Banned Book Week 2020 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2019-2020 – Title List

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• All Titles by L. Ron Hubbard – L. Ron Hubbard
• Almost Perfect – Brian Katcher
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things – Lenore Look
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
• Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel – Diana Lopez
• Assassination Classroom series – Yusei Matsui
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out – Susan Kuklin
• Big Bob, Little Bob – James Howe
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• Boot Camp – Todd Strasser
• Can’t Get There From Here – Todd Strasser
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men – Paul Butler
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
• A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo – Jill Twiss
• Dear Martin – Nic Stone
• The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
• Dragons in a Bag – Zetta Elliot
• Drama – Raina Telgemeier
• Dreaming in Cuban – Cristina Garcia
• Families – Shelley Rotner and Shelia M. Kelly
• Flowers From Mariko – Rick Noguchi and Deneen Jenks
• For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sex – Al Vernachio
• Freedom is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World – Zainab Salbi
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
• Gabi, A Girl in Pieces – Isabel Quintero
• Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights with 21 Activities – Jerome Pohlen
• George – Alex Gino
• Girls Like Me – Nina Packebush
• The Giver (A Graphic Novel) – Lois Lowry and P. Craig Russell
• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
• God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State – Lawrence Wright
• Going Green – Heather Ransom
• Goldie Vance – Hope Larson
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Harry Potter series – J. K. Rowling
• Heather has Two Mommies – Leslea Newman
• Howl – Allen Ginsberg
• Hurricane Child – Kacen Callender
• I am Jazz – Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• It Gets Better: Coming out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living – Dan Savage and Terry Miller
• It’s Okay to Be Different – Todd Parr
• It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health – Robie H. Harris
• Jack (Not Jackie) – Erica Silverman
• Jacob’s Room to Choose – Sarah Hoffman and Ian Hoffman
• Jamie is Jamie: A Book About Being Yourself and Playing Your Way – Afsaneh Moradian
• Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
• Killing Mr. Griffin – Lois Duncan
• The Kingdom – Emmanuel Carrere
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Mommy’s Khimar – Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
• My Princess Boy – Cheryl Kilodavis
• My Year in the Middle – Lila Quintero Weaver
• Neither – Airlie Anderson
• Official Overstreet Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide – Steven Cooper
• Other Broken Things – C. Desir
• The Pants Project – Cat Clarke
• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag – Rob Sanders
• Prince & Knight – Daniel Haack
• Rani Patel in Full Effect – Sonia Patel
• Red: A Crayon’s Story – Michael Hall
• Regeneration – Pat Barker
• The Season of You & Me – Robin Constantine
• Sex is a Funny Word – Cory Silverberg
• Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body – Laci Green
• Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up – Jacqui Bailey
• S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties – Heather Corinna
• Shoot Your Shot: A Sport-Inspired Guide to Living Your Best Life – Vernon Brundage, Jr.
• Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad – James Rumford
• So Hard to Say – Alex Sanchez
• Sparkle Boy – Leslea Newman
• Stella Brings the Family – Miriam B. Schiffer
• The Stupids Die – Harry Allard
• They Were Strong and Good – Robert Lawson
• Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Travels of Babar – Jean De Brunhoff
• The Truth About Alice – Jennifer Mathieu
• The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle – Leslie Connor
• Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! – Lynne Truss
• An Unfortunate Coincidence: A Mother’s Life Inside the Autism Controversy – Julie Obradovic
• The Walking Dead series – Robert Kirkman
• Want to Play Trucks? – Ann Stott
• We March – Shane W. Evans
• Weird Girl and What’s His Name – Meagan Brothers
• Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity – Brook Pessin-Whedbee
• Willow and the Wedding – Denise Brennan-Nelson
• Witch Boy – Molly Ostertag
• The Women of Breswter Place – Gloria Naylor
• Worm Loves Worm – J. J. Austrian
• Zora and Me – Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon

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Last updated

August 12, 2020