My Favorite Banned Books

This week is Banned Books Week!

To celebrate, I'm posting this very simple update to list out books from my childhood and adulthood (or while working with kids that I discovered later) that have been banned/almost banned overtime that I think you should read:

• A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein

• Animal Farm - George Orwell

• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

• Black is a Rainbow Color - Angela Joy

• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

• Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

• Dragon Ball (series) - Akira Toriyama

• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

• Fences - August Wilson

• Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

• Gideon the Ninth (series) - Tasmyn Muir

• Goosebumps series - RL Stine

• Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss

• Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

• Hop on Pop - Dr. Seuss

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

• James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

• Lord of the Flies - William Golding

• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

• Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

• Paper Towns - John Green

• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

• The Amulet of Samarkand series - Jonathan Stroud

• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

• The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins

• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

• The Lorax - Dr. Seuss

• The Lord of the Rings series - JRR Tolkien

• The Witch Boy series - Molly Knox Ostertag

• The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

• The Martian - Andy Weir

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

• The Walking Dead (series) - Robert Kirkman

• This Day in June - Gayle E. Pitman

• When Aidan Became a Brother - Kyle Lukoff

• Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

It's difficult to find a complete list of books that have been censored or challenged over the decades, but of the lists I could find, these were the ones I remembered reading that are worth calling out to you all now.

Happy reading!