Banned Book Week

Banned/Challenged Books of 2007-2008 - Title List

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]
• Alice on Her Way by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins
• America by E. R. Frank
• The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Beach Music by Pat Conroy
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Brimstone Journals by Ronald Koertge
• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
• Child of the Dark Prophecy by T. A. Barron
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Cradle and All: A Novel by James Patterson
• Cuba by Sharon Gordon
• Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
• Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
• Finding Laura Buggs by Stanley Gordon West
• Fools Crow by James Welch
• The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
• Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch by Jim Norton
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Mya Angelou
• I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's pocket Book by Iona Archibald Opie and Peter Opie
• It's Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
• Jake Reinvented by Gordon Korman
• The Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White
• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
• Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
• King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
• The Literary Experience edited by Bruce Beiderwell and Jeffrey M. Wheeler
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Making of Dr. Truelove by Derrick Barnes
• The New Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity by Nancy Schniedewind
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
• The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
• Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
• Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
• Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates
• Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
• The Shell Lady's Daughter by C. S. Adler
• Slaughterhouse Five by Vurt Vonnegut
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• The Starplace by Vicki Grove
• The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Totally Joe by James Howe
• Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories edited by Nancy Mercado
• TTYL by Lauren Myracle
• Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
• Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba] by Alta Schreier
• Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
• What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
• When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers edited by John McNally
• Where Willy Went by Nicholas Allan
• Whispers From the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon
• The Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman
• Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin by Dugald Steer

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2008 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.

• On these pages, a BANNED book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.
• A CHALLENGED book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.