Award-winning Book Lists

The Cooperative Children's Book Center has created bibliographies and booklists of recommended books for children aged 0 to 18+ on a wide range of themes and topics.

The Council on Interracial Books for Children, Inc. published this quarterly bulletin (1966 to 1989) devoted to "encourage the writing, production, and effective distribution of books to fill the needs of non-white and urban poor children." The bulletin includes articles and book reviews.

Books are under profound attack in the United States. They are disappearing from library shelves, being challenged in droves, being decreed off limits by school boards, legislators, and prison authorities. And everywhere, it is the books that have long fought for a place on the shelf that are being targeted. Books by authors of color, by LGBTQ+ authors, by women. Books about racism, sexuality, gender, history. PEN America pushes back against the banning of books and the intolerance, exclusion, and censorship that undergird it.

PEN America tracks all book bans in libraries and classrooms across the U.S. in our Index of School Book Bans, updated for the 2022-2023 school year.

Every year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books based on reports from the field and media coverage.