The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 Found in the Bessie Chin Library September 2005

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
2. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
6. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. The Giver by Lois Lowry
9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
11. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
12. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
13. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
14. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
15. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
16. Blubber by Judy Blume
17. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
18. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
19. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
20. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
21. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
22. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
23. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
24. Beloved by Toni Morrison
25. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
26. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
27. Deenie by Judy Blume
28. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
29. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
30. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
31. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
32. Cujo by Stephen King
33. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
34. Fade by Robert Cormier
35. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
36. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
37. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
38. Native Son by Richard Wright
39. Jack by A.M. Homes
40. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
41. Carrie by Stephen King
42. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
43. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
44. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
45. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
46. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
47. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
48. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
49. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
50. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
51. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts