Banned Book Week

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

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.