Books Banned in Iowa
36 banned books
Forever
Forever is Judy Blume's groundbreaking novel about Katherine and Michael, two teenagers who fall in love and make the de...
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult examines a school shooting and its aftermath through multiple perspectives, exploring b...
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is John Green's debut novel about a teenager who enrolls at a boarding school and falls for the brill...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is Sherman Alexie's semi-autobiographical novel about Arnold Spirit Jr.,...
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is Stephen Chbosky's coming-of-age epistolary novel about Charlie, a shy freshman naviga...
All Boys Aren't Blue
All Boys Aren't Blue is George M. Johnson's young adult memoir about growing up Black and queer in New Jersey and Virgin...
Tricks
Tricks follows five teenagers from different backgrounds whose lives converge as they are drawn into prostitution. Writt...
Crank
Crank is a novel-in-verse based on Ellen Hopkins' daughter's experience with methamphetamine addiction. Written in Hopki...
1984
1984 is George Orwell's dystopian novel about Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in the totalitaria...
Sold
Sold is a novel-in-verse about Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal who is trafficked and sold into sexual slave...
Speak
Speak is Laurie Halse Anderson's award-winning novel about Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman who is ostracized aft...
Lawn Boy
Lawn Boy is Jonathan Evison's coming-of-age novel about Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American man working as a landscaper...
Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why follows high school student Clay Jensen as he listens to cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a...
Identical
Identical is a novel-in-verse about identical twin sisters Kaeleigh and Raeanne, whose seemingly perfect political famil...
Brave New World
Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel depicting a future society where humans are genetically engineered, c...
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner follows Amir, the son of a wealthy Kabul businessman, and his complicated relationship with Hassan, the ...
This Book Is Gay
This Book Is Gay is a nonfiction guide for LGBTQ+ teens and their allies, covering topics from coming out to safe sex to...
Flamer
Flamer is a graphic novel memoir about Aiden Navarro, a half-Filipino boy at a Boy Scout camp in the early 2000s who is ...
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a historical novel set in a Depression-era traveling circus, following veterinary student Jacob J...
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses is a fantasy romance retelling of Beauty and the Beast, following huntress Feyre as she's ta...
A Court of Mist and Fury
A Court of Mist and Fury is the second book in Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, following Feyre as she navigates the after...
A Court of Wings and Ruin
A Court of Wings and Ruin is the third book in Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, following Feyre as she leads a dangerous m...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a darkly comic young adult novel about Greg, a socially awkward high school senior who...
Empire of Storms
Empire of Storms is the fifth book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass fantasy series, following assassin-queen Aelin Gal...
Beyond Magenta
Beyond Magenta presents the stories of six transgender and nonbinary teens through interviews and photographs. It has be...
Milk and Honey
Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry divided into four chapters dealing with survival, abuse, love, and femininity. ...
Impulse
Impulse follows three teenagers who meet in a psychiatric hospital after each has attempted suicide. It has been challen...
Lucky
Lucky is Alice Sebold's memoir of being raped as a college freshman and the subsequent criminal trial. It has been chall...
Perfect
Perfect follows four teenagers whose pursuit of perfection leads them into eating disorders, steroid abuse, drug addicti...
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter follows Julia Reyes, a first-generation Mexican American teenager dealing with he...
The Haters
The Haters follows three jazz camp dropouts who start a band and go on a chaotic road trip through the American South. F...
Tower of Dawn
Tower of Dawn follows Chaol Westfall as he journeys to the southern continent seeking healing and an alliance against th...
The Female of the Species
The Female of the Species follows Alex Craft, a girl who killed the man who raped and murdered her sister, and the two c...
The Infinite Moment of Us
The Infinite Moment of Us follows Wren and Charlie as they fall in love the summer after high school graduation, navigat...
Like a Love Story
Like a Love Story follows three teenagers in 1989 New York City navigating love, identity, and the AIDS crisis. It has b...
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Sun and Her Flowers is Rupi Kaur's second poetry collection, exploring themes of growth, ancestry, immigration, loss...