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Challenged Books List

This list is in no way comprehensive, but I am always working on it. For more complete lists, please use these links:

Book in bold are ones I have read. Books I have reviewed, will be linked. To see other bloggers reviews, please see this page.

Anti-Religious or Occult Themes

  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
  • The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  • Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Gay-Positive Theme, Homosexuality

  • Baby Be-Bop by Fracesca Lia Block
  • My Father’s Scar by Michael Cart
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • Am I Blue? by Bruce Coville
  • In the Time I Get by Chris Crutcher
  • Eight Seconds by Jean Ferris
  • The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein
  • The Bermudez Trangle by Maureen Johnson
  • Brokeback Mountain by E. Annie Proulx
  • And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson

Political

  • Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Candide by Voltaire

Profanity (may include Racial Slurs)

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
  • Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  • A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  • All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn by Mark Twain
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright

Sexual Content (may include Rape, Incest, Masturbation)

  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  • Paula by Isabel Allende
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Flowers In The Attic by V.C. Andrews
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • Deenie by Judy Blume
  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  • Krik! Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Sexual Content, Anti-Religious

  • The Handmaids’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Sexual Content, Strong Language/Profanity/Racial Slurs

  • Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alarez
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • Red Sky At Morning by Richard Bradford
  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher
  • Stotan by Chris Crutcher
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Howl by Alan Ginsberg
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Gossip Girls series by Cecily von Ziegesar
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Violence, Language

  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Beach Music by Pat Conroy
  • My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
  • The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
  • The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
  • The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  • The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  • Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Violence, Sexual Content

  • Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
  • Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  • We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
  • Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry (incl subjects of euthanasia & suicide)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
  • Native Son by Richard Wright