Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read.The purpose is to promote the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. This year Banned Book Week is September 21-27.
Below is a list of banned or challenged classics... you know me, I'm a sucker for the classics. If you would like to know why the following books were challenged click here.
- The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
- The Color Purpleby Alice Walker
- Ulyssesby James Joyce
- Belovedby Toni Morrison
- The Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
- 1984by George Orwell
- The Sound and the Furyby William Faulkner
- Lolitaby Vladmir Nabokov
- Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck
- Charlotte’s Webby E.B. White
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce
- Catch-22by Joseph Heller
- Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farmby George Orwell
- The Sun Also Risesby Ernest Hemingway
- As I Lay Dyingby William Faulkner
- A Farewell to Armsby Ernest Hemingway
- Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad
- Winnie-the-Poohby A.A. Milne
- Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston
- Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison
- Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
- Gone with the Windby Margaret Mitchell
- Native Sonby Richard Wright
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestby Ken Kesey
- Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut
- For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway
- On the Roadby Jack Kerouac
- The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wildby Jack London
- To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf
- Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James
- Go Tell it on the Mountainby James Baldwin
- The World According to Garpby John Irving
- All the King’s Menby Robert Penn Warren
- A Room with a Viewby E.M. Forster
- The Lord of the Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkien
- Schindler’s Listby Thomas Keneally
- The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton
- The Fountainheadby Ayn Rand
- Finnegans Wakeby James Joyce
- The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
- Mrs. Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
- The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum
- Lady Chatterley’s Loverby D.H. Lawrence
- A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony Burgess
- The Awakeningby Kate Chopin
- My Antoniaby Willa Cather
- Howards Endby E.M. Forster
- In Cold Bloodby Truman Capote
- Franny and Zooeyby J.D. Salinger
- The Satanic Versesby Salman Rushdie
- Jazzby Toni Morrison
- Sophie’s Choiceby William Styron
- Absalom, Absalom!by William Faulkner
- A Passage to Indiaby E.M. Forster
- Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton
- A Good Man Is Hard to Findby Flannery O’Connor
- Tender Is the Nightby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Orlandoby Virginia Woolf
- Sons and Loversby D.H. Lawrence
- Bonfire of the Vanitiesby Tom Wolfe
- Cat’s Cradleby Kurt Vonnegut
- A Separate Peaceby John Knowles
- Light in Augustby William Faulkner
- The Wings of the Doveby Henry James
- Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe
- Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
- Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs
- Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh
- Women in Loveby D.H. Lawrence
- Look Homeward, Angelby Thomas Wolfe
- In Our Timeby Ernest Hemingway
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokiasby Gertrude Stein
- The Maltese Falconby Dashiell Hammett
- The Naked and the Deadby Norman Mailer
- Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean Rhys
- White Noiseby Don DeLillo
- O Pioneers!by Willa Cather
- Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller
- The War of the Worldsby H.G. Wells
- Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
- The Bostoniansby Henry James
- An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser
- Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
- The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame
- This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Atlas Shruggedby Ayn Rand
- The French Lieutenant’s Womanby John Fowles
- Babbittby Sinclair Lewis
- Kimby Rudyard Kipling
- The Beautiful and the Damnedby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Rabbit, Runby John Updike
- Where Angels Fear to Treadby E.M. Forster
- Main Streetby Sinclair Lewis
- Midnight’s Childrenby Salman Rushdie
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