American Library Association's "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000"

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Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. These are those books most banned between the years 1990 and 2000.

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  1. 51.
    A Light in the Attic
    by Shel Silverstein
  2. 52.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  3. 53.
    Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
    by A.N. Roquelaure
  5. 55.
    Cujo
    by Stephen King
  6. 56.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl
  7. 57.
    The Anarchist Cookbook (C-066)
    by William Powell
  8. 58.
    ?
    Boys and Sex
    by Wardell Pomeroy
  9. 59.
    Ordinary People
    by Judith Guest
  10. 60.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  11. 61.
  12. 62.
    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    by JUDY BLUME
  13. 63.
    Crazy Lady!
    by Jane Conly
  14. 64.
    Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
    by Chris Crutcher
  15. 65.
    Fade (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Robert Cormier
  16. 66.
    Guess What?
    by Mem Fox
  17. 67.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  18. 68.
    The Face on the Milk Carton
    by Caroline B. Cooney
  19. 69.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  20. 70.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  21. 71.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright
  23. 73.
    ?
    Curses, Hexes and Spells (The Weird and horrible library)
    by Daniel Cohen
  24. 74.
    Jack
    by A.M. Homes
  25. 75.
    Bless Me, Ultima
    by Rudolfo Anaya
  26. 76.
    Where Did I Come From?
    by Peter Mayle
  27. 77.
    Carrie
    by Stephen King
  28. 78.
    Tiger Eyes
    by Judy Blume
  29. 79.
    On My Honor
    by Marion Dane Bauer
  30. 80.
    The Arizona Kid
    by Ron Koertge
  31. 81.
    ?
    Family Secrets
    by Norma Klein
  32. 82.
    Mommy Laid an Egg: Or, Where Do Babies Come from?
    by Babette Cole
  33. 83.
    The Dead Zone (Signet)
    by Stephen King
  34. 84.
  35. 85.
    Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison
  36. 86.
    Always Running
    by Luis J. Rodriguez
  37. 87.
    Private Parts
    by Howard Stern
  38. 88.
    Where's Waldo?
    by Martin Handford
  39. 89.
    Summer of My German Soldier (Young Puffin)
    by Bette Greene
  40. 90.
    The Little Black Sambo Story Book
    by Helen Bannerman
  41. 91.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett
  42. 92.
    Running Loose
    by Chris Crutcher
  43. 93.
    Sex Education
    by Jenny Davis
  44. 94.
    Drowning of Stephan Jones, The
    by Bette Greene
  45. 95.
    Girls and Sex
    by Wardell Pomeroy
  46. 96.
    How to Eat Fried Worms
    by Thomas Rockwell
  47. 97.
    The View From the Cherry Tree
    by Willo Davis Roberts
  48. 98.
    The Headless Cupid
    by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  49. 99.
    ?
    The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney

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Perlle

I resisted... — 6 years ago

adding this list for a long time because of all the sex ed books. I really have no interest in reading those, but on principle, I think we should all read the books others have deemed dangerous enough to ban. What better way to vote against censorship?

Sep 13, 01:03PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

lcarney

good old judy blume — 6 years ago

always getting banned for nothing.

Aug 24, 04:10AM | 0 comments | Reply to this


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