Banned Books Resources and Book Lists

Highlighting our work in the fight against book bans and in favor of free speech.

NEW! Winner of the first annual CBC & Every Child a Reader Free Speech Advocate Award announced.

NEW! The CBC & Every Child a Reader are proud to be inaugural partners of WE ARE STRONGER THAN CENSORSHIP, created by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and the EveryLibrary Institute as a way to get banned books back on school and library shelves.

The CBC & Every Child a Reader are proud ongoing sponsors of Banned Books Week and National Coalition Against Censorship’s Right to Read Campaign.

The CBC has hosted a dozen Keep Bans Off Our Books panels at ComicCons . . . and counting.

Resources

• A Sonnet for the Banned, an original spoken poem
• Read up on ALA’s powerful book résumés
• An Update on CBC’s Work in the Fight Against Book Bans
• Keep Bans Off Our Books stickers — You can print these stickers onto Avery 5137 10-to-a-page label pages or print them on paper

• #FReadom Coloring Pages — In 2021, several Texas librarians launched the #FReadom movement to fight book banning. With the approval of Becky Calzada and Carolyn Foote, the CBC has produced these 6 different #FReadom coloring pages for kids of all ages to print, color, and post. Click on the image below to download them all!

• Opposing Bans — Everyday Advocacy
  • A great new resource to help educators and community members address censorship and book banning.
• Banned Together — BANNED TOGETHER
  • This first completed feature film covers book banning, censorship and students’ fight for intellectual freedom.
• Free Downloads, Get Involved, Challenge Reporting — ALA: Banned & Challenged Books
• Researching Banned or Challenged Books: Resources for Challenge Research — ALA Resource Guides
• Action Toolkit & Book Résumés — Unite Against Book Bans (UABB)
• Resources — The Banned Books Week Coalition
• Banned Books Resources Hub — Penguin Random House
• Book Banning Resources — We Need Diverse Books (WNDB)
• How To Help — FReadom Fighters (I support #FReadom)
• CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook — Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF)
• Authors Guild Banned Books Club — Fable

Book Lists: Children’s, Middle Grade, and Young Adult

• Top 10 Most Challenged Books and Frequently Challenged Books Archive — ALA: Banned & Challenged Books
• The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters — American Booksellers Association (ABA)
• Banned Comics — Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF)
• Banned & Challenged Books Every Tween and Teen Should Read — Brightly
• Banned and Challenged Picture Books — Edmonton Public Library (EPL)
• 16 Banned Books to Read Before 12th Grade — We Are Teachers
• 28 Banned Books That Every Kid Needs to Read — Tiny Beans
• Banned or Challenged Books, Grades Pre-K–4 — TeacherVision

Discover all of our socially inclusive book lists and resources, updated regularly.

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PUBLISHERS: if you wish to share your Banned Books or other socially inclusive books and resources, please email us at cbc.info@cbcbooks.org.

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