Banned Book Week 2008 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2008-2009 – Title List

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

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304-696-6575

Last updated

July 20, 2010