What are banned books? What does that mean? What is banned books week?
Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events.
Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 according to the American Library Association. There were 307 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2013, and many more go unreported.
For many years now I have been a HUGE advocate for banned books. Here is a list of banned book reviews and other banned book topics of interest.
Banned/Challenged Books List
The below listed books are reviews and the reasons why they were banned/challenged
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Are You There God? It’s My Margaret by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (not a banned book but about censorship)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flowers In The Attic by VC Andrews
Freedom Writer’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the ORDER Of The Phoenix by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D H Lawrence
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Absolute True Diary Of A Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B Cooney
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Perks Of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Wizard Of Oz by Frank Baum
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
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