List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

This list of most commonly challenged books lists some of the books challenged in the United States.

In the United States, many books have been challenged by a variety of groups and agencies to prevent a particular work from being read by the general public. In recent years, it has become more common for those challenging the availability of a book to do so on a local level, targeting public libraries and school libraries. Many communities have a formal process by which a citizen may challenge the public availability of a work.

List

List of most commonly challenged books in the United States (Alphabetical order)

Title	Author	Source
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	ALA
Alice series	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	ALA [2]
All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren	Rad
Always Running	Luis J. Rodriguez	ALA [66]
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis	ALA
An American Tragedy	Theodore Dreiser	Rad
The Anarchist Cookbook	William Powell	ALA
Anastasia Again!	Lois Lowry	ALA [81]
And Tango Makes Three	Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell	ALA [9]
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison	ALA [32]
Annie on My Mind	Nancy Garden	ALA
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret	Judy Blume	ALA [82]
Arming America	Michael Bellasiles	ALA [34]
Arizona Kid	Ron Koertge	ALA
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	Rad
Asking About Sex and Growing Up	Joanna Cole	ALA
Athletic Shorts	Chris Crutcher	ALA [38]
Beloved	Toni Morrison	ALA [24] /Rad
Black Boy	Richard Wright	ALA [67]
Bless Me, Ultima	Rudolfo A. Anaya	ALA [39]
Blood and Chocolate	Annette Curtis Klause	ALA [54]
Blubber	Judy Blume	ALA [36]
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	ALA [12]
The Boy Who Lost His Face	Louis Sachar	ALA [79]
Boys and Sex	Wardell Pomeroy	ALA
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	ALA [37] /Rad
Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson	ALA [20]
Bumps in the Night	Harry Allard	ALA [83]
The Call of the Wild	Jack London	Rad
Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey	ALA [10]
Carrie	Stephen King	ALA
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	ALA [19] /Rad
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	Rad
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut	Rad
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier	ALA [3]
Christine	Stephen King	ALA
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	Rad
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	ALA [14] /Rad
Crank	Ellen Hopkins	ALA
Crazy Lady!	Jane Conly	ALA [42]
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat	Alvin Schwartz	ALA
Cujo	Stephen King	ALA
Curses, Hexes and Spells	Daniel Cohen	ALA
Cut	Patricia McCormick	ALA [86]
Daddy's Roommate	Michael Willhoite	ALA
A Day No Pigs Would Die	Robert Newton Peck	ALA
The Dead Zone	Stephen King	ALA
Deenie	Judy Blume	ALA
Detour for Emmy	Marilyn Reynolds	ALA
The Drowning of Stephan Jones	Bette Greene	ALA
Earth's Children (series)	Jean M. Auel	ALA
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	ALA
The Face on the Milk Carton	Caroline B. Cooney	ALA
Fade	Robert Cormier	ALA
Fallen Angels	Walter Dean Myers	ALA
Family Secrets	Norma Klein	ALA
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	Rad
Final Exit	Derek Humphry	ALA
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	ALA
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	Rad
Forever	Judy Blume	ALA
Girls and Sex	Wardell Pomeroy	ALA
The Giver	Lois Lowry	ALA [014]
Go Ask Alice	Anonymous	ALA
Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	Rad
The Goats	Brock Cole	ALA
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	Rad
Goosebumps (series)	R. L. Stine	ALA
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	Rad
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Rad
The Great Gilly Hopkins	Katherine Paterson	ALA
Guess What?	Mem Fox	ALA
Halloween ABC	Eve Merriam	ALA
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	ALA
Harry Potter (series)	J. K. Rowling	ALA
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	Rad
Heather Has Two Mommies	Lesléa Newman	ALA
The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	ALA
How to Eat Fried Worms	Thomas Rockwell	ALA
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	ALA
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	ALA
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	Rad
In the Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak	ALA
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	Rad
It's Perfectly Normal	Robie Harris	ALA
It's So Amazing	Robie Harris	ALA
Jack	A. M. Homes	ALA
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl	ALA
Jay's Journal	Anonymous	ALA
Julie of the Wolves	Jean Craighead George	ALA
Jump Ship to Freedom	James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier	ALA
Jumper	Steven Gould	ALA
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	Rad
Kaffir Boy	Mark Mathabane	ALA
Killing Mr. Griffin	Lois Duncan	ALA
Lady Chatterley's Lover	D. H. Lawrence	Rad
A Light in the Attic	Shel Silverstein	ALA
Little Black Sambo	Helen Bannerman	ALA
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Rad
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	ALA/ Rad
Mommy Laid An Egg	Babette Cole	ALA
My Brother Sam Is Dead	James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier	ALA
The Naked and the Dead	Norman Mailer	Rad
Naked Lunch	William S. Burroughs	Rad
Native Son	Richard Wright	ALA /Rad
The New Joy of Gay Sex	Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano	ALA
Nineteen Eighty-four (1984)	George Orwell	Rad
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	ALA /Rad
On My Honor	Marion Dane Bauer	ALA
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey	Rad
Ordinary People	Judith Guest	ALA
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	ALA
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	ALA
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	ALA
The Pigman	Paul Zindel	ALA
Private Parts	Howard Stern	ALA
Rabbit, Run	John Updike	Rad
The Rabbit's Wedding	Garth Williams	ALA
Rainbow Boys	Alex Sánchez	ALA
Running Loose	Chris Crutcher	ALA
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	Rad
Scary Stories (series)	Alvin Schwartz	ALA
A Separate Peace	John Knowles	Rad
Sex	Madonna	ALA
Sex Education	Jenny Davis	ALA
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	ALA [069] /Rad
The Sledding Hill	Chris Crutcher	ALA
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy	A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)	ALA
Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison	ALA /Rad
Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence	Rad
The Stupids (series)	Harry Allard	ALA
Summer of My German Soldier	Bette Greene	ALA
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	Rad
That Was Then, This Is Now	S. E. Hinton	ALA
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	Rad
Tiger Eyes	Judy Blume	ALA
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	ALA [041] /Rad
Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	Rad
Ulysses	James Joyce	Rad
View from the Cherry Tree	Willo Davis Roberts	ALA
We All Fall Down	Robert Cormier	ALA
Whale Talk	Chris Crutcher	ALA
What My Mother Doesn't Know	Sonya Sones	ALA
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons	Lynda Madaras	ALA
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters	Lynda Madaras	ALA
Where Did I Come From?	Peter Mayle	ALA
The Wish Giver	Bill Brittain	ALA
The Witches	Roald Dahl	ALA
Women in Love	D. H. Lawrence	Rad
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Sexual Fantasies	Nancy Friday	ALA
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	ALA

See also

• List of books banned by governments