by Jasmine Walls
• Burn the Page by Danica Roem
• Caitlyn Jenner by Carla Mooney
• Calvin by J. R. Ford
• Camp Quiltbag by Nicole Melleby
• Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• Chaz Bono by Marty Gitlin
• Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by
  Crystal Frasier
• Clarion Call by Cayla Fay
• Cold Falling White by Gabrielle Prendergast
• The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling
• Combat Zone by Patrick Jones
• Coming Out: Telling Family and Friends by Jaime Seba
• Coming Out as Transgender by Corona Brezina
• Confessions of a Teenage Drag King by Markus Harwood-Jones
• Confronting LGBTQ1 Discrimination by Avery Elizabeth Hurt
• The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• Coping with Gender Dysphoria by Ellen McGrody
• Coping with Gender Fluidity by
  Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
• Cosmetic Surgery by Roman Espejo
• Court of the Undying Seasons by A. M. Strickland
• Critical Perspectives on Gender Identity by Nicki Peter Petrikowski
• Crossing Lines by Paul Volponi
• Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian
• The Cutting Room Floor by Dawn Klehr
• Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin Van Whye
• Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard
• Dealing with Gender Dysphoria by Martha Lundin
• Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
• The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith
• The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan
• Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley
• The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
• The Devouring Wolf by Natalie C. Parker
• Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a
  Mystery by Casey Parks
• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle
  Lukoff
• Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil
• The Dog Knight by Jeremy Whitley
• Double Challenge: Being LGBTQ and a Minority by Rebecca Kaplan
• Double Exposure by Bridget Birdsall
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• Dreadnought by April Daniels
• Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things by Maya Prasad
• The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman
• The Edge of the Water by Elizabeth George
• El Gris [The Devouring Gray] by Christine Lynn Herman
• Ellen Outside the Lines by A. J. Sass
• Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
• Everything Grows: A Novel by Aimee Herman
• The Fae Keeper by H. E. Edgmon
• Fan Art by Sarah Tregay
• FatherSonFather by Evan Jacobs
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig
• Female-to-Male Transgender by Aron Alber
• Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa
• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two
  Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
• The Fight by Elizabeth Karre
• Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
• Flip the Script by Lyla Lee
• Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi
• Forever Is Now by Mariama Lockington
• Frannie and Tru by Karen Hattrup
• Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Freeing Finch by Ginny Rorby
• Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett
• Friendship, Dating, and Relationships by Simone Payment
• Frío Cae Blanco [Cold Falling White] by Gabrielle Prendergast
• The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan
• Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod
• Gender: Roles & Rights by Micah L. Issitt
• Gender Expansive by Jeremy Quist
• Gender Fulfilled: Being Transgender by Joyce A. Anthony
• Gender Identity by Anika Abraham
• Gender Identity by Char Light
• Gender Identity by Nicki Peter Petrikowski
• Gender Identity by Olivia Ghafoerkhan
• Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms by Maria Cook
• Gender Identity: The Search for Self by Kate Light
• Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Cynthia Winfield
• Gender in the 21st Century by M. M. Eboch
• Gender Politics by Susan Henneberg
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and
  Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
• Girlness: Deal with It Body and Soul by Diane Peters
• The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh
• The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
• Girls vs. Guys: Surprising Differences Between the Sexes by Michael J. Rosen
• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
• The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
• Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
• Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
• Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
• Great Events from History: Gay,
  Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events, 1848–2006 by Lillian Faderman
• The Greatest Superpower by Alex Sanchez
• Growing Up LGBTQ by Duchess Harris
• A Guy’s Guide to Sexuality and
  Sexual Identity in the 21st Century
  by Joe Craig
• Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Hazards of Love. Book 1, Bright World by Stan Stanley
• Health Issues When You’re Transgender by Susan Meyers
• The Heartbreak Bakery by Amy Rose Capetta
• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
• A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
• Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks
• Home and Family Relationships by Tamra Orr
• Homosexuality: Opposing Viewpoints by Auriana Ojeda
• The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
• Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
• The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
• The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson
• How It All Blew Up by Arvin
  Ahmadi
• How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok
• Human Rights in Focus: The LGBT Community by Damon Karson
• A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien
• I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte
• I Am Water by Meg Specksgoor
• I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
• Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai
• Identify by Lesley Choyce
• Identifying as Transgender by Sara Woods
• Identity: A Story of Transitioning by Corey Maison
• Identity & Gender by Charlie Ogden
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• I’ll Take Everything You Have by James Klise
• I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De la Cruz
• Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
• In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
• In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music by Susan Fast
• In the Role of Brie Hutchens . . . by Nicole Melleby
• In the Shadow of the Mountain: a Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
• An Infinite Number of Parallel
  Universes by Randy Ribay
• The Inside of Out by Jenn Marie Thorne
• Intersex by Jeremy Quist
• Into the Light by Mark Oshiro
• Into the Real by Z Brewer
• Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living by Dan Savage
• Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah Hoffman
• Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore
• Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel
• Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth by Ellen Rodger
• Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley
• Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• Just Ash by Sol Santana
• Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid
• Just Shy of Ordinary by A. J. Sass
• Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
• The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown
• Killers and Other Family by Lucy Thurber
• La Luna Dentro de Mi [Moon Within] by Aida Salazar
• La Teoría de lo Perfecto [Perfect on Paper] by Sophie Gonzales
• Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Lana Wachowski by Jeff Mapua
• Last Chance Dance by Lakita Wilson
• Laverne Cox by Erin Staley
• Leah a Destiempo [Leah on the Offbeat] by Becky Albertalli
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• Leroy by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
• The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
• The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon
• LGBT Families by L. K. Currie-McGhee
• LGBT Intolerance by A. W. Buckey
• The LGBT Rights Movement by Pat Rarus
• LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for
  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens by Kelly Madrone
• LGBTQ at Work: Your Personal and Working Life by Melissa Albright-Jenkins
• LGBTQ Discrimination in America by Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ Families: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Eva Apelqvist
• LGBTQ in America by Barbara Sheen
• LGBTQ Rights by Susan Henneberg
• LGBTQ Rights and Activism by
  Stephen Currie
• LGBTQ Rights and the Law by
  Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ Service in the Armed Forces by Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ Social Movements in America by Duchess Harris
• LGBTQ without Borders: International Life by Jeremy Quist
• LGBTQ1 Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• LGBTQ1 Discrimination by Rachael Morlock
• LGBTQ1 Rights by Virginia Loh-Hagan
• Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
• Life at School and in the Community by Richard Worth
• Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin
• Like Water by Rebecca Podos
• Lilla the Accidental Witch by Eleanor Crewes
• Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• Linus and Etta Could Use a Win by Caroline Huntoon
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Living with Religion and Faith by
  Robert Rodi
• Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz
• Look by Zan Romanoff
• Look on the Bright Side by Lily Williams
• Look Past by Eric Devine
• Looking for Group by Rory Harrison
• The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta
• Love, Creekwood: A Simonverse Novella by Becky Albertalli
• Love & Leftovers: A Novel in Verse by Sarah Tregay
• Love & Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves
• Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford
• The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
• Love Is Love by Mette Bach
• Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See
• Love Makes a Family: Friends, Family, and Significant Others by Willi Vision
• Love Somebody by Rachel Roasek
• Loveless by Alice Oseman
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
• Male-to-Female Transgender and
  Transfeminine Identities by Rin Ryan
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam
  Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
• Maria by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
• Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
• May the Best Man Win by ZR Ellor
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
• Melissa by Alex Gino
• Melt with You by Jennifer Dugan
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• Middle School’s a Drag by Greg Howard
• Middletown by Sarah Moon
• Mikala by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
• A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow
• A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Missing Clarissa: A Novel by Ripley Jones
• Monster of the Week by F. T. Lukens
• The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• My Life as a Diamond by Jenny Manzer
• Needlework: A Novel by Julia Watts
• Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter
• The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
• None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
• Northranger by Rey Terciero
• Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
• Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt
• Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone
• The Ojja-Wojja: A Horror-Mystery, or Whatever by Magdalene Visaggio
• Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver
• On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating by Karina Manta
• One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
• The One True Me and You by Remi England
• Only Pieces by Edd Tello
• Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie
• The Other Boy by M. G. Hennessey
• Otherwise by Linda Oatman High
• Out! How to Be Your Authentic Self by Miles McKenna
• Out Now: Queer We Go Again! by Saundra Mitchell
• The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimmons
• Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist & Civil Rights Activist by Rosita Stevens-Holsey
• Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia
• People of Pride: 25 Great LGBTQ Americans by Chase Clemesha
• Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Pink by Lili Wilkinson
• Planning Perfect by Haley Neil
• Please Send Help by Gabe Dunn
• Polyamorous by Sarah Lorenz-Coryell
• #Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights by Rebecca Felix
• Pride: An Inspirational History of the LGBTQ1 Movement by S. A. Caldwell
• Pride: The LGBTQ1 Rights Movement: A Photographic Journey by Christopher Measom
• The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth by Jo Langford
• The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
• Pritty by Keith F. Miller
• Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
• Queer, There, and Everywhere:
  23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
• Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill by Lee Wind
• Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell
• The Queer Girl Is Going to Be Okay by Dale Walls
• Queer Heroes: Meet 52 LGBTQ Heroes from Past and Present! by Arabelle Sicardi
• A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
• Queerstory: An Infographic History of the Fight for LGBTQ1 Rights by Linda Riley
• The Questions Within by Teresa Schaeffer
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G.
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/ Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni
• Quiver: A Novel by Julia Watts
• Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ1 People Who Made History by Sarah Prager
• Raise the Stakes by Megan Atwood
• Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
• Ranma 1/ 2. Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
• Ravensong by Cayla Fay
• Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler
• Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough
• The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliott
• Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh
• Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature: LGBTQ1 Content Since 1969 by Christine Jenkins
• Rick by Alex Gino
• Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
• Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
• Rising Out by M. Azmitia
• Rough Patch by Nicole Markotić
• Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller
• The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F. T. Lukens
• Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students by Michael Sadowski
• Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky
• Self-ish: A Transgender Awakening by Chloe Schwenke
• Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Sexual Orientation by Lauri Scherer
• Sexuality and Gender Identity by
  Hilary W. Poole
• Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare by Stephen P. Thompson
• Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman by Sharice Davids
• Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim
  Wells
• She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
• She/ He/ They/ Them: Understanding Gender Identity by Rebecca Stanborough
• The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean
• Short Stuff: A Young Adult LGBTQ1 Anthology by Alysia Constantine
• Sink or Swim by Tash McAdam
• Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith
• Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost by Esme Symes-Smith
• Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
• Skating on Mars by Caroline Huntoon
• Social Change in the Twenty-First
  Century by Bethany Bryan
• Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews
• Some Girls Bind by Rory James
• Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan
• Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert
• Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith
• Song of the Dead by Sarah Glenn Marsh
• A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg
• Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out,
  and Finding My Place: A Transgender Memoir by Jackson Bird
• Sovereign by April Daniels
• Space Between by Evan Jacobs
• Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
• Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol by Ronit Ridberg
• Spin with Me by Ami Polonsky
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
• The Spy with the Red Balloon by
  Katherine Locke
• Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
• Stand Up for LGBTQ Rights by Don Nardo
• Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee
• Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
• Strictly No Heroics by B. L. Radley
• The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
• Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition: An Up and Out Collection by Julia Kaye
• Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
• Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
• Synchro Boy by Shannon McFerran
• Take Me Out: A Play by Richard Greenberg
• Teens and Gender Dysphoria by Don Nardo
• Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E Girard
• They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth by Daniel Hernandez
• Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles
• This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson
• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
• This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
• This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke
• This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H Aceves
• Thronebreakers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
• Tom by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
• Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
• Tomboy: Una Chica Ruda by Liz Prince
• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• Trans1: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales
• Transgender Health Issues by Sarah Boslaugh
• Transgender Lives: Complex Stories,
  Complex Voices by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Transgender People by Tamara Thompson
• Transgender Rights: Striving for Equality by New York Times Educational Publishing
• Transgender Rights and Issues by Andrea Pelleschi
• Transgender Rights and Protections by Rebecca T Klein
• Transgender Role Models and Pioneers by Barbra Penne
• Trevor by James Lecesne
• The Truth Is by NoNieqa Ramos
• Twelfth by Janet Key
• Under Shifting Stars by Alexandra Latos
• The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
• Understanding Gender by Juno Dawson
• Understanding Sexual Identity and Orientation by Kris Hirschmann
• Undone by Cat Clarke
• The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez
• The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
• Victories Greater Than Death by
  Charlie Jane Anders
• Violence Against the LGBTQ Community by Hal Marcovitz
• Wandering Son. Volume 1 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 2 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 3 by Takako Shimura
• Wandering Son. Volume 4 by Takako Shimura
• Wayward Witch by Zoraida Cordova
• We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
• We Were Promised Spotlights by
  Lindsay Sproul
• What Was Stonewall? by Nico Medina
• What We Left Behind by Robin
  Talley
• What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
• Whatever: Or How Junior Year Became Totally F$@Ked: A Novel by S. J. Goslee
• When Light Shatters by Laney Wylde
• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
• When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan
• When You’re Ready: Coming Out by Katherine Lacaze
• Where the Lockwood Grows by Olivia A. Cole
• Who I Was with Her by Nita Tyndall
• The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa
• The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon
• Witches of Ash & Ruin by E. Latimer
• Wonnie by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
• The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia by Aditi Angiras
• Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt
• The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet by Jake Maia Arlow
• You Are Not Alone: Finding Your LGBTQ Community by Jeremy Quist
• You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez
• You Don’t Live Here: Forget the Directions, Follow Your Heart by Robyn Schneider
• The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
• “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-
  Nonconforming People by Laura Erickson-Schroth
• You’re So Dead by Ash Parsons
• Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker

Between August and November 2024, the district also removed these instructional materials:

• Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam by Tony Medina
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte
• I Never by Laura Hopper
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Mammals by Jenny Taylor
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• Skin by Donna Jo Napoli
• Skin and Bones by Sherry Shahan
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Reported in: Houston Chronicle,
November 30, 2024; Katy Times, December 5, 2024; Texas Freedom to Read Project, December 11, 2024; Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Schertz Public Library, Guadalupe County

On January 10, 2025, a patron at Schertz Public Library formally challenged Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg for depicting “transgender ideals.” It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Utah

Between December 2024 and May 2025, the Utah Board of Education banned the following books from all Utah public schools:

• Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

This was prompted by an amended Sensitive Materials Review law, which enabled statewide bans of materials deemed inappropriate by at least three school districts.

Reported in: KUER, January 21, 2025; Salt Lake Tribune, February 7, 2025, and March 7, 2025; KPCW, May 12, 2025.

Davis School District

On December 18, 2023, Boy Toy by Barry Lyga was formally challenged within Davis School District. The
complainant called the book “child
pornography.” It was removed, despite the title’s roughly 17-year history of surviving district censorship attempts.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Salt Lake County Library Services

On February 11, 2025, Being You: A First Conversation About Gender by Megan Madison was formally challenged
online by a patron of Salt Lake County Library Services who took issue with queer subjects being depicted. It was removed.

On May 21, 2025, another patron complained about an “intimate scene” in Daughters of Snow and Cinder by Nuria Tamarit, which they found on a new arrivals display. They suggested that it be removed from the display and shelved with adult graphic novels instead. It was retained.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Virginia

Hanover County Public Schools

On November 13, 2023, the board of Hanover County Public Schools unilaterally banned an extensive list of books from district libraries for what it called “sexually explicit content.” No formal protocols were followed. Titles included:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
• Dead End by Jason Myers
• Dig by A. S. King
• Dime by E. R. Frank
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Exit Here by Jason Myers
• Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Forever for a Year by B. T. Gottfred
• The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Glass by Ellen Hopkins
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Grl2grl: Short Fictions by Julie Anne Peters
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Haters by Jesse Andrews
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican
  Daughter by Erika Sánchez
• I Never by Laura Hopper
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
• The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
• Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by Lev A. C. Rosen
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Life Is Funny by E. R. Frank
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
• Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
• The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the
  Universe by Preston Norton
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
• People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins
• Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
  Stephen Chbosky
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in
  Transition by Katie Rain Hill
• Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
• Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
• Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• ttfn by Lauren Myracle
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
• yolo by Lauren Myracle

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library, Falls Church

In March 2025, an individual at Mary Riley Styles Public Library formally challenged P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book by Golbarg Bashi, falsely claiming that the children’s title “objectively calls for the murder of Jews.” Upon review, the alphabet book was relocated to the children’s nonfiction section; however, the complainant was not satisfied. Instead of filing an appeal, they emailed the library director, writing: “Local and national Jewish groups are in the process of directly working with the City Council to facilitate certain remedial measures.”

Reported in: arlnow.com, April 2, 2025.

Rockingham County Public Schools

On March 10, 2025, the board of Rockingham County Public Schools voted to permanently ban six books from district classrooms and libraries. The titles, which had been temporarily removed pending their review more than a year prior, included:

• The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

One title, Stars in Their Eyes by
Jessica Walton, was restricted to the high school level.

In May 2025, the board rejected a review committee’s recommendations to retain Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff and Perfect by Ellen Hopkins, instead permanently banning both.

Reported in: WHSV, March 11, 2025; Daily News-Record, March 11, 2025; National Coalition Against
Censorship, May 27, 2025.

Vermont

Addison Central School District

In November 2024, a kindergarten teacher in Addison Central School District began a unit about gender in their classroom. Despite parents being notified of this plan in advance, several took to personally harassing the teacher online. Others complained to the principal about the seven books read for the unit, which included:

• Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
• Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown
• Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship by
  Jessica Walton
• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
• Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
• Sparkle Boy by Lesléa Newman
• They, She, He, Me: Free to Be! by Maya Christina Gonzalez

In particular, parents objected to discussions about transness. The books were formally reviewed and retained; however, parents then appealed this decision to the superintendent. A
final decision by the school board is pending.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Washington

Children’s Museum at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

In March 2025, an author visit program for Pedal Pusher: How One Woman’s Bicycle Adventure Helped Change the World by Mary Boone was cancelled at the Children’s Museum at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. An individual had seen an advertisement for the event and complained that it violated executive orders prohibiting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge report.

Fort Vancouver Regional Library District

Between December 2024 and May 2025, staff members at Fort Vancouver Regional Library District found that the following titles had been
maliciously misshelved:

• Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender by Mia McKenzie
• Blue Lock series by Muneyuki Kaneshiro
• A Church for All by Gayle E. Pitman
• Fist of the North Star series by Buronson
• From Archie to Zack by Vincent X. Kirsch
• GraceFull: Growing a Heart That Cares for Our Neighbors by Dorena Williamson
• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
• The Pronoun Book by Chris Ayala-Kronos
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/ Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni

On March 13, 2025, a patron requested to know where they could find “more sexually explicit manga.” Staff members later found that several volumes of Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs by Tadahiro Miura had been torn up and discarded in the restroom.

Reported in: Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge reports.

Wisconsin

School District of Waukesha

In 2020, author Kathie Giorgio was inducted into her graduating high school’s Wall of Stars for successful alumni from the School District of Waukesha. In 2023, all her books were withdrawn from the library of the same school as part of a “sweep of questionable books.” Despite this, Giorgio was invited to speak at the high school’s 50th anniversary celebration in January 2025 and to gift her full collection to the library. However, just days after the event, she was informed that her donated books were subject to review by administrators, who ultimately did not approve them for circulation.

Affected titles included the following, all by Kathie Giorgio:

• All Told
• Don’t Let Me Keep You
• Enlarged Hearts: Short Stories
• The Home for Wayward Clocks
• Hope Always Rises
• If You Tame Me
• In Grace’s Time
• Learning to Tell (A Life) Time: A Novel
• No Matter Which Way You Look There Is More To See
• Oddities & Endings
• Olivia in Five, Seven, Five: Autism in Haiku: A Haiku Chapbook: Poems
• Rise from the River
• Today’s Moment of Happiness Despite the News
• True Light Falls in Many Forms
• When You Finally Said No

Reported in: People Magazine,
May 20, 2025.