Banned and Challenged Books
Title/Author
Books with Teen Appeal
Reason
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian/Sherman Alexie
An Abundance of Katherines/John Green
Alice (Series)/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging/Louise Rennison
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl/Anne Frank
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret/ Judy Bloom
The Art of Racing in the Rain/Garth Stein
Batman: The Killing Joke (Graphic Text)/Alan Moore
Bone (Graphic Text)/Jeff Smith
Bridge to Terabithia/Katherine Paterson
Captain Underpants (Series)/Dav Pilkey
Carrie/Stephen King
A Child Called "It"/ Dave Pelzer
The Chocolate War/Robert Cormier
Cujo/Stephen King
Dragon Ball (Graphic Text)/Akira Toriyama
Drama (Graphic Text)/Raina Telgemeier
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things/Carolyn Mackler
Eleanor & Park/Rainbow Rowell
Ender’s Game/Orson Scott Card
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/Jonathan Safran Foer
The Face on the Milk Carton/Caroline Cooney
Fahrenheit 451/Ray Bradbury
The Fault in Our Stars/John Green
Feed/M.T. Anderson
Forever…/Judy Blume
Friday Night Lights/H. G. Bissenger
The Giver/Lois Lowry
Go Ask Alice/Anonymous
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Series)/Philip Pullman
Goosebumps (Series)/R. L. Stine
Gossip Girl (Series)/Cecily von Ziegesar
The Graveyard Book (Graphic Text)/Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter (Series)/J. K. Rowling
Hop on Pop/Theodor Seuss Geisel
Anti-family, cultural insensitivity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, etc.
Sexual references
Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint
Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Anatomical descriptions, homosexual themes, sexual content, unsuited to age group
Anti-family, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
Sexually explicit
Advocates rape and violence
Promotion of smoking and drinking
Occult/Satanism, offensive language
Anti-family, offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
Occult/Satanism, offensive language, sexual content, unsuited to age group, violence, trash
Graphic depiction of child abuse
Nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
Nudity, violence
Sexually explicit
Anti-family, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Offensive language, sexual content, unsuited to age group
Offensive language, pornographic, unsuited to age group, violence
Offensive language, sex, violence
Challenge to authority, drugs, sexual content, unsuited to age group
Offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexual content
Offensive language, teen death, teen sex, unsuited to age group
Offensive language, 'trash'
Offensive language, sexual content
Offensive language, racism, sexual content
Discusses suicide, euthanasia, graphic, sexual content, unsuited to age group
Drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit
Political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence
Demonic, occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence
Drugs, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
Violent imagery
Anti-family, occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, violence
Encourages violence against fathers
Title/Author
Reason
The House of Night Series/ P.C. and Kristin Cast
The Hunger Games/Suzanne Collins
I Hunt Killers/Barry Lyga
Identical/Ellen Hopkins
James and the Giant Peach/Roald Dahl
Junie B. Jones (Series)/Barbara Park
The Kite Runner/Khaled Hosseini
A Light in the Attic/Shel Silverstein
Little Brother/Cory Doctorow
Looking for Alaska/John Green
Maus (Graphic Text)/Art Spiegelman
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
The Middle School Survival Guide/Arlene Erlbach
The Miseducation of Cameron Post/Emily M. Danforth
Nineteen Minutes/Jodi Picoult
No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet/William Shakespeare
The Outsiders/S. E. Hinton
Paper Towns/ John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower/Stephen Chobosky
Persepolis (Graphic Text)/Marjane Satrapi
The Popularity Papers (Graphic Text)(Series)/Amy Ignatow
Sandman (Graphic Text)/Neil Gaiman
Shade's Children/Garth Nix
Slaughterhouse-Five/Kurt Vonnegut
Speak/Laurie Halse Anderson
Summer of My German Soldier/Bette Greene
This One Summer (Graphic Text)/Jillian Tamaki
Tintin in America & Tintin in the Congo (Graphic Text)/Herge
ttyl (Series)/Lauren Myracle
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines/Nic Sheff
Twilight/Stephanie Meyer
Two Boys Kissing/David Levithan
Unwind/Neal Shusterman
Watchmen (Graphic Text)/Alan Moore
Water for Elephants/Sara Gruen
What My Mother Doesn't Know/Sonya Sones
Where's Waldo?/Martin Hanford
A Wrinkle in Time/Madeleine L'Engle
Occult/Satanism
Anti-ethnic, anti-family, offensive language, occult/Satanism, sexually explicit, violence, etc.
Violence
Unsuited to age group
Communism, drugs/alcohol, mysticism, offensive language, racism, sexual content, unsuited to age group
Bad grammar, promotes disobedience, takes liberties with spelling, uses "dumb" and "stupid"
Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
Cannibalism, glorifies suicide, occult/Satanism, promotes disrespect, violence
Promotes hacker culture, politics
"Too racy to read"
Anti-ethnic, unsuited for age group
Contains the term 'oral sex'
Sexual content, unsuited to age group
Offensive language, unsuited to age group
Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
Sexual content
Characters from broken homes, drugs/alcohol, sexual content, ungodly themes, violence
Misogynistic, offensive language, teen sex
Drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, etc.
Gambling, graphic, profanity, political viewpoint, violent content
Political agenda, Unsuited to age group
Anti-family, offensive language, unsuited for age group
Obscene, vulgar themes
Anti-ethnic, offensive language, sexism, sexually explicit, violence
Child pornography, date rape, unsuited to age group, violence
Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit
Sexual content, unsuited to age group
Steriotypical and racist depictions of indigenous peoples
Drugs, nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Drugs, homosexuality
Occult/Satanism, Religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
Condones public displays of affection, obscene, offensive language, unsuited to age group
Child abuse, drugs, offensive language, sex, suicide
Unsuited to age group
Sexual content
Nudity, offensive language, sexism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Nudity
Anti-religious, magic, mindreading, mysticism, occult/Satanism, witchcraft