50 Most Frequently Challenged Books
By Mike Hersh.com Staff, Jan 6, 2004
The American Library Association and the Office for Intellectual Freedom present the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999: Top 50, more to follow?
1) Scary
Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2) Daddy's
Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3) I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4) The
Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5) The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6) Of
Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7) Forever
by Judy Blume
8) Bridge
to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
9) Heather
Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
10) The
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
11) The
Giver by Lois Lowry
12) My
Brother Sam is Dead by James L. Collier & Christopher Collier
13) It's
Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
14) Alice
(Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
15) Goosebumps
(Series) by R.L. Stine
16) A
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
17) The
Color Purple by Alice Walker
18) Sex
by Madonna
19) Earth's
Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
20) The
Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
21) In
the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
22) The
Witches by Roald Dahl
23) A
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
24) The
New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
25) Go
Ask Alice by Anonymous
26) The
Goats by Brock Cole
27) The
Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
28) Anastasia
Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
29) Final
Exit by Derek Humphry
30) Blubber
by Judy Blume
31) Halloween
ABC by Eve Merriam
32) Julie
of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
33) Kaffir
Boy by Mark Mathabane
34) The
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
35) What's
Happening to my Body? Book for Girls by Lynda Madaras
36) Fallen
Angels by Walter Dean Myers
37) The
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
38) The
Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
39) The
Pigman by Paul Zindel
40) To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
41) We
All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
42) Deenie
by Judy Blume
43) Flowers
for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
44) Annie
on my Mind by Nancy Garden
45) Beloved
by Toni Morrison
46) The
Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
47) Cross
Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
48) Harry
Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
49) Cujo
by Stephen King
50) James
and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Rankings compiled from 5,718 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported.
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