Banned Book Week 2021 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2020-2021 – Title List

• 10,000 Dresses – Marcus Ewert
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexi
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• All American Boys – Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation – Susan Napier
• Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaption – Ari Folman
• Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer – Joseph Heller
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• The Cay – Theodore Taylor
• Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again – Donald Trump
• Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse – John Lithgow
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
• Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe
• George – Alex Gino
• Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Great Big Book of Families – Mary Hoffman
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• Hedgehug: A Shap Lesson in Love – Alex Gino
• How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) – Ann Coulter
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World – Ashley Herring Blake
• Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth – Ellen Rodger
• Letting Go – Maya Banks
• Lily and Dunkin – Donna Gephart
• Little & Lion – Brandy Colbert
• Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy – Rey Terciero
• Mommy, Mama, and Me – Leslea Newman
• Monster – Walter Dean Myers
• Montana 1948 – Larry Watson
• My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
• My Two Dads – Claudia Harrington
• My Two moms – Claudia Harrington
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
• Real Sisters Pretend – Megan Dowd Lambert
• Red: A Crayon’s Story – Michael Hall
• Rick – Alex Gino
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Snapdragon – Kat Leyh
• Snow, Glass, Apples – Neil Gaiman
• Somebody Else’s Daughter – Elizabeth Brundage
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice – Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You – Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• A Tale of Two Daddies – Vanita Oelschlager
• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
• This Day in June – Gayle E. Pitman
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The True Adventures of Esther the Wonder Pig – Steve Jenkins, Derek, Walter and Caprice Crane
• When Aidan Became A Brother – Kyle Lukoff
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo
• Wings of Fire series – Tui T. Sutherland

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For additional information contact

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

Last updated

September 15, 2021