Banned/Challenged Books of 2004-2005 – Author List
- Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Anaya, Rudolfo A. – Bless Me Ultima
- Babbitt, Natalie – The Devil’s Storybook
- Bellesires, Michael A. – Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
- Blume, Judy – Deenie
- Cart, Michael – My Father’s Scar
- Chambers, Adian – Dance on My Grave: A Life and Death in Four Parts
- Chobosky, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Clutton-Brock, Juliet – Horse
- Cormier, Robert – The Chocolate War
- Cormier, Robert – I Am the Cheese
- Coville, Bruce – <a href="https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/am-i-blue/"Am I Blue
- Cruse, Howard – Stuck Rubber Baby
- Crutcher, Chris – In the Time I Get
- Crutcher, Chris – Whale Talk
- Dandicat, Edwidge – Krik? Krak!
- Davis, Deborah – My Brother Has AIDS
- de Haan, Linda – King & King
- Drill, Esther – Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl
- Duncan, Lois – Daughters of Eve
- Esquivel, Laura – Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies
- Ferris, Jean – Eight Seconds
- Fierstein, Harvey – The Sissy Duckling
- Fox, Paula – Slave Dancer
- Frank, E. R. – Life Is Funny
- Frank, Mel – Marijuana Grower’s Guide
- Freymann-Weyr, Garret – My Heartbeat
- Garden, Nancy – Good Moon Rising
- Garden, Nancy – Holly’s Secret
- Greene, Bette – The Drowning of Stephen Jones
- Haddix, Margaret Peterson – Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
- Hansberry Lorraine – A Raisin in the Sun
- Harris, Robie H. – It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
- Hautzig, Deborah – <a href="https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/hey-dollface/"Hey Dollface
- Jaivin, Linda – Eat Me
- Jameson, Jenna – How To Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
- Javerbaum, David – America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
- Karlin, Ben – America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
- Kellog, Steven – Pinkerton, Behave!
- Kotzwinkle, William – Walter the Farting Dog
- Larson, Rodger – What I Know Now
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lipsyte, Robert – One fat Summer
- Lowry, Lois – Anastasia Again!
- Lowry, Lois – The Giver
- Mezrich, Ben – Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
- Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye
- Murray, Glenn – Walter the Farting Dog
- Myers, Walter Dean – Fallen Angels
- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Alice on the Outside
- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Alice the Brave
- Park, Barbara – Mick Harte Was Here
- Pilkey, Dav – The Adventures of Captain Underpants Series
- Rennison, Louise – On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
- Rodriguez, Luis J. – Always Running
- Rosenthal, Ed – Marijuana Grower’s Guide
- Salinger, J. D. – The Catcher in the Rye
- Sanchez, Alex – Rainbow Boys
- Sendak, Maurice – In the Night Kitchen
- Sijie, Dai – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Silverstein, Charles – The Joy of Gay Sex
- Sones, Sonya – What My Mother Doesn’t Know
- Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
- Stewart, Jon – America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
- Strauss, Neil – How To Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
- Tan, Amy – The Joy Luck Club
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Walker, Kate – Peter
- Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
- White, Edmund – The Joy of Gay Sex
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For additional information contact
Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575
Last updated
July 14, 2010