Sexual content

27 books in our curated dataset challenged or banned on these grounds. Most were objected to on several grounds at once, so titles appear under more than one heading.

Gender Queer: A Memoir Maia Kobabe All Boys Aren't Blue George M. Johnson The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Lawn Boy Jonathan Evison Out of Darkness Ashley Hope Perez This Book Is Gay Juno Dawson The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Beloved Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Speak Laurie Halse Anderson Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Looking for Alaska John Green Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel It's Perfectly Normal Robie H. Harris Crank Ellen Hopkins Forever Judy Blume The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Brave New World Aldous Huxley Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Color Purple Alice Walker Lolita Vladimir Nabokov A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Jesse Andrews Sold Patricia McCormick

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