Banned Book Week 2011 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2010-2011 – Title List

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

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For additional information contact

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

Last updated

September 16, 2011