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North Carolina

55 distinct titles banned across 8 districts

Districts

Buncombe County Schools 4 titles Burke County Public Schools 38 titles Catawba County Schools 6 titles Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 3 titles Guilford County Schools 1 title Iredell-Statesville 1 title Moore County Schools 8 titles New Hanover County Schools 2 titles

Banned Books

A Clash of Kings A Clash of Kings A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Silver Flames A Court of Silver Flames A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Wings and Ruin A Court of Wings and Ruin Boy Toy Boy Toy Breathless Breathless Crank Crank Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex Eleanor & Park Eleanor & Park Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Fallout Fallout Felix Ever After Felix Ever After Glass Glass I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Identical Identical Impulse Impulse Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Monday's Not Coming Monday's Not Coming Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake Out of Darkness Out of Darkness People Kill People People Kill People Perfect Chemistry Perfect Chemistry Push Push Red Hood Red Hood Rumble Rumble Sold Sold Speak Speak The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Nowhere Girls The Nowhere Girls The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Poet X The Poet X The Sun and Her Flowers The Sun and Her Flowers The You I've Never Known The You I've Never Known Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tilt Tilt Tricks Tricks Water for Elephants Water for Elephants Wicked Wicked
And Tango Makes Three
And They Lived . . .

Book Bans in North Carolina

North Carolina schools have seen 55 distinct titles banned or challenged across 8 school districts. The activity is heavily concentrated: Burke County Public Schools accounts for 38 of the state's tracked titles, far more than any other district. Moore County Schools and Catawba County Schools follow at a distance, with the remaining districts — including Buncombe County, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, New Hanover County, Guilford County, and Iredell-Statesville — each reporting only a handful of titles.

A Concentrated Pattern

For a state with over 100 school districts, only 8 have any recorded bans, and a single district drives the large majority of the statewide total. This points to a pattern of localized, district-specific action rather than a broad, uniform policy applied evenly across North Carolina. When one district's count is an order of magnitude larger than the rest combined, it typically reflects a concentrated local review process — a district-level committee, a specific complaint campaign, or an unusually active policy at that district — rather than a statewide legislative mandate. No specific state law or bill is confirmed as the direct driver of this data, so the figures here should be read as a record of local district decisions rather than the result of a single identifiable statewide policy. The remaining districts' smaller, more scattered counts are more consistent with the kind of isolated, individual challenges seen in many states, suggesting Burke County's numbers are the outlier shaping North Carolina's overall profile.