Sunday, August 9, 2015

Banned Book 2004-2015

Since I was a little girl, I ate my way through the library; a regular bookworm. A few months ago, I was playing around the ALA (American Library Association)website and came across a great resource for Banned Book Week (Link Here.)

There was not just one long list that collected all the challenged and banned book, but multiple PDFs with detailed information on where, when and why the books were banned or challenged. 

I am on the computer most of the day for work, and during quieter periods, I went through all the PDFs and made a list of my own from 2004 to present, which I have placed below.

To challenge myself, and to support the authors that are being challenged, I have decided to read all the books on the banned book list. I realize that not all titles will be to my liking, so I have placed some rules that I feel will be okay for my challenge:

1. If I get at least half-way through the book and still am not feeling the story, I can check it off as "read."

2. If I complete the first, full book of a series and do not enjoy it, I can check off the rest of the series.

3. If the challenged title is a story from a compilation, just the story is okay.

Pretty much, that is what I have come up with. I can always add more...

And that is that for the time being. I will update on books that I have read on and off the list. I am trying to figure out how I am going to differentiate the titles (from the banned list vs just my own reading list.) This, too, will come in time.

Banned Books 2004-2005
1.       Bless Me, Ultima- Anaya, Rudolfo
2.       The Devil’s Storybook- Babbitt, Natalie
3.       Deenie- Blume, Judy
4.       My Father’s Scar- Cart, Michael
5.       Dance on My Grave- Chambers, Aidan
6.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen
7.       Horse- Clutton-Brock, Juliet
8.       I Am the Cheese- Cormier, Robert
9.       Am I Blue?- Coville, Bruce
10.   Stuck Rubber Baby- Cruse, Howard
11.   “In the Time I Get” Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories- Crutcher, Chris
12.   Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris
13.   Kirk! Krak!- Danticat, Edwidge
14.   My Brother Has AIDS- Davis, Deborah
15.   King & King- de Haan, Linda and Stern Nijland
16.   Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life As a Gurl- Drill, Esther
17.   Daughters of Eve- Duncan, Lois
18.   Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies- Esquivel, Laura
19.   Eight Seconds- Ferris, Jean
20.   The Sissy Duckling- Fierstein, Harvey
21.   The Slave Dancer- Fox, Paula
22.   Life Is Funny- Frank, E. R.
23.   Marijuana Grower’s Guide- Frank, Mel and Ed Rosenthal
24.   My Heartbeat- Freymann-Weyr, Garret
25.   Good Moon Rising- Garden, Nancy
26.   Holly’s Secret- Garden, Nancy
27.   The Drowning of Stephan Jones- Greene, Bette
28.   Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey- Haddix, Margaret Peterson
29.   A Raisin in the Sun- Hansberry, Lorraine
30.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie H.
31.   Hey Dollface- Hatrzig, Deborah
32.   Eat Me- Jaivin, Linda
33.   How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale- Jameson, Jenna and Neil Strauss
34.   Pinkerton, Behave!- Kellogg, Steven
35.   Walter the Farting Dog- Kotzwinkle, William and Glenn Murray
36.   What I Know Now- Larson, Rodger
37.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper
38.   One Fat Summer- Lipsyte, Robert
39.   Anastasia Again!- Lowry, Lois
40.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois
41.   Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions- Mezrich, Ben
42.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
43.   Alice on the Outside- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
44.   Alice the Brave- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
45.   Mick Harte Was Here- Park, Barbara
46.   On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson- Rennison, Louise
47.   Always Running- Rodriguez, Luis J.
48.   Catcher in the Rye- Salinger, D.J.
49.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex
50.   Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Sijie, Dai
51.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silberstein, Charles, and Edmund White.
52.   What My Mother Doesn’t Know- Sones, Sonya
53.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John
54.   America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction- Stewart, John, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum
55.   The Joy Luck Club- Tan, Amy
56.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark
57.   Peter- Walker, Kate
58.   Brideshead Revisited- Waugh, Evelyn


Banned Books 2005-2006
1.       I know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya
2.       When Jeff Comes Home- Atkins, Catherine
3.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret
4.       Forever- Blume, Judy
5.       Doing It- Burgess, Melvin
6.       The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo- Carter, Judy
7.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen
8.       We All Fall Down- Cormier, Robert
9.       Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris
10.   The Teenage Guy’s Survival Guide- Daldry, Jeremy
11.   The Other Woman- Dickey, Eric Jerome
12.   Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life As a Gurl- Drill, Esther
13.   Born Too Short: The Confession of an Eighth-Grade Basket Case- Elish, Dan
14.   A Time To Kill- Grisham, John
15.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Haddon, Mark
16.   It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie
17.   It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families- Harris, Robie
18.   Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent
19.   GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens- Hugel, Kelly
20.   The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual- Jukes, Mavis
21.   Girl, Interrupted- Kaysen, Susanna
22.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper
23.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois
24.   The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things- Mackler, Carolyn
25.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
26.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean
27.   Lolita- Nabokov, Vladimir
28.   Alice on the Outside- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
29.   Choke: A Novel- Palahniuk, Chuck
30.   Leaving Disneyland- Parsons, Alexander
31.   Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story- Peters, Lisa Westberg
32.   Brokeback Mountain- Proulx, Annie
33.   The Buffalo Tree- Rapp, Adam
34.   Detour For Emmy- Reynolds, Marilyn
35.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell
36.   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling, J.K.
37.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex
38.   Cracking India- Sidhwa, Bapsi
39.   It Stops With Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl- Touchette, Charleen
40.   Whistle Me Home- Wersba, Barbara
41.   This Boy’s Life: A Memoir- Wolff, Tobias


Banned Books 2006-2007
1.       How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents- Alvarez, Julia
2.       Cuban Kids- Ancona, George
3.       I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya
4.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret
5.       The Notebook Girls- Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs
6.       Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic- Bechdel, Alison
7.       Attack of the Mutant Underwear- Birdseye, Tom
8.       Fahrenheit 451- Bradbury, Ray
9.       The Veldt- Bradbury, Ray
10.   The DaVinci Code- Brown, Dan
11.   Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten
12.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen
13.   Girl with a Pearl Earring- Chevalier, Tracy
14.   Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media- Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S Herman
15.   The Awakening- Chopin, Kate
16.   Voyage of the Basset- Christensen, James C., Renwick St. James and Alan Dean Foster
17.   The Chocolate War- Cormier, Robert
18.   Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris
19.   King & King- de Haan, Linda and Stern Nijland
20.   Romiette and Julio- Draper, Sharon M., and Adam Lowenbein
21.   The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & Poetry of a New Generation- Eleveld, Mark, ed.
22.   By Brother’s Hero- Fogelin, Adrian
23.   America- Frank, E. R.
24.   The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them- Freedom Writers
25.   The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman- Gaines, Ernest J.
26.   Fat Kid Rules the World- Going, K.L.
27.   Cuba- Gordon, Sharon
28.   Manga: 60 Years Japanese Comics- Gravett, Paul
29.   Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self- Gray, Heather M., and Samantha Philips
30.   Dictionary of Slang- Green, Jonathon, comp.
31.   The Blind Owl- Hedayat, Sadegh
32.   What’s Eating Gilbert Grape- Hedges, Peter
33.   The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual- Jukes, Mavis
34.   Abduction!- Kehret, Peg
35.   100 Greatest Tyrants- Langley, Andrew
36.   A Fisherman of the Inland Sea- LeGuin, Ursula
37.   Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything- Levitt, Steven, and Stephen J. Dubner
38.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois
39.   Vegan Virgin Valentine- Mackler, Carolyn
40.   Kaffir Boy- Mathabane, Mark
41.   Alice in Jeopardy- McBain, Ed
42.   Gilgamesh: A New English Version- Mitchell, Stephen
43.   Baseball Saved Us- Mochizuki, Ken
44.   ttyl Morgan, Melissa
45.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni
46.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
47.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean
48.   Reluctantly Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
49.   The Things They Carried- O’Brien, Tim
50.   I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book- Opie, Iona Archibald and Peter Opie, eds
51.   Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying- Park, Barbara
52.   The Learning Tree- Parks, Gordon
53.   Zero to Sixty- The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime- Paulson, Gary
54.   Our Family  Tree: An Evolution Story- Peters, Lisa Westberg
55.   The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World- Pollan, Michael
56.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell
57.   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- Rowling, J.K.
58.   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- Rowling, J.K.
59.   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling, J.K.
60.   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- Rowling, J.K.
61.   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone- Rowling, J.K.
62.   Lily’s Ghosts- Ruby, Laura
63.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex
64.   Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)- Schreier, Alta
65.   More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark- Schwartz, Alvin
66.   The Lovely Bones- Sebold, Alice
67.   In the Night Kitchen- Sendak, Maurice
68.   The Bastard of Istanbul- Shafak, Elif
69.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silberstein, Charles, and Edmund White
70.   Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin- Steer, Dugald
71.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John
72.   Blankets- Thompson, Craig
73.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark
74.   Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt
75.   So Far from the Bamboo Grove- Watkins, Yoko Kawashima
76.   Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love- Wood, Maryrose
77.   Black Boy- Wright, Richard
Banned Books 2007-2008
1.       The Shell Lady’s Daughter- Adler, C.S.
2.       Where Willy Went- Allan, Nicholas
3.       How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents- Alvarez, Julia
4.       I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya
5.       Go Ask Alice- Anonymous
6.       Alt Ed- Atkins, Catherine
7.       The Making of Dr. Truelove- Barnes, Derrick
8.       Child of the Dark Prophecy- Baron, T.A.
9.       Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic- Bechdel, Alison
10.   The Literary Experience- Beiderwell, Bruce, and Jeffry M Wheeler, eds
11.   Red Sky at Morning- Bradford, Richard
12.   Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten
13.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen
14.   The Supernaturalist-  Colfer, Eoin
15.   The New Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex
16.   Beach Music- Conroy, Pat
17.   The Price of Tides- Conroy, Pat
18.   The Chocolate War- Cormier, Robert
19.   Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris
20.   King & King- de Haan, Linda, and Stern Nijland
21.   Just Listen- Dessen, Sarah
22.   Dancing at the Rascal Fair- Doig, Ivan
23.   America- Frank, E.R.
24.   Whispers from the Dead- Nixon, Joan Lowery
25.   Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch- Norton, Jim
26.   Sexy- Oats, Joyce Carol
27.   I saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book- Opie, Iona Archibald, and Peter Opie
28.   Cradle and All: A Novel- Patterson, James
29.   The Tenth Circle- Picoult, Jodi
30.   The Golden Compass- Pullman, Philip
31.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell
32.   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- Rowling, J.K.
33.   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- Rowling, J.K.
34.   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling, J.K.
35.   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- Rowling, J.K.
36.   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone- Rowling, J.K.
37.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex
38.   Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning, Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity- Schniedewind, Nancy
39.   Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)- Schreier, Alta
40.   The Lovely Bones- Sebold, Alice
41.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silverstrin, Charles, and Edmund White
42.   Prep: A Novel- Sittenfeld, Curtis
43.   The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them- Freedom Writers
44.   Shattering Glass- Giles, Gail
45.   Fat Kid Rules the World- Going, K.L.
46.   Cuba- Gordon, Sharon
47.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John
48.   The Starplace- Grove, Vicki
49.   Snow Falling on Cedars- Guterson, David
50.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie
51.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled
52.   Totally Joe- Howe, James
53.   Animal Dreams- Kingsolver, Barbara
54.   The Brimstone Journals- Koertge, Ronald
55.   Jake Reinvented- Korman, Gordon
56.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper
57.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois
58.   Vegan Virgin Valentine- Mackler, Carolyn
59.   Kaffir Boy- Mathabane, Mark
60.   Child of God- McCarthy, Cormac
61.   When I was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today’s Top Writers- McNally, John
62.   Tripping over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories- Mercado, Nancy
63.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni
64.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
65.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean
66.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren
67.   Alice on Her Way- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
68.   The Whole Lesbian Sex Book- Newman, Felice
69.   Fair and Tender Ladies- Smith, Lee
70.   What My Mother Doesn’t Know- Sones, Sonya
71.   Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin- Steer, Dugald
72.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John
73.   Give a Boy a Gun- Strasser, Todd
74.   The Golem’s Eye- Stroud, Jonathan
75.   Ptolemy’s Gate- Stroud, Jonathan
76.   The Amulet of Samarkand- Stroud, Jonathan
77.   The Land- Taylor, Mildred
78.   Blankets- Thompson, Craig
79.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark
80.   Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt
81.   Fools Crow- Welch, James
82.   Finding Laura Buggs- West, Stanley Gordon
83.   Until They Bring the Streetcars Back- West, Stanley Gordon
84.   Sandpiper- Wittlinger, Ellen
85.   Black Boy-  Wright, Richard


Banned Books 2008-2009
1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       Bless Me, Ultima- Anaya, Rudolfo
3.       Go Ask Alice- Anonymous
4.       The Fighting Ground- Avi
5.       Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up- Bailey, Jacquie, and Jan McCafferty
6.       The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy- Barron, T.A.
7.       Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story- Berendt, John
8.       Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War- Bowden, Mark
9.       Uncle Bobby’s Wedding- Brannen, Sarah
10.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen
11.   The Supernaturalist- Colfer, Eoin
12.   My Brother Sam Is Dead- Collier, James, and Christopher Collier
13.   The Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex
14.   The New Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex
15.   Night Talk- Cox, Elizabeth
16.   Chinese Handcuffs- Crutcher, Chris
17.   King & King- de Haan, Linda, and Stern Nijland
18.   Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL- Drill, Esther
19.   Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go- Dubberley, Emily
20.   Pillars of the Earth- Follett, Ken
21.   Grendel- Gardner, John
22.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John
23.   The Starplace- Grove, Vicki
24.   The Lesbian Kama Sutra- Harding, Kat
25.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie
26.   The Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent
27.   The Day After Tomorrow- Heinlein, Robert
28.   Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out: Stuff You Need to Know about Your Body, Sex, and Dating- Holmes, Melisa, and Trish Hutchinson
29.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled
30.   Brave New World- Huxley, Aldous
31.   Dead Folks- Jackson, Jon
32.   Me, Penelope- Jahn-Clough, Lisa
33.   Girl, Interrupted- Kaysen, Susanna
34.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, harper
35.   The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them- Lockhart, E.
36.   Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West- Maguire, Gregory
37.   In Country- Mason, Bobbie
38.   Twilight Series- Meyer, Stephenie
39.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
40.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter
41.   Hoops- Myers, Walter
42.   ttfn – Myracle, Lauren
43.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren
44.   Alice on Her Way- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
45.   Whispers from the Dead- Nixon, Joan Lowery
46.   Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels- Oh, Minya
47.   My Sister’s Keeper- Picoult, Jodi
48.   Nineteen Minutes- Picoult, Jodi
49.   The Golden Compass- Pullman, Philip
50.   Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confession of Georgia Nicolson- Rennison, Louise
51.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell
52.   The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Kist Don’t Want to Live Any more- Riley, Andy
53.   The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger, J.D.
54.   Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)- Schreier, Alta
55.   The Lovely Bones- Sebold, Alice
56.   The Bookseller of Kabul- Seierstad, Anse
57.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silverstein, Charles, and Felice Picano
58.   Prep: A Novel- Sittenfeld, Curtis
59.   The Amulet of Samarkand- Stroud, Jonathan
60.   The Golem’s Eye- Stroud, Jonathan
61.   Ptolemy’s Gate- Stroud, Jonathan
62.   The Girl’s Life Online- Tarbox, Katherine
63.   The Land- Taylor, Mildred
64.   Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan- Tucker, Todd
65.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark
66.   The Color Purple- Walker, Alice
67.   A People’s History of the United States- Zinn, Howard


Banned Books 2009-2010
1.       The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       Twisted- Anderson, Laurie Halse
3.       I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya
4.       Baybe Be-Bop- Block- Francesca Lia
5.       The Tortilla Curtain- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
6.       Buster’s Sugartime- Brown, Marc Tolon
7.       Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten
8.       House of Night series- Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast
9.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen
10.   Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex
11.   Deadline- Crutcher, Chris
12.   Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL- Drill, Esther
13.   Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go- Dubberley, Emily
14.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara
15.   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Frank, Anne
16.   Aura- Fuentes, Carlos
17.   Mastering Multiple Position Sex- Garrison, Eric Marlowe
18.   The Dead Man in Indian Creek- Hahn, Mary Downing
19.   Lesbian Kama Sutra- Harding, Kat
20.   Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent
21.   “Hills Like White Elephants: A Short Story:” The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway- Hemingway, Ernest
22.   Mein Kampf- Hitler, Adolf
23.   A Prayer for Owen Meany- Irving, John
24.   The Bermudez Triangle- Johnson, Maureen
25.   “Survivor Type: A Short Story” from Skeleton Crew- King, Stephen
26.   The Bean Trees- Kingsolver, Barbara
27.   The Cartoons That Shook the World- Klausen, Jytte
28.   Lessons from a Dead Girl- Knowles, Jo (Johanna Beth)
29.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper
30.   “The Crack Cocaine Diet” A Short Story from Hardly Knew Her- Lippman, Laura
31.   Kurt Cobain- Martin, Michael
32.   In The Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood- McDonald, Brian
33.   Vampire Academy series- Mead, Richelle
34.   Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary- Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
35.   Twilight series- Meyer, Stephenie
36.   A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier- Moore, Alan
37.   Song of Solomon- Morrison, Toni
38.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren
39.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell
40.   Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age- Schrag, Ariel
41.   Living Dead Girl- Scott, Elizabeth
42.   “I Like Guys” A Short Story from Naked- Sedaris, David
43.   The Bookseller of Kabul- Seierstad, Asne
44.   How to Get Suspended and Influence People- Selzer, Adam
45.   Unwind- Shusterman, Neal
46.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silverstein, Charles, and Felice Picano
47.   The Egypt Game- Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
48.   One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies- Sones, Sonya
49.   Dragon Ball: The Monkey King- Toriyama, Akira
50.   Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel- Von Ziegesar, Cecily
51.   Jubilee- Walker, Margaret
52.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette
53.   Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems- WritersCorps


Banned Books 2010-2011
1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse
3.       The Flamingo Rising- Baker, Larry
4.       The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life- Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs
5.       Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood- Brashares, Ann
6.       Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten
7.       My Mom’s Having a Baby- Butler, Dori Hillstead
8.       Betrayed- Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast
9.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen
10.   The Awakening- Chopin, Kate
11.   The Hunger Games- Collins Suzanne
12.   Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes- Crutcher, Chris
13.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara
14.   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-Foer, Johnathan Safran
15.   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Frank, Anne
16.   Water for Elephants- Gruen, Sara
17.   Snow Falling on Cedars- Guterson, David
18.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Haddon, Mark
19.   The Dead Man in Indian Creek- Hahn, Mary Downing
20.   Get Well Soon- Halpern, Julie
21.   Snakehead- Horwitz, Anthony
22.   Brave New World- Huxley, Aldous
23.   Stolen Children- Kehret, Peg
24.   The Koran
25.   Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India- Lelveld, Joseph
26.   Vegan Virgin Valentine- Mackler, Carolyn
27.   What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-up Guide for Parents & Sons- Madaras, Lynda, and Dane Saavedra
28.   Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa- Mathabane, Mark
29.   Shooting Star- McKissack, Fredrick, Jr
30.   “Writers’ Voice” Selected from Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir- Monette, Paul
31.   Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir- Moore, Patrick
32.   Song of Solomon- Morrison, Toni
33.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren
34.   Twenty Boy Summer- Ockler, Sarah
35.   The Body of Christopher Creed- Plum-Ucci, Carol
36.   The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger, J.D.
37.   Push- Sapphire (Ramona Lofton)
38.   Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs- Semencic, Carl
39.   We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives- Shaffer, Paul
40.   The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star- Sixx, Nikki
41.   Bone- Smith, Jeff
42.   One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies at the End- Sones, Sonya
43.   Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology- Sonnie, Amy
44.   Slaughterhouse- Five- Vonnegut, Kurt
45.   Jubilee- Walker,  Margaret
46.   Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems- WritersCorps


Banned Books 2011-2012
1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse
3.       To The Wedding,- Berger, John
4.       Bhagavad-Gita as It Is
5.       What’s the Big Secret? Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys- Brown, Laurie Krasny and Marc Brown
6.       My Mom’s Having a Baby- Butler, Dori Hillestad
7.       In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences- Capote, Truman
8.       Ender’s Game- Card, Orson Scott
9.       Betrayed- Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast
10.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen
11.   A Study in Scarlet- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
12.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara
13.   The Wars- Findley, Timothy
14.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John
15.   Water for Elephants- Gruen, Sara
16.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie H.
17.   Tintin in the Congo- Herge (Georges Remi)
18.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled
19.   Stolen Children- Kehret, Peg
20.   Hold Still- LaCour, Nina
21.   Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India- Lelveld, Joseph
22.   The Hunt Club- Lott, Bret
23.   Tangled- Mackler, Carolyn
24.   500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures- Martinez, Elizabeth
25.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni
26.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
27.   Norwegian Wood- Murakami, Haruki
28.   Lajja (Shame)- Nasrin, Taslima
29.   Lovingly Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
30.   Twenty Boy Summer- Ockler, Sarah
31.   The Adventure of Super Diaper Baby- Pilkey, Dav
32.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell
33.   Push- Sapphire (Ramona Lofton)
34.   Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age- Schrag, Ariel
35.   Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs- Semencic, Carl
36.   No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare, William
37.   Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines- Sheff, Nic
38.   Waterland- Swift, Graham
39.   Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt
40.   Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel- Von Ziegesar, Cecily
41.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette
42.   Montana 1948: A Novel- Watson, Larry


Banned Books 2012-2013
1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       Feed- Anderson, M. T.
3.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret
4.       Stone Dreams- Aylisli, Akram
5.       Uncle Bobby’s Wedding- Brannen, Sarah
6.       Ender’s Game- Card, Orson Scott
7.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen
8.       When It Happens- Colasanti, Susane
9.       The Most Dangerous Game- Connell, Richard
10.   Carter Finally Gets It- Crawford, Brent
11.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara
12.   Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies- Esquivel, Laura
13.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John
14.   Tintin in the Congo- Herge (Georges Remi)
15.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled
16.   Totally Joe-  Howe, James
17.   The Popularity Papers- Ignatow, Amy
18.   Fifty Shades of Grey- James, E. L.
19.   Different Seasons- King, Stephen
20.   SideScrollers- Loux, Matthew
21.   Allah, Liberty and Love- Manji, Irshad
22.   500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures- Martinez, Elizabeth
23.   Neonomicon- Moore, Alan
24.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni
25.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean
26.   Intensely Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
27.   Fight Club- Palahnuik, Chuck
28.   The Family Book- Parr, Todd
29.   A Child Called It- Pelzer, Dave
30.   The Body of Christopher Creed- Plum-Ucci, Carol
31.   In Our Mothers’ House-  Polacco, Patricia
32.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell
33.   Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood- Satrapi, Marjane
34.   No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare, William
35.   Prep: A Novel- Sittenfeld, Curtis
36.   A Thousand Acres- Smiley, Jane
37.   Waterland- Swift, Graham
38.   Hero Heel 2- Tateno, Makoto
39.   The Dirty Cowboy- Timberlake, Amy
40.   Stuck in Neutral- Trueman, Terry
41.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette
42.   robopocalypse- Wilson, Daniel Howard
43.   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test- Wolfe, Tom


Banned Books 2013-2014
1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       The House of the Spirits- Allende, Isabel
3.       Bless Me, Ultima- Anaya, Rudolfo
4.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret
5.       Stone Dreams- Aylisli, Akram
6.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen
7.       World History- Ellis, Elizabeth Gaynor and Anthony Esler
8.       Invisible Man- Ellison, Ralph
9.       The Middle School Survival Guide- Erlbach, Arlene
10.   Pillars of the Earth- Follett, Ken
11.   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Frank, Anne
12.   Neverwhere- Gaiman, Neil
13.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John
14.   The Popularity Papers- Ignatow, Amy
15.   I Hunt Killers- Lyga, Barry
16.   Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
17.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean
18.   Intensely Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
19.   Muslim Women and the Challenges of Islamic Extremists- Othman, Morani, ed.
20.   And the Earth Did Not Devour Him- Rivera, Tomas
21.   I Am Bane- Rosen, Lucy
22.   Eleanor & Park- Rowell, Rainbow
23.   The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality- St. Stephen’s Community House
24.   Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood- Satrapi, Marjane
25.   A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl- Stone, Tanya Lee
26.   Color Purple- Walker, Alice
27.   Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan- Winter, Jeanette
28.   The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq- Winter, Jeanette


Banned Books 2014-2015
1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman
2.       House of Night series- Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast
3.       Chinese Handcuffs- Crutcher, Chris
4.       The Miseducation of Cameron Post- Danforth, Emily M.
5.       Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You- DeClements, Barth
6.       Little Brother- Doctorow, Cory
7.       Hop On Pop: The Simplest Seuss for Youngest Use- Geisel, Theodore Seuss (Dr. Seuss)
8.       If I Ran the Zoo- Geisel, Theodore Seuss (Dr. Seuss)
9.       An Abundance of Katherines- Green, John
10.   The Fault in Our Stars- Green, John
11.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John
12.   Paper Towns- Green, John
13.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Haddon, Mark
14.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie H.
15.   Who’s in My Family?: All About Our Families (Let’s Talk About You and Me)-Harris, Robie H.
16.   Tintin in America- Herge (Georges Remi)
17.   Siddhartha- Hesse, Herman
18.   Identical- Hopkins, Ellen
19.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled
20.   Brave New World- Huxley, Aldous
21.   Two Boys Kissing- Levithan, David
22.   Twilight series- Meyer, Stephanie
23.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni
24.   Song of Solomon- Morrison, Toni
25.   Madhorubhagan (One Part Woman)- Murugan, Perumal
26.   The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption- Okimoto, Jean Davies and Elaine M. Aoki
27.   Nineteen Minutes- Picoult, Jodi
28.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell
29.   Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood- Satrapi, Marjane
30.   The Working Poor: Inviable in America- Shipler, David K
31.   The Art of Racing in the Rain- Stein, Garth
32.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John
33.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette

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