120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature [2005]
by Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald and Dawn B. Sova
Literature Suppressed On Political Grounds
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque F REM
Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor
Animal Farm George Orwell F ORW
Areopagitica John Milton
Black Boy Richard Wright B WRIGHT
Burger’s Daughter Nadine Gordimer F GOR
Decent Interval Frank Snepp
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
El Señor Presidente Miguel Angel Asturias
The Fugitive (Perburuan) Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck F STE
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Alekandr Solzhenitsyn 365 SOL
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century Arthur R. Butz
I Am the Cheese Robert Cormier F COR
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Peter Matthiessen
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
Land of the Free: A History of the United States John W. Caughey, John
Hope Franklin & Ernest R. May
Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx & Fredrich Engels
Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
My Brother Sam Is Dead Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier F COL
1984 George Orwell F ORW
Novel Without a Name Duong Thu Huong
Paradise of the Blind Duong Thu Huong
The Prince (Il Principe) Niccolò Machiavelli 320.1 MAC
The Rights of Man Thomas Paine 320.5 PAI
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. eBook
Spycather Peter Wright
The Ugly American William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe F STO eBook
The “Pentagon Papers” U.S. Department of Defense
Literature Suppressed On Sexual Grounds
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser F DRE
The Arabian Nights, or the Thousand and One Nights Sir Richard Burton,
translator
The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) Ovid
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison F MOR
Candide Voltaire F VOL
Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure John Cleland
Forever Judy Blume F BLU
Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor
The Goats Brock Cole F COL
The Group Brook Cole
It’s Perfectly Normal Robie H. Harris
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy F HAR
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Sir Richard F. Burton & F.F. Arbuthnot,
translators
Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
Lolita Vladimir Nobokov
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert F FLA
Memoirs of Hecate County Edmund Wilson
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe F DEF
Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in TwentiethCentury American Art Richard Meyer
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson F RIC
Peyton Place Grace Metalious
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Sanctuary William Faulkner
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson F GUT
Sophie’s Choice William Styron
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
Ulysses James Joyce
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
Literature Suppressed On Religious Grounds
The Age of Reason Thomas Paine
The Analects Confucius 181.09512042 CON
The Bible 220.5 BIB
The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution Roger Williams
Children of the Alley Naguib Mahfouz
Christianity Restored Michael Servetus
Church: Charism and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional
Church Leonardo Boff
Concerning Heretics Sebastian Castellio
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo Galilei
Essays Michel de Montaigne
The Guide of the Perplexed Moses Maimonides
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling F ROW
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab Worl d Nawal El Saadawi
Infallible? An Inquiry Hans Küng
The Koran
Lajja (Shame) Taslima Nasrin
The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis
The New Testament William Tyndale, translator
Ninety-five Theses Martin Luther
Oliver Twist Charles Darwin F DIC
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds Giordano Bruno
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 576.82 DAR eBook
Popol Vub
The Red and the Black Stendhal
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone Immanuel Kant
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 833.6 GOE
The Talmud
The Veil and the Male Elite Fatima Mernissi
Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teashings of Falun Gong Li Hingzhi
Literature Suppressed On Social Grounds
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain F TWA
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank B FRANK
Annie on My Mind Nancy Garden F GAR
Another Country James Baldwin F BAL
Appointment in Samarra John O’Hara
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
Baby Be-Bop Francesca Lia Block
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath F PLA
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
Brave New World Aldous Huxley F HUX
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 821 CHA
Captain Underpants series Dav Pilkey
Catch-22 Joseph Heller F HEL
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger F SAL
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess F BUR
Cujo Stephen King F KIN
The Drowning of Stephan Jones Bette Greene
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury F BRA
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers F MYE
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for
the Dying Derek Humphry
Go Ask Alice Anonymous F GO
Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 811 GIN
Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby, Jr.
Leaves of Grass Walt Witman 811 WHI
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown B BROWN
Naked Lunch William Seward Burroughs
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck F STE
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey F KES
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne F HAW
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee F LEE
ALA Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
1. Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling F ROW
2. Alice series, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor F NAY
3. The Chocolate War Robert Cormier FCOR
4. And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
5. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck F STE
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou B ANGELOU
7. Scary Stories (series) Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials (series) Philip Pullman F PUL
9. ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series) Lauren Myracle F MYR
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky F CHB
11. Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers F MYE
12. It’s Perfectly Normal Robie Harris
13. Captain Underpants (series) Dav Pilkey
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain F TWA
15. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison F MOR
16. Forever, by Judy Blume F BLU
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker F WAL
18. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous F GO
19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger F SAL
20. King and King, by Linda de Haan
21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee F LEE
22. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar F VON
23. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
24. In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
25. Killing Mr. Griffen, by Lois Duncan F DUN
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison F MOR
27. My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier F COL
28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
29. The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney
30. We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
31. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones F SON
32. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya F ANA
33. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson F GUT
34. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
35. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison F REN
36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley F HUX
37. It’s So Amazing, by Robie Harris
38. Arming America, by Michael Bellasiles
39. Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane B MATHABANE
40. Life is Funny, by E.R. Frank F FRA
41. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher F CRU
42. The Fighting Ground, by Avi
43. Blubber, by Judy Blume
44. Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher SC CRU
45. Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly F CON
46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut eBook
47. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby George Beard and Harold Hutchins
48. Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez F SAN
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey F KES
50. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini F HOS
51. Daughters of Eve, by Lois Duncan F DUN
52. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson F PAT
53. You Hear Me?, by Betsy Franco
54. The Facts Speak for Themselves, by Brock Cole
55. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
56. When Dad Killed Mom, by Julius Lester
57. Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause
58. Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
59. Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
60. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
61. Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
62. The Stupids (series), by Harry Allard
63. The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney
64. Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park
65. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien F OBR
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor F TAY
67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
68. Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez
69. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury F BRA
70. Harris and Me, by Gary Paulsen F PAU
71. Junie B. Jones (series), by Barbara Park
72. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
73. What’s Happening to My Body Book, by Lynda Madaras
74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold F SEB
75. Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving F IRV
77. Crazy: A Novel, by Benjamin Lebert
78. The Joy of Gay Sex, by Dr. Charles Silverstein
79. The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
80. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
81. Black Boy, by Richard Wright B WRIGHT
82. Deal With It!, by Esther Drill
83. Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
84. So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Watkins F WAT
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher F CRU
86. Cut, by Patricia McCormick F MCC
87. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume F BLU
88. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood F ARW
89. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger 796.332 BIS
90. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
92. The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
93. Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
94. Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine
95. Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix F NIX
96. Grendel, by John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende F ALL
98. I Saw Esau, by Iona Opte
99. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
100. America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank F FRA
Ones in our collection are followed with the spine label for easy location.