Banned Book Week 2018 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books Of 2017-2018 – Title List

• 1984 – Orwell, George
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Alexie, Sherman
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens)
• And Tango Makes Three – Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
• Animal Farm – Orwell, George
• Bad Boy – Myers, Walter Dean
• A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl – Stone, Tanya Lee
• Beyond the Grave – Herbst, Judith
• The Bluest Eye – Morrison, Toni
• Boxers – Gagne, Tammy
• Buck – Asante, M. K.
• The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger, J. D.
• Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls – Legrand, Claire
• Drama – Telgemeier, Raina
• Eleanor & Park – Rowell, Rainbow
• Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury, Ray
• Finishing Machine: Road Rage or Self Defense? A Trained Killer’s Fight for Justice – Mike Arnold and Emila Gardner
• George – Gino, Alex
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Walls, Jeannettee
• Gutless – Deuker, Carl
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood, Margaret
• The Hate U Give – Thomas, Angie
• I am Jazz – Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• In Ned’s Head – Anders Jacobsson and Soen Olsson
• Jacob’s New Dress – Ian Hoffman and Sarah Hoffman
• The Kite Runner – Hosseini, Khaled
• A Lesson Before Dying – Gaines, Ernest
• The Liberation of Gabriel King – Going, K. L.
• The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq – Winter, Jeanette
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies – Esquivel, Laura
• Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl? – Sachar, Louis
• Maximum Ride Manga series – Patterson, James
• More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Schwartz, Alvin
• My World History – Frank Karpiel and Kathleen Krull
• Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afganistan – Winter, Jeanette
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Alexander, Michelle
• A People’s History of the United States – Zinn, Howard
• Perfect Chemistry – Elkeles, Simone
• Red: A Crayon’s Story – Hall, Michael
• Running with Scissors – Burroughs, Augusten
• Sex is a Funny Word – Silverberg, Cory
• Snow Falling on Cedars – Guterson, David
• Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comis from an Unpleasant Age – Schrag, Ariel
• Sword Art Online: Aincrad – Kawahara, Reki
• Thirteen Reasons Why – Asher, Jay
• This Day in June – Pitman, Gayle
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee, Harper
• TrueColors series – Carlson, Melody
• TTYL series – Myracle, Lauren
• World History: Ancient Civilizations – Hiebert, Fredrik
• “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People – Laura Erickson-Schroth and Laura A. Jacobs

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For additional information contact

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

Last updated

September 6, 2019