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RATED BOOKS
Over 33,000+ book reviews
Insightful information about book content—
so readers, families, and educators can choose with confidence and without surprises.
Everything you need to know about a book before you read it.
Search our full book index by title, author, or keyword. Each listing includes a short summary, cover image, content rating, and filters by age range and content type — plus links to detailed reports, author trigger warnings, and reader reviews.
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Stop typing titles one by one. Submit your inventory list and we'll automatically match your entire collection against 33,000+ NBRI reviews — delivering a comprehensive content report in hours, not days. Best for: Schools, libraries, and organizations managing large collections or new purchase lists.
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Who We Are
RatedBooks was born when one parent looked closely at what was sitting on school library shelves, and couldn't look away. What she found shook her. So instead of staying silent, she got to work.
Today, a team of fellow parent volunteers reads and rates books found in school libraries across the country — so you have the information you need to protect your child, before they ever open the cover.
Megan's Story -- A powerful illustration of why this work matters
Understanding our Ratings
RatedBooks uses a straightforward rating scale — modeled after the familiar systems used for movies, TV, video games, and music — so you always know what to expect before you read.
Each rating reflects the level of explicitness in areas like sexual content, language, and violence. No guesswork. No surprises.
How We're Making a Difference...
Rated Books is one of my greatest resources! America’s Women has a library initiative to expose explicit and inappropriate books in libraries, inform the public, and strengthen policies and laws to protect children from harmful material. Rated Books is an invaluable tool that has helped many parents and advocates clean up libraries across the United States. The information is easy to access, and the videos on their homepage share powerful personal stories that deeply move and inspire people.Tha
I am a school board member. Once I sent in the files for every library, within a week, NBRI provided a comprehensive list of matched book reviews. This tool took what would have been months of work and whittled it down to less than 2 weeks in total. NBRI also provided a comprehensive grading scale that showed why something was flagged and a link describing the material that had the book flagged. The amount of time, research, and exhaustive cataloging this process alleviated was incredible!
Parents need the tools to know what is available for their children to read from school libraries and classrooms. Rated Books reviews provide concise excerpts that serve better than any other peer reviewed journals. Protect your children!
Rated Books is one of my greatest resources! America’s Women has a library initiative to expose explicit and inappropriate books in libraries, inform the public, and strengthen policies and laws to protect children from harmful material. Rated Books is an invaluable tool that has helped many parents and advocates clean up libraries across the United States. The information is easy to access, and the videos on their homepage share powerful personal stories that deeply move and inspire people.Tha
