Banned Books by Ellen Hopkins

17 banned books · 255 total challenges

BANNED 25 challenges

Burned

by Ellen Hopkins

Burned tells the story of Pattyn Von Stratten, a seventeen-year-old girl raised in a strict Mormon household who begins ...

Sexual ContentReligious ObjectionsDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 25 challenges

People Kill People

by Ellen Hopkins

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins examines gun violence through six interconnected perspectives. Banned across multipl...

ViolencePolitical ContentProfanity
BANNED 22 challenges

Glass

by Ellen Hopkins

Glass is the sequel to Crank, continuing Kristina Snow's descent into methamphetamine addiction as she loses custody of ...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 20 challenges

Impulse

by Ellen Hopkins

Impulse follows three teenagers who meet in a psychiatric hospital after each has attempted suicide. It has been challen...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Perfect

by Ellen Hopkins

Perfect follows four teenagers whose pursuit of perfection leads them into eating disorders, steroid abuse, drug addicti...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLGBTQ+ Themes
BANNED 20 challenges

Tilt

by Ellen Hopkins

Tilt follows three teenagers whose lives intersect around love, sex, and identity, told in Ellen Hopkins's signature ver...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 18 challenges

Fallout

by Ellen Hopkins

Fallout follows the three children of Kristina Snow from the Crank trilogy as they navigate the lasting damage of their ...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 16 challenges

Smoke

by Ellen Hopkins

Smoke is the sequel to Burned, continuing Pattyn Von Stratten's story as she deals with devastating loss, her sister's r...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 16 challenges

Traffick

by Ellen Hopkins

Traffick is the sequel to Tricks, following five teenagers trapped in sex trafficking as they fight to escape and rebuil...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 15 challenges

Crank

by Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins' novel in verse about a teenager's descent into crystal meth addiction became a #1 NYT bestseller....

Drug UseSexual Content
BANNED 15 challenges

Identical

by Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins' novel about twin sisters and trauma tied for #8 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list....

IncestSexual AbuseDrug Use
BANNED 15 challenges

Tricks

by Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins' novel in verse about teens in the sex trade became the #1 most-banned book of 2022-23....

ProstitutionDrug UseSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

The You I've Never Known

by Ellen Hopkins

The You I've Never Known follows Ariel, a teen discovering her sexual orientation while uncovering the truth about her f...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 8 challenges

Triangles

by Ellen Hopkins

Three women in their forties navigate crumbling marriages, midlife crises, and the realization that the lives they built...

Sexual Content
BANNED 3 challenges

Rumble

by Ellen Hopkins

'Rumble...

Sexual Content
BANNED 2 challenges

Collateral

by Ellen Hopkins

'Collateral...

Sexual Content
BANNED 1 challenges

Love Lies Beneath

by Ellen Hopkins

'Love Lies Beneath...

Sexual Content