ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools.

Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Scary Stories (series) by Alvin Schwartz His Dark Materials (series) by Philip Pullman ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Forever by Judy Blume The Color Purple by Alice Walker Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger King and King by Linda de Haan To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar The Giver by Lois Lowry In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak Killing Mr. Griffen by Lois Duncan Beloved by Toni Morrison My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison Brave New World by Aldous Huxley It’s So Amazing by Robie Harris Arming America by Michael Bellasiles Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane Life is Funny by E.R. Frank Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher The Fighting Ground by Avi Blubber by Judy Blume Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by Dav Pilkey Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson You Hear Me? by Betsy Franco The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Draw Me A Star by Eric Carle The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor A Time to Kill by John Grisham Always Running by Luis Rodriguez Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen Junie B. Jones (series) by Barbara Park Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison What’s Happening to My Body Book by Lynda Madaras The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Anastasia (series) by Lois Lowry A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Crazy by Benjamin Lebert The Joy of Gay Sex by Dr. Charles Silverstein The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck Black Boy by Richard Wright Deal With It! by Esther Drill Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Watkins Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher Cut by Patricia McCormick Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissenger A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine Shade’s Children by Garth Nix Grendel by John Gardner The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende I Saw Esau by Iona Opte Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume America by E.R. Frank