Know Your Banned Books

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