Banned or Challenged Books

A collection of banned titles that date from years 1818 - 2009.
Created by the Popular Reading Library.
For more information on banned books try these websites:
Freedom to Read Week
This site is filled with useful information from how to handle challenges to information on certain cases.
 
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Amnesty International Banned Books Week
"Amnesty International directs attention to the plight of individuals who are persecuted because of the writings that they produce, circulate, or read."
All Quiet on the Western Front

Remarque, Erich Maria
FIC 1929

Amanda's Wedding

Colgan, Jenny
FIC 1999

America (the Book)

Stewart, Jon
320.02 S84a 2004

American Psycho: A Novel

Ellis, Bret Easton
FIC 1991

Appointment in Samarra

O'Hara, John
FIC 1934

As I Lay Dying

Faulkner, William
FIC 1957

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

X, Malcolm
921 L778a 1965

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai, Sijie
FIC 2001

Bastard of Istanbul

Shafak, Elif
FIC 2007

Bastard Out of Carolina

Allison, Dorothy
FIC 1992

Beauty's Punishment

Roquelaure, A. N.
FIC 1984

Beauty's Release

Roquelaure, A. N.
FIC 1985

Bell Jar

Plath, Sylvia
FIC 1963

Beloved

Morrison, Toni
FIC 1987

The Best Little Girl in the World

Levenkron, Steven
FIC 1978

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers

Hughes, Langston
FIC SS 1967

The Bluest Eye

Alvarez, Julia
FIC 1993

Brave New World

Huxley, Aldous
FIC 1966

Call of the Wild

London, Jack
FIC 1903

Carrie

King, Stephen
FIC 1974

Catcher in the Rye

Salinger, J.D.
FIC 1951

The Charm School

DeMille, Nelson
FIC 1988

A Child's Life and Other Stories

Gloeckner, Phoebe
FIC 2000

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Roquelaure, A. N.
FIC 1983

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Auel, Jean M.
FIC 1980

A Clockwork Orange

Burgess, Anthony
FIC 1962

The Color Purple

Walker, Alice
FIC 1982

Crazy

Lebert, Benjamin
FIC 2000

Cujo

King, Stephen
FIC 1981

The Da Vinci Code

Brown, Dan
FIC 2003

Daughter of Fortune

Allende, Isabel
FIC 1999

The Dead Zone

King, Stephen
FIC 1979

Different Seasons

King, Stephen
FIC 1982

The Diviners

Laurence, Margaret
FIC 1974

Doing It

Burgess, Melvin
FIC 2003

Druids

Llywelyn, Morgan
FIC FAN 1991

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction

White, Edmund
FIC SS

Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray
FIC SF 1967

Fault Lines

Huston, Nancy
FIC 2007

Flowers in the Attic

Andrews, V.C.
FIC 1979

Fools Crow

Welch, James
FIC 1986, 1987

Forrest Gump

Groom, Winston
FIC 1986

Frankenstein

Shelley, Mary
FIC 1818

From Here to Eternity

Jones, James
FIC 1951

Fun Home

Bechdel, Alison
GRAPHIC 2006

Gates of Fire

Pressfield, Steven
FIC 1998

Genius

Dreiser, Theodore
FIC 1923

Gone With the Wind

Mitchell, Margaret
FIC 1936

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John
FIC 1939

Grendel

Gardner, John
FIC 1972

Hammer of Eden: A Novel

Follett, Ken
FIC 1998

The Handmaid's Tale

Atwood, Margaret
FIC 1985 & 2009

Havana Best Friends

Latour, Jose
FIC 2006

The House of the Spirits

Allende, Isabel
FIC 1985

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Alvarez, Julia
FIC 1993

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star

Jameson, Jenna
921 J31a 2004

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Angelou, Maya
FIC 1959

In Cold Blood

Capote, Truman
364.152 C24i 1965

In the Time of the Butterflies

Alvarez, Julia
FIC 1994

Kaffir Boy

Mathabane, Mark
921 M426a 1986

The Kite Runner

Hosseini, Khaled
FIC 2008

The Last Temptation of Christ

Kazantzakis, Nikos
FIC 1960

The Learning Tree

Parks, Gordon
FIC 1963

Lives of Girls & Women

Munro, Alice
FIC 1971

Lord of the Flies

Golding, William
FIC 1954

The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien, J.R.R.
FIC FAN 1954

The Lords of Discipline

Conroy, Pat
FIC 1980

Mammoth Hunters

Auel, Jean M.
FIC 1985

The Martian Chronicles

Bradbury, Ray
FIC SF 1958

Maurice: A Novel

Forster, E.M.
FIC 1967

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
FIC 2005

Moby Dick

Melville, Herman
FIC 1851

Naked Lunch

Burroughs, William S.
FIC 1966

Nathan's Run: A Novel

Gilstrap, John
FIC 1996

Native Son

Wright, Richard
FIC 1940

North of Nine/Eleven

Bernans, David
FIC 2006

Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck, John
FIC 1937

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kesey, Ken
FIC 1962

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
FIC 1970

Ordinary People

Guest, Judith
FIC 1976

Peyton Place

Metalious, Grace
FIC 1954

Plains of Passage

Auel, Jean M.
FIC 1990

Private Parts

Stern, Howard
921 S8396a 1993

Question Quest

Anthony, Piers
FIC FAN 1991

The Red Pony

Steinbeck, John
FIC 1945

Ricochet River

Cody, Robin
FIC 2005

Satanic Verses

Rushdie, Salman
FIC 1988

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
FIC 1850

The Shelters of Stone

Auel, Jean M.
FIC 2002

Silver Pigs: A Novel

Davis, Lindsey
FIC MYS 1989

Slaughterhouse-Five

Vonnegut, Kurt
FIC 1969

Snow Falling on Cedars

Guterson, David
FIC 1994

Sophie's Choice

Styron, William
FIC 1979

The Stone Angel

Laurence, Margaret
FIC 1964

Stones From the River

Hegi, Ursula
FIC 1994

Sula

Morrison, Toni
FIC 1973

Tarzan of the Apes

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
FIC FAN 1914

The Things They Carried

O'Brien, Tim
FIC 1990

A Thousand Pieces of Gold

Mah, Adeline Yen
398.20951 M21t 2002

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper, Lee
FIC 1960

Tropic of Cancer

Miller, Henry
FIC 1961

An Underground Education

Zacks, Richard
031 Z16u 1997

Unfinished Life

Spragg, Mark
FIC 2004

The Valley of Horses

Auel, Jean M.
FIC 1982

Well of Loneliness

Hall, Radclyffe
FIC 1928

When I Was Puerto Rican

Santiago, Esmeralda
921 S235a 1993

Where the Heart Is: A Novel

Letts, Billie
FIC 1995

Yellow raft in blue water

Dorris, Michael
FIC 1987

The Young in One Another's Arms

Rule, Jane
FIC 1977

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