Here is a list of just some of the banned and challenged books that I have read over the years. Some of them I liked, some of them I didn't for both literary reasons and subject matter reasons. Maybe you will discover some that will interest you!
- I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, & Davie Javerbaum
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
- Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
- Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi