Banned Books
American Library Association List of Top Books Banned in the United States
13 Reasons Why Jay Asher
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie
A Bad Boy Can Be a Good Girl Tanya Lee Stone
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
The Chocolate War Robert Cormier
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Crank Ellen Hopkins
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things Carolyn Mackler
The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney
Fade Robert Cormier
Forever Judy Blume
Go Ask Alice Anonymous
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
Gossip Girl Cecily Von Ziegesar
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
I Am the Cheese Robert Cormier
Killing Mr. Griffin Lois Duncan
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Looking for Alaska John Green
Lush Natasha Friend
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher
And Tango Makes Three Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
That Was Then, This is Now S.E. Hinton
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) Lauren Myracle
Twilight Stephenie Meyer
Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson
Whale Talk Chris Crutcher
What My Mother Doesn’t Know Sonya Sones
Tiger Eyes Judy Blume
Books Challenged on Political Grounds
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Black Boy Richard Wright
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
I Am the Cheese Robert Cormier
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Peter Matthiessen
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
My Brother Sam Is Dead James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
1984 George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Books Challenged on Religious Grounds
The Age of Reason Thomas Paine
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World Nawal El Saadawi
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
Books Challenged on Social Grounds
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Annie on My Mind Nancy Garden
Another Country James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Cujo Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephan Jones Bette Greene
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers
Go Ask Alice Anonymous
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Naked Lunch William Seward Burroughs
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey