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Banned Books
"Banned" books I have read...Here are 100 banned books of 1990-2000.
Bold in the ones you've read.
Bonus: Italicize the ones you first read as part of a school assignment or checked out from a school library.
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Blubber by Judy Blume
Boy by Mark Mathabane
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Carrie by Stephen King
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
Crutcher Fade by Robert Cormier
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Deenie by Judy Blume
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
Guess What? by Mem Fox
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Jack by A.M. Homes
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Native Son by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Sex by Madonna
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole Kaffir
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Bold in the ones you've read.
Bonus: Italicize the ones you first read as part of a school assignment or checked out from a school library.
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Blubber by Judy Blume
Boy by Mark Mathabane
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Carrie by Stephen King
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
Crutcher Fade by Robert Cormier
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Deenie by Judy Blume
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
Guess What? by Mem Fox
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Jack by A.M. Homes
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Native Son by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Sex by Madonna
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole Kaffir
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday