Banned Book Week

Banned/Challenged Books of 2010-2011 - Title List

• The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
• The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
• Bone by Jeff Smith
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker
• Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
• Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelveld
• The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Jubilee by Margaret Walker
• Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
• Lush by Natasha Friend
• My Mom's Having a Baby by Dori Hillestad Butler
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Notebook Girls: four Friends, One Diary, Ral Life by Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs
• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
• Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems by WritersCorps
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs by Carl Semencic
• Push by Sapphire (Ramona Lofton)
• Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology by Amy Sonnie, ed.
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Shooting Star by Fredrick McKissack, Jr.
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
• Stolen Children by Peg Kehret
• TTYL by Lauren Myracle
• Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir by Patrick Moore
• Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• Twilight by Stephenie H. Meyer
• Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives by Paul Shaffer
• 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 and Dane Saavedra
• Writers' Voice: Selectred from Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2011 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.