OUR FAVORITE BANNED BOOKS

From History

Dante’s The Divine Comedy was burned in 1497 on religious grounds
The Bible (Martin Luther’s translation) was burned in 1624 by Papal authority
Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Richard II was censored by Queen Elizabeth

From This Century

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (most frequently challenged book of 1999)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Forever by Judy Blume
most novels by Stephen King

Famous Banned Books by African-American Authors

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Go Tell it on the Mountain along with Another Country, Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Blues for Mr. Charlie by James Baldwin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Native Son by Richard Wright

Banned in Texas This Year

Echo & Weetzie Bat
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK

Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art
SEAN CLIVER

Bee & Jacky
CAROLYN COMAN

The Terrorist
CAROLYN COONEY

Drive Me Crazy & Dying for Revenge
ERIC JEROME DICKEY

Into the Cold Fire
LYNNE EWING

The Slot Machine
CHRIS LYNCH

Tangled
CAROLYN MARKER

The Great Perhaps
JOE MENO

Kissing Kate
LAUREN MYRACLE

Alice on the Outside
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

Creepy Castles
SARAH PARVIS

The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln
MIKE REISS

The Book of Bunny Suicides
ANDY RILEY

Restricted Based on Age, Grade Level, or Parental Permission

The Stupids Die
HARRY G. ALLARD JR.

Going Bovine
LIBBA BRAY

Buster’s Sugartime
MARK BROWN

Tight End
MARK CHRISTOPHER

Gangs
G. CLIVE

Hunger Games
SUZANNE COLLINS

Lush
NATASHA FRIEND

The Ten-Speed Babysitter
ALISON CRAGIN HERZIG & JANE LAWRENCE MALI

Brave New World
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Repossessed
A.M. JENKINS

The Story of Colors
SUBCOMMANDANTE MARCOS

Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary

Dangerously Alice
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

What My Mother Doesn’t Know
SONYA SONES

Stay Out of the Basement
R.L. STINE

Visit into the Daily Lives of Muslim Teenagers (Video)
SVE MEDIA

Everything You Need To Know About AIDS
BARBARA TAYLOR

Boy Minus Girl
RICHARD UHLIG

My Sister Takes Drugs
JUDITH VIGNA

Montana 1948
LARRY WATSON

The Captured
SCOTT ZECSH