Banned Books   Tags: banned books week, books, censorship, reading  

Sept 30−Oct 6, 2012

Banned Books Week is sponsored by 

• American Booksellers Association
• American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
• American Library Association
• American Society of Journalists and Authors Association of American Publishers 
• National Association of College Stores 

It is endorsed by the

Center for the Book in the Library of Congress

In 2011, the

• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• National Coalition Against Censorship
• National Council of Teachers of English
• PEN American Center

also signed on as sponsors.

2011

_{ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence}My
_{Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism}

Out of 326 challenges as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom

Ttfn - Lauren Myracle

ISBN: 9780810992795

Publication Date: 2007-02-01

Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

The Color of Earth - Kim Dong Hwa; Lauren Na (Translator)

ISBN: 9781596434585

Publication Date: 2009-03-31

Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Call Number: Fiction Collins, S

Publication Date: 2008

Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence.

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Sherman Alexie

Call Number: Fiction Alexie, S

Publication Date: 2007

Reasons: offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence.

My Mom's Having a Baby! - Dori Hillestad Butler; Carol Thompson (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0807553441

Publication Date: 2005-01-01

Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

Alice series - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

ISBN: 9781442434943

Publication Date: 2012-03-06

Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Call Number: Fiction, Huxley, A

Publication Date: 1932

Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit.

What My Mother Doesn't Know - Sonya Sones

Call Number: Fiction Sones, S

Publication Date: 2001

Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

Gossip Girl - Cecily von Ziegesar

ISBN: 0316910333

Publication Date: 2002-04-01

Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

ISBN: 0060935464

Publication Date: 2002-03-05

Reasons: offensive language; racism

Selected titles for adults that have been challenged, restricted, removed, or banned in recent years.

Visit your local public library for more.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Call Number: Fiction TWAIN,M

A Clockwork Orange

Call Number: Fiction BURGESS,A

The Color Purple

Call Number: Fiction WALKER,A

Gone With the Wind

Call Number: Fiction MITCHELL,M

The Invisible Man

Call Number: Fiction ELLISON,R

The Kite Runner

Call Number: Fiction HOSSEINI,K

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

Call Number:  741.5973 MOORE

Lolita

Call Number: Fiction NABOKOV,V

Lovely Bones

Call Number: Fiction SEBOLD,A

A Prayer For Owen Meany

Call Number: Fiction IRVING,J

The Prince of Tides

Call Number:  Fiction CONROY,P

Running With Scissors: a memoir

Call Number: B BURROUGHS,A

Song of Solomon

Call Number: Fiction MORRISON

To Kill a Mockingbird

Call Number: Fiction, LEE,H

Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Call Number: Fiction MAGUIRE,G