American Library Association's
Most Frequently Challenged Books of the 2000's
Currently: 5/53*
*The list released each decade by the ALA has 100 books, ranked by frequency of challenge. The above listed count removes duplicates from the previous decades' lists.
And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
His Dark Materials (series)
Philip Pullman
ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series)
Lauren Myracle
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Captain Underpants (series)
Dav Pilkey
King and King
Linda de Haan
Gossip Girl (series)
Cecily von Ziegesar
What My Mother Doesn’t Know
Sonya Sones
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
Carolyn Mackler
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging
Louise Rennison
It’s So Amazing
Robie Harris
Arming America
Michael Bellasiles
Life is Funny
E.R. Frank
Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher
The Fighting Ground
Avi
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: The First Graphic Novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the creators of Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey
Rainbow Boys
Alex Sanchez
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Daughters of Eve
Lois Duncan
You Hear Me?
Betsy Franco
The Facts Speak for Themselves
Brock Cole
When Dad Killed Mom
Julius Lester
Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Fat Kid Rules the World
K.L. Going
Olive’s Ocean
Kevin Henkes
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Draw Me A Star
Eric Carle
The Terrorist
Caroline B. Cooney
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park
The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor
A Time to Kill
John Grisham
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Harris and Me
Gary Paulsen
Junie B. Jones (series)
Barbara Park
What’s Happening to My Body Book
Lynda Madaras
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
Crazy: A Novel
Benjamin Lebert
The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Deal With It!
Esther Drill
Detour for Emmy
Marilyn Reynolds
So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Yoko Watkins
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher
Cut
Patricia McCormick
Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissenger
Shade’s Children
Garth Nix
Grendel
John Gardner
I Saw Esau
Iona Opte
America: A Novel
E.R. Frank