Banned and Challenged Classics

by American Library Association
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46 books
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom records attempts to remove books from libraries, schools, and universities. These titles are books on the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century that have been banned or challenged.
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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2003

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger, 1951

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck, 2014

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee, 2014

The Color Purple

Alice Walker, 2003

Ulysses

James Joyce, 2018

Beloved

Toni Morrison, 2010

Lord of the Flies

William Golding, 2003

1984

George Orwell, 1983

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov, 2020

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck, 2016

Catch-22

Joseph Heller, 2001

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, Michael Sherborne, 2005

Animal Farm

The Graphic Novel
George Orwell, 2019

The Sun Also Rises

The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway, 2016

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner, 2011

A Farewell to Arms

The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway, 2014

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston, 2019

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison, 2001

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison, 2007

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell, 2018

Native Son

Richard Wright, 2008

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey, 2011

Slaughterhouse Five Or the Children's Crusade

A Duty Dance With Death
Kurt Vonnegut, 1991

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway, 1995

The Call of the Wild

Jack London, 2009

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin, 2013

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren, 2007

The Fellowship of the Ring

Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 2012

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair, 2010

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence, 2009

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess, 2019

The Awakening

Kate Chopin, 2012

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote, 2013

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie, 1992

Sophie's Choice

William Styron, 2008

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence, 2012

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut, 1998

A Separate Peace

John Knowles, 2016

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs, 2001

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh, 2020

Women in Love

D.H. Lawrence, 2015

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer, 1998

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller, 2013

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser, 2017

Rabbit Run

John Updike, 2008