Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Banned Books Week

This guide highlights the annual Banned Books Week each Fall, and provides information about book banning, censorship and intellectual freedom. It was started in 2014, and new content is added.

UC San Diego Reads Banned Books: Events

Do You Read Banned Books?

Here's a selected list of banned or challenged books available at the UC San Diego Library:

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Call Number: WM 617 K754g, Wong Avery 2nd Fl.
ISBN: 9781549304002
Publication Date: 2019
All Boys Aren't Blue: a Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
ISBN: 9780374312718
Publication Date: 2020
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole (Illustrator)
Call Number: Oversize Geisel, Floor6 PS3618.I34469 A53 2005
ISBN: 9780689878459
Publication Date: 2005
Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa; Project (Translator)
Call Number: PN6790.J33 N3313 (Geisel, 7th fl)
ISBN: 9780867196023
Publication Date: 2004
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: Multiple formats. Print: PS3563.O8749 B4 Geisel 6th Fl.
ISBN: 0394535979
Publication Date: 1987
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Call Number: Online & print PN6727.B3757 Z46 (Geisel 7th fl)
ISBN: 9780618871711
Publication Date: 2007
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Call Number: PN6747.S245 P4713 (Geisel 7th fl)
ISBN: 9780375714573
Publication Date: 2004
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Ed. Nancy Walker
Call Number: Multiple formats. Print: PS1294.C63 A6435 2000, Geisel Fl 7
ISBN: 9780312195755
Publication Date: 2000
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Call Number: Multiple formats. Print: PS3511.I9 G7 2013 Geisel Fl 7
ISBN: 0743273567
Publication Date: 2013
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: Proquest e-book
ISBN: 9781594631931
Publication Date: 2013
Ulysses by James Joyce
Call Number: Multiple formats. Print: Geisel Fl. 7, PR6019.O9 U4 1984 v.1, PR6019.O9 U4 1984 v.2, PR6019.O9 U4 1984 v.3
ISBN: 0824043758
Publication Date: 1984
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9780395404256
Publication Date: 1986