Banned Books Week 2025: the theme of this year’s event was Censorship Is So 1984 — Read for Your Rights. For the 15 most banned books in the 2024-2025 school year, go here.
- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, 23 bans
- (tie). Breathless, by Jennifer Niven, 20 bans
- (tie). Sold, by Patricia McCormick, 20 bans
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo, 19 bans
- A Court of Mist and Fury, by Sarah J. Maas, 18 bans
- (tie). Crank, by Ellen Hopkins, 17 bans
- (tie). Forever…, by Judy Blume, 17 bans
- (tie). The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, 17 bans
- (tie). Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire, 17 bans
PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans provides a list of books banned in the 2024-2025 school year and is also the source of data for the 2025 report, Banned in the USA: The Normalization of Book Banning.