Banned Books Week Sept 27-Oct 3, 2020

Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki (Illustrator)

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Habibi by Craig Thompson

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Reasons: Drugs, alcohol, sex, homosexuality, and abuse. Top 10 Challenged - 2014!

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Reason: Violent images, language. Top 10 Challenged - 2014!

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan; Fiona Staples (Artist) Reasons: Anti-Family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Top 10 Challenged - 2014!

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Top 10 Challenged - 2014!

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya Reasons: Occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2013!

Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Reasons: Anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/satanic, and violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2010, 2011 & 2013!

Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith Reasons: political viewpoint, racism, violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2013!

Beloved by Toni Morrison Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2012!

The Glass Castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls Reasons: Offensive language, sexual content, drunkenness, and violence against animals. Top 10 Challenged - 2012!

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Reasons: Insensitivity, nudity, racism, religious viewpoint, and sexually explicit. Top 10 Challenged - 2010 & 2011!

The Color of Earth series by Kim Dong Hwa Reasons: Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group. Top 10 Challenged - 2011!

Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Reasons: Drugs, inaccurate information, offensive language, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint. Top 10 Challenged - 2010!

Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer Reasons: Religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2010!

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Reasons: Sexual content, offensive language, and unsuited to age group.

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Reasons: Homosexuality, sexual content.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker Reasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Reasons: Offensive language, sexual content, and religious viewpont.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Reasons: Sex, violence, drugs, profanity.

Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman Reason: Sexually explicit.

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Reasons: Religious viewpoint.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Reason: Violence.

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence Reason: Sexually explicit.

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Reasons: Not actually banned during WWII, but publication was halted. Later challenged for offensive language and being "anti-American."

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson Reasons: Offensive language.

City of Thieves by David Benioff Reasons: Profanity, sexually explicit.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Reasons: Denounced on all sides, Allied and German, as "pacifist propaganda." Banned and burned by Nazis in the 1930s, and the author's German citizenship was revoked.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Reasons: Profanity, sexual content.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Reasons: Sexual content, violence, "pacifist propaganda," and "un-American."

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Reasons: Offensive language and sexual content.

Animal Farm by George Orwell Reasons:"Politically incendiary."

Waterland by Graham Swift Reason: Sexual content.

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Reasons: Profanity; sexual content.

Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger Reasons: Profanity, and references to sex and racism.

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Reason: Sexual content.

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Reason: Sexually explicit.

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Reasons: Occultism, sexually explicit, rape, and violence.

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Reasons: Sexuality, profanity, and violence.

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Reasons: Sexual content and violence.

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Reasons: Sexual content, offensive language, violence and unsuited to age group.

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Reason: Sexually explicit.

Grendel by John Gardner

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Reasons: Offensive language, sexuality, offensive to religion.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Reasons: Offensive language, racism, violence.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Reason: Offensive language.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin Reason: Suicide, and religious viewpoint.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, and violence.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Reasons: Sexual content, criminal activity, and violence.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Reasons: Political viewpoint.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Reasons: Offensive language, sexual content, violence, and religious viewpoint.

Montana 1948 by Larry Watson Reason: Offensive language, sexual content, racism.

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Reasons: Sexual content.

The Giver by Lois Lowry Reasons: Euthanasia, infanticide, and sexuality.

Always Running by Luis J. Rodríguez Reasons: Violence, and sexual content.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle Reasons: Occult, and undermines religious beliefs.

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Reasons: Racism.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Reason: Racism, and offensive language.

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak Reason: Nudity.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Reason: Homosexuality, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Reason: Offensive language.

The Sandman, Vol 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman Reasons: Challenged for being "objectionable."

Hold Still by Nina LaCour Reason: Offensive language.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Reason: Sexual content.

Y by Pia Guerra (Artist); Brian K. Vaughan Reason: Sexual content.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Reasons: Banned by Randolph Co., NC School Board in 2013, after a parent complained that it was filthy and contained bad language. The ban was lifted later the same year.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Reason: Offensive language.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Reasons: Challenged in 2015 by a parent in the Knoxville, TN HS system for having "too much graphic information."

Black Boy by Richard Wright Reason: Sexual content.

Native Son by Richard Wright Reasons: Profanity, violence, sexually explicit.

Push by Sapphire Reasons: Incest, and violence.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Reason: Sexual content.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Reasons: Graphic violence, and offensive language.

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and violence.

In cold blood by Truman Capote Reason: Excessive violence.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Reasons: Banned in the US and various countries as obscene.

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Reasons: Offensive language, drugs, racism, sexual content, violence.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding Reasons: Excessive violence, offensive language, racism, sexual content.

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Jr. Reasons: Drug use, sexual content, and obscene language.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Reasons: Offensive language, and sexual explicitness.