American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has been documenting attempts to ban books in libraries and schools since 1990. Top 100 banned books list of past decade with author names, check the top 100 most banned and challenged books of 2010-2019 along with author names published by ALA. The OIF has compiled this list of the most banned and challenged books from 2010-2019 based on reviews from both the public and confidential censorship reports that it received.
This top 100 banned books list draws attention to literary censorship but only provides a snapshot of book challenges. About 82-97% of challenges remain unreported, estimates OIF, which compared results from several independent studies of third-party FOIA requests documenting school and library book censorship with the information in its database.
OIF offers direct support to communities to defend their right to access information. If you’re able, please consider a donation to OIF to ensure this important work continues. The list of 100 notable banned or challenged books throughout 2010 to 2019 can be checked here.
Top 100 Banned Books List of Past Decade
| Book Name | Author |
|---|---|
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie |
| Captain Underpants (series) | Dav Pilkey |
| Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green |
| George | Alex Gino |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell |
| Drama | Raina Telgemeier |
| Fifty Shades of Grey | E. L. James |
| Internet Girls (series) | Lauren Myracle |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins |
| I Am Jazz | Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Bone (series) | Jeff Smith |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
| Two Boys Kissing | David Levithan |
| A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo | Jill Twiss |
| Sex is a Funny Word | Cory Silverberg |
| Alice McKinley (series) | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| It’s Perfectly Normal | Robie H. Harris |
| Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult |
| Scary Stories (series) | Alvin Schwartz |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| A Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out | Susan Kuklin |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Alison Bechdel |
| It’s a Book | Lane Smith |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien |
| What My Mother Doesn’t Know | Sonya Sones |
| A Child Called “It” | Dave Pelzer |
| Bad Kitty (series) | Nick Bruel |
| Crank | Ellen Hopkins |
| Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi |
| The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby | Dav Pilkey |
| This Day in June | Gayle E. Pitman |
| This One Summer | Mariko Tamaki |
| A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl | Tanya Lee Stone |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Goosebumps (series) | R.L. Stine |
| In Our Mothers’ House | Patricia Polacco |
| Lush | Natasha Friend |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| The Holy Bible | |
| This Book is Gay | Juno Dawson |
| Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Gossip Girl (series) | Cecily von Ziegesar |
| House of Night (series) | P.C. Cast |
| My Mom’s Having A Baby | Dori Hillestad Butler |
| Neonomicon | Alan Moore |
| The Dirty Cowboy | Amy Timberlake |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolfo Anaya |
| Draw Me a Star | Eric Carle |
| Dreaming In Cuban | Cristina Garcia |
| Fade | Lisa McMann |
| The Family Book | Todd Parr |
| Feed | M.T. Anderson |
| Go the Fuck to Sleep | Adam Mansbach |
| Habibi | Craig Thompson |
| House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende |
| Jacob’s New Dress | Sarah Hoffman |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers |
| Nasreen’s Secret School | Jeanette Winter |
| Saga | Brian K. Vaughan |
| Stuck in the Middle | Ariel Schrag |
| The Kingdom of Little Wounds | Susann Cokal |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| Almost Perfect | Brian Katcher |
| Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Burned | Ellen Hopkins |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Fallen Angels | Walter Dean Myers |
| Glass | Ellen Hopkins |
| Heather Has Two Mommies | Lesle´a Newman |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Madeline and the Gypsies | Ludwig Bemelmans |
| My Princess Boy | Cheryl Kilodavis |
| Prince and Knight | Daniel Haack |
| Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology | Amy Sonnie |
| Skippyjon Jones (series) | Judith Schachner |
| So Far from the Bamboo Grove | Yoko Kawashima Watkins |
| The Color of Earth (series) | Tong-hwa Kim |
| The Librarian of Basra | Jeanette Winter |
| The Walking Dead (series) | Robert Kirkman |
| Tricks | Ellen Hopkins |
| Uncle Bobby’s Wedding | Sarah S Brannen |
| Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
You can click at the direct link – Most Challenged & Banned Books to check top 100 most challenged and banned books published by ALA. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and the order is arbitrary.
There are different reasons for banning or challenging these books and can include objections to their content, themes, language, or perceived unsuitability for certain audiences.
