Banned Book Week 2009 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2008-2009 – Title List

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Alice on Her Way – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Amulet of Samarkand – Jonathan Stroud
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson – Louise Rennison
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War – Mark Bowden
• Bless Me Ultima – Rudolfo Anaya
• Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels – Minya Oh
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don’t Want to Live Anymore – Andy Riley
• The Bookseller of Kabul – Asne Seierstad
• The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them – E. Lockhart
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• Chinese Handcuffs – Chris Crutcher
• The Color Purple – Alice Walkers
• The Day After Tomorrow – Robert A. Heinlein
• Dead Folks – Jon A. Jackson
• Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl – Esther Drill
• Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers
• Fighting Ground – Avi
• The Geography Club – Brent Hartinger
• Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
• A Girl’s Life Online – Katherine Tarbox
• Go Ask Alice – Anonymous
• The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
• The Golem’s Eye – Jonathan Stroud
• The Great Tree of Avalon – T. A. Barron
• Grendel – John C. Gardner
• Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out: Stuff You Need to Know About Your Body, Sex, and Dating – Melisa Holmes and Trish Hutchison
• Hoops – Walter Dean Myers
• In Country: A Novel – Bobbie Ann Mason
• It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health – Robie Harris
• The Joy of Gay Sex – Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano
• The Joy of Sex – Alex Comfort
• King & King – Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
• The Lesbian Kama Sutra – Kat Harding
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Me, Penelope – Lisa Jahn-Clough
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story – John Berendt
• My Brother Sam is Dead – James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
• The New Joy of Sex – Alex Comfort
• Night Talk – Elizabeth Cox
• Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
• Notre Dame vs the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan – Todd Tucker
• A People’s History of the United States – Zinn, Howard
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
• Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
• Ptolemy’s Gate – Jonathan Stroud
• Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go – Emily Dubberley
• Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up – Jacqui Bailey
• The Starplace – Vicki Grove
• The Supernaturalist – Eoin Colfer
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• TTFN – Lauren Myracle
• TTYL – Lauren Myracle
• TTYL series – Lauren Myracle
• Twilight series – Stephenie H. Meyer
• Uncle Bobby’s Wedding – Sarah S. Brannen
• Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba] -Alta Schreier
• Whispers From the Dead – Joan Lowery Nixon
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire

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Last updated

July 20, 2010