{"id":12936,"date":"2023-06-26T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=12936"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:05:26","slug":"title","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2009\/title\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week 2009 &#8211; Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<div>\n                                            \n        \n    <div\n        id=\"books-by-year\"\n        x-data=\"accordion('books-by-year', false)\"\n        class=\"rounded-lg overflow-hidden mb-2 transition-all duration-300 ease-out bg-gray-50\"\n        x-bind:class=\"expanded ? 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Title List<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian\/\">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/a> &#8211; Sherman Alexi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn\/\">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/a> &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/alice-on-her-way\/\">Alice on Her Way<\/a> &#8211; Phyllis Reynolds Naylor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/amulet-of-samarkand\/\">The Amulet of Samarkand<\/a> &#8211; Jonathan Stroud<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/and-tango-makes-three\/\">And Tango Makes Three<\/a> &#8211; Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/angus\/\">Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson<\/a> &#8211; Louise Rennison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/black-hawk-down\/\">Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War<\/a> &#8211; Mark Bowden<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bless-me-ultima\/\">Bless Me Ultima<\/a> &#8211; Rudolfo Anaya<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bling-bling\/\">Bling Bling: Hip Hop&#8217;s Crown Jewels<\/a> &#8211; Minya Oh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-bluest-eye\/\">The Bluest Eye<\/a> &#8211; Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/book-of-bunny-suicides\/\">The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don\u2019t Want to Live Anymore<\/a> &#8211; Andy Riley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bookseller-of-kabul\/\">The Bookseller of Kabul<\/a> &#8211; Asne Seierstad<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/boy-book\/\">The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them<\/a> &#8211; E. Lockhart<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/brave-new-world\/\">Brave New World<\/a> &#8211; Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-catcher-in-the-rye\/\">The Catcher in the Rye<\/a> &#8211; J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/chinese-handcuffs\/\">Chinese Handcuffs<\/a> &#8211; Chris Crutcher<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/color-purple\/\">The Color Purple<\/a> &#8211; Alice Walkers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/day-after-tomorrow\/\">The Day After Tomorrow<\/a> &#8211; Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/dead-folks\/\">Dead Folks<\/a> &#8211; Jon A. Jackson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/deal-with-it\/\">Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl<\/a> &#8211; Esther Drill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/fallen-angels\/\">Fallen Angels<\/a> &#8211; Walter Dean Myers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/fighting-ground\/\">Fighting Ground<\/a> &#8211; Avi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/geography-club\/\">The Geography Club<\/a> &#8211; Brent Hartinger<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/girl-interrupted\/\">Girl, Interrupted<\/a> &#8211; Susanna Kaysen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/girls-life-online\/\">A Girl&#8217;s Life Online<\/a> &#8211; Katherine Tarbox<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/go-ask-alice\/\">Go Ask Alice<\/a> &#8211; Anonymous<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/golden-compass\/\">The Golden Compass<\/a> &#8211; Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/golems-eye\/\">The Golem&#8217;s Eye<\/a> &#8211; Jonathan Stroud<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/great-tree-of-avalon\/\">The Great Tree of Avalon<\/a> &#8211; T. A. Barron<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/grendel\/\">Grendel<\/a> &#8211; John C. Gardner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/hang-ups-hook-ups-and-holding-out\/\">Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out: Stuff You Need to Know About Your Body, Sex, and Dating<\/a> &#8211; Melisa Holmes and Trish Hutchison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/hoops\/\">Hoops<\/a> &#8211; Walter Dean Myers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/in-country\/\">In Country: A Novel<\/a> &#8211; Bobbie Ann Mason<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/its-perfectly-normal\/\">It\u2019s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health<\/a> &#8211; Robie Harris<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/joy-of-gay-sex\/\">The Joy of Gay Sex<\/a> &#8211; Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/joy-of-sex\/\">The Joy of Sex<\/a> &#8211; Alex Comfort<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/king-and-king\/\">King &amp; King<\/a> &#8211; Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/kite-runner\/\">The Kite Runner<\/a> &#8211; Khaled Hosseini<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/land\/\">The Land<\/a> by Mildred D. Taylor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/lesbian-kama-sutra\/\">The Lesbian Kama Sutra<\/a> &#8211; Kat Harding<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/looking-for-alaska\/\">Looking for Alaska<\/a> &#8211; John Green<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/lovely-bones\/\">The Lovely Bones<\/a> by Alice Sebold<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/me-penelope\/\">Me, Penelope<\/a> &#8211; Lisa Jahn-Clough<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil\/\">Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story<\/a> &#8211; John Berendt<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/my-brother-sam-is-dead\/\">My Brother Sam is Dead<\/a> &#8211; James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/my-sisters-keeper\/\">My Sister&#8217;s Keeper<\/a> &#8211; Jodi Picoult<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/new-joy-of-sex\/\">The New Joy of Sex<\/a> &#8211; Alex Comfort<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/night-talk\/\">Night Talk<\/a> &#8211; Elizabeth Cox<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/nineteen-minutes\/\">Nineteen Minutes<\/a> &#8211; Jodi Picoult<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/notre-dame-vs-the-klan\/\">Notre Dame vs the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan<\/a> &#8211; Todd Tucker<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\/\">A People&#8217;s History of the United States<\/a> &#8211; Zinn, Howard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower\/\">The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/a> &#8211; Stephen Chbosky<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/pillars-of-the-earth\/\">The Pillars of the Earth<\/a> &#8211; Ken Follett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/prep\/\">Prep<\/a> &#8211; Curtis Sittenfeld<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/ptolemys-gate\/\">Ptolemy&#8217;s Gate<\/a> &#8211; Jonathan Stroud<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/sex-for-busy-people\/\">Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go<\/a> &#8211; Emily Dubberley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/sex-puberty-and-all-that-stuff\/\">Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up<\/a> &#8211; Jacqui Bailey<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/starplace\/\">The Starplace<\/a> &#8211; Vicki Grove<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/supernaturalist\/\">The Supernaturalist<\/a> &#8211; Eoin Colfer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/to-kill-a-mockingbird\/\">To Kill a Mockingbird<\/a> &#8211; Harper Lee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/ttfn\/\">TTFN<\/a> &#8211; Lauren Myracle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/ttyl\/\">TTYL<\/a> &#8211; Lauren Myracle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/ttyl-series\/\/\">TTYL series<\/a> &#8211; Lauren Myracle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/twilight-series\/\">Twilight series<\/a> &#8211; Stephenie H. Meyer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/uncle-bobbys-wedding\/\">Uncle Bobby&#8217;s Wedding<\/a> &#8211; Sarah S. Brannen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/vamos-a-cuba\/\">Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba]<\/a> -Alta Schreier<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/whispers-from-the-dead\/\">Whispers From the Dead<\/a> &#8211; Joan Lowery Nixon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/wicked\/\">Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West<\/a> &#8211; Gregory Maguire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>July 20, 2010<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":12930,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12936","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15244,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12936\/revisions\/15244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}