Banned and/or Challenged Books *

  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
  • Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
  • The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  • Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
  • The Bastard by John Jakes
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Bible
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright
  • Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
  • Blubber by Judy Blume
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Capital by Karl Marx
  • The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  • Christine by Stephen King
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
  • Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kent
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
  • Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
  • Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  • Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Deenie by Judy Blume
  • Diary by Samuel Pepys
  • Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
  • Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  • Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Hutchet Bishop
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
  • Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
  • Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
  • Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  • Jaws by Peter Benchley
  • The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • The Koran
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  • Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
  • Little Red Riding Hood by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
  • My House by Nikki Giovanni
  • The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  • Nana by Emile Zola
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
  • Night Chills by Dean Koontz
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  • Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  • Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  • The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • The Pentagon Papers by George C. Herring
  • Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel
  • Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
  • Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
  • Prince by Niccolo’ Machiavelli
  • Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
  • Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
  • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  • Satyricon by Petronius
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
  • Sex by Madonna
  • Silas Marner by George Eliot
  • Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
  • The Witches by Roald Dahl
  • Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

 

* NOT A COMPLETE LIST

cpa 9/3/08