It's Banned Book Week

This year it's between September 27-October 4. I found the following list on their website (click link in the title above), citation below the list. I noted which ones I've already read. I'm thinking about adding another few to my library request list, perhaps I can find one that's already on the list for the Nobel Challenge I've joined.




The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger


The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck Read this one


The Color Purple, Alice Walker


Ulysses, James Joyce


Beloved, Toni Morrison


The Lord of the Flies, William Golding Read this one


1984, George Orwell Read this one


Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov


Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck


Catch-22, Joseph Heller


Brave New World, Aldous Huxley


The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway


As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner


A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway


Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad


Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston


Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Read this one


Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison


Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell


Native Son, Richard Wright Read this one


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey


Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut


For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway


The Call of the Wild, Jack London Read this one


Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin Read this one


All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren


The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Read this one


The Jungle, Upton Sinclair


Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence Read this one


A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess


Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie


Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut


A Separate Peace, John Knowles Read this one


Women in Love, DH Lawrence


Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller


Rabbit, Run; John Updike





"Banned and or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Co," American Library Association, March 29, 2007.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/reasonsbanned.cfm (Accessed September 26, 2008)
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