Burn Those Damned Books!
My favourite banned or challenged books and the reason they caught heat!





Harry Potter series
J.K. Rowling
Presence of witchcraft, anti-family themes, violence, desensitizes children to the evils of the world, unsuitable for age group, sets a bad example, violence, death
Little Red Riding Hood
Trina Schart Hyman
Alcohol is consumed (and enjoyed)
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Talking animals are sacrilegious and disrespectful to god, and are therefore the work of the devil
Hansel and Gretel
The Brothers Grimm
The children commit murder and the witch gives witches a bad name!
And Tango Makes Three
Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson
Encouragement of a damaging lifestyle, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage
Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Sexual content and supernatural themes
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Themes of homosexuality, alcoholism, and infidelity
Drama
Raina Telgemeier
LGBT characters, sexually explicit, has an offensive political viewpoint
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Offensive language, bullying, fat shaming, and sexual content
George
Alex Gino
The inclusion of a transgender child and discussions of sexuality are not appropriate for age level
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, violence, anti-family
It's So Perfectly Normal & It's So Amazing
Robie Harris
Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, "child pornography," sexual content
Saga
Brian K. Vaughan
Anti-family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
The Witches
Roald Dahl
Misogyny, encouraging disobedience, violence, animal cruelty, obscene language, supernatural themes
This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki
LGBT characters, drug use, profanity, sexually explicit





