The 100 most Frequently Challenged Books of 1900 — 2000
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz, Mobile Public Library
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, Mobile Public Library
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling,
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Mobile Public Library Video
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, Mobile Public Library
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry, Mobile Public Library
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris, Mobile Public Library
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine, Mobile Public Library
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson, Mobile Public Library
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Mobile Public Library
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Mobile Public Library
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak, Mobile Public Library
26. The Stupids by Harry Allard, Mobile Public Library
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl, Mobile Public Library
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry, Mobile Public Library
30. The Goats by Brock Cole, Mobile Public Library
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane, Mobile Public Library
32. Blubber by Judy Blume, Mobile Public Library
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam, Mobile Public Library
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Comier, Mobile Public Library
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry, Mobile Public Library
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, Mobile Public Library
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Mobile Public Library
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras, Mobile Public Library
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Mobile Public Library
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel, Mobile Public Library
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard, Mobile Public Library
46. Deenie by Judy Blume, Mobile Public Library
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Luis Sachar, Mobile Public Library
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz, Mobile Public Library
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanne Cole, Mobile Public Library
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Mobile Public Library
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Mobile Public Library
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, Mobile Public Library
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly, Mobile Public Library
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher, Mobile Public Library
65. Fade by Robert Comier, Mobile Public Library
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox, Mobile Public Library
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende, Mobile Public Library
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney, Mobile Public Library
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on the Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya, USA Bookstacks PS 3551 .N27 B58
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle, Mobile Public Library
77. Carrie by Stephen King, Mobile Public Library
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume, Mobile Public Library
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer, Mobile Public Library
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid an Egg by Babette Cole
Mobile Public Library
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriquez, USA Bookstacks HV 6439 .U72 L77
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern, Mobile Public Library
88. Where’s Waldo? By Martin Hanford, Mobile Public Library
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greeene, Mobile Public Library
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman, Mobile Public Library
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, USA Bookstacks PR 6056 .O45 P55
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis, Mobile Public Library
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy, Mobile Public Library
96. How to East Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell, Mobile Public Library
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts, Mobile Public Library
98. The Headless Child by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Mobile Public Library
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney, Mobile Public Library
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier