LIST OF BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS
Please note: Not every book on this list is banned. There have been attempts to remove each book from a public library, school, or other source, although the challenge may not have resulted in a banning. The titles in green are books that I have read. Titles in red are books that I am currently reading. (Just in case you have any content questions, I can only speak honestly on the books I have read; I will have to derive answers to questions about other books from other sources)
- 1984: George Orwell
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The: Mark Twain
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The: Mark Twain
- Agnes the Sheep: William Taylor
- All the King's Men: Robert Penn Warren
- Ambush Moon: J.R. Roberts
- American Tragedy, An: Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm: George Orwell
- Annie on my Mind: Nancy Garden
- Appointment in Samarra: John O'Hara
- Around the World in a Hundred Years: Jean Fritz
- As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner
- Athletic Shorts: Chris Crutcher
- Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand
- Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The: Ernest Gaines
- Bastard Out of Carolina: Dorothy Allison
- Being There: Jerzy Kosinski
- Bell Jar, The: Sylvia Plath
- Beloved: Toni Morrison
- Beyond Belief: Brad Steiger
- Blubber: Judy Blume
- Bluest Eye, The: Toni Morrison
- Boy's Life: Robert McCammon
- Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
- Breakfast of Champions: Kurt Vonnegut
- Bridge to Teribithia: Katherine Paterson
- Call of the Wild, The: Jack London
- Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Castle in the Attic, The: Elizabeth Winthrop
- Catch 22: Joseph Heller
- Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
- Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut
- Catspaw: Joan D. Vinge
- Cay, The: Theodore Taylor
- Ceremony: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Charlotte's Web: E.B. White
- Chocolate War, The: Robert Cormier
- Christine: Stephen King
- Clockwork Orange, A: Anthony Burgess
- Color Purple, The: Alice Walker
- Congo: Michael Crichton
- Crazy Lady: Jane Leslie Conley
- Cujo: Stephen King
- Day No Pigs Would Die, A: Robert Newton Peck
- Death Be Not Proud: John Gunther
- Deliverance: James Dickey
- Don't Call Me Little Bunny (ne m'appelez plus jamais "Mon Petit Lapin"): Gregoire Solotareff
- Dragonslayers: Bruce Coville
- Drowning of Stephan Jones, The: Bette Green
- Education of Harriet Hatfield, The: May Sarton
- Education of Little Tree, The: Forrest Carter
- Egypt Game, The: Zilpha Snyder
- Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
- Fair Game: ?
- Fallen Angels: Walter Dean Myers
- Farewell to Arms, A: Ernest Hemingway
- Figure in the Shadows, The
- Forever: Judy Blume
- From Here to Eternity: James Jones
- Funhouse, The: Dean Koontz
- George's Marvelous Medicine
- Giver, The: Lois Lowry
- Go Ask Alice: Anonymous
- Go Tell it on the Mountain: James Baldwin
- Gone With the Wind: Margaret Mitchell
- Grapes of Wrath, The: John Steinbeck
- Great Gatsby, The: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Great Gilly Hopkins, The: Katherine Paterson
- Grendel: John Champlin Gardner
- Halloween ABC: Eve Merriam
- Handmaid's Tale, The: Margaret Atwood
- Headless Cupid, The: Zilpha Snyder
- How to Eat Fried Worms: Thomas Rockwell
- I Have to Go: Robert Munsch
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
- I, Claudius: Robert Graves
- Iceman, The: Chris Lynch
- I'll Be Seeing You
- In Country: Bobbie Ann Mason
- In the Night Kitchen
- Indian in the Cupboard: Lynne Reid Banks
- Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison
- James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl
- Journey of the Sparrows: Fran Leeper Buss
- Julie of the Wolves: Jean Craighead George
- Jumper: Steven C. Gould
- Keeping the Love You Find: Harvelle Hendrix
- Killers, The: Ernest Hemingway
- Killing Mr. Griffin: Lois Duncan
- Kim: Rudyard Kipling
- Lady Chatterly's Lover: D.H. Lawrence
- Last Mission, The: Harry Mazer
- Learning Tree, The: Gordon Parks
- Leaving the Fold: Edward T. Babinski
- Lily: Cindy Bonner
- Little Red Riding Hood: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies, The: William Golding
- Lucy: Jamaica Kincaid
- Maggie, Girl of the Streets: Stephen Crane
- Matilda: Roald Dahl
- Maurice: E.M. Forster
- Minpins, The: Roald Dahl
- My Brother Sam is Dead: Christopher and James Lincoln Collier
- My House
- My Teacher Glows in the Dark: Bruce Coville
- My Teacher is an Alien: Bruce Coville
- Naked and the Dead, The: Norman Mailer
- Naomi in the Middle: Norma Klein
- Naked Lunch: William Burroughs
- Native Son
- Night Chills: Dean Koontz
- Nightmare: Marjorie Dorner
- Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
- On My Honor: Marion Dane Bauer
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Out of Control: Norma Fox
- Phantom Tollbooth, The
- Pigman, The: Paul Zindel
- Point Counter Point: Aldous Huxley
- Portnoy's Complaint: Philip Roth
- Postman, The (Ardiente Paciencia): Antonio Skarmeta
- Probing the Unknown: Stephen Tchudi
- Queen of the Summer Stars: Persia Woolley
- Rainbow, The: D.H. Lawrence
- Return of the Indian: Lynne Reid Banks
- Revolting Rhymes: Roald Dahl
- Run With the Horseman: Ferrol Sams
- Runaway Sleigh Ride, The: Astrid Lundgren
- Samurai's Tale, The: Erik C. Hauggard
- Scarlet Letter, The: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Schindler's List: Thomas Keneally
- Separate Peace, A: John Knowles
- Short Takes: Elizabeth Segel
- Sister Carrie
- Skin Deep: Isaac Asimov
- Slaughterhouse Five: Kurt Vonnegut
- Sons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence
- Sophie's Choice: William Styron
- Studs Lonigan: James T. Farrell
- Sun Also Rises, The: Ernest Hemingway
- Tar Beach: Faith Ringgold
- Tex: Susie E. Hinton
- Then Again, Maybe I Won't: Judy Blume
- Tintin in America: Herge
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
- Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller
- Turn of the Screw: Henry James
- Ulysses: James Joyce
- View From the Cherry Tree, The: Willo Davis Roberts
- Wayside School is Falling Down: Louis Sachar
- When the Legends Die: Hal Borland
- White Ninja: Eric Van Lustbader
- Witches of Worm, The: Zilpha Snyder
- Witches, The: Roald Dahl
- Wizard in the Tree, The: Lloyd Alexander
- Women in Love: D.H. Lawrence
- Wrinkle in Time, A: Madeleine L'Engle
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