Most Challenged Books of 2025
The titles most often targeted for removal from U.S. libraries and schools in 2025, ranked by number of challenges.
A novel in verse about a 13-year-old girl from Nepal who is sold into sexual slavery in India.
A shy high school freshman writes letters about friendship, first love, trauma and mental health.
A graphic memoir about the author's journey toward identifying as nonbinary and asexual.
The fifth Throne of Glass book, as a queen gathers allies for a war to save her kingdom.
In 1950s San Francisco, a Chinese American teen falls in love with another girl.
Told in interlocking free verse, this novel follows five teenagers from very different backgrounds whose separate struggles all lead them into trading sex for money, tracing how each one got there and what it costs them.
A huntress is taken to a magical faerie realm and becomes entangled with its rulers.
A violent teenager in a dystopian Britain undergoes state conditioning meant to reform him.
A novel in verse about twin sisters coping with abuse and addiction behind a picture-perfect family.