Celebrate Banned Books Week

In honor of Banned Books Week, practice your intellectual freedom and make it a point to read some of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009.


Turn this list into a meme. Bold the ones you've read and star the ones you plan to read. Then do something to combat censorship: read some of those books this week!

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 Myracle, Lauren
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. Griffin, 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, by George Beard
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 Graighead 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 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