Banned Book Week 2017 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2016-2017 – Title List

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
• After the First Death – Robert Cormier
• All the Bright Places – Jenifer Niven
• Atonement – Ian McEwan
• Bad Kitty for President – Nick Bruel
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Big Hard Sex Criminals – Matt Fraction
• The Bluest Eye – Morrison, Toni
• Cyanide and Happiness: Punching Zoo – Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick
• Dope Sick – Walter Dean Myers
• Drama – Raina Telgemeier
• Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
• Fifty Shades of Grey – E L. James
• First French Kiss – Adam Bagdasarian
• George – Alex Gino
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannettee Walls
• Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
• Gutless – Deuker, Carl
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
• I am Jazz – Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• Iqbal by Francesco D’Adamo
• It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
• The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
• Little Bill series by Bill Cosby
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• Love Lessons by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread by Chuck Palahniuk
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
• Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress – Christine Baldacchino
• My World History – Frank Karpiel and Kathleen Krull
• One Part Woman (Madhorubhagan) by Perumal Murugan
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• Paper Towns by John Green
• A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• The Raped Little Runaway – Jean Martin
• Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs – Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen
• A Separate Peace – John Knowles
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Kathryn Harper
• Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
• This One Summer – Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Trash – Andy Mulligan
• The Troublemakers – Gilbert Hernandez
• TTFN – Lauren Myracle
• TTYL – Lauren Myracle
• Two Boys Kissing – David Levithan
• Tyrell – Coe Booth
• Weenies series – David Lubar
• Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel – Dan Slater

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For additional information contact

Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575

Last updated

July 31, 2017