Books Banned in Tennessee
36 banned books
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece about Billy Pilgrim, who becomes 'unstuck in time' and exper...
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.,...
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...
Identical
Identical is a novel-in-verse about identical twin sisters Kaeleigh and Raeanne, whose seemingly perfect political famil...
Out of Darkness
Out of Darkness is a historical novel set in 1937 East Texas, interweaving a forbidden interracial love story between a ...
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has replaced the U...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped is a young adult adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning, remixed by Jason Reynolds to trace t...
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...
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is narrated by Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who watches from heaven as her family and killer ...
Burned
Burned tells the story of Pattyn Von Stratten, a seventeen-year-old girl raised in a strict Mormon household who begins ...
This One Summer
This One Summer is a graphic novel about Rose and Windy, two girls spending the summer at a lakeside town, navigating th...
Glass
Glass is the sequel to Crank, continuing Kristina Snow's descent into methamphetamine addiction as she loses custody of ...
Impulse
Impulse follows three teenagers who meet in a psychiatric hospital after each has attempted suicide. It has been challen...
Perfect
Perfect follows four teenagers whose pursuit of perfection leads them into eating disorders, steroid abuse, drug addicti...
Fallout
Fallout follows the three children of Kristina Snow from the Crank trilogy as they navigate the lasting damage of their ...
Grown
Grown follows Enchanted Jones, a teenage singer who is groomed and abused by a famous R&B artist, inspired by real cases...
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 Poet X
The Poet X follows Xiomara Batista, a Dominican American teenager in Harlem who pours her frustrations with her strict r...
Tower of Dawn
Tower of Dawn follows Chaol Westfall as he journeys to the southern continent seeking healing and an alliance against th...
Homegoing
Homegoing traces two branches of a family tree across three centuries, from 18th-century Ghana through the slave trade t...
I'll Give You the Sun
I'll Give You the Sun follows twins Jude and Noah, whose bond is shattered by secrets, grief, and the discovery of Noah'...
Monday's Not Coming
Monday's Not Coming follows Claudia, a Black teenager whose best friend Monday goes missing and no one seems to care eno...
Smoke
Smoke is the sequel to Burned, continuing Pattyn Von Stratten's story as she deals with devastating loss, her sister's r...
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...
Traffick
Traffick is the sequel to Tricks, following five teenagers trapped in sex trafficking as they fight to escape and rebuil...
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy follows Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire guardian-in-training, and her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire p...
Shout
Shout is Laurie Halse Anderson's memoir-in-verse about surviving sexual assault, becoming a writer, and the decades she ...
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story follows Nathan Bird, a film-obsessed teen who realizes he's in love with his best fri...
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...
More Happy Than Not
More Happy Than Not follows Aaron Soto, a Bronx teenager who considers a memory-altering procedure to forget his emergin...
The Carnival at Bray
The Carnival at Bray follows Maggie Lynch, a Chicago teenager transplanted to a small Irish town in 1993, navigating gri...
The You I've Never Known
The You I've Never Known follows Ariel, a teen discovering her sexual orientation while uncovering the truth about her f...
We Are the Ants
We Are the Ants follows Henry Denton, a teen who has been periodically abducted by aliens and is now given a choice: pre...
The Upside of Unrequited
The Upside of Unrequited follows Molly Peskin-Suso, a plus-size teen with 26 unrequited crushes, as she navigates love a...