Banned Book Week

Banned/Challenged Books of 2006-2007 - Title List

• Abduction! by Peg Kehret
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]
• Alice in Jeopardy by Ed McBain
• America by E. R. Frank
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Attack of the Mutant Underwear by Tom Birdseye
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernet J. Gaines
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
• Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• The Blind Owl by Sadegh Heydayat
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• Cassell Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green, ed.
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Cuba by Sharon Gordon
• Cuban Kids by George Ancona
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hiddent Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Gilgamesh: A New English Translation by Stephen Mitchell
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Guy Book: An Owner's Manual by Mavis Jukes
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Mya Angelou
• I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book by Iona Archibald Opie and Peter Opie
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• The Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White
• Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying by Barbara Chuck Park
• Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
• King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
• Learning Tree by Gordon Park
• Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics by Paul Gravett
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
• More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
• My Brother's Hero by Adrian Fogelin
• The Notebook Girls by Julia Baskin, Lindsy Newman, Sophie Politt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• 100 Greatest Tyrants by Andrew Langley
• Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self by Heather M. Gray and Samantha Philips
• Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper and Adam Lowenbein
• Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love by Maryrose Wood
• Slaughterhouse Five by Vurt Vonnegut
• So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
• The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Gerneration by Mark Elveld
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• TTYL by Lauren Myracle
• Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba] by Alta Schreier
• Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler
• The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
• Voyage of the Basset by James C. Christensen, Renwick St. James, and Alan Dean Foster
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges
• Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin by Dugald Steer
• Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime by Gary Paulsen

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2007 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.

• On these pages, a BANNED book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.
• A CHALLENGED book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.