American Library Association's
Most Frequently Challenged Books of the 1990's
Currently: 17/100
Scary Stories (series)
Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s Roommate
Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Forever
Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Heather Has Two Mommies
Leslea Newman
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Giver
Lois Lowry
My Brother Sam is Dead
James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
It’s Perfectly Normal
Robie Harris
Alice (series)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Goosebumps (series)
R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Sex
Madonna
Earth’s Children (series)
Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson
In the Night Kitchen
Maurice Sendak
The Witches
Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
The New Joy of Gay Sex
Charles Silverstein
Go Ask Alice
Anonymous
The Goats
Brock Cole
The Stupids (series)
Harry Allard
Anastasia Krupnik (series)
Lois Lowry
Final Exit
Derek Humphry
Blubber
Judy Blume
Halloween ABC
Eve Merriam
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters
Lynda Madaras
Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
The Pigman
Paul Zindel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
We All Fall Down
Robert Cormier
Deenie
Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face
Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat
Alvin Schwartz
Harry Potter (series)
J.K. Rowling
Cujo
Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
Ordinary People
Judith Guest
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Bumps in the Night
Harry Allard
Asking About Sex and Growing Up
Joanna Cole
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons
Lynda Madaras
The Anarchist Cookbook
William Powell
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Boys and Sex
Wardell Pomeroy
Crazy Lady
Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts
Chris Crutcher
Killing Mr. Griffin
Lois Duncan
Fade
Robert Cormier
Guess What?
Mem Fox
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Native Son
Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies
Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells
Daniel Cohen
On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer
The House of Spirits
Isabel Allende
Jack
A.M. Homes
Arizona Kid
Ron Koertge
Family Secrets
Norma Klein
Mommy Laid an Egg
Babette Cole
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From?
Peter Mayle
The Face on the Milk Carton
Caroline Cooney
Carrie
Stephen King
The Dead Zone
Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Always Running
Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts
Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo?
Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene
Tiger Eyes
Judy Blume
Little Black Sambo
Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
Running Loose
Chris Crutcher
Sex Education
Jenny Davis
Jumper
Steven Gould
Christine
Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephen Jones
Bette Greene
That Was Then, This is Now
S.E. Hinton
Girls and Sex
Wardell Pomeroy
The Wish Giver
Bill Brittain
Jump Ship to Freedom
James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier