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Banned Books: Banned & Challenged Books

A Guide to Banned and Challenged Books.

A Small Selection of Banned & Challenged Books in our Libraries

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Non-Fiction

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780743276917
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
Arming America by Michael A. Bellesiles
ISBN: 0375402101
Publication Date: 2000-09-05
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
ISBN: 9780763656119
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
Black Like Me by John howard Griffin (Epilogue by); Robert Bonazzi (Afterword by)
ISBN: 0451192036
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
ISBN: 0805066691
Publication Date: 2001-01-23
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America by Jon Stewart; Daily Show Writers Staff; Thomas Jefferson (Foreword by); Ben Karlin; David Javerbaum
ISBN: 0446532681
Publication Date: 2004-09-20
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
ISBN: 0385336535
Publication Date: 2002-11-26
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
ISBN: 9780743247542
Publication Date: 2006-01-17
Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell
ISBN: 0670886939
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
ISBN: 0679446958
Publication Date: 1996-03-19
The Holy Bible by Thomas Nelson Publishing Staff
ISBN: 9780718010867
Publication Date: 2005-07-05
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln
ISBN: 9781844138401
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780872860179
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780345514400
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
ISBN: 0679745580
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
The New Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
ISBN: 0517585839
Publication Date: 1991-09-10
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 0805063889
Publication Date: 2001-05-08
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
ISBN: 038533379X
Publication Date: 1999-01-12
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780316453691
Publication Date: 2020-03-10

Fiction

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
ISBN: 9780385722209
Publication Date: 2002-10-29
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
ISBN: 9780446600255
Publication Date: 1994-04-01
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
ISBN: 0440944597
Publication Date: 1986-08-01
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 0808581945
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown
ISBN: 0385513755
Publication Date: 2004-11-02
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
ISBN: 0812550706
Publication Date: 1994-07-15
Grendel by John Gardner; John Gardner
ISBN: 0679723110
Publication Date: 1989-05-14
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende; Magda Bogin (Translator)
ISBN: 9780394539072
Publication Date: 1985-04-12
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
ISBN: 0140061401
Publication Date: 1982-07-29
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 9781594631931
Publication Date: 2013-03-05
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780486452340
Publication Date: 2006-09-15
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
ISBN: 9780316666343
Publication Date: 2002-07-03
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9780743454537
Publication Date: 2005-02-01
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
ISBN: 0140043128
Publication Date: 1977-08-25
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
ISBN: 9780142407332
Publication Date: 2006-04-20
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780812976717
Publication Date: 2008-03-11
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9780547391175
Publication Date: 2010-03-22
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
ISBN: 9780802131782
Publication Date: 1994-01-06
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
ISBN: 9781616200701
Publication Date: 2011-03-01

Children's & Young Adult

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689878459
Antiracist Baby Picture Book by Ibram X. Kendi; Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780593110508
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White; Garth Williams (Illustrator); Kate DiCamillo
ISBN: 9780064400558
Publication Date: 2012-04-10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
ISBN: 9781400032716
Publication Date: 2004-05-18
A day in the life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
ISBN: 9781452173801
Publication Date: 2018-03-18
Drama by Raina Telgemeier (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780545326995
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
ISBN: 9781549304002
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
ISBN: 9781416914631
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780590353427
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
The Haunted Mask by R. L. Stine
ISBN: 9780545035217
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel; Jazz Jennings; Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780803741072
It's Perfectly Normal by Michael Emberley (Illustrator); Robie H. Harris
ISBN: 9780763644833
King and King by Linda De Haan (Illustrator); Stern Nijland (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1582460612
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter
ISBN: 0358141834
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Night by Elie Wiesel (Preface by); Marion Wiesel (Translator)
ISBN: 9780374500016
Publication Date: 2006-01-16
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano
ISBN: 9781433828546
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9780312674397
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
ISBN: 9780307931900
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
Where's Waldo? The Wonder Book by Martin Handford (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763603120
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN: 9780312367541
Publication Date: 2007-05-01