The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2007

This list was provided by the American Library Association.
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I have provided an order link for each book in case they are difficult to find in your area.  Following this link will take you to Amazon.com to complete your order.

And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Violence

Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language

The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Reasons: Racism

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language,

TTYL, by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Reasons: Sexually Explicit

It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
Reasons: Sex Education, Sexually Explicit

The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

The most frequently challenged authors in 2005 were:

Judy Blume
Robert Cormier
Chris Crutcher
Robie Harris
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Toni Morrison
J. D. Salinger
Lois Lowry
Marilyn Reynolds
Sonya Sones

Books Challenged in the 1990s
(compiled from various sources)

This is a list of books which have been challenged in libraries and schools for any number of reasons throughout the 90s.  Reasons given (if known) are listed beneath the title in question.  I have provided an order link for each book in case they are hard to find in your area.  Following this link will take you to Amazon.com to complete your order.

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group

The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn     Mark Twain
for racism, insensitivity and offensive language

A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Peck

Christine Stephen King

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou

Night Chills Dean Koontz

Lord of the Flies William Golding

A Separate Peace John Knowles

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

The Color Purple Alice Walker
for sexual content and offensive language

The Learning Tree Gordon Parks

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Cujo Stephen King

Grendel John Gardner

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
for its sexual content

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez