Banned Book Week 2010 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2009-2010 – Title List

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Aura – Carlos Fuentes
• Baby Be-Bop – Francesca Lia Block
• The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
• The Bermudez Triangle – Naureen Johnson
• The Bookseller of Kabul – Asne Seierstad
• Buster’s Sugartime – Marc Tolon Brown
• The Cartoons That Shook the World – Jytte Klausem
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
• The Color Purple – Alice Walkers
• The Crack Cocaine Diet – Laura Lippman
• Deadline – Chris Crutcher
• The Dead Man in Indian Creek – Mary Downing Hahn
• Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl – Esther Drill
• The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
• Dragon Ball: The Monkey King – Akira Toriyama
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things – Carolyn Mackler
• The Egypt Game – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• The Geography Club – Brent Hartinger
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannette Walls
• Hills Like White Elephants (short story from The Complete Short Stories – Ernest Hemingway
• House of Night series – P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
• How to Get Suspended and Influence People – Adam Selzer
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• I Like Guys (short story from Naked) – David Sedaris
• In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood – Brian McDonald
• The Joy of Gay Sex – Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano
• The Joy of Sex – Alex Comfort
• Jubilee – Margaret Walker
• Kurt Cobain – Michael Martin
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier – Alan Moore
• The Lesbian Kama Sutra – Kat Harding
• Lessons From a Dead Girl – Jo Knowles
• Living Dead Girl – Elizabeth Scott
• Mastering Multiple Position Sex – Eric Marlowe Garrison
• Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary – Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
• My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America – Barbara Ehrenreich
• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies – Sonya Sones
• Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel – Cecily Von Ziegesar
• Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems – WritersCorps
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
• Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
• Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go – Emily Dubberley
• Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
• Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age – Ariel Schrag, ed.
• Survivor Type – Stephen King
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Tortilla Curtain – T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Twisted – Lauren Halse Anderson
• TTYL – Lauren Myracle
• TTYL series – Lauren Myracle
• Twilight series – Stephenie H. Meyer
• Unwind – Neil Shusterman
• Vampire Academy series – Richelle Mead

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304-696-6575

Last updated

September 16, 2011