Don’t know your banned books? Check out some of the classics that have been banned over the years. Then head over to the ALA page and see who banned these books and why!
Got a favorite banned book? Tell me about it!
Some of my favs include Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and of course 1984 by Orwell.
| 1984, by George Orwell |
| A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess |
| A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway |
| A Separate Peace, by John Knowles |
| All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren |
| An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser |
| Animal Farm, by George Orwell |
| As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner |
| Beloved, by Toni Morrison |
| Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
| Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh |
| Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut |
| Catch-22, by Joseph Heller |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin |
| Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell |
| In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote |
| Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence |
| Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs |
| Native Son, by Richard Wright |
| Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey |
| Rabbit, Run, by John Updike |
| Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie |
| Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut |
| Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison |
| Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence |
| Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron |
| The Awakening, by Kate Chopin |
| The Call of the Wild, by Jack London |
| The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger |
| The Color Purple, by Alice Walker |
| The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck |
| The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair |
| The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding |
| The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer |
| The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston |
| To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee |
| Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller |
| Ulysses, by James Joyce |
| Women in Love, by DH Lawrence |