Banned Book Week

September 21-28, 2002

Banned/Challenged Books of 2000-2001 - Title List

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
After the First Death by Robert Cormier
Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence ed. by Marion Dane Bauer
And the Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Schwartz
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
Bedford Introduction to Literature ed. by Michael Meyer
The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron
Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Boys and Sex by Wardell B. Pomeroy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Chain Letter 2 by Christopher Pike
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan
Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds
Dictionary of Demons by Fred Gettings
Druids by Morgan Llywelyn
Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction ed. by Edmund White
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
The Fighting Ground by Avi
Fools Crow by James Welch
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
The Girl Who Owned a City by O. T. Nelson
Girls and Sex by Wardell B. Pomeroy
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Greasy Grimy Gpher Guts by Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Weisskopf
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
The Hammer of Eden by Ken Follett
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In Cold Blood: A True Story of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam
It's Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
James Baldwin by Randall Kenan
John Maynard Keynes by Jeffrey Escoffier
Just Friends by Norma Klein
K. D. Lang by Paula Martinac
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Last Act by Christopher Pike
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Liberace by Raymond Mungo
Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
The Listeners by Christopher Pike
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
The Lost Mind by Christopher Pike
Marlene Dietrich by W. K. Martin
Martina Navratilova by Gilda Zwerman
Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl? by Louis Sachar
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike
Modern Critical Views: James Baldwin ed. by Harold Bloom
Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap
Once upon a Hippo by Richard Allington
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Oscar Wilde by Jeff Nunokawa
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Pinkerton, Behave! by Steven Kellogg
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Question Quest by Piers Anthony
Remember Me 3 by Christopher Pike
Ricochet River by Robin Cody
Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
The Star Group by Christpher Pike
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Sula by Toni Morrison
T. E. Lawrence by Daniel Wolfe
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Tex by S. E. Hinton
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Where the Kissing Never Stopped by Ronald Koertge
Whoopi Goldberg: Her Journey from Poverty to Mega-Stardom by James Robert Parish
Willa Cather by Sharon O'Brien
Witch by Christopher Pike

2001 Author List of Banned/Challenged Books

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2001 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.

On these pages, a BANNED book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.
A CHALLENGED book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.

Go to 2002 Banned Book List or 2003 Banned Book List or 2004 Banned Book List or 2005 Banned Book List

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