The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000*

1.  Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz 
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 
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 
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 
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry 
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris 
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine 
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 
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous 
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers 
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak 
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard 
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl 
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein 
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole 
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane 
32. Blubber by Judy Blume 
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan 
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam 
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier 
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry 
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George 
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras 
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison 
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel 
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard 
46. Deenie by Judy Blume 
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden 
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar 
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz 
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 Joanna Cole 
55. Cujo by Stephen King 
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 
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 
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras 
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly 
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher 
65. Fade by Robert Cormier 
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox 
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende 
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney 
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 
71. Native Son by Richard Wright 
72. Women on 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 
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle 
77. Carrie by Stephen King 
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume 
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge 
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein 
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole 
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 Rodriguez 
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern 
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford 
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene 
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman 
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher 
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis 
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene 
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy 
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell 
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts 
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney 
100.Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

*Out of 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported.

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