Banned Books Week

So The Office for Intellectual Freedom of The American Library Association will be celebrating Banned Books Week from the 27th September. Attempts to actually ban these books have failed, and should continue to do so as long as free speech wins over idiocy.
Whilst I'm not in the U.S. I thought that it would be interesting to see how many books on their list I had read. Here are the 154 most challenged books since 1990. I've underlined the ones I've read (all 23 of them), because I know you'll want this information. Judy Blume and Stephen King have a lot to answer for. I have a few left to look into...

A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez
America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank
American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
Anastasia Krupnik (series), by Lois Lowry
And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison
Annie on My Mind, by Nancy Garden
Are You There, God?  It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
Arizona Kid, by Ron Koertge
Arming America, by Michael Bellasiles
Asking About Sex and Growing Up, by Joanna Cole
Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Black Boy, by Richard Wright
Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause
Blubber, by Judy Blume
Boys and Sex, by Wardell Pomeroy
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
Carrie, by Stephen King
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Christine, by Stephen King
Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly
Crazy: A Novel, by Benjamin Lebert
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat, by Alvin Schwartz
Cujo, by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes and Spells, by Daniel Cohen
Cut, by Patricia McCormick
Daddy’s Roommate, by Michael Willhoite
Daughters of Eve, by Lois Duncan
Deal With It!, by Esther Drill
Deenie, by Judy Blume
Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
Earth’s Children (series), by Jean M. Auel
Fade, by Robert Cormier
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
Family Secrets, by Norma Klein
Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
Final Exit, by Derek Humphry
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
Forever, by Judy Blume
Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger
Girls and Sex, by Wardell Pomeroy
Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine
Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
Grendel, by John Gardner
Guess What?, by Mem Fox
Halloween ABC, by Eve Merriam
Harris and Me, by Gary Paulsen
Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
Heather Has Two Mommies, by Leslea Newman
His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
I Saw Esau, by Iona Opte
In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
It’s So Amazing, by Robie Harris
Jack, by A.M. Homes
James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
Jump Ship to Freedom, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Jumper, by Steven Gould
Junie B. Jones (series), by Barbara Park
Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane
Killing Mr. Griffen, by Lois Duncan
King and King, by Linda de Haan
Life is Funny, by E.R. Frank
Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park
Mommy Laid an Egg, by Babette Cole
My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier
Native Son, by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
Ordinary People, by Judith Guest
Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
Private Parts, by Howard Stern
Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
Running Loose, by Chris Crutcher
Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
Sex Education, by Jenny Davis
Sex, by Madonna
Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Watkins
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
That Was Then, This is Now, by S.E. Hinton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: The First Graphic Novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the creators of Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Anarchist Cookbook, by William Powell
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Dead Zone, by Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephen Jones, by Bette Greene
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline Cooney
The Facts Speak for Themselves, by Brock Cole
The Fighting Ground, by Avi
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Goats, by Brock Cole
The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende
The Joy of Gay Sex, by Dr. Charles Silverstein
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
The New Joy of Gay Sex, by Charles Silverstein
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
The Pigman, by Paul Zindel
The Stupids (series), by Harry Allard
The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain
The Witches, by Roald Dahl
Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons, by Lynda Madaras
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters, by Lynda Madaras
When Dad Killed Mom, by Julius Lester
Where Did I Come From?, by Peter Mayle
Where’s Waldo?, by Martin Hanford
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies, by Nancy Friday
You Hear Me?, by Betsy Franco


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