LibGuides: Banned Books Week: Banned Books 2010-2015

Most frequently banned and challenged books from 2010 to 2015

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
Call Number: UNF General Collections -- PZ7.S74113Bd 2007

ISBN: 0553495097

Publication Date: 2007-06-12

Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin (Photographer)
ISBN: 0763673684

Publication Date: 2015-03-10

Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints”).
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
Reasons: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints”).
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
ISBN: 0446600253

Publication Date: 1994-04-01

Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
The Curious Indicent of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Call Number: UNF General Collections -- PR6058 .A35 C87 2004

ISBN: 0099450259

Reasons: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”).
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
ISBN: 0545326982

Publication Date: 2012-09-01

sexually explicit
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”).
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Call Number: UNF General Collections -- PN6727.B3757Z46 2007

ISBN: 0618871713

Reasons: Violence and other (“graphic images”).
Habibi by Craig Thompson
Reasons: Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich by Alice Childress
Call Number: UNF General Collections Curriculum Collection -- YPZ7.C4412He

ISBN: 0698202783

Publication Date: 1973-09-28
The Holy Bible
Reasons: Religious viewpoint.
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group.
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris; Michael Emberley (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNF General Collections Curriculum Collection -- YR420.H37I87 1994

ISBN: 1564021599

Publication Date: 1996-02-01

Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group. Additional reasons: “alleges it child pornography”
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Call Number: UNF Curriculum Collection -- YPZ7.G8233Lo 2005

ISBN: 0525475060

Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
Nasreen's Secret School by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNF Curriculum Collection -- YDM300.W56N37 2009

ISBN: 1416994378

Publication Date: 2009-10-06

Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, and violence.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
ISBN: 1439122431

Publication Date: 2010-06-29

drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, date rape and masturbation
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan; Fiona Staples (Artist, Cover Design by)
ISBN: 1607066017

Publication Date: 2012-10-23

Anti-Family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Additional reasons:
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
ISBN: 1451629184

Publication Date: 2011-07-12

drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Reasons: Homosexuality and other (“condones public displays of affection”).
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones; Charise Mericle Harper (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNF General Collections Curriculum Collection -- YPZ7.S6978Wh 2001

ISBN: 0689841140

Publication Date: 2001-10-01

nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, sexism, unsuited for age group
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: UNF General Collections -- PS3608.O832K58 2003

ISBN: 1573222453

Publication Date: 2003-06-02

offensive language, violence, unsuited for age group, homosexuality, sexually explicit, religious viewpoint
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNF General Collections Curriculum Collection -- YPZ10.3.R414Tan 2005

ISBN: 9780689878459

Publication Date: 2005-06-01

anti-family, homosexuality, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, promotes the homosexual agenda
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: UNF General Collections Curriculum Collection -- YPZ7.C6837Hun 2008

ISBN: 0439023483

Publication Date: 2008-10-01

religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, violence, unsuited for age group, anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/satanic
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich; Frances Fox Piven
Call Number: UNF General Collections -- HD4918.E375 2002

ISBN: 0805063897

Publication Date: 2002-05-01

drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie; Ellen Forney (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNF General Collections Curriculum Collection -- YPZ7.A382Ab 2007

ISBN: 0316013684

Publication Date: 2007-09-12

nti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs/alcohol/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence, depictions of bullying