Banned+Books+Week!

= Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 = 1. //Harry Potter// (series), by J.K. Rowling

2. //Alice// series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

3. //The Chocolate War//, by Robert Cormier

4. //And Tango Makes Three//, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell

5. //Of Mice and Men//, by John Steinbeck

6. //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//, by Maya Angelou

7. //Scary Stories// (series), by Alvin Schwartz

8. //His Dark Materials// (series), by Philip Pullman

9. //ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r// (series), by Lauren Myracle

10. //The Perks of Being a Wallflower//, by Stephen Chbosky

11. //Fallen Angels//, by Walter Dean Myers

12. //It’s Perfectly Normal//, by Robie Harris

13. //Captain Underpants// (series), by Dav Pilkey

14. //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//, by Mark Twain

15. //The Bluest Eye//, by Toni Morrison

16. //Forever//, by Judy Blume

17. //The Color Purple//, by Alice Walker

18. //Go Ask Alice//, by Anonymous

19. //Catcher in the Rye//, by J.D. Salinger

20. //King and King//, by Linda de Haan

21. //To Kill A Mockingbird//, by Harper Lee

22. //Gossip Girl// (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar

23. //The Giver//, by Lois Lowry

24. //In the Night Kitchen//, by Maurice Sendak

25. //Killing Mr. Griffen//, by Lois Duncan

26. //Beloved//, by Toni Morrison

27. //My Brother Sam Is Dead//, by James Lincoln Collier

28. //Bridge To Terabithia//, by Katherine Paterson

29. //The Face on the Milk Carton//, by Caroline B. Cooney

30. //We All Fall Down//, by Robert Cormier

31. //What My Mother Doesn’t Know//, by Sonya Sones

32. //Bless Me, Ultima//, by Rudolfo Anaya

33. //Snow Falling on Cedars//, by David Guterson

34. //The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things//, by Carolyn Mackler

35. //Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging//, by Louise Rennison

36. //Brave New World//, by Aldous Huxley

37. //It’s So Amazing//, by Robie Harris

38. //Arming America//, by Michael Bellasiles

39. //Kaffir Boy//, by Mark Mathabane

40. //Life is Funny//, by E.R. Frank

41. //Whale Talk//, by Chris Crutcher

42. //The Fighting Ground//, by Avi

43. //Blubber//, by Judy Blume

44. //Athletic Shorts//, by Chris Crutcher

45. //Crazy Lady//, by Jane Leslie Conly

46. //Slaughterhouse-Five//, by Kurt Vonnegut

47. //The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby//: The First Graphic Novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the creators of Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey

48. //Rainbow Boys//, by Alex Sanchez

49. //One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest//, by Ken Kesey

50. //The Kite Runner//, by Khaled Hosseini

51. //Daughters of Eve//, by Lois Duncan

52. //The Great Gilly Hopkins//, by Katherine Paterson

53. //You Hear Me?//, by Betsy Franco

54. //The Facts Speak for Themselves//, by Brock Cole

55. //Summer of My German Soldier//, by Bette Green

56. //When Dad Killed Mom//, by Julius Lester

57. //Blood and Chocolate//, by Annette Curtis Klause

58. //Fat Kid Rules the World//, by K.L. Going

59. //Olive’s Ocean//, by Kevin Henkes

60. //Speak//, by Laurie Halse Anderson

61. //Draw Me A Star//, by Eric Carle

62. //The Stupids// (series), by Harry Allard

63. //The Terrorist//, by Caroline B. Cooney

64. //Mick Harte Was Here//, by Barbara Park

65. //The Things They Carried//, by Tim O’Brien

66. //Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry//, by Mildred Taylor

67. //A Time to Kill//, by John Grisham

68. //Always Running//, by Luis Rodriguez

69. //Fahrenheit 451//, by Ray Bradbury

70. //Harris and Me//, by Gary Paulsen

71. //Junie B. Jones// (series), by Barbara Park

72. //Song of Solomon//, by Toni Morrison

73. //What’s Happening to My Body// //Book//, by Lynda Madaras

74. //The Lovely Bones//, by Alice Sebold

75. //Anastasia// (series), by Lois Lowry

76. //A Prayer for Owen Meany//, by John Irving

77. //Crazy: A Novel//, by Benjamin Lebert

78. //The Joy of Gay Sex//, by Dr. Charles Silverstein

79. //The Upstairs Room//, by Johanna Reiss

80. //A Day No Pigs Would Die//, by Robert Newton Peck

81. //Black Boy//, by Richard Wright

82. //Deal With It!//, by Esther Drill

83. //Detour for Emmy//, by Marilyn Reynolds

84. //So Far From the Bamboo Grove//, by Yoko Watkins

85. //Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes//, by Chris Crutcher

86. //Cut//, by Patricia McCormick

87. //Tiger Eyes//, by Judy Blume

88. //The Handmaid’s Tale//, by Margaret Atwood

89. //Friday Night Lights//, by H.G. Bissenger

90. //A Wrinkle in Time//, by Madeline L’Engle

91. //Julie of the Wolves//, by Jean Craighead George

92. //The Boy Who Lost His Face//, by Louis Sachar

93. //Bumps in the Night//, by Harry Allard

94. //Goosebumps// (series), by R.L. Stine

95. //Shade’s Children//, by Garth Nix

96. //Grendel//, by John Gardner

97. //The House of the Spirits//, by Isabel Allende

98. //I Saw Esau//, by Iona Opte

99. //Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret//, by Judy Blume

100. //America////: A Novel//, by E.R. Frank