MVST - Banned Books Week: Adult

Top 10 in 2017, 2014, 2012 and 2008.

Challenged for sexual violence, "leading to terrorism" and "promoting Islam".

Two boys in Kabul: one born to wealth, one from an ethnic minority. A betrayal that haunts them both. When Amir, the wealthy man's son, flees the country for the United States with his father, he also tries to flee his past, but some things can never be forgotten.

Top 10 in 2015, 2013 and 2012.

Challenged for being sexually explicit, "unsuited to age group", "poorly written", and due to concerns that teenagers will want to emulate it.

A sheltered college student falls into the orbit of a kinky millionaire with a dark past.

Top 10 in 2015.

Challenged for "religious viewpoint".

The Christian Bible. Collection includes several translations.

Top 10 in 2014, 2013 and 2006.

Challenged for "sexually explicit", "unsuited for age group", "contain[ing] controversial issues"

Believing that it will bring her social acceptance, an eleven-year-old black girl wishes for blue eyes.

Top 10 in 2014.

Challenged for "anti-Family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group"

Soldiers from opposite sides of a galactic war fall in love and begin a family.

Top 10 in 2012.

Challenged for offensive language and for being sexually explicit.

Walls's memoir describes surviving a childhood with an alcoholic but otherwise loving father and a free spirit mother who found parenting to be far too full of rules.

Top 10 in 2012 and 2006.

Challenged for "sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence".

Top 10 in 2009, 2005 and 2001.

Challenged for offensive language, sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.

A seventeen year old boy, expelled from his boarding school, spends his Christmas break wandering New York and coping with his alienation by seeking out adult experiences and plotting to leave the city entirely.

Top 10 in 2009 and 2007.

Challenged for offensive language, being sexually explicit, and being "unsuited to age group".

Top 10 in 2004, 2003 and 2001.

Challenged for offensive language, racism and violence.

Two migrant workers in Depression Era California hope to buy a farm of their own, but as with all of the best laid plans, things go awry.