Here are QPL's 100 Most Popular Banned Books!

We're proud to continue the fight against censorship and spotlight banned books.

We're inspired by this list of the 100 most popular banned and challenged books in circulation at Queens Public Library during the past decade.

These stories will open your mind to new perspectives, cultures, surroundings, and beyond. Perfect for inquisitive readers, they don’t shy away from the truth—in fact, they get right to it, with humor, heart, wisdom, and suspense.

Click on the links below to learn more about these books and borrow them online and from your local QPL branch, including copies in several international languages!

 

Here are five of QPL's 100 Most Popular Banned Books!

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Adult)
Book | eBook | Spanish

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Korean | Spanish

Feed by M.T. Anderson (Young Adult)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | French | Russian

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (Beatrice Sparks) (Young Adult)
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Young Adult)
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Adult)
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Adult)
eBook | Russian

City of Thieves by David Benioff (Adult)
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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake (Children’s)
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (Young Adult)
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | French Audiobook | Korean | Polish | Russian | Spanish | Spanish Audiobook

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Polish

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | French | Italian | Spanish

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Bulgarian | Chinese | Hungarian | Italian | Korean | Malayalam | Russian | Spanish | Ukrainian | Urdu

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Korean | Polish | Russian | Spanish

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney (Young Adult)
Book | Russian

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (Young Adult)
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Class Act by Jerry Craft (Children’s)
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New Kid by Jerry Craft (Children’s)
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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (Children’s)
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Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Children’s)
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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Children’s)
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | French

 

Here are five of QPL's 100 Most Popular Banned Books!

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Spanish

Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle (Children’s)
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Adult)
Book | Authorized Edition | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Korean | Polish | Russian | Spanish

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel eBook | Chinese | Dutch | French | German | Korean | Russian | Spanish | Spanish Graphic Novel | Yiddish

Melissa (previously published as George) by Alex Gino (Children’s)
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Hebrew | Korean | Russian | Spanish | Urdu

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz (Children’s)
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Albanian | Korean | Russian | Spanish

Looking for Alaska by John Green (Young Adult)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Hebrew | Italian

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Adult)
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I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings (Children’s)
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The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Russian | Spanish

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Chinese | French | Gujarati | Hebrew | Korean | Russian | Spanish | Ukrainian

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Hebrew

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (Young Adult)
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel eBook | Chinese | Korean | Polish |Russian | Spanish

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson (Young Adult)
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The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson (Children’s)
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You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (Young Adult)
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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (Adult)
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Polish | Russian | Spanish | Ukrainian

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Young Adult)
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Lily the Thief by Janne Kukkonen (Children’s)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Chinese | French | Hebrew | Italian | Korean | Latin | Polish | Russian | Serbian | Spanish

 

Here are five of QPL's 100 Most Popular Banned Books!

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Children’s)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel eBook | Hebrew | Serbian | Spanish | Thai

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Young Adult)
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Proxy by Alex London (Young Adult)
Book | eBook

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (Children’s)
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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Adult)
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Sold by Patricia McCormick (Young Adult)
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Spanish | Spanish eBook

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Arabic | Chinese | Italian | Korean | Polish | Spanish

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne (Children’s)
Book | Audiobook | Hebrew | Korean | Polish | Russian | Spanish

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | French | Spanish

Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman (Children’s)
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Adult)
Book | eBook | Russian

1984 by George Orwell (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | French | Hebrew | Italian | Korean | Malayalam | Polish | Spanish

White Bird: A Wonder Story by R.J. Palacio (Children’s)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel eBook | Spanish Graphic Novel

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Korean | Russian eBook | Spanish

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Young Adult)
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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Children’s)
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A Child Called “It”: One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer (Adult)
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This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman & Kristyna Litten (Children’s)
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A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée (Children’s)
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All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely (Young Adult)
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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Young Adult)
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Spanish

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Children's)
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And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole (Children's)
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Here are five of QPL's 100 Most Popular Banned Books!

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (Adult)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (Children’s)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Arabic | Chinese | French | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Spanish

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Spanish

Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss (Children’s)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | French

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (Children’s)
Book | eBook | Chinese | Hebrew | Spanish

Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU
by Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth (Children’s)
Book | eBook

Bone: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith (Children’s)

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith (Children’s)
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Maus by Art Spiegelman (Young Adult)
Book | Korean | Spanish

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Children’s)
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The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead (Children’s)
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | French | Korean | Polish | Russian

Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Young Adult)
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This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki (Young Adult)
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Drama by Raina Telgemeier (Children’s)
Book | eBook | French | Spanish

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women
by Rey Terciero & Bre Indigo (Children’s)
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Spanish | Turkish

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan (Young Adult)

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Russian

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Adult)
Book | eBook | Chinese | French | Korean

Go With the Flow by Lily Williams & Karen Schneemann (Young Adult)
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Children’s)
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Native Son by Richard Wright (Adult)
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American Street by Ibi Zoboi (Young Adult)
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Young Adult)
Book | eBook | Audiobook | Chinese | Italian | Korean | Persian | Russian | Spanish