Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019

by American Library Association
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100 books
The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has been documenting attempts to ban books in libraries and schools since 1990. OIF compiled this list of the most banned and challenged books from 2010-2019 by reviewing both the public and confidential censorship reports it received.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie, 2012

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People

Dav Pilkey, 2014

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher, 2011

Looking for Alaska

John Green, 2019

George

Alex Gino, 2015

And Tango Makes Three

Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, 2015

Drama

Raina Telgemeier, 2014

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James, 2013

Ttyl

Lauren Myracle, 2008

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison, 2000

The Kite Runner

Rejacketed
Khaled Hosseini, 2011

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins, 2014

I Am Jazz

Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, 2014

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky, 2012

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee, 2014

Out from Boneville

Jeff Smith, 2005

The Glass Castle

A Memoir
Jeannette Walls, 2006

Two Boys Kissing

David Levithan, 2013

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

Marlon Bundo, 2018

Sex is a Funny Word

A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU
Cory Silverberg, 2015

Starting with Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 2012

It's Perfectly Normal

Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
Robie H. Harris, 2014

Nineteen Minutes

A Novel
Jodi Picoult, 2013

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz, 2019

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson, 2011

Brave New World Revisited

A Novel
Aldous Huxley, 2014

Beyond Magenta

Transgender Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin, 2014

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck, 2016

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood, 2011

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas, 2018

Fun Home

A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel, 2007

It's a Book!

Lane Smith, 2018

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, 2010

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien, 2014

What My Mother Doesn't Know

Sonya Sones, 2013

A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer, 2019

Bad Kitty

Nick Bruel, 2018

Crank

Ellen Hopkins, 2012

Nickel and Dimed

On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich, 2010

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi, 2006

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby

Dav Pilkey, George Beard, Harold Hutchins, 2014

This Day in June

Gayle E. Pitman, 2014

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki, 2014

A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl

Tanya Lee Stone, 2007

Beloved

Toni Morrison, 2010

Night of the Living Dummy (Classic Goosebumps #1)

R.L. Stine, 2011

In Our Mothers' House

Patricia Polacco, 2009

Lush

Natasha Friend, 2017

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger, 1951

The Color Purple

Alice Walker, 2003

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon, 2010

The Holy Bible

Anonymous, 2019

This Book Is Gay

James Dawson, 2015

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell, 2013

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer, 2006

Gossip Girl

Cecily Von Ziegesar, 2003

Marked

A House of Night Novel
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast, 2010

My Mom's Having a Baby!

Dori Hillestad Butler, 2007

Alan Moore's Neonomicon

Alan Moore, Antony Johnston, 2011

The Dirty Cowboy

Amy Timberlake, 2003

The Giver

Lois Lowry, 2014

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, 1972

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo A. Anaya, 2008

Draw Me a Star

Eric Carle, 2009

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina García, 1992

Fade

Lisa McMann, 2010

The Family Book

Todd Parr, 2010

Feed

M. T. Anderson, 2012

Go the F**k to Sleep

Adam Mansbach, 2011

Habibi

Craig Thompson, 2011

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende, 2011

Jacob's New Dress

Sarah Hoffman, Ian Hoffman, 2014

Lolita

Vladimir V. Nabokov, 2013

Monster

Walter Dean Myers, 2009

Nasreen's Secret School

A True Story from Afghanistan
Jeanette Winter, 2011

Saga

Brian K. Vaughan, 2018

Stuck in the Middle

Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age
Ariel Schrag, 2007

The Kingdom of Little Wounds

Susann Cokal, 2013

1984

George Orwell, 1983

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess, 2019

Almost Perfect

Brian Katcher, 2010

The Awakening

Kate Chopin, 2012

Burned

Ellen Hopkins, 2013

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card, 2017

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers, 2013

Glass

Ellen Hopkins, 2013

Heather Has Two Mommies

Leslea Newman, 2016

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou, 2010

Madeline and the Gypsies

Ludwig Bemelmans, 1959

My Princess Boy

Cheryl Kilodavis, 2011

Prince & Knight

Daniel Haack, 2020

Revolutionary Voices

A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
Amy Sonnie, 2000

Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble

Judy Schachner, 2008

So Far from the Bamboo Grove

Yoko Kawashima Watkins, 2014

The Color of Earth

Kim Dong Hwa, 2009

The Librarian of Basra

A True Story from Iraq
Jeanette Winter, 2014

The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury

Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga, 2012

Tricks

Ellen Hopkins, 2017

Uncle Bobby's Wedding

Sarah S. Brannen, 2008

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks, 2011