The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2001

This list was provided by the American Library Association.
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I have provided an order link for each book in case they are difficult to find in your area.  Following this link will take you to Amazon.com to complete your order.

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier (the “Most Challenged” fiction book of 1998), for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, for sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence and being unsuited to age group.

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene for racism, offensive language and being sexually explicit.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger for offensive language and being unsuited to age group.

Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, for being sexually explicit, using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous for being sexually explicit, for offensive language and drug use.

Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, for offensive language and being unsuited to age group.

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause for being sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.

Books Challenged in the 1990s
(compiled from various sources)

This is a list of books which have been challenged in libraries and schools for any number of reasons throughout the 90s.  Reasons given (if known) are listed beneath the title in question.  I have provided an order link for each book in case they are hard to find in your area.  Following this link will take you to Amazon.com to complete your order.

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group

The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn     Mark Twain

A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Peck

Christine Stephen King

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou

Night Chills Dean Koontz

Lord of the Flies William Golding

A Separate Peace John Knowles

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

The Color Purple Alice Walker
for sexual content and offensive language

The Learning Tree Gordon Parks

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Cujo Stephen King

Grendel John Gardner

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
for its sexual content

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez