List of banned books
Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which have
been banned by some organisation at some place and time.
Various scriptures have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Qur'an, and the Torah
have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities
and countries.
Books dealing with criminal matter have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous due to
their being banned include The Anarchist
Cookbook, E for Ecstasy, and Hit Man.
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American Library Association List
The American Library Association
periodically releases a list of the most challenged books in libraries in the United States, of the challenges reported to the ALA's Office
for Intellectual Freedom. The following list details the 100 most challenged books the years 1990-2000, during which some
6,300 challenges were reported to the ALA.
- Scary Stories
(series) by Alvin Schwartz
- Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
- I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
- Forever by
Judy Blume
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Alice (series) by
Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
- My Brother
Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Giver by Lois
Lowry
- It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
- Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
- A Day No
Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Sex by Madonna
- Earth’s Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
- The Great
Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine
L’Engle
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- In the Night
Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
- The Witches by Roald
Dahl
- The New Joy
of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
- Anastasia
Krupnik (series) by Lois Lowry
- The Goats by Brock Cole
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
- Blubber by
Judy Blume
- Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
- Halloween ABC by
Eve Merriam
- We All Fall
Down by Robert Cormier
- Final Exit by Derek Humphry
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Julie of the
Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- The Bluest Eye by
Toni Morrison
- What’s
Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Beloved by Toni
Morrison
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- Bumps in the
Night by Harry Allard
- Deenie by Judy Blume
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Annie on my
Mind by Nancy Garden
- The
Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
- Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
- Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
- Cujo by Stephen King
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
- Boys and Sex by
Wardell Pomeroy
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- What’s Happening to
my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
- Athletic Shorts
by Chris Crutcher
- Fade by Robert
Cormier
- Guess What? by Mem Fox
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Face on the Milk Carton by
Caroline Cooney
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed
Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
- Jack by A.M. Homes
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Where Did
I Come From? by Peter
Mayle
- Carrie by Stephen
King
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
- Family Secrets by
Norma Klein
- Mommy Laid An
Egg by Babette Cole
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Always Running by
Luis Rodriguez
- Private Parts by Howard Stern
- Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
- Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
- Pillars of the
Earth by Ken Follett
- Running Loose by
Chris Crutcher
- Sex Education by Jenny Davis
- The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
- Girls and Sex by
Wardell Pomeroy
- How to Eat
Fried Worms by Thomas
Rockwell
- View
from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
- The Headless
Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The
Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
- Jump Ship to
Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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