Don’t Read That! Banned Books In America

Books mentioned in presentation (Youth-Children or youth book) (YA-Young Adult)

  1. “New English Canaan” by Thomas Morton (1637)
  2. “The Family Shakespeare” by Thomas Bowdler (1807)
  3. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851)
  4. “Family Limitation” by Margaret Sanger (1914)
  5. “Ulysses” by James Joyce (1921)
  6. “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman (1855)
  7. “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemmingway (1929)
  8. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck (1937)
  9. “The Rabbit’s Wedding” by Garth Williams  (Youth, 1954)
  10. “The Naked Lunch” William S. Burroughs (1965)
  11. “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  12. “Daddy’s Roommate” by Michael Willhoite (Youth 1994)
  13. “Heather Has Two Mommies” by Leslea Newman (Youth 1989)
  14. “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe (2022)
  15. “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison (1970)
  16. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (YA 1999)
  17. “Shopgirl” by Steve Martin (2000)
  18. “1984” by George Orwell (1949)
  19. “Catcher in the Rye” by JD Salinger (YA 1951)
  20. “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain (YA 1884)
  21. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain (YA 1876)
  22. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell (YA 1945)
  23. “Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl” by Anne Frank (1946)
  24. “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” by Judy Blume (YA 1970)
  25. “Blubber” by Judy Blume ( YA1974)
  26. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley  (1931)
  27. “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson (YA 1977)
  28. Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey (Youth 1997-2015)
  29. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker (1982)
  30. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury (1953)
  31. “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
  32. Goosebumps (series)   by R. L. Stine     ( YA 1992-1997)
  33. Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling  (YA 1997-2007)
  34. “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl (Youth 1961)
  35. “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair (1906)
  36. “A Light in the Attic” by Shel Silverstein   (Youth 1981)
  37. “My Mom’s Having a Baby!” By Dori Hillestad Butler (Youth 2005)
  38. “The Outsiders” by  S. E. Hinton (YA 1967)
  39. “Sex is a Funny Word” by Cory Silverberg (YA 2015)
  40. “Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice”  by Marianne Celano PhD (Youth 2018)
  41. “What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys” & “What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls” by  Lynda Madaras (YA 1987/2007)
  42. “Where Did I Come From?” by Peter Mayle (Youth 1973)
  43. “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle (YA 1963)
  44. “Worm Loves Worm”  by J.J Austrian (Youth 2014)
  45. “Prince & Knight” by Daniel Haack (Youth 2018)
  46. “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor (Youth 1976)
  47. “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss (Youth 1971)
  48. “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein (Youth 1964)
  49. “The Family Book” By: Todd Parr (Youth 2003)
  50. “Hop On Pop” by Dr. Seuss (Youth 1963)
  51. “The Stupids Step Out” by Harry Allard (Youth 1972)
  52. “Harriet the Spy” By: Louise Fitzhugh (Youth 1964)