Censored, Banned, Forbidden: Books that Challenge the First Amendment
Debra St.John
Reading List
A Book Named John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” v. Massachusetts, 383
U.S. 413 (1966).
Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (July 1986). Final Report. Washington,
D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District #26 v. Pico et al., 457 U.S.
853, 102 S. Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed. 2s 435 (1982)
Board of Education v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982).
Bradbury. R. (1993, c1953). Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Burroughs, W. (1990). Naked lunch. New York: Grove Press.
Cloonan, M. (2007). The Moral Imperative to Preserve. Library Trends, 745-755.
Retrieved from www.ala.org.
Cleland, J. (2000). Fanny Hill, or memoirs of a woman of pleasure. Wordsworth
Classics. Great Britain: Hertfordshire.
Foerstel, H. (2002). Banned in the U.S.A.: a reference guide to book censorship in
schools and public libraries. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Hall, R. (1928). The well of loneliness. Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books.
Karolides, J., M. Bald and D. Sova. (1999). 100 banned books: Censorship histories of
world literature. NY: Checkmark Books.
Kazantakis, N. (1998 )The last temptation of Christ. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Knuth, R (2003) Libricide: The regime-sponserd destruction of books and libraries in the
twentieth century. West, CT: Praeger.
Minarcini v. Strongsville (Ohio) City School District, 541 F2d 577,581, (6th cir. 1976),
Miller v. California 413 U.S. 5 (1973).
Newman. L. (1989). Heather has two mommies. Boston: Mass: Alyson Publications.
Plath, S. (1971). The bell jar. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Report of The Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography. 1970. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government
Printing Office.
Heller, J. (1989, c1955). Catch 22: an antiheroic antinovel. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
Salinger, J.D. (1991, c1953). Catcher in the rye. Boston: Little, Brown.
Stewart, J. America (The book): A citizen’s guide to democracy inaction. (2004). New
York: Warner Books.
Sund v. City of Wichita Fall, TX 121 F. Supp 2d 530; 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18931.
U.S. v. One Book called “Ulysses,” 5 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y 1933).
Vonnegut, Jr., K.(1994) Slaughterhouse-five; or The children’s crusade: a duty-dance
with death. United States: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence.
Willhoite, M.(1991). Daddy’s roommate. Boston, Mass: Alyson Publications.