BANNED/CHALLENGED BOOKS

This is a list (adult and children’s books combined) of just some of the most frequently challenged or banned books in . View the full list at freedomtoread.ca All titles on this list are in the collections at WPL.

Atwood, Margaret Handmaid’s Tale

Banned/Challenged Books Babbitt, Natalie Ouch! A Tale from Grimm Banks, Lynne R. Indian in the Cupboard Beiser, Tim Miss Mousie’s Blind Date Bell, Ted Warlord Brown, Ian (ed.) What I Meant to Say : the private lives of men Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange Callaghan, Morley Such is My Beloved Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower Dickey, James Deliverance Doyle, Brian Boy O’Boy Eaton, Maxwell Two Dumb Ducks Eminem The Way I Am Findley, Timothy Fitch, Sheree Sleeping Dragons All Around Flynn, Sarah (ed.) Girls’ Life Head to Toe Guide to You Gaiman, Neil American Gods Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars

Katz, Karen My First Ramadan King, Stephen Different Seasons Laurence, Margaret The Diviners AND Lee, Dennis Lizzy’s Lion Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Lowry, Lois The Giver Mansbach, Adam Go the F**k to Sleep Munro, Alice Lives of Girls and Women Newman, Leslea Donovan’s Big Day Oates, Joyce Carol Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang O’Brien, Dereck Suffer Little Children Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia Patterson, Richard North Silent Witness Proulx, Annie Close Range : Wyoming stories Pullman, Philip His Dark Materials series Richler, Mordecai The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Rohmann, Eric Bone Dog Rowling, J. K. “Harry Potter” series Sanders, Lawrence The Seduction of Peter S Scieszka, Jon Battle Bunny Seuss, Dr. Hop on Pop Smucker, Barbara Underground to Canada Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men Stewart, Jon Earth (the book) Stine, R. L. “Fear Street” and “Goosebumps” series Swan, Susan Last of the Golden Girls Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn Wilder, Laura Ingalls On the Banks of Plum Creek Wilson, John Written in Blood

Challenged Graphic Novels (view complete list at freedomtoread.ca)

Casey, Jo Darth Maul : Sith Apprentice Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book (vol. 1 and 2) Herge Tintin in the Congo Hernandez, Gilbert Love & Rockets LeMire , Jeff Essex County LeMire, Jeff Tales From the Farm Rancourt, Sylvie Melody Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis Tamaki, Mariko This One Summer