100 most frequently challenged books
Submitted by Evalangui on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 05:01
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- 1. Scary Stories (Series), by Alvin Schwartz
- 2. Daddy’s Roommate, by Michael Willhoite
- 3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- 4. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
- 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- 6. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- 7. Forever, by Judy Blume
- 8. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
- 9. Heather Has Two Mommies, by Leslea Newman
- 10. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- 11. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
- 12. My Brother Sam is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- 13. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
- 14. Alice (Series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- 15. Goosebumps (Series), by R.L. Stine
- 16. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
- 17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- 18. Sex, by Madonna
- 19. Earth’s Children (Series), by Jean M. Auel
- 20. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
- 21. In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
- 22. The Witches, by Roald Dahl
- 23. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- 24. The New Joy of Gay Sex, by Charles Silverstein
- 25. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
- 26. The Goats, by Brock Cole
- 27. The Stupids (Series), by Harry Allard
- 28. Anastasia Krupnik (Series), by Lois Lowry
- 29. Final Exit, by Derek Humphry
- 30. Blubber, by Judy Blume
- 31. Halloween ABC, by Eve Merriam
- 32. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
- 33. Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane
- 34. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
- 35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters, by Lynda Madaras
- 36. Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
- 37. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (started, plan to finish)
- 38. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
- 39. The Pigman, by Paul Zindel
- 40. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- 41. We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
- 42. Deenie, by Judy Blume
- 43. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
- 44. Annie on my Mind, by Nancy Garden
- 45. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- 46. The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
- 47. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat, by Alvin Schwartz
- 48. Harry Potter (Series), by J.K. Rowling
- 49. Cujo, by Stephen King
- 50. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
- 51. A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein
- 52. Ordinary People, by Judith Guest
- 53. American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
- 54. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (started, couldn't finish)
- 55. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
- 56. Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
- 57. Asking About Sex and Growing Up, by Joanna Cole
- 58. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons, by Lynda Madaras
- 59. The Anarchist Cookbook, by William Powell
- 60. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
- 61. Boys and Sex, by Wardell Pomeroy
- 62. Crazy Lady, by Jane Conly
- 63. Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher
- 64. Killing Mr. Griffin, by Lois Duncan
- 65. Fade, by Robert Cormier
- 66. Guess What?, by Mem Fox
- 67. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- 68. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- 69. Native Son by Richard Wright
- 70. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies, by Nancy Friday
- 71. Curses, Hexes and Spells, by Daniel Cohen
- 72. On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer
- 73. The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende (loved)
- 74. Jack, by A.M. Homes
- 75. Arizona Kid, by Ron Koertge
- 76. Family Secrets, by Norma Klein
- 77. Mommy Laid An Egg, by Babette Cole
- 78. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya
- 79. Where Did I Come From?, by Peter Mayle
- 80. The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline Cooney
- 81. Carrie, by Stephen King
- 82. The Dead Zone, by Stephen King
- 83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
- 84. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
- 85. Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez
- 86. Private Parts, by Howard Stern
- 87. Where’s Waldo?, by Martin Hanford
- 88. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene
- 89. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
- 90. Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman
- 91. Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
- 92. Running Loose, by Chris Crutcher
- 93. Sex Education, by Jenny Davis
- 94. Jumper, by Steven Gould
- 95. Christine, by Stephen King
- 96. The Drowning of Stephen Jones, by Bette Greene
- 97. That Was Then, This is Now, by S.E. Hinton
- 98. Girls and Sex, by Wardell Pomeroy
- 99. The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain
- 100. Jump Ship to Freedom, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- 101. +Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- 102. +The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- 103. Forever by Judy Blume
- 104. +The Golden Compass trilogy by Philip Pullman
- 105. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 106. +The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- 107. Maurice by E.M.Forster
- 108. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Spoiler: Highlight to view(banned for the interreligious sex, not the incestuous sex)
- 109. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
- 110. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.
- 111. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- 112. The Giver by Lois Lowry
- 113. The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
- 114. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- 115. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- 116. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 117. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
- 118. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
- 119. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- 120. 1984 by George Orwell (started)
- 121. Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 122. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (part of it, since it's pretty boring)
- 123. Candide by Voltaire (loved)
- 124. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
- 125. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- 126. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- 127. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (part of it, since it's poetry)
- 128. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- 129. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- 130. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (powerful)
- 131. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- 132. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- 133. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (started)
- 134. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
- 135. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- 136. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- 137. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 138. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 139. Native Son by Richard Wright
- 140. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (started)
- 141. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey
- 142. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- 143. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- 144. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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