Diversity in Banned/Challenged Books, 2000-09

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1	Title	Author	Author 1 Race	Author 2 Race	Author 1 LGBTQ	Author 2 LGBTQ	Author Disability	Diversity Content of Book/Series

2	A Time to Kill	John Grisham	White					Issue - Race
3	Always Running	Luis Rodriguez	Latino					Main Character - Latino
4	America: A Novel	E.R. Frank	White					Main Character - Biracial
5	And Tango Makes Three	Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell	White	White	Gay	Gay		Issue - LGBT
6	Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret	Judy Blume	White					Issue - Religion
7	Athletic Shorts	Chris Crutcher	White					Issue - Race, Issue - LGBT
8	Beloved	Toni Morrison	Black					Main Character - African American
9	Black Boy	Richard Wright	Black					Main Character - African American
10	Bless Me Ultima	Rudolfo Anaya	Latino					Main Character - Latino
11	Blubber	Judy Blume	White					Secondary Character - Asian American
12	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	White					Issue - Race
13	Captain Underpants (series)	Dav Pilkey	White				ADD
14	Crazy Lady!	Jane Leslie Conly	White					Issue - Disability
15	Crazy: A Novel	Benjamin Lebert	White				Partially Paralyzed	Main Character - Disabled
16	Cut	Patricia McCormick	White					Issue - Mental Illness
17	Deal With It!	Esther Drill, Rebecca Odes, and Heather McDonald	Unknown	Unknown				Secondary Issue - LGBT
18	Fallen Angels	Walter Dean Myers	Black					Main Character - African American
19	Forever	Judy Blume	White					Secondary Character - LGBT
20	Friday Night Lights	H.G. Bissenger	White					Issue - Race
21	Go Ask Alice	Anonymous	White
22	Gossip Girl (series)	Cecily von Ziegesar	White					Secondary Character - LGBT
23	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	Black					Main Character - African American
24	In the Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak	White		Gay
25	It’s Perfectly Normal	Robie Harris	White					Secondary Issue - LGBT
26	It’s So Amazing	Robie Harris	White					Secondary Issue - LGBT
27	Julie of the Wolves	Jean Craighead George	White					Main Character - Indigenous/Yupik
28	Kaffir Boy	Mark Mathabane	Black					Issue - Race
29	King and King	Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland	White	White				Main Character - LGBT
30	Life is Funny	E.R. Frank	White					Main Character - Multiple POC
31	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	White					Main Character - Disabled
32	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken Kesey	White					Issue - Mental Illness, Main Character - Biracial/American Indian
33	Rainbow Boys	Alex Sanchez	Latino		Gay			Main Character - LGBT, Main Character - Latino
34	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor	Black					Main Character - African American
35	Snow Falling on Cedars	David Guterson	White					Issue - Race
36	So Far From the Bamboo Grove	Yoko Kawashima Watkins	Asian					Main Character - Japanese American
37	Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison	Black					Main Character - African American
38	Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson	White					Issue - Mental Illness
39	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes	Chris Crutcher	White					Issue - Mental Illness
40	Summer of My German Soldier	Bette Green	White					Issue - Religion
41	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	White					Main Character - African American
42	The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby	Dav Pilkey	White				ADD	Main Character - African American
43	The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	Black					Main Character - African American
44	The Color Purple	Alice Walker	Black		Queer			Main Character - African American, Main Character - LGBT
45	The Fighting Ground	Avi	White				Dysgraphia
46	The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	White					Issue - Race, Issue - LGBT, Issue - Feminism
47	The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	Latino					Setting - Chile
48	The Joy of Gay Sex	Dr. Charles Silverstein	White		Gay			Issue - LGBT
49	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Afghani					Setting - Afghanistan
50	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	White				Mental Illness
51	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	White					Secondary Character - LGBT
52	The Terrorist	Caroline B. Cooney	White					Issue - Religion
53	The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien	White					Secondary Character - American Indian
54	The Upstairs Room	Johanna Reiss	White					Issue - Religion
55	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	White					Issue - Race
56	Whale Talk	Chris Crutcher	White					Main Character - Biracial, Issue - Disability, Issue - Race
57	What’s Happening to My Body Book	Lynda Madaras	White					Secondary Issue - LGBT
58	When Dad Killed Mom	Julius Lester	Black
59	You Hear Me?	Betsy Franco	White					Issue - LGBT, Issue - Race
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