The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Lawn Boy
by Jonathan Evison
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
by Jesse Andrews
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
l8r, g8r
by Lauren Myracle
This Book Is Gay
by Juno Dawson
Melissa
by Alex Gino
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
by Susan Kuklin
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
A Fairfax County, Virginia, parent tried and failed to get Toni Morrison’s Beloved banned for allegedly being rife with explicit material. Still, the aggrieved citizen went on to star in a Glenn Youngkin campaign ad as he successfully ran for governor in 2021.
This One Summer
by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Drama: A Graphic Novel
by Raina Telgemeier
Flamer
by Mike Curato
Jack of Hearts (and other parts)
by L.C. Rosen
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
The Breakaways
by Cathy G. Johnson
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
All American Boys
by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
Tricks
by Ellen Hopkins
More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
by Robie Harris
Monday’s Not Coming
by Tiffany D. Jackson
A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J. Maas
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
by Dashka Slater
Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
by Jazz Jennings
Almost Perfect
by Brian Katcher
Real Live Boyfriends: yes. boyfriends, plural. if my life weren’t complicated, I wouldn’t be Ruby Oliver
by E. Lockhart
The Truth About Alice
by Jennifer Mathieu
Lucky
by Alice Sebold
Killing Mr. Griffin
by Lois Duncan
We Are the Ants
by Shaun David Hutchinson
I Am Jazz
by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Two Boys Kissing
by David Levithan
The Infinite Moment of Us
by Lauren Myracle
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
Seven white school board members voted unanimously in Pickens County, South Carolina, to remove Stamped from libraries and classrooms. It traces the history of racism in the United States, but parents complained that it “promote[s] socialism” and “demonstrates radical Marxism infecting our schools and our culture.”