Bartcop Entertainment - Top 100 Banned Books
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Banned Book Week is Sept. 21-28 (2002)
Here are the 100 most frequently banned books in the last decade.
1. Scary Stories (series) - Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy's Roommate - Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling
8. Forever - Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (series) - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather has Two Mommies - Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead - James Lincoln Collier and Christoper Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver - Lois Lowry
15. It's Perfectly Normal - Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (series) - R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
19. Sex - Madonna
20. Earth's Children (series) - Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
23. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
24. Fallen Angles - Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen - Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (series) - Harry Allard
27. The Witches - Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex - Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (series) - Loise Lowry
30. The Goats - Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber - Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin - Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC - Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down - Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit - Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
40. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls - by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
42. Beloved - Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman - Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night - Harry Allard
46. Deenie - Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face - Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat - Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy - A.N. Roquelaure
54. Asking about Sex and Growing Up - Joanna Cole
55. Cujo - Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook - William Powell
58. Boys and Sex - Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People - Judith Guest
60. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
61. What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys - Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady - Jame Conly
64. Athletic Shorts - Chris Crutcher
65. Fade - Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? - Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton - Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
71. Native Son - Richard Wright
72. Women on Top - Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells - Daniel Cohen
74. Jack - A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? - Peter Mayle
77. Carrie - Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
79. On My Honor - Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid - Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets - Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid an Egg - Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone - Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
86. Always Running - Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts - Howard Stern
88. Where's Waldo? - Martin Hanford
89. Summer of my German Soldier - Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo - Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
92. Running Loose - Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education - Jenny Davis
94. The Drowing of Stephen Jones - Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex - Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell
97. View From the Cherry Tree - Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist - Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom - James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
I hope that everyone who loves books and hates censorship will
join me in reading at least one banned book between Sept 21 and Sept 28.
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