10/07/2026
🚨Most Challenged Books of 2025 according to ALA.ORG -
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Image 1: Banned Books Week, October fourth through tenth, 2026. Most Challenged Books of 2025.
Image 2: "SOLD" by Patricia McCormick. Number of challenges: 36. "Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal, thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid, only to find that she has been sold into the s*x slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape."
Image 3: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. Number of challenges: 33. "A coming-of-age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the su***de of his best friend."
Image 4: "Gender Q***r" by Maia Kobabe. Number of challenges: 25. "Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and as*xual, Gender Q***r is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."
Image 5: "Empire of Storms" by Sarah J. Maas. Number of challenges: 24. "The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves increasingly at odds with those who don't."
Image 6: "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo. Number of challenges: 24. "Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root— that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a le***an bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly, everything seemed possible."
Image 7: "Tricks" by Ellen Hopkins. Number of challenges: 23. "Following the lives of five teenagers who each face personal struggles that lead them into the dangerous world of prostitution and exploitation."
Image 8: "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Number of challenges: 21. "The story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom."
Image 9: "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas. Number of challenges: 22. "When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world."
Image 10: "Identical" by Ellen Hopkins. Number of challenges: 21. "Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart."
Image 11: "Looking for Alaska" by John Green. Number of challenges: 21. "Sixteen-year-old Miles’ first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash."
Image 12: "Storm and Fury" by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Number of challenges: 21. "Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens—gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind from demons."
