Read Banned Books: All banned books in this exhibit

Here you can find all of the banned books we currently feature.

TitleAuthorFirst publishedRecent incident
Ban This Book Alan Gratz 2017 2024
Wishtree Katherine Applegate 2017 2024
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1623 1996
Maus Art Spiegelman 1986 2022
New Kid Jerry Craft 2019 2021
His Name Is George Floyd Robert Samuels et al. 2022 2023
All Boys Aren't Blue George M. Johnson 2020 2021
Family Limitation Margaret Sanger 1914 1915
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1476 1995
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1885 1998
The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 1933
Drama Raina Telgemeier 2012 2023
My Shadow is Purple Scott Stuart 2022 2023
Lysistrata Aristophanes 411 BCE 1967
Areopagitica John Milton 1644 1644
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Jill Twiss 2018 2022
The Rabbits' Wedding Garth Williams 1958 1959
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 2024
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855 1881
Candide Voltaire 1759 1944
The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones (ed.) 2019 2020
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 1989
The Qur'an 7th century CE 2023
The Prince and the Dressmaker Jen Wang 2018 2022
The Bible 4th century CE 2023
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 2022
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 2023
Ulysses James Joyce 1922 1920
Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 2013
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 1857
A Court of Mist and Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 2022
And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson et al. 2005 2023
Angels in America Tony Kushner 1992 2023
Gender Queer: A Memoir Maia Kobabe 2019 2023

Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu), who is solely responsible for its content.
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