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## Books

A library of challenged & banned books

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 * [Banned & Challenged Books by School System](/collections/banned-challenged-in-schools)
 * [Literature suppresed on political grounds](https://openlibrary.org/people/agent-lisa/lists/OL206849L/bb.political.w)
 * [Literature suppressed on sexual grounds](https://openlibrary.org/people/agent-lisa/lists/OL207755L/bb.sexual.w)
 * [Mat Su Valley: Banned Book Challenge](/collections/mat-su-valley-banned-book-challenge)
 * [Read the Books That Schools Want to Ban: Featured in The Atlantic](/people/agent-lisa/lists/OL205191L)
 * [Challenged in Texas](/collections/texas-challenged)
 * [Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists](/collections/ala-frequently-challenged)
 * [ALA page about banned books week](http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.cfm) with many ALA links
 * [1997 ALA Banned book resource guide](/books/OL8224276M) 
 * [The Internet Archive's Collection of Banned Books](https://archive.org/details/bannedbooks)

## Resources

* [Wikipedia list of banned books](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_books)
* [Searchable database of 50,000 censored works](https://www.nb.no/forskning/beacon-for-freedom-of-expression) maintained by National Library of Norway. Contributed by Nicholas Bennyhoff.
* [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-in-the-usa/#what)
* [Canadian resources & bibliographies of challenged books](https://www.freedomtoread.ca/). Contributed by Laura Master.
* [Banned Books in Cuba](https://www.babalublog.com/archives/002924.html). Contributed by From Simon.
* [The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books](http://forbiddenlibrary.com/)
* [Syracuse University banned books bibliography](http://library.syr.edu/information/banned_books/bibliography.html)
* [Books Unbanned by Brooklyn Public Library](https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned) (US teens and young adults can apply for a free library card)
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