Banned Book Week 2013 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2012-2013 – Title List

• 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures – Elizabeth Martinez
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants series – Dav Pilkey
• Allah, Liberty, and Love – Irshad Manji
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• The Body of Christopher Creed – Carol Plum-Ucci
• Carter Finally Gets It – Brent Crawford
• A Child Called “It”: An Abused Child’s Journey from Victim to Victor – Dave Pelzer
• Different Seasons – Stephen King
• The Dirty Cowboy – Amy Timberlake
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scot Card
• Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers
• The Family Book – Todd Parr
• Feed – M. T. Anderson
• Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James
• Fight Club – Chuck Palaniuk
• The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Hero-Heel 2 – Makoto Tateno
• In Our Mother’s House – Patricia Polacco
• Intensely Alice – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies – Laura Esquivel
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• The Most Dangerous Game – Richard Connell
• Muslim Women and the Challenge of Islamic Extremism – Norani Othman
• Neonomicon – Alan Moore
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America – Barbara Ehrenreich
• No Fear Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
• The Popularity Papers series – Amy Ignatow
• Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
• Robopocalypse – David Howard Wilson
• The Scary Stories series – Alvin Schwartz
• Sidescrollers – Matthew Loux
• Stone Dreams – Akram Aylisli
• Stuck in Neutral – Terry Trueman
• Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
• A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
• Tintin in the Congo – Herge [Georges Remi]
• Totally Joe – James Howe
• Uncle Bobby’s Wedding – Sarah S. Brannen
• Waterland – Graham Swift
• When It Happens – Susane Colasanti

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

Last updated

September 11, 2013