Banned Book Week 2016 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2015-2016 – Title List

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
• Amityville – John Perritano
• Art History: Eighteenth to Twenty-First Century Art – Marilyn Stokstad
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out – Susan Kuklin
• Cal – Benard MacLaverty
• City of Thieves – David Benioff
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
• Daughter of the Forest – Juliet Marlillier
• Dead Poets Society – N. H. Kleinbaum
• Death and the Maiden – Ariel Dorfman
• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements – Sam Kean
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James
• For Every Child a Better World – Jim Henson
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
• Glass – Ellen Hopkins
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannette Walls
• Habibi – Craig Thompson
• History Alive!: The Medieval World and Beyond – Bert Bower and Jim Lobdell
• The Holy Bible
• I am Jazz – Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
• Into the River – Ted Dawe
• Jean Has Two Moms – Ophelie Texier
• Just One Day – Gayle Forman
• King & King – Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq – Jeanette Winter
• Little Egg (Piccolo Uovo) – Francesca Pardi
• Looking For Alaska – John Green
• My Princess Boy – Cheryl Kilodavis
• The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahri
• Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afganistan – Jeanette Winter
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories – Gilbert Hernandez
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
• The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Kathryn Harper
• Some Girls Are – Courney Summers
• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
• This Book is Gay – James Dawson
• This Day in June – Gayle E. Pittman
• This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• Tintin in America – Herge [Georges Remi]
• Two Boys Kissing – David Levithan
• Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1 – Brian Vaughan

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For additional information contact

Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575

Last updated

September 12, 2016