Marshall Libraries

Banned Book Week 2012

Banned Book Week: September 30-October 6, 2012

Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011-2012

  1. TTYL series by Lauren Nyracle
  2. The Color of Earth Series by Kim Dong Hwa
  3. Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
  4. My Mom’s Having a Baby! by Dori Hillestad Butler
  5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  6. The Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
  9. Gossip Girls-series by Cecily Von Ziegesar
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

General Information

Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere.

From September 30 to October 6, 2012, the Marshall University Libraries will be observing Banned Book Week with a display in the Drinko Library and an updated website. The theme this year is “Free Your Mind Read a Banned Book”.
Visit the website or stop by the display on the first floor of Drinko to see what has been challenged or banned over the past year. Contact Ron Titus at 696-6575 or library@marshall.edu with questions.

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose and the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular, stressing the importance of ensuring the availability of those
viewpoints to all who wish to read them. It is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book.

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2013 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.

For additional information contact

Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575

Last updated

August 6, 2013