Contact
Mr. Ron Titus:
Banned/Challenged Books of 2007-2008 – Author List
- Adler, C. S. – The Shell Lady’s Daughter
- Allan, Nicholas – Where Willy Went
- Alverez, Julia – How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Anonymous – Go Ask Alice
- Atkins, Catherine – Alt Ed
- Barnes, Derrick – The Making of Dr. Truelove
- Barron, T. A. – The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of Dark Prophecy
- Bechdel, Alison – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- Beiderwell, Bruce – The Literary Experience
- Bradford, Richard – Red Sky at Morning
- Burroughs, Augusten – Running with Scissors
- Chobosky, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Colfer, Eoin – The Supernaturalist
- Comfort, Alex – The New Joy of Sex
- Conroy, Pat – Beach Music
- Conroy, Pat – The Prince of Tides
- Cormier, Robert – The Chocolate War
- Crutcher, Chris – Whale Talk
- de Haan, Linda – King & King
- Dessen, Sarah – Just Listen
- Doig, Ivan – Dancing at the Rascal Fair
- Frank, E. R. – America: A Novel
- Freedom Writers – The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World
- Giles, Gail – Shattering Glass
- Going, K. L. – Fat Kid Rules the World
- Gordon, Sharon – Cuba
- Green, John – Looking for Alaska
- Grove, Vicki – The Starplace
- Guterson, David – Snow Falling on Cedars
- Harris, Robie H. – It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
- Henkes, Kevin – Olive’s Ocean
- Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
- Howe, James – Totally Joe
- Kingsolver, Barbara – Animal Dreams: A Novel
- Koertge, Ronald – The Brimstone Journals
- Korman, Gordon – Jake Reinvented
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lowry, Lois – The Giver
- Mackler, Carolyn – Vegan Virgin Valentine
- Mathabane, Mark – Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- McCarthy, Cormac – Child of God
- McNally, John, ed. – When I was a Loser: True Stories of (Barley) Surviving High School by Today’s Top Writers
- Mercado, Nancy E., ed. – Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories
- Morrison, Toni – Beloved
- Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye
- Myers, Walter Dean – Fallen Angels
- Myracle, Lauren – TTYL
- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Alice on Her Way
- Newman, Felice – The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
- Nijland, Stern – King & King
- Nixon, Joan Lowery – Whispers From the Dead
- Norton, Jim – Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
- Oates, Joyce Carol – Sexy
- Opie, Iona Archibald, and Peter Opie- I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book
- Parnell, Peter – And Tango Makes Three
- Patterson, James – Cradle and All
- Picano, Felice – The Joy of Gay Sex
- Picoult, Jodi – The Tenth Circle
- Pullman, Philip – The Golden Compass
- Richardson, Justin – And Tango Makes Three
- Rowling, J. K. – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Rowling, J. K. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Rowling, J. K. – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Rowling, J. K. – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Rowling, J. K. – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Sanchez, Alex – Rainbow Boys
- Schniedewind, Nancy – Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equality
- Schreier, Alta – Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba]
- Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
- Silverstein, Charles – The Joy of Gay Sex
- Sittenfeld, Curtis – Prep
- Smith, Lee – Fair and Tender Ladies
- Sones, Sonya – What My Mother Doesn’t Know
- Steer, Dugald – Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
- Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
- Strasser, Todd – Give a Boy a Gun
- Stroud, Jonathan – The Amulet of Samarkand
- Stroud, Jonathan – The Golem’s Eye
- Stroud, Jonathan – Ptolemy’s Gate
- Taylor, Mildred D. – The Land
- Thompson, Craig – Blankets
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse-Five
- Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
- Welch, James – Fools Crow: A Novel
- West, Stanley Gordon – Finding Laura Buggs
- West, Stanley Gordon – Until They Bring the Streetcars Back
- Wheeler, Jeffery M. – The Literary Experience
- Wright, Richard – Black Boy
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.
For additional information contact
Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575
Last updated
June 25, 2010