Banned Books Resources and Book Lists

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

NEW! We’ll announce the winner of the first annual CBC & Every Child a Reader Free Speech Advocate Award on Jan. 7, 2025.

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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