I decided I wanted to do my own banned books challenge. I found this list of the most frequently banned books in the 1990’s and I plan to read every one. However since I have so many challenges going, I’m not putting any time limit on it. Some of the books on this list are already a part of other challenges too.
If I’ve reviewed the book here, it will be a link.
Some are picture books and some, I’ll never understand the reasoning.
THE LIST
Impressions Edited by Jack Booth et al.
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzThe Witches by Roald Dahl
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Blubber by Judy BlumeRevolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
Christine by Stephen King
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
Night Chills by Dean KoontzLord of the Flies by William Golding
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cujo by Stephen King
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Grendel by John Champlin GardnerI Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Pigman by Paul Zindel
My House by Nikki Giovanni
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz